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Cities can lead on climate-change solutions — here’s how

Rapid transit buses, like these in Los Angeles, reduce emissions and are cheaper than light rail.Photo: ChrisCross-posted from the World...

World Resources Institute Cities June 13, 2011

How community ownership can save wind power

This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Community...

John Farrell Energy May 12, 2011

California goes balls to the wall on renewables

As of 2020, California will be getting fully one third of its energy from renewable sources. So says a bill...

Christopher Mims Uncategorized March 31, 2011

Mom-and-pop vs. big-box stores in the food desert

A locally owned grocery in Pleasantville, Iowa. Photo: Ashton B Crew, wikimedia commonsA few weeks ago, when the Obama administration...

Gary Nabhan & Kelly Watters Food and Agriculture June 1, 2011

Climate crisis fueling Mississippi River’s historic floods

The Mississippi River flooding part of downtown Memphis.Photo: Chris WielandThe Mississippi River is experiencing its second “500-year flood” since 1993....

Miles Grant Science May 11, 2011

How the meat industry turned abuse into a business model

As a long-time student of the meat industry, I read Ted Genoways' extraordinary article on conditions at the "head table" of a factory-scale pig-processing plant with delight. As a human being, my reaction was revulsion.

Tom Philpott Food and Agriculture June 29, 2011

A ton of carbon, an imported widget, and thou

It’s been a long time coming, but a team led by Glen Peters, of the Centre for International Climate and...

Tom Athanasiou Uncategorized April 27, 2011

Apollo and BlueGreen Alliance merge — a smart move at a time of clean-energy trouble

Last week, the Apollo Alliance and the BlueGreen Alliance, two of the most important national nonprofits supporting clean energy development...

Keith Schneider Technology June 1, 2011

What I want for Mother's Day

This Sunday, I will be celebrating my second Mother’s Day. My daughter Hazel (pictured at right testifying with me last...

Mary Anne Hitt Uncategorized May 6, 2011

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