When environmentalists come out against economic growth – Bill McKibben called growth “the one big habit we finally must break” – they often are referring to the developed world. But with most of the world’s expected growth to occur in … Continue reading →

Clowning Around with Conservation: Adaptation, Reparation and the New Substitution Problem by Benjamin Hale, Alexander Lee, and Adam Hermans Environmental Values 23 (2) 181-198, doi: 10.3197/096327114X13894344179202, Published April 2014. Abstract: In this paper we introduce the ‘New Substitution Problem’ which, … Continue reading →

Roger Pielke, Jr. has a piece out in Earth Island Journal. It is part of an exchange with John de Graaf, who argues that economic growth must end. Roger’s piece explores what it actually means to be anti-growth. What Does … Continue reading →

Deserai Anderson Crow and Max Boykoff just had a book published by Routledge Press: Culture, Politics and Climate Change How Information Shapes our Common Future Edited by Deserai A. Crow, Maxwell T. Boykoff Focusing on cultural values and norms as … Continue reading →

Roger Pielke, Jr. and Dan Sarewitz have a new Op-ed in the Financial Times on energy development and poor nations: Climate policy robs the world’s poor of their hopes We need technologies that work in the US and in Pakistan, … Continue reading →

Max Boykoff has a new article published in the March 2014 edition of Nature Climate Change: Boykoff, M. T. (2014). Media discourse on the climate slowdown. Nature Climate Change, Volume 4, pp. 156-158, Published March. Media discourse on the climate … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: Marisa McNatt researched information for this story while traveling in Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Climate Media Fellowship program. Excerpt from The Boulder Stand by Marisa McNatt What if there were a way for Boulder to … Continue reading →

Benjamin Hale has a chapter published in the new book Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics by Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, and Leonard Kahn, Eds. (December 2013, Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory). Excerpt: Of the 4.9 million barrels of crude … Continue reading →

Roger Pielke, Jr. has a new publication at Law in Sport on the analysis of immigration and US Soccer. US immigration policy negatively impacts US Soccer by Roger Pielke, Jr. Excerpt: Issues related to immigration and citizenship have long been … Continue reading →