Latest Ecology

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  Monbiot: People want a greener, happier world now

  Our politicians have other ideas
• Loumakis: Energy isn’t just electricity

  The common mistake obscuring the mammoth task of decarbonisation
• Molvar: It’s always the ranchers

  Ranchers like to project the fiction that their custom and culture is the way of the West and that they are supported by the vast majority of westerners. This has never been the case
• Madan: It’s time to rein in industries devouring world’s last standing forests

  It’s time we end our addiction to endless consumption and realize our future is tied to the fate of the planet
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  Wuerthner: Periodic “devastation” necessary for forest health

  The bottom line is that our forest health is dependent on episodic events that cause significant mortality. This is not only natural but required for “healthy forest ecosystems.”
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  Monbiot: Road to Perdition

  How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
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  Pollin: It’s Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry

  The best way to defeat the fossil fuel companies is to bring the companies under public scrutiny and control, which should create a clear path for a relatively painless death over the next 20 years or so
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  Steinfort: Democratizing Energy to Counter the Climate Catastrophe

  The economic recovery as well as a Green New Deal will only be meaningful if we take our country-wide energy systems out of the market and into democratic public ownership
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  Monbiot: Sold Out

  The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections
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  Falk: The Right to Food During the Coronavirus Pandemic

  A Time of Bio-Ethical-Ecological Crisis
• Amelang: How the Coronavirus could be a Climate Game Changer

  "Nobody wants life to stay the way it was during the pandemic. But some new routines we should maintain, because they serve the environment and quality of life." 
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  Brecher: Black Lives and the Green New Deal

  The Green New Deal may be a vehicle for building the broad movement for structural change necessary to truly make Black lives matter
• Moore: Defending Land and Water From Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19

  The health-centered struggles and collective approaches of mining-affected communities and Indigenous peoples can help us refocus on what is truly essential toward a healthier future for all
• Raskin: Che, Chez and Ross Cannard: Organic Farming, Sonoma, California

  Why is it guerrilla-style farming? Because it’s bucking big, corporate agriculture that relies on big machines, and that chews up and spits out workers all day long. Also because it builds soil rather than depletes it
• Milman: Renewables Surpass Coal in US Energy Generation for First Time in 130 Years

  ‘We are seeing the end of coal,’ says analyst as energy source with biggest impact on climate crisis falls for sixth year in a row
• Molvar: Should federal public lands be prioritized for renewable energy development?

  Solutions that sacrifice one aspect of our planet’s biosphere to assist another are unsustainable and irresponsible
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  Pahnke: Make a Resilient, Localized Food System Part of the Next Stimulus

  From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed
• Aron: Climate Action by the U-California is more Spin than Substance

  We are calling on the university to truly divest, as a matter of urgency
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  Monbiot: Rethinking Education

  Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning
• Sowards: In Times of Emergency: No Sacrifices of the Public Interest

  Trump isn’t the first to try to use emergencies to implement regressive policies, and history shows that the people can fight back — and win
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  Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine

  Covid-19 and the "super-surveillance" state
• Joe Parkin Daniels and Lily Kuo: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls

  'It's positively alpine'
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  McKibben: ‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’

  Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal
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  Klare: The Beginning of the End for Oil?

  Energy in a Post-Pandemic World
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  Cole: Lowest Solar bid in World History

  Coal is typically estimated at 5 cents a kilowatt hour at the lowest, with natural gas these days a little less. Neither of them can compete with a solar cost of 1.35 cents a kilowatt hour