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Hefty Global Goals from a Vatican Meeting: Stabilizing the Climate, Energy for All and an Inclusive Economy – NYTimes.com

Hefty Global Goals from a Vatican Meeting: Stabilizing the Climate, Energy for All and an Inclusive Economy – NYTimes.com.

Daily chart: Food for thought | The Economist

Daily chart: Food for thought | The Economist.

(5) Raise Hope for Congo

(5) Raise Hope for Congo.

Dramatic decline in industrial agriculture could herald peak food | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Dramatic decline in industrial agriculture could herald peak food | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com.

Brown to student activists: We can’t live without coal

Brown to student activists: We can’t live without coal.

Ethical Critique of Climate Change Disinformation

Kevin Cawley note: We may want to look at this ethical analysis concept more closely. Professor Donald Brown of Penn State University in the USA, spoke at the final 2011 meeting of the Committee on Sustainable Development at the United Nations on December 15, 2011. (There is a link to his blog, Climate Ethics Campaign, […]

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben | Politics | Religion Dispatches

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben | Politics | Religion Dispatches.

How Much Is Clean Air Worth? More than Polluters Claim | Peter Lehner’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

How Much Is Clean Air Worth? More than Polluters Claim | Peter Lehner’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC.

As my colleague Laurie Johnson noted on her blog, the National Economic Research Associates have been generating anti-regulatory studies for years. A good deal of their research has been funded by polluting industries.

In this most recent […]

A Climate-Killing Oil Pipeline May Make North America the New Middle East | Environment | AlterNet

A Climate-Killing Oil Pipeline May Make North America the New Middle East | Environment | AlterNet.

Pontifical Academy : Mountain Glaciers Shrinking

Pontifical Academy of Sciences May 10, 2011: Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene (Catholic Climate Covenant) Glaciers Shrinking Worldwide Threaten Water Supply for Millions

Glacier areas are observed to be shrinking worldwide, with the highest rates at lower elevations. Large glaciers lose their tongues, leaving unstable moraines and fragilely dammed lakes behind, such as […]