| On Dec. 19, 2008, a 27-year-old man named Tim DeChristopher, troubled by American energy policy and its contribution to global warming, broke the law. BLOG POSTS  | Bill McKibben: Tim DeChristopher Is Going to Jail, Now It's Our Turn
If you sweated through last week's record heat, if your crops are withering in the southwest's epic drought, if you watched the Mississippi swallow your town -- then Tim DeChristopher acted for you. |  | Al Gore: What Do the Debt Ceiling and Climate Crisis Have in Common?
Dramatic changes in the way we communicate about issues affecting the common good have diminished the role of reason and fact-based analysis, encouraging ideological extremists to construct their own alternative version of reality. |  | David Mizejewski: Wild Cougar Confirmed in Connecticut
Each year, dozens of reports come in from people who believe they have seen large, tawny colored cats in states where no such animals are officially documented. What are the animals that so many people claim to be seeing? |  | Andrew D. Miall: Alberta's Oil Sands: A New Regime of Environmental Management?
Only an independent, science-based monitoring authority, at arms-length from government and industry, can establish the necessary credibility in gathering data and making recommendations regarding local and long-term environmental effects of unearthing Alberta's oil. |  | Frances Beinecke: Vote "No" on House Bill to Fast-Track Keystone Pipeline Review
The bill is meant to improve the prospects for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would snake its way 1,711 miles from Canada to Texas to take tar sands crude oil to Gulf coast refineries. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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