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The World's Insurers Brace For Climate Change -- Except In America

Ben Schiller, Yale Environment 360. April 26, 2012.

Climate change is increasing insurance costs all over the world. But a recent Ceres report finds that American firms are still in denial.

Is Understanding Climate Change An Economic Luxury?

Emily Badger, Miller-McCune Magazine. April 12, 2012.

New research says that the state of the economy has a big impact on our opinions about climate change

Christians Giving Up Carbon For Lent

Catherine Woodiwiss, Climate Progress. March 14, 2012.

Can reducing your carbon footprint be a spiritual quest? Catholics and Protestants join in observing a six-week carbon fast.

Beyond .350: Measuring New Thresholds of Global Collapse

Carl Zimmer, Yale Environment 360. February 23, 2012.

Tracking carbon in the atmosphere was just the beginning. Scientists offer some new markers to watch to see how close we are to catastrophe

Bill McKibben: Climate Denial Is Creating "The Great Carbon Bubble"

Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. February 9, 2012.

Telling the truth about climate change would require pulling away the biggest punchbowl in history. That's why the fight is so pitched.

7 Signs the Corporatocracy is Losing its Legitimacy--and 7 Tools to Help Shut it Down

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. January 29, 2012.

The legitimacy of rule by giant corporations and Wall Street banks is crumbling.

The Very Different "Occupations" That Led to 2011's Global Uprising

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. December 18, 2011.

The protests around the world this year were preceded, in the last twenty years, by some very different kinds of occupations.

To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 27, 2011.

Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.

Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month’s Biggest Story You Never Read

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 16, 2011.

While you were paying attention to Herman Cain, the Kardashians and the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, the U.S. Department of Energy administered last rites to the planet.

How the West Was Lost: The American West in Flames

Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com. June 16, 2011.

Climate change isn't happening in some distant future. Wildfires in Arizona and Texas remind us that global warming is right here, right now.

Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is Changing the Game

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. April 27, 2011.

In the fight for the climate, students are leading the way.

5 Reasons to Be Hopeful We Haven't Totally Screwed Ourselves and the Planet ... Yet

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. April 21, 2011.

I can't help but wonder if we've really, totally screwed ourselves (and a whole lot of this planet). But there are 5 things that give me hope.

Vision: The 10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. December 27, 2010.

Here are 10 events from 2010 that contain the seeds of transformation.

If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the US

Sarah Laskow, The Media Consortium. December 5, 2010.

Although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high.

The 10 Worst States for Retirement

Richard Barrington, MoneyRates.com. November 8, 2010.

What makes a place the ideal spot for retirement -- and what makes other places a potential disaster for retirees?

Biofuels Fallacy: Why Burning Plants Instead of Fossil Fuels Won't Save the Climate

Jeff Conant, AlterNet. November 5, 2010.

The quest to replace black fuels with green fuels is just another resource and land grab by big corporations.

GOP Senator Engages in 'Cynical Political Ploy' to Derail Immigration and Climate Bills

Frank Sharry, America's Voice. April 27, 2010.

Supposedly 'bipartisan' Sen. Lindsay Graham is threatening to take his marbles and go home – refusing to work with Democrats on either issue.

12 Innovations That Could Save Us

Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. January 5, 2010.

With climate disruption, war, and a faltering economy, that was a tough decade. Still, seeds were sown for a more green and egalitarian 2010s.

Corporations (and Sarah Palin) Are Cyborgs Sent to Scuttle the Fight Against Climate Change

Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. December 21, 2009.

Why does it seem as if we're in an action movie in which the fate of the Earth is at stake?

Exposed: How Businesses Are Undermining Efforts on U.S. Climate Committments

Marianne Lavelle, The Center for Public Integrity. November 16, 2009.

Obama's negotiators have worked to lower expectations for what the world can expect from a nation where coal-fired, energy-gobbling industries dominate the political scene.

New York City Is Getting Ready for Rising Sea Levels and Hotter Temperatures

Bruce Stutz, Yale Environment 360. September 23, 2009.

In 90 years, New York's climate could resemble that of Raleigh, NC. Preparing for such a radical change is costly but worth it, experts say.

New McCarthyism: Fear of Science and the War on Rationality

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 10, 2009.

Parts of America are slipping back toward the Dark Ages, when fear of knowledge and science led to an impoverishment of civilization.

Blame Game Leads to Climate Deadlock in Bonn

Janet Redman, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.

What's at stake is perhaps the largest transfer of resources from the global south to the north in history.

The California Supreme Court Upheld Prop. 8, So Now What Do We Do?

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 27, 2009.

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was a big disappointment, but there's no time to mourn: We must turn this anger into momentum.

Coal Action Heats Up Capitol Hill

Harry Hanbury, American News Project. February 27, 2009.

This weekend thousands of students will come to D.C. to rally, lobby, and get arrested for a clean energy economy.