All your personal efforts to live more sustainably do not make any difference to the world’s environment.
That’s the assertion environmental writer Derrick Jensen makes in his recent article “Forget Shorter Showers,” published in Orion magazine.
The industrial economy is so large, and so much the source of our planet’s env...
Jan
26
Position Statement on United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
By World Energy Council
Energy is at the core of economic, social and environmental development.
Moving towards a low carbon economy in a context in which we see a major demand shift towards Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and, in which 1.6 ...
Dec
18
By Suchin Gururangan
With harbor waters so clean the Danish swim in them, it’s no surprise that Copenhagen will be the site of the 2009 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in early December. One would think that the spirit of environmental initiative would pierce delegates’ talks among conference tables in such an eco-co...
Nov
29
Humanity’s efforts to curb climate change amount to too little, too late.
Climatologists are increasingly sounding this fatalistic message. Many experts say policymakers must cut global CO2 emissions in half within the next 50 years to avoid a climatic tipping point, while others contend we have already passed that fateful poi...
Sep
06
Green is lost. It is dazed and confused. Despite the good and noble intentions behind it, the attribution and its related movements generally have fallen short of any depth of meaning for sound environmental practice.
To have a “green” attitude or a “green” position has become misleading and down right fa...
Aug
08
