The West Virginia state supreme court just ruled that the coal giant Massey Energy could go ahead with its operations on a hill above an elementary school. Here's the crucial background.read more

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On Earth Day, the environmental movement in the United States must reject bigotry. It should not join hands with anti-immigrant groups.read more

My guest this week is the documentary filmmaker Robert Stone, whose latest work is "Earth Days."

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By engaging individual homeowners in going green, we will not only reduce our carbon footprint one household at a time. We will simultaneously be building the larger constituency we’ll need to arrive at our clean energy future.read more

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President Obama’s stimulus package is a solid down payment toward creating a cleaner, stronger economy. The government has a major role to play, but we can’t succeed in building a new economic future unless America’s citizens also step up in a major way.read more

If merely repeating the word green in every possible configuration could produce environmental improvement, we’d be farther along than we are. As it is, I began to get sort of green at the gills. There was little emphasis on reducing demand or promoting a significantly more modest standard of living. It was go-go, build-build.read more

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The catastrophe of global warming will never be solved by building more cars – efficient or otherwise. The personal automobile must be abandoned, and quickly.read more

A green jobs economy and a new, forward-thinking energy and climate policy will transform tribal and other rural economies and provide the basis for a robust and sustainable recovery.read more

The beauty of green jobs is that they are not only ecologically sound, but they are also economically prudent.read more

My guest this week is the essayist and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, whose latest work is "Finding Beauty in a Broken World."

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Climate change is an international problem that will require an international effort to reverse decades of damage.read more