Environment

How a Country With One of the World's Largest Economies Is Ditching Fossil Fuels

By Tara DePorte / AlterNet

The country is headed for 80 percent renewable energy and has complete buy-in from all political parties.

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Endangered Colorado: Is it Too Late to Save One of Our Greatest Rivers?

By Wade Davis / Island Press

Time to Face the Facts: Our Level of Consumption Is Pathological

By George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

After Hurricane Sandy: How I Witnessed Taxpayer Dollars Go Down the Tube During Relief Efforts

By Beth McGuire / AlterNet

5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangerous Than You Think

By Tara Lohan / AlterNet

What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?

Is Climate Change Fueling a Deadly Disease in California and Other Parched States?

'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants

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Environment

Meet California's Climate Heroes

Melinda Welsh / Sacramento News & Review

America's Most Dangerous Enemy

Adam Greenberg / AlterNet

Oil and Gas Industry Prepare Smear Campaign Against New Matt Damon Flick "Promised Land"

Sharon Kelly / DeSmogBlog

Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply

Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica

Pack Your Bags: Ethical Traveler Shares 10 Best Destinations for 2013

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Climate Shame: Four Years After Promise, Capitol Power Plant Still Burns Dirty Coal?

Jeff Biggers / AlterNet

Is it Time to Just Say No to Eating Beef?

Marc Gunther / Yale Environment 360

Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

Vandana Shiva / YES! Magazine

Bombing North Dakota: What It's Like to Live Amid the Oil Boom

James William Gibson / Earth Island Journal

The Desperate Search for a Strategy to Defeat Climate Change

Jim Shultz / AlterNet

Doha Climate Summit Ends, Did They Manage to Save the World? Here's What You Need to Know

Climate Progress

AlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on the Perils of the Fiscal Cliff

Matt Bors / AlterNet

Catastrophe in the Making: Mining for Uranium Could Begin on the East Coast

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

4 Scary New Finds About Fracking This Week

Tara Lohan / AlteNet

Are the Koch Brothers the Single Biggest Obstacle to Preventing Disastrous Climate Change?

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Cows Dropping Dead, Farmers Getting Sick: How Fracking Is Threatening Our Food

Elizabeth Royte / The Nation

A Month After Hurricane Sandy, the Opportunity for Building a Public Solidarity Movement Is Now

Yotam Marom / Waging Nonviolence

The Bizarre Politics of Border Security

Tom Barry / AlterNet

There Is No Stopping Climate Change Unless We Can Mobilize Against Plutocracy

George Monbiot / Monbiot.com

Why Protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is Crucial for Our Survival

Princess Lucaj / AlterNet

How the US and Other Wealthy Nations Are Pushing Us Toward a Climate Cliff

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

4 Horrifying Dangers of Fracking

Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

Our Climate Is Headed Toward 'Extremely Dangerous' or 'Catastrophic:' Here's Our Best Off Plan For Staving Off Total Disaster

Alex Steffen / AlexSteffen.com

We Have to Be on Guard About False Solutions for Climate Change

Ben Castle / AlterNet

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