By Jake Johnson Framing the climate crisis as both an existential threat and a “tremendous opportunity” to fundamentally transform American society, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in November unveiled a Green New Deal…
By Jill Richardson This fall, thousands of Californians were fleeing raging wildfires while millions sat in the dark. And for-profit utilities may be to blame . . . Read more at Otherwords
By Biba Adams A decade ago, a resurgence of urban gardens and farms sprouted a new agricultural trend around the country. And while many of them continue to thrive, in the past five years, another…
By Scott DiSavino, Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) — The Trump administration’s effort to cut red tape and speed up major energy projects has backfired in the case of the three biggest U.S. pipelines now…
It’s much, much worse than anyone imagined By Dartagnan Because it conjures up a tangible, visible image in the human mind, the prospect of an uncontrolled global sea rise is one of the most benumbing…
Big money will be spent trying to convince you to disbelieve obvious truths… The Charles Koch Foundation had subsidized “pro-business, antiregulatory, and antitax” programs at over 300 institutes of higher education. All of these professors,…
Naomi Klein’s new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, is not just a collection of reporting and columns she’s written over the last decade, but a plea to readers across…
If we want to have a meaningful impact on climate change we will have to confront agribusiness, which spends more on lobbying in the United States than even defense lobbyists. Read the original story at…
The ‘remarkable’ return of forests in Costa Rica followed the eliminating of cattle subsidies and payments for improving nature. Read more at The Guardian.
Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control “Electric power is a critical function in everyday life, and we can’t go without it,” Democratic Socialists tell In These Times. “Yet, it’s controlled by a private monopoly,…