On June 28, the US Energy Information Administration announced that – for the first time – renewable energy trumped nuclear as a major source of power. For the first quarter of 2011, renewables pr...

Jim Krantz

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding
Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 304 pages

Announcing the 2011 BYA Winners!

Even if We Stopped Burning All Fossil Fuels Today, We are Locked into Some Climate Changes. Time to Get Prepared

The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth
By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York
Monthly Review Press, 2010, 544 pages

Natural Gas Pipeline Threatens Sacred Ukok Plateau

Laos’ Plans to Dam the Mekong Could Open the Floodgates to Further Dams on the River

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
By Barry Estabrook
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011, 240 pages

Growing Food, Flowers, and Friendship

A Quest for the Last Known Survivors

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Written and Directed by Marshall Curry, 85 min.

I’ve always loved the fact that the word “inspiration” comes from the Latin spirare, to breathe. And breathing, in Latin, shares the same root as spiritus – spirit. The yogic wisdom embedded i...

Saving Dolphins and Whales Worldwide

Is Eco-Retail for Real?

Alex Johnson

Not an Informed Debate I thoroughly enjoyed the Summer issue of the Journal, but I was disappointed by the article on nuclear power by Gar Smith (“Spyhopping: Don’t Mini-mize the Dangers of Nuclea...

New Project Gets Kids Out to Play

Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange, Fair Trade USA, and the Green Festivals, all of which have created many good jobs, transferred wealth from rich to poor, and raised environmental ...

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Africa The Road Less Paved If you build it, will they still come? photo courtesy Noel FeansTake the long way home? A new road through the Serengeti could disrupt wildlife migrations. Some version of t...

Accompanying a Colombian Miner on His First Trip Underground Since an Accident Killed His Brother

Derrick Jensen is the author of A Language Older than Words and Deep Green Resistance, among other books. He was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” The fact...

First They Come for the Climatologists If you thought death threats to scientists belonged only in Dan Brown thrillers, time for a reality check. In June, several of Australia’s leading climate scie...

A UN-Backed Plan to Address Climate Change by Slowing Deforestation Sounds Like a Good Idea. Unless You Live in the Forest.

Kieran Suckling doesn’t suffer fools gladly. As the founding director of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), Suckling is often invited to represent the environmentalist position ...

A New Measure of Societal Progress Can Help Save the Planet – and Us