While rivers and lakes all over the world are simply vanishing into the ether, something really insidious is bubbling up from the Arctic seabed.
Voting for the top of the ticket is obviously important on November 4th. But do you know where your state legislative candidates stand on environmental issues that directly affect where you live and work?
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
It is no longer heresy to suggest that by continuing our automobile economy we are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.
For some reason, the centrality of efficiency to smart energy policy is only understood by a small community of enviros and wonks.
Today, two billion people live on $2 a day or less, the same number that did two decades ago. By 2050, the world's population will grow to nine billion, and climate change will intensify the challenges pervading daily life for the rural poor.
The American dream is NOT that everyone is entitled to credit based on no ability to pay it back. It is based on the idea that anyone can try, to be free from persecution, and can, if they work hard, build a life.
Never mind the banks -- it might be time to start worrying about a run on your local bike shop.
The 21st century belongs to the country that masters green technologies and renewable energy.
The Scranton-born son of a car salesman, Joe Biden has often made reference to his "average Joe" means. Indeed, his three bedroom, two bathroom, single family, Colonial residence -- under 1,800+ square feet and on a little over four acres -- is typical of the area.
When homes and jobs and the whole damn economy seems at stake, the pump has stopped, at least in the media's focus, appearing to be such a threatening object.
Ingrid Jackson didn't only hit it out of the park with her question at the debate, but in her after-the-fact analysis as well.
Of the two billion people living on less than $2 a day, three quarters live in rural communities that depend on natural ecosystems for sustenance and livelihoods. If subprime development persists, many will pay: first with their livelihoods, and then with their lives.
