interview
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Brought to you by nature: Death, destruction, and pandemics
It's not all sunshine and happy chickens
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Trump shared his thoughts on climate change, and surprise, they’re dumb
“I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.”
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Lessons from Boulder’s bad breakup
The former mayor of Boulder wonders if corporate utilities might make better friends than foes.
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Anxious, depressed, distracted — what if the cure is just outside?
Author Florence Williams talks trees, cities, and creativity in her new book "The Nature Fix."
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NPR's Scott Simon on adoption and environmentalism
NPR host Scott Simon wants to encourage people to consider adoption, yet he's suspicious of people who might do it for environmental reasons.
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How air-conditioning is baking our world
Q & A: Stan Cox explains in his new book, Losing Our Cool, how AC is a big driver of global warming and unsustainable development.
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Van Jones: “I feel like I’m just getting started”
Van JonesBy now the Strange Episode of Van Jones is well known in and outside of politics. Jones became White House Special Advisor for Green Jobs in March of 2009. Shortly thereafter began a summer of crazy, as Tea Party activists stormed congressional offices and the air waves, shouting warnings of incipient tyranny. In July, […]
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More power, less roadkill: How one professor’s landscape has shifted
I took Environmental Studies 101 during my first college semester 20 years ago with Dick Andrus, a professor who has just marked 36 years of teaching at Binghamton University. I thought it’d be good to check back with him and see what he’s talking about in that class now. Q. What are your new Envi […]
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A video interview with Bill Moyers
Renowned journalist Bill Moyers has seen a thing or two during his career, including the incredible social change wrought during the LBJ administration. He talks with Grist about what it takes to change direction in America, whether it’s too late to act on climate, and what he thinks of climate skeptics.