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Could Minnesota’s “Value of Solar” Make Everyone a Winner?
On Wednesday, Minnesota became the first state to allow utilities a new method of contracting with distributed solar producers, called the market-based “value of solar.” If adopted by utilities, it will fundamentally change the relationship between solar-producing customers and their electric utility. Following Minnesota’s Value of Solar Process? Here are a few resources: Part 1 […]
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Scientist would study climate change’s effects on turtles, if not for climate change
Will climate change complicate human attempts to adapt to a warmed world -- just as it complicates human attempts to study it?
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What was the point of the Senate’s climate talkathon? Changing the terms of the political debate
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) tells Grist what he hoped to accomplish by getting nearly a third of senators to stay up all night talking about climate change.
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Agencies Dodge Responsibility for Human Cost of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining
This week, we got some disappointing news – a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers isn’t responsible for considering the health effects of coal pollution when it issues permits to fill valleys with rubble from mountaintop-removal coal mines. As Appalachian residents continue to suffer every year from well-documented health problems linked to mountaintop […]
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When in drought, Californian salmon take to the road
U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans to help California salmon bypass drought-shriveled streams by trucks. Yikes.
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Why green change is hard: Lessons from the front lines of marriage equality
Scholar Tim McCarthy outlines parallels and differences between environmentalism's challenges and the LGBT and marriage-equality movement's successes.
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So long, and thanks for all the tree lobsters
So much has changed in two and a half years! Also, so much has stayed exactly the same! Some thoughts from a departing editor.
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Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself. We cannot claim that we are unaware of the trends that are undermining our food supply and thus our civilization. We know what we […]
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Attn. babies: Don’t be born poor and black in North Carolina
A new EPA study finds that poor black kids are more likely to arrive in this world underweight and undernourished, on top of being underprivileged.
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Want everyone else to buy into environmentalism? Never say “Earth”
A veteran marketer says green organizations must drop the nature imagery, talk about people, and repeat, repeat, repeat if they want to move the needle on climate.