NATO will hold war games in Norway's Arctic Circle in March, where it will be supporting climate change-induced resource extraction and increasing the military tension with Russia.

Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory

Seawalls, parks, and elevated buildings can protect against rising tides. But they can also push the price of housing up, and longtime residents out.

Linus Blomqvist wrote a blog post responding to my article, arguing that focusing on aggregate material flows is “misleading”, and that in reality absolute decoupling “is still a very real possibility.” The stakes are high. After all, decoupling is the central objective of ecomodernism. No decoupling, no ecomodernism.

National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.

– Nafis H Author’s Note: I originally received the book “Climate of Hope” by Carl Pope and Michael Bloomberg as a gag birthday gift. Honestly, I didn’t think I’d really read it at all. …

The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.

Forthcoming in February 2020 In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery…

Disaster can summon up qualities of creativeness and solidarity that in ordinary times people do not know they have. These are the qualities that we need, now.

“A new phase in humanity’s relationship with the biosphere, where the ocean is not only crucial but is being fundamentally changed”

We are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.

We need to lower emissions in a way that also builds a fair economy, says author and activist Naomi Klein.

The two scholars, writers, and activists review their new book, survey the (literal) battlefield for a Green New Deal, and denounce the idea of scholarship as a substitute for politics.

The critique of economic growth, once a fringe position, is gaining widespread attention in the face of the climate crisis.

The Canadian union Unifor is currently blockading an oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It’s an important example of what democratic, militant, and solidarity-based unionism can look like.

Builders are uniquely positioned to make the demand for an ecologically responsible architecture and the renewable energy to operate it.

Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.

Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways

Land is the scene of a crime and a site of liberation.Tania Murray Li, Rafael Marquese, and Monica White discuss land and the Plantationocene.

Today we return Market Street to the people and prioritize pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders.

2020: The Year of (Fare) Free Transit on The Leap

Decarbonising the economy will be impossible unless we transform our economic and social systems. This means looking to a world beyond capitalism.

The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.

A toxic brew of economic suffering, racism, and community decline prepared the ground for authoritarian populism in America’s devastated rural areas. Trumpism will not be defeated unless the Left can promote a progressive agenda to rebuild rural America.

The fate of groundwater is closely tied to climate change and energy exploration and deserves more attention.

In this week’s Long Version I cite my fellow Substacker Emily Atkin, whose newsletter, Heated, has become an indispensable daily read on the most urgent crisis of our time. Her mission is to force accountability for global warming on the powerful, corrupt institutions that quite literally fuel it. Past issues have tackled America’s

As Guy Routh explained forty years ago in his magisterial book, The Origin of Economic Ideas, economics has preposterous origins. Since the time of Adam Smith, the new academic discipline was linked through the emerging class of merchants and manufacturers to the rich and powerful in general, and fulfilled the ideological role of presenting the emerging capitalist system as the best of all possible worlds.