Katrina in Vermont (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Note to readers: I'll run an update at the bottom of this blog over the next few days. Aug. 29, 2011 -- The same creeping nausea that followed the CNN "all c ...

Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)

(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: revolut ...

New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)

Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found m ...

Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)

Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and ...

Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)

WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young bo ...

Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...

Warning: extreme weather ahead (John Vidal)

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' A tornado makes its way acr ...

Explosion in jellyfish numbers may lead to ecological disaster (Tracy McVeigh)

A dramatic global increase in jellyfish swarms could damage the marine food chain June 12, 2011 (The Observer) -- Global warming has long been blamed for the huge rise in the world's jellyfish popula ...

Deluded, Greedy and Obese: 'The brightest and best' in one generation ravage their children's birthright (Steve Salmony)

June 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders a ...

Human Intelligence and the Environment (Noam Chomsky)

May 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) -- I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old ...