Time for Earth's 7-billion-person checkup: We practice preventive maintenance on our cars and our health — why not apply it to our natural resources? A review of The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice by Richard P. Hiskes (and more). An interview with Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. An excerpt from Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action by Mike Roselle. The Ungreening of America: Why are people caring less and less about the environment? The mental roadblocks to climate change: Social psychology finds a thread linking opposition to health care reform and climate change — and a possible way around the problem. Just how toxic is the term "tax"?: A newly published study suggests its use decreases support for climate change initiatives. Talk about a climate catastrophe: David Roberts on what went wrong — and what Obama has to do next (and more). China wrecked the Copenhagen deal: As recriminations fly post-Copenhagen, one writer offers a fly-on-the-wall account of how talks failed. Some climate experts seek alternative to U.N. process. Meet the man who could end global warming: Eric Loewen is the evangelist of the sodium fast reactor, which burns nuclear waste, emits no CO2, and might just save the world. Save the world, keep tittle-tattling: The gossip industry is too big, but satisfying our inquisitive nature is a better way of wasting carbon than importing water. If only some incredibly common rock would just sit around and suck up carbon dioxide all day; oh, there is one — why aren't we excited about it?
