Mark Hertsgaard’s Posts

• Climate roulette

  A scary new climate study will have you saying 'Oh, shit!' 16

  Posted 3 weeks, 4 days agoThey say that everyone who finally gets it about climate change has an "Oh, shit" moment -- an instant when the full scientific implications become clear and they suddenly realize what a horrifically dangerous situation humanity has created for itself.

• Gore's moral obligation

  Why Al Gore isn't running for president 25

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  

  Photo: Severin Nowacki

  As Hillary, Obama, and Edwards continue to slug it out in the early primary states, one name is conspicuously absent among the Democratic candidates to become the next president of the United States. Where is Al Gore? The man who received more votes than George W. Bush did in 2000, who served eight years as Bill Clinton's vice president, and whose climate change evangelism has been rewarded with an Oscar and Read More

• Ped Dispenser

  John Francis, a 'planetwalker' who lived car-free and silent for 17 years, chats with Grist 7

  Posted 4 years, 6 months ago

  How long could you survive without your car? For the many Americans who think nothing of driving 10 blocks to buy a gallon of milk, the answer is obvious. But before any of you dedicated pedestrians and die-hard cyclists start feeling smug, try this question: How long could you survive without talking?

  

  John Francis.

  Photo: Courtesy of Planetwalk.

  Chances are, nowhere near as long as John Francis did. After a massive oil spill polluted San Francisco Bay in 1971, Francis gave up all motorized transportation. For 22 years, he walked everywhere… Read More

• Terry Firma

  An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger's top enviro official 0

  Posted 5 years, 2 months ago

  

  Terry Tamminen.

  Terry Tamminen, secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California the world's fifth-largest economy, it has long been an environmental trendsetter, pioneering standards in automobile regulation and alternative-energy development that have spread across the nation and around the world. But Tamminen works for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), whose fondness for gas-guzzling Hummers leaves some environmentalists skeptical of his assurances about protecting California's environment.

  Grist sent environmental author and reporter Mark Hertsgaard to question the 52-year-old Tamminen… Read More

• Unified Field Theory

  Can a beat-Bush effort yield a progressive coalition with staying power? 0

  Posted 6 years ago

  

  Is Bush digging his political
  grave with enviro rollbacks?

  Photo: White House.

  Who says George W. Bush never did anything for the great outdoors? His running for reelection could be the best thing to happen to the U.S. environmental movement in years. The threat of four more years of Bush has provoked a significant rethinking of the movement's tactics, according to interviews with movement leaders, their financial supporters, and political advisers. Not only has it energized activists like never before, it has also produced unprecedented expressions of unity within the… Read More

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