In a stirring column in Monday's New York Times, editorial writer Lawrence Downes urged former Obama campaign volunteers to enlist in another tour of duty.

The country is not in the best shape to simultaneously fix a sinking economy, a withered government and an ailing planet. But it...

An op-ed reprinted from Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle...

If you are a politician running for national office -- or a coal or utility executive -- the notion of "clean coal" is alluring, much like pledging to lower taxes without cutting services. Like other campaign promises, however, citizens are well...

It's called the climate crisis for a reason: global warming is the biggest and most urgent global issue of our time. A crisis of this magnitude compels us to ask a very simple question of ourselves:

"What can I do about it?"

As I wrote in my new book,...

Kevin Grandia over at Coal-is-Dirty.com wrote yesterday about how the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is spending upwards of $2 million over the next couple weeks in an effort to convince Democrat and Republican conventioneers that, somehow, coal can be made clean. The industry is doing its best,...

In the end, climate change made us quit.

On most days, we're like any other card-carrying, food-conscious environmentalists. My wife and I shop at our local natural grocery store, dutifully selecting locally grown, organic produce. We planted fruit trees a few years ago, our summer vegetable garden is thriving, and...

Rainforest Action Network's Rebecca Tarbotton skewered Citi's Robert Rubin in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Here's her first-person account:

"It's not every day that one has the opportunity to chit chat with the likes of Bob Rubin, but today was such a day. I was at the National...

These days, you'll find more images of windmills and solar panels in political campaign ads than pictures of cute babies and American flags. Why, then, is it so hard to pass a simple bill promoting solar power? It couldn't be the influence of the coal industry, could it?

The good...

Looking for a little good news? Try this: earlier this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the largest forest conservation deal in Canadian history, and set an historic precedent for the rights of Indigenous people at the same time.

On July 14th, the Ontario government agreed to prohibit...

What a difference a weekend makes.

Late last week, John McCain supported Al Gore's call for a nationwide commitment to a ten-year clean energy revolution by declaring, "If the vice president says it's doable, I believe it's doable." In the hopes for a grand, bipartisan climate and energy...

Mention Native peoples being forced off their lands and most Americans think of their high school history books. But battles over Indigenous land rights continue to this day, even right here in North America. Here's one example, but with a happy ending. Grassy Narrows First Nation is an 800-person...

Three weeks ago, I said that Al Gore should be thrown in jail - and that I'd be happy to join him.

Gore was quoted in the NYT as saying that he couldn't understand why more young people weren't blocking bulldozers to prevent...

Al Gore should be arrested.

And I want to go with him.

Like many, I am so glad to see the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change. Gore has become a global warming hero, and I applaud his work...

"What was it like to live during the war?"

When I was growing up, I used to ask my grandparents that question all the time. All four of my grandparents were young children when World War I started; they were young parents at the beginning of World War II. As...

As part of its commemoration of the 1906 earthquake, the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday reprinted the front page of its April 17th edition of 100 years ago. At the bottom of the front page is a tiny article with a headline, "Dying Geronimo Prays for Life", describing how the

My name is Michael Brune, and my country is addicted to oil.

Two months after the President's SOTU confession to America's oil addiction, it appears as though our leaders are still in denial. It's as though Uncle Sam has declared his addiction, but has since skipped a few...