Resource Revolution

June 9, 2014

Today’s two billion middle class consumers will more than double globally over the next two decades. But while cities in China, India and other...

Stormy Science, Rocky Investments

June 4, 2014

Climate change is risky business – but how risky is it for business? With temperatures predicted to rise anywhere from one to four degrees this...

Ecological Intelligence

May 18, 2014

What’s really preventing us from enacting environmental change? Blame our brains, says Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence. As he...

Climate in the Classroom

March 25, 2014

Today’s teenagers, also known as Millenials or Generation Y, now have a new moniker: Greenagers. That’s because they are coming of age in an...

Nuclear Power

April 4, 2014

Three years after Fukushima is nuclear power dead in the water? Or is it poised for revival due to the world’s desperate need for carbon-free...

Fracking Boom

April 1, 2014

America is in the midst of a fracking boom. Most new oil and gas wells in this country are drilled using hyrdraulic fracturing, the injection of a...

Beyond Plastic

January 31, 2014

Who should take responsibility for reducing the amount of plastic debris that litters our cities, waterways and oceans? While many consumers have...

Aquatech

March 12, 2014

From Egyptian irrigation systems to Roman aqueducts to the dikes and canals of The Netherlands, the world’s civilizations have long found...

The Goldman Prize at 25

March 7, 2014

Since 1989, The Goldman Environmental Prize has honored more than 150 grassroots heroes who are fighting on the front lines to deliver clean...

Meatonomics

February 24, 2014

Tim Koopman is a fourth-generation rancher; his family has been raising cattle on their ranch in Alameda County since 1918 and he now heads the...

Condoms and Climate

February 26, 2014

Breathing, eating and consuming, an individual human being produces tons of carbon every year – population may be the key to curbing greenhouse...

Rising Seas, Rising Costs

February 12, 2014

Swelling sea levels used to be a concern associated with future generations and faraway lands. Then Superstorm Sandy poured the Atlantic Ocean...

Going to Paris: Ambassador Todd Stern

February 20, 2014

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland last year achieved modest progress toward an international agreement on reducing...

Fluid State

January 10, 2014

“For us, a drought means human misery, economic devastation to some natural assets and certainly an unproductive living standard for the...

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

January 7, 2014

"A clean-energy economy, I think, is the future,” according to 75th U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who leads America’s Navy and Marine...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

November 7, 2013

“We could start by being rational about how we spend the money that we have,” said U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell about taking care...

Skeptics & Smog

December 10, 2013

"We could end up being part of the problem, even when we're right," said Jim Hoggan, co-Founder of the DeSmog Blog and chair of the David Suzuki...

Forest Wars

December 5, 2013

“I wish more companies would come out of the closet, so to speak, and talk about what they’re doing,” said Sissel Waage, director of...

Carbon Curves

December 12, 2013

"Climate change is not some academic thing, it's pervasive – you see the signs of change everywhere,” said Ben Santer, a climate scientist at...

Lord Nicholas Stern: The 2013 Stephen Schneider Award

December 12, 2013

"I don't think there's any right to emit, I think there's a right to development," said former World Bank chief economist Lord Nicholas Stern, a...