Easy access to wilderness can drive regional growth that poses an existential threat to that wilderness.
Old Walls
Thermal improvements in historic buildings go a long way to reducing their energy consumption.
Workforce Education
Starbucks has generously offered to pay employee’s college tuition but that’s no substitute for Federal support.
Productive Business
Framing climate change in terms of business risk should help motivate private sector action.
Following Stanford
Divestment might be a small action to combat climate change, but that doesn’t make it a meaningless one.
Mining Capital
Obama isn’t leading the “War on Coal.” The coal companies are.
Fractured Regulation
Federal reluctance to regulate hydraulic fracturing has resulted in a patchwork of inconsistent state regulation.
Closing the Divide
The Knowledge-Practice divide is a major obstacle to effective progress and the target of our efforts at S&S.
Citizen Journalists
Social media has changed the landscape of reporting around environmental disasters, adding to the available information.
Costly Confusion
You should be skeptical of the estimates of how much the new EPA regulations will cost. Here’s why.