India is Covering Up its Public Health Crisis with Claims to the Historical Responsibility of Developed Countries
The COP21 negotiations establishing an international framework agreement to mitigate climate change recently closed in Paris, and heads of state around the globe are heralding the finished agreement. ...
Sunita Narain: facing, not running from Delhi’s pollution
Air pollution in Delhi is bad, really bad. Based on measurements of ambient air pollution taken between 2008 and 2013, the World Health Organization reports that Delhi’s air contains...
Plastic Bags: a global environmental threat
We live in a disposable world. More and more of the things that we use to make life convenient are designed to be used only once. These things include...
Scaling Up Solar Powered Desalination to Meet High Demand
As more and more cities are experiencing water shortages due to drought or because of their location in desert regions, governments are turning to desalination to meet the demand...
California needs to invest in environmentally sustainable desalination
California is in the midst of a four-year long drought, and the arid climate shows no signs of letting up. The drought is so extreme that reservoirs and wells...
California Drought: No Solutions Coming from Big Agribusiness
Almost everyone is taking drastic measures to mitigate the impact of California’s drought crisis. The California Energy Commission raised the efficiency standards for toilets, urinals, and faucets, requiring all...
Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change
Climate change is a global phenomenon. It’s inflicting damage on communities from Asia to Latin America, and everywhere in between, but it’s important to remember that climate change does...
World-Wide, Indigenous Activists Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
It will be a momentous accomplishment for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to complete a legally binding agreement in Paris next year that limits carbon emissions and...
Coal not the development solution needed by India’s poor
The New York Times reported today that India plans to double its reliance on coal power over the next five years. The country already extracts 565 million tons of...
Messages from the People’s Climate March
Over 300,000 demonstrators attended the People’s Climate March on September 21st, 2014 in New York City. The march was not organized around an official message or points of unity,...