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On Climate Change, Americans May Trust Politics Above Preachers

Senate Approves Kerry for Secretary of State

2012′s Greenest Companies

Photograph by AFP/Getty ImagesFrequent floods Markets & Finance Investors Seek Ways to Profit From Global Warming By Matthew Campbell and Chris V. Nicholson on March 07, 2013 Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus 39 Comments Email Print Companies Mentioned MS Morgan Stanley $23.22 USD 0.31 1.34% GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The $156.62 USD 2.49 1.59% width: 2px; background-color: green; float: left; position: absolute; left: 8px; height: 2.259428571428572px; bottom: 5

chs (GS), and other firms took stakes in wind farms and tidal-energy projects, and set up carbon-trading desks.

The New Abolitionists: Global warming is the great moral crisis of our time Why the climate-justice movement must embrace its radicalism to fight it By WEN STEPHENSON  |  February 12, 2013

MUST SEE FILM: White Water, Black Gold A+A-1 02-09-2013Share Specialty Studios Most Americans know little about the source of oil for the proposed Keystone Pipeline—the tar sands of Northern Alberta. The tar sands are not a traditional oil field. The oil is extracted and processed from the sands at a significant and devastating environmental and health cost to the land and people, and the process itself is a major contributor to climate change.

Business Leaders Bullish: New Emissions Cap Good for Business, Consumers and Massachusetts’ Economy

NCLR Releases Study about 'Bright Future' for Latinos in the Green Jobs Sector

Whole Movements: Anti-racism Training For The Climate Movement Whole Movements will support and challenge white climate activists to build authentic partnerships across lines of race and grow inclusive organizations.

Chu Resigns, Writes Of Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ For Action Amid Growing Evidence We’re Making Weather More Extreme

While Germany Is Headed for 80% Renewable Energy, We're Getting Left in the Dust

Hawai’i Leads the Way with Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Policy

Fracking Lobbyists Prep Case Against Matt Damon Movie Published: December 24th, 2012  774  23  76  0   Print Permalink RSS Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian Hollywood's discovery of fracking has caused some unease in the oil and gas industry — even in the midst of America's energy boom.

Matt Damon brings the fracking fight to the big screen By Daniel Penner Focus FeaturesAlternate title: We Bought a Gas Farm. Been jonesin’ for a Hollywood movie about a hot-button environmental issue? One without animation, penguins, or Al Gore?

Climate Justice Advocates Slam Doha's Emerging 'Sham of a Deal' 'Sluggish' climate talks missing essential ingredient—Urgency—as COP18 climate summit in Doha nears end - Jon Queally, staff writer With terms like "sluggish" "tough-going" and "extremely sour" used to describe the tone and progress of the UN climate talks in Doha on Friday, the hope for an agreement that could actually meet the ever-escalating challenges of global warming caused by human pollution was seemingly at an all-time low. On what was scheduled to be the conference's final day, campaigners say the climate agreement being generated in Doha is "an empty shell" and "an insult to our futures." Climate campaigners and civil society groups are convinced that the commitments being exchanged among the international delegates are not nearly enough, exposing the ongoing futility of trying to get rich nations to take responsibility for their outsized carbon footprints or increase their meager financial commitments to developing nations.

The second-largest public international financier of coal-fired power plants around the world is — you guessed it, the World Bank Group.

Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century