May 24, 2008

This is the first of two talks I gave at the Building A New World Conference , which was held at Radford University in Virginia. The panel was on climate change.

May 24, 2008

This talk was delivered at the Building A New World Conference, which was held at Radford University in Virginia.

April 27, 2008

I spoke to a group of confirmation students at the Ascension School on W. 108th St on the subject of sustainability.

October 19, 2007 | Published by Huffington Post

By announcing his plan to run on both the Republican and Democratic tickets in his home state of South Carolina, Stephen Colbert has illustrated better than anyone that there is very little difference between the two parties, at least when it comes to their mainstream candidates [...]

October 1, 2007 | Published by In These Times

The looting of natural resources, the destruction of ecosystems, and the poisoning and enslavement of people are the forgotten side-effects of cigarette smoking [...]

How Washington-Style Politics and a deal with Big Oil condemned Canada’s pledge to fight climate change.

Canada’s story of public deception and the courtship of Big Oil may seem like a tragic downfall, but it’s no more shameful than the complete failure of the world’s most potent emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States, to take any action at all.

NASA climatologist James Hansen has been vindicated by two decades of warming and a consensus among his scientist peers, proving that there are no skeptics left, just contrarians.

By many measures, noise has become New Yorkers’ biggest concern. But what can be done about it?

With hurricane season approaching and another Bush crony at the helm of FEMA, a few restive lawmakers are seeking real reform for the storm-tossed agency. Whether they will succeed is another story.