FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself …
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Why ‘Net Zero Emissions by 2050’ needs a Green New Deal
I remember the days when months would go by without anything much happening about climate change at all. Thinkers and doers called for stuff, politicians occasionally did a few things, …
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Reforesting can help us remove carbon. But should it cover the land? Or could it go vertically in a city?
Reforesting, or the planting of millions (and billions) of trees, seems to be the go-to climate crisis policy for governments everywhere (we have covered foresting and trees extensively on this …
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A quiet drinking water crisis is going unaddressed in Iowa
Private wells used for drinking water in Iowa face widespread contamination due to agricultural practices, according to a new report out Wednesday, highlighting the latest in a series of major …
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Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto
Per Publisher Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of …
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Arctic Offshore Drilling Expansion as Lawyers Ramp Up Legal Challenges
The ruling restores Obama’s orders putting large parts of the Arctic off-limits to offshore drilling and throws Trump’s oil and gas lease sale plans into question. Click here to read …
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‘THIS CAN SERVE AS A NORTH STAR’
GREG CARLOCK EXPLAINS WHY THE GREEN NEW DEAL REPRESENTS A NEW ERA OF POLITICS In September, Carlock wrote a draft of a Green New Deal long before most people had …
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A Bright Future. How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning …
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Plastic’s hidden journey to Indonesia
Friends of the Earth’s Emma Priestland recently travelled to Indonesia to research plastic pollution. She was horrified at what she found. Surabaya on East Java is Indonesia’s second city. It’s …
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New documentary “2040” uses digital special effects to show a better, more climate-balanced world
We’re intrigued by this coming documentary from Australia – a country that’s completely on the front-line of environmental crisis. Their website is here, their trailer is above, their blurb is …
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