This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities are leading the way in the greening of America’s economy. From urban parks and farms to microgrids and living buildings, dynamic urban planning can adapt to changing coastlines and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been described as a “slap in the face,” “slaughter,” “a punitive … assault on science, the environment, and indeed the planet.” Aside from being inappropriate and irresponsible, these remarks are how some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You will probably soon hear about a number of new and old polls about climate change and the American public. If you care about climate change, they will be frustrating. Read…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As leaders including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Microsoft president Brad Smith, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and many others have vowed to fight climate change, students at Tesla STEM High School…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. No one knows how to talk about climate change right now. Not even Robinson Meyer, who writes about it professionally. On the one hand, the natural consequences of climate change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. IN HIS RECENT ENCYCLICAL, LAUDATO SI: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis states that climate change “represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.” He…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change will aggravate economic inequality in the United States, essentially transferring wealth from poor counties in the Southeast and the Midwest to well-off communities in the Northeast and on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the days after Trump pulled out of the historic international climate agreement, bipartisan groups of officials from around the country are laying out plans to make create a clean…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sitting on top of a waste incineration facility near Zurich, a new carbon capture plant is now sucking CO2 out of the air to sell to its first customer.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For Kathy Washienko, a philanthropist at Seattle Foundation and a board member of Climate Solutions, climate change is an issue with two lenses. One is a bird’s-eye lens — the reality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Globally, soaring amounts of greenhouse gas emissions are driving climate change and resulting in rising sea levels and more frequent and severe extreme weather events. The effects of climate change pay…