Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it’s serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested. The full version goes [...]

La idea de extender el cultivo de los agrocombustibles en el mundo y particularmente en los países del Sur es desastrosa. Ella forma parte de una perspectiva global de solución a la crisis energética. En los próximos 50 años tendremos que cambiar de ciclo energético, pasando de la energía fósil, que [...]

Gracias por defender el medio ambiente, para mí, para todos los peruanos, para toda la humanidad. Gracias por defenderlo contra la voracidad de gran capital que lo ataca cada día más en muchas formas. Gracias por no amedrentarse ante el gobierno asesino que defiende a sus amos matando peruanos. El gran capital multinacional, en su voracidad de ganar [...]

Tres tendencias en la energía que están cambiando tu vida Algunas buenas noticias sobre la energía: gracias al aumento de los precios del petróleo y al deterioro de las condiciones económicas d todo el mundo, la Agencia Internacional de Energía (AIE) informa de que la demanda global de petróleo no aumentará este año [...]

Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life Here’s the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil demand will not grow this year as much as once assumed, which may provide some temporary price relief at the gas [...]

Three Strikes and You’re Hot In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. But those nostalgic for an earlier day, take heart. The Obama administration is [...]

Un informe reciente de la asociación italiana Legambiente (Prófugos ambientales: cambio climático y migraciones forzosas), sostiene que en el año 2010 , 40 millones de personas se vieron obligadas a dejar sus territorios debido a los cambios climáticos y más generalmente debido a las crisis ambientales. Los países más afectados han [...]

Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised [...]

Here’s How We Can Fight Back and Win  We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It’s not impossible. Not for forty years has there been such a stretch of bad news for environmentalists in Washington.  Last month in the House, the newly [...]

Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their tales At least since Noah, and likely long before, we’ve stared in horror at catastrophe and tried to suss out deeper meaning – it was but weeks ago that the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, [...]