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Spreading an Energy Revolution ONLY two or three years ago, consensus was building among pundits that we had reached peak oil, that the fossil fuel industry was in its dotage and that the world would suffer repeated energy price shocks in the transition...

Today’s tales from the worlds of economics, politics and the environment — plus added Fukusihmapocalypse Now! — opens with hope for modest relief for some via the Guardian: Sallie Mae and Justice Department in $60m deal over military...

The week of Obama’s visit: 35,000 walruses haul out onto an Alaskan beach due to missing sea ice. Source: canadajournal.net. Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell tagged along on President Obama’s recent climate-change themed trip to Alaska. Goodell’s...

The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam.  I was born in 1960...

Our evangelical brothers and sisters have been making headway in building a response to climate change.  Scientist Katharine Hayhoe, who is based in Texas and is married to an evangelical minister has been speaking with crowds for years.  One of the...