Stories by Kelpie Wilson
Kelpie Wilson is a freelance writer covering energy and environmental issues. She is a contributing editor for Yoga Plus magazine and author of Primal Tears, a novel. An archive of her past articles is on her website.
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008
The pro-growth faction has reacted quickly and scathingly to the idea that there could be limits to growth.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Coal produces more carbon emissions than other energy sources, yet we burn more of it each year.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008
American businesses are finally getting on board with the complicated method of carbon trading to reduce emissions.
Posted on Mar 6, 2008
The answer to our economic and energy crises is a strong green jobs program. So where is the political will?
Posted on Feb 19, 2008
So why are the Republicans threatening to filibuster the best chance we have?
Posted on Dec 12, 2007
Oil is likely behind our saber-rattling with Iran. But can military action in the Middle East actually work to secure oil for U.S. interests?
Posted on Nov 30, 2007
We should acknowledge that our food production system and every other aspect of our lives are utterly dependent on fossil fuels.
Posted on Nov 21, 2007
Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid said that they would jettison the renewable energy provisions in both the House and Senate versions of the 2007 energy bill, in the interest of passing a bill before the Thanksgiving.
Posted on Nov 13, 2007
Bioneers continues the work of courageous people who have moved mountains to make the connection between environmentalism and civil rights.
Posted on Oct 31, 2007
Politicians in Washington are years away from embracing a massive investment in clean energy. We must start an energy revolution ourselves.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007
If the Live Earth concerts are to continue, they ought to evolve to serve the transformation not just away from consumer society but toward a culture where we dance and sing and find our bling in things that are healthy for us and the planet.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007
The Bush administration's "owl-recovery" plan ends up making more trees -- in old-growth forests -- available to timber companies. The birds aren't the only ones who will lose out on industry's big win.
Posted on Jul 2, 2007
Bush now says global warming is a danger but his actions don't reflect that acknowledgment. Here's how we can call the president's bluff and force meaningful action.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007
In drought-riddled Australia, the effects of global warming are rippling through the economy -- effecting everything from farming to mining. It may even swing the next national election.
Posted on May 30, 2007
We need a new approach to environmental law that would bypass the debate over property rights vs. the environment and replace the discretion to regulate with the obligation to protect.
Posted on Apr 16, 2007
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on what many are calling the most important environmental decision in a generation.
Posted on Apr 9, 2007
Americans can cut consumption and keep their affluence -- but it will take a change in priorities.
Posted on Apr 5, 2007
In order to win on climate change we are going to have to play the "wedges game" -- a plan to use a variety of technologies to replace fossil fuels.
Posted on Mar 26, 2007
Forget public pressure and Congressional action, the one thing that might force the Bush administration to change its tune on global warming is the endangered status of polar bears.
Posted on Mar 15, 2007
Sir Richard Branson is offering $25 million for anyone who can invent new technologies to get carbon out of the atmosphere. But his contest might do more harm than good.
Posted on Feb 22, 2007
There is no "silver bullet" solution to our energy crisis. But a new study shows that the right combination of renewables may be our best bet.
Posted on Feb 12, 2007
Iraqis may revolt when they hear about new laws privatizing their oil. But what about us? There are few signs that Congress will do anything to resist the unhealthy influence our oil dependency has on our politics.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
When industrialized countries use monoculture tree plantations in the developing world to offset carbon pollution they are doing more harm than good. Fortunately, there is a more sustainable alternative.
Posted on Dec 29, 2006
The White House has begun closing the Enviromental Protection Agency's research libraries to the public and to its own staff, cementing Bush's reputation as usher of a new dark age.
Posted on Nov 23, 2006
Republicans are using their version of 'science' to eliminate environmental protections for recovering forests.
Posted on Apr 10, 2006
The former Interior Secretary will be greeted with open arms by the industries that benefited from her agenda of environmental devastation.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
We are facing very real shortages of gas and heating oil this winter. And considering the record profits just posted by oil companies, that's the way they want it.
Posted on Nov 11, 2005
The Bush administration and its industry pals are using the hurricane disasters to target the Arctic Refuge and offshore drilling, and get even richer in the bargain.
Posted on Oct 7, 2005
As members of the House and Senate negotiate over the energy bill this week, will they vote to further deregulate our utilities, and write a blank check to the oil industry in the process?
Posted on Jul 12, 2005
A little-discussed section of the Bush energy bill will drive public utilities out of business, letting oil giants like Halliburton control your electricity.
Posted on Jun 28, 2005
Even some of the staunchest Big Oil Republicans are starting to lose the stomach for the battle to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.
Posted on Mar 16, 2005
When it comes to global warming, Gore says that President Bush inhabits an 'un-reality bubble,' created by his advisers in the oil and coal industries, that will soon burst.
Posted on Feb 17, 2005
Thanks to the collusion of industry, financial and government interests, the coming decline in oil production is portrayed as so impossibly far off in the future that there is no sense talking about it – but talk we must.
Posted on Aug 30, 2004
