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Fixing climate change with a video game

If you're game to save (or set aflame) the planet from the threat of climate change, you should give the eerily realistic computer game, Fate of the World, a spin.

The Climate Post: Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from the midterms' effects on climate

Nothing ruins the opportunity of stopping climate change like Speaker of the House John Boehner. Plus, the Leaf's batteries and Alaska's gas problem.

Big Oil's Golden Backup Plan

  One of the few bright spots for environmentalists and progressives over the last year was this week’s successful defeat of Proposition 23 in California.  As the organizer Saul Alinsky famously observed, power flows from both people and money.  Unlike every other energy battle this year, for Prop 23, activists had both. It hasn’t been […]

Provincial feed-in tariffs spurring community power

Ontario will soon have the largest installed base of community-owned renewable generation in North America.

Shell Oil pays $6 million for clean air violations, Texas schools use funds to go solar

$2 million of a $6 million settlement over Clean Air Act violations will be spent to help Texas schools go solar.

Reducing urban water use around the world with compost toilets

Theodore Roosevelt once noted "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water." But that's what we're still doing every day.

What does the election mean for population and reproductive rights?

Congress will have a lot more anti-choicers. Expect attacks on international family-planning programs and a big fight over birth-control coverage.

Will Prop 26 scuttle California climate regulations?

While Prop 23 failed to garner enough Californians' support to stop climate change regulation, the less well-publicized Prop 26 succeeded at the polls

BPA is bad for your semen, and other news about our favorite endocrine disruptor

As the research on bisphenol-A pours in, industry -- rather than government -- starts to take the lead on getting it out of our groceries.

Coal industry continues its shady practices

No surprise here, the coal industry is part of the polluters throwing money around to support candidates who will keep the loopholes and handouts in place. But the shady politics don't stop there. If you ever wanted evidence that the coal industry is corrupting our politics, look no further than the state of Kansas and the decision by Gov. Mark Parkinson to fire his chief environmental official Rod Bremby.