Nation's Youth Go Green
Brett Story & VideoNation : Environment
Now that they've shown their power at the polls, young voters are channeling their energy into a green economy.
Energy
2008
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Obama's Energy Challenge
Michael T. Klare : Barack Obama
Of all the challenges Barack Obama faces, none is more daunting, or more important to our collective future, as energy.
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Palin: Energy Expert or Billy Madison?
Air America : Presidential Election 2008
Palin makes a bizarre statement reminiscent of the Adam Sandler buffoon: 'They don't flag the molecules, where it's going and where it's not'
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Palin's Petropolitics
Michael T. Klare : Alaska
Palin's opposition to government-supported renewable energy makes her stupendously ill equipped for national office.
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Happy Oil Dependence Day
Robert Scheer : Iraq War
We're drowning in pretended patriotism used to cover the lies that got us into Iraq, the defense of torture and violation of our basic liberties.
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Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence
Barbara Ehrenreich : Humor
Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves--all we need to do is extract it and turn it into fuel.
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Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol
Barbara Ehrenreich : Economic Policy
Riding with a caravan that descended on Washington Monday, to call for immediate government action to push down fuel prices.
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What Nuclear Renaissance?
Christian Parenti : Global Warming & Climate Change
Despite a slick PR campaign hyping its promise, the nuclear industry isn't going anywhere. It's too costly and won't save us from global warming.
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Truckers Hit the Brakes
Barbara Ehrenreich : Economic Policy
Hard hit by rising costs and the threat of losing their rigs, truckers are staging protests, calling for a bailout and lower fuel prices. What if the rest of us joined them?
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Energy Lessons from South Africa
Nicholas von Hoffman : South Africa
South Africa's growth rate is outstripping its ability to generate electricity. There's a message here for us.
2007
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The Secret Library of Hope
Rebecca Solnit : Peace Activism
Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
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Global Warming Is Reversible
Bernie Sanders : Global Warming & Climate Change
The technology exists to solve environmental problems and improve our standard of living.
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Beyond the Age of Petroleum
Michael T. Klare : U.S. Economy
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
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Why Milk Costs More Than Gas
Nicholas von Hoffman : Food & Nutrition
America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.
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The Dirty Rock
Jeff Goodell : Global Warming & Climate Change
Could clean coal become a reality, or is it just another corporate fantasy?
2006
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Return to Chelyabinsk
A G-8 plan to ramp up nuclear energy is defended as a necessary response to global warming. But the nuclear waste it generates will hurt people and the planet.
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Who Killed the Miners?
Erik Reece : Working Conditions
Recent mining disasters demonstrate that the Bush Administration should be called to account for replacing federal mine regulators, who were identifying hazards and meeting requirements, with industry-friendly stand-ins.
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The Geopolitics of Natural Gas
Natural gas is rapidly emerging as the next big prize for consumer countries like the US and China. In the twenty-first century, alliances and hostilities between economic powerhouses and volatile nations will be carved by the pipes that will someday carry this environmentally safer resource.
2005
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Titans of Trash
Heather Rogers : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Gas-guzzling SUVs take a lot of blame, but landfills make stealthy stealthy contributions to climate change. While they should be developing innovative waste disposal strategies, corporate-owned landfills use techniques that generate heat-trapping methane that accelerate global warming.
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Oil Tycoons Grilled on Windfall Profits
Top oil execs were asked numerous questions at a Senate hearing on spectacular profits earned in the wake of tropical storms. But they had no real answers about how to ease the burden on ordinary Americans.
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Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual?
As the Senate opens hearings this week calling energy execs to account for their windfall profits on gasoline and natural gas, the question must be asked: Is this price-gouging or just good old-fashioned capitalism?
2004
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Election Matters
The question about Kerry is whether he will turn out to be a politician who comprehends environmental dangers but who shrinks from doing much about them.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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