Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope
At the end of the Reagan administration, American public opinion polls showed there were no discernible differences based on political party in response to the question, "Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?" However, in the early 1990s, a partisan gulf between conservatives and liberals emerged around environmental issues. Today, half as ......
Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope
At the end of the Reagan administration, American public opinion polls showed there were no discernible differences based on political party in response to the question, "Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?" However, in the early 1990s, a partisan gulf between conservatives and liberals emerged around environmental issues. Today, half as ......
Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser
The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes ......
Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser
The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and improvement in Britain and Ireland, culminating with Edmund Spenser's colonial writing. William Rhodes ......
Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Energy Transition
The global transition to a net-zero economy is a significant moment of opportunity for regions around the world. Regions that successfully capitalize on ever-advancing technologies and growing consumer demand for green products will deliver meaningful benefits to their people and economies. In this report, the World Bank lays out how Latin ......
Oportunidades Para America Latina Y El Caribe En La Transicion Energetica
The global transition to a net-zero economy represents a significant opportunity. This World Bank report identifies how Latin America's ample forests, freshwater resources, fertile land, and mineral deposits position the region well to seize this opportunity, and offers concrete recommendations for the path forward.
Land, air, and water have long supported human progress. But today these essential resources are under growing pressure, putting development and well-being at risk. This report shares new data and practical solutions to help countries grow in ways that protect nature and build a healthier, more secure, and more livable future.
Wildfire, Flooding, and the Fight for Climate Resilience in the American West
Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation - a 'Great American Desert,' as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and ......
How New York Socialists Fight for Climate Survival
A successful political playbook for fighting climate change and expanding democracy from the New York socialist movement Climate inaction is already causing widespread suffering and devastation around the world. How can citizens take collective action? Fabian Holt argues that we must go beyond protest and direct action, and turn to the potential ......
