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When asked about climate change at Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate, Governor Sarah Palin said, “I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?” Generally speaking, if we don’t know what the cause of a given problem is, [...]

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In an unusual move for an administration that cares little for endangered species , the U.S. Department of the Interior proposed adding 48 species found only in Hawaii to the federal endangered species list this week.  The administration claimed to be using a “newly developed, ecosystem-based approach to species conservation,” even though the Clinton administration [...]

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Steve Rayner, climate policy expert and lead author of The Wrong Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy (PDF), is featured in this month’s Wired Magazine. He’s on the “2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To” (no matter who wins). Read this carefully, for Rayner is onto something. He declares that cap and [...]

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Tonight, I was asked what does the New Green Economy look like? My answer was in part that last week the old economy finaly died after an incredible run. Now it is time for an economy that is built on sustainability, inclusiveness; about high quality green collar jobs — real jobs here in the US, [...]

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Climate change is the popular environmental problem of today’s generation. In the 70s it was concern over pesticides (thanks to Rachel Carson ), in the 80s sustainable development entered our lexicon, and today it is climate change. The biggest problem is that for the first time, the generational environmental problem is one that is [...]

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