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• Nice firepower, wrong targets

  Annie Leonard misses the mark in her new video, “The Story of Cap-and-Trade” 0

  Posted 33 minutes ago by David Roberts

  The greenosphere is all abuzz about a new video from Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff. It's being billed as a definitive debunking of cap-and-trade, but it's more like a perfect representation of all the confusion and misplaced focus that plagues the green left right now. Read More

• Panel of smarties, take one

  Optimistic or pessimistic about the Copenhagen climate talks? 0

  Posted 39 minutes ago

  The COP15 climate conference starts next week in Copenhagen, and our panel of experts is optimistic ... ish. We asked them, "What's the mood as Copenhagen approaches?" Find out what they had to say. Read More

• Copen-talkin’: Smarties offer their takes on COP15 climate talks

  Posted 42 minutes ago

  Wondering how to make sense of all this crazy Copenhagen stuff?  Us too, so we rounded up a motley crew of activists and thinkers to share their wit and wisdom about the global climate talks taking place  Dec. 7-18. Read More

• The meat industry is illuminated

  Jonathan Safran Foer on his book “Eating Animals” 2

  Posted 1 hour, 13 minutes ago by Tyler Falk

  If you're a meat eater, don't read Jonathan Safran Foer's new book Eating Animals. Unless, that is, you are a meat eater curious about the health of your body, the planet, or the animals you consume. Read More

• Mark your carbon calender

  December 19—the day after COP15 0

  Posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago by Terry Tamminen

  What happens on Dec. 19 -- the day after climate talks finish up in Copenhagen -- and beyond? Terry Tamminen has a handy cheat sheet to help you understand what to look forward to in the years ahead. Read More

• And in this corner ...

  Lomborg v. Monbiot: liveblogging the Munk debate on climate change 2

  Posted 3 hours, 55 minutes ago by David Roberts

  Today I'll be liveblogging a debate on how the world should respond to climate change. Arguing for a vigorous response will be Elizabeth May, head of Canada's Green Party, and noted author/thinker George Monbiot. Arguing for giving climate change a low priority, or no priority at all, will be Bjorn Lomborg (who needs no introduction) and former Thatcher government official Lord Nigel Lawson. You can watch the debate -- and the liveblogging -- as it happens by clicking on this post! Read More

• overshooting

  Never-give-up fighting spirit: lessons from a grandchild 7

  Posted 22 hours, 27 minutes ago by James Hansen

  How refreshing, on cold, windy Thanksgiving Plus One Day, which we spend with our children and grandchildren, when I went outside to shoot baskets with 5-year-old Connor. Connor is very bright, but needs work on his hand-to-eye coordination. I set the basket at a convenient height for him, but his first several shots banged off the backboard off-target. Then he said, very brightly and bravely, "I don't quit, because I have never-give-up fighting spirit." Read More

• Wen the climate is willing, but the action is weak

  E.U. pushes China further after pledge to slow carbon intensity 2

  Posted 23 hours, 32 minutes ago by Agence France-Presse

  The European Union said Monday that cataclysmic climate change cannot be averted without Chinese leadership, but China's lead climate delegate, Wen Jiabao, stood firm in pushing for the rich world to take the lead. Beijing said last week that by 2020 it would curb emissions per unit of GDP by between 40 and 45 percent compared to 2005 levels. Read More

• Organic farming has a major part to play in a low-carbon world

  Soil carbon—a blind spot in the debate on carbon 3

  Posted 1 day, 5 hours ago by Emma Hockridge

  COP15 looks like it may well be a cop out. The world was disappointed when it became clear Barack Obama would not get climate protection legislation through the U.S. Senate, endangering any meaningful global agreement. But a much earlier cop out came when agriculture failed to make it onto the agenda at all. Read More

• Spin me baby one more time

  On ‘climategate’ 41

  Posted 2 days, 15 hours ago by David Roberts

  The Manufactured Doubt industry has been around for decades, working to thwart regulatory constraints on large corporations that make dangerous products. Not only are all the same techniques being used in the same way on climate change, in many cases they're being used by the same people and institutions that fought against tobacco, CFC, asbestos, and auto safety regulations. Read More

• Don't mess with Texas (Ranger)

  Chuck Norris on Copenhagen 29

  Posted 6 days, 1 hour ago by Tom Athanasiou

  A lot of dreck comes across my desktop. I'm even on a list called "ennui mail," and some of it is utterly irredeemable. But still I took notice when Chuck Norris: Copenhagen Talks To Forge "One World Order" blew in. Read More

• The U.S.-India climate ‘partnership’ 0

  Posted 6 days, 3 hours ago by Jonathan Zasloff

  At least that’s what the White House is calling it. Does it mean anything? Maybe. Read More

• Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success 41

  Posted 6 days, 6 hours ago by Bill Scher

• Obama going to Copenhagen 0

  Posted 6 days, 6 hours ago by Agence France-Presse

• What to make of the new climate poll 41

  Posted 6 days, 15 hours ago by David Roberts

• Learning how to count to 350 0

  Posted 6 days, 22 hours ago by Rebecca Solnit

• Obama administration officials grateful for early spring 10

  Posted 6 days, 23 hours ago by Ashley Braun

• More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 1

  Posted 1 week ago by Tom Laskawy

• Kids just say no—to fossil fuels 0

  Posted 1 week ago by Osha Gray Davidson

• Making buildings more efficient: rationalizing retrofit markets 6

  Posted 1 week ago by David Roberts

• Capturing the massive social benefits of fuel efficiency requires regulation 6

  Posted 1 week ago by Michael A. Livermore

• Copenhagen talks ready for take off: 5, 4, 3… 0

  Posted 1 week ago by Geoffrey Lean

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