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Autumn 2007
The Energy Issue
volume 22 no. 3

From the Editor
Each day brings fresh evidence of how humanity’s reckless carbon consumption fuels atmospheric changes. Europe experienced a particularly bizarre summer, as erratic weather simultaneously brought a heat wave to the Balkans and floods to Britain. Climate models predict that in coming decades wet regions will get wetter and dry regions will suffer more droughts. A new study suggests that climate change will even make ocean waves travel faster (see “Temperature Gauge,” page 23).
Yet the US Congress appears unable to adequately address the crisis. To reduce carbon emissions will require sweeping changes in how …more
Contents
- Money for Nothing
- In South America, business has always overshadowed biodiversity.
- Harnessing the Wind
- The Fission Division
- Will Nuclear Power Split the Green Movement?
- Everyone Has a Story: Aaron Lehmer
- Earth Island News: Earth Island Project Reports
- Earth Island News: International Marine Mammal Project
- In Loving Memory of Gretchen Wyler
- World Reports: Reimagining the World
- An excerpt from Paul Hawken's new book Blessed Unrest
- World Reports: Temperature Gauge
- Trouble Brewing
- 1,000 Words: Intolerable Beauty
- World Reports: Spyhopping
- Toyotas vs. Tortillas
- World Reports: Moving Mountains
- The Human Costs of Our Coal Economy
- In Review: The 11th Hour
- In Review: The Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook
- Slowing Climate Change and Saving Money
- Voices: A Conservative’s Conservation Works
- Jim DiPeso
- World Reports: Green Revolution?
- Venezuela's Socialist Reforms Float on a Sea of Oil
- World Reports: Bubbling Waters
- Are dams fueling climate change?
- Letters to the Editor: Letters
- Around The World: Local News from All Over
- Earth Island Project Reports
- Conversation: John Schaeffer discusses the future of solar energy
- Will Nuclear Power Split the Green Movement?
- Temperature Gauge: Trouble Brewing
- Everyone Has a Story: Aaron Lehmer
- Brower Youth Awards
- Stone’s Throw
- Moving Mountains
- The Human Costs of Our Coal Economy
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