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Best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen endorses Barack Obama, citing his environmental track record.
Guy tries to cook squirrel with propane torch; squirrel lights his whole building on fire. Seems more than fair.
In which our hapless hero does his best to get himself out of the hole he dug when he asked, in front of all the world, that friends and family give his kids nothing for Christmas.
A reader frets that her future mother-in-law wants to cook the poultry in plastic. Umbra advises her to keep the peas.
Theda Skocpol's report on the death of cap-and-trade says enviros "placed all their chips" on the inside game. The reality was far more complex -- and drawing the wrong lessons now would be tragic.
Four years ago, when Barack Obama was running against John McCain for the Presidency and when the climate crisis was...
A similar study in 1990 found nothing to worth worrying about, but, hey, good idea to check.
The key to carbon zero cities lies not in retrofitting old structures, says Alex Steffen, but in optimizing the tons of new building we'll do over the next 20 years.
Driven by a desire to see climate change firsthand, this hip hop artist took off for Antarctica with cameras and microphones. He hopes the audiovisual results will move your body and your mind.
