Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
Environmentalism
The U.S.-China Climate Change Deal Is Terrible. Fortunately, It Doesn't Matter
Guess what? America is not really doing anything we weren't going to do anyway, and neither is China.
Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
The City of South Miami Wants to Split Florida in Two
Climate-change fears don't always lead to calls for centralization.
Government Agencies Use Their Power to Bolster Their Own Budgets
A northern California legal case involving state and federal efforts to secure a massive financial settlement from the state's largest land owner is rife with allegations of fraud, corruption, and official misconduct
Capitalism and Climate Change
The problem today is not that capitalism can't function without ruining the environment, but that the public isn't demanding serious action against global warming.
Chris Hedges at Flood Wall Street: "Capitalism Exploits Humans"
Is global warming a defect of free market capitalism?
Friday A/V Club: That Time Jane Jacobs and Marshall McLuhan Made a Movie Together
Killing the Spadina Expressway
Naomi Klein Changes Nothing With This Changes Everything
The laws of nature do not mandate a progressive paradise.
Get Ready for Keystone Pipeline 2?
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline proposal has the potential to become the Keystone XL of the East.
How Markets and Property Rights Can Protect Nature
It's natural-and wrong-to assume greedy capitalists will run amok and destroy the Earth unless stopped by regulation.
Portuguese Food Co-op Fights Back Against EU-Mandated Waste
Baylen Linnekin speaks with Maria Canelhas from Fruta Feia, which has saved literally tons of great food from the garbage.
Good Work, EPA! Now That's Enough.
Today, instead of environmental regulations that actually save lives, we pay to subsidize politicians' cronies and pet projects.
Environmentalists Cheer California's Latest Plan to Sink Its Economy
Getting oil out of the US's largest reserve is going to be much harder than expected. So why are some people celebrating?
Environmentalists Have Lost the Climate Change Debate
Admitting that executive power is the only way to move (tepidly) forward on climate change policy is basically admitting defeat.
Earth Daze: Overcoming Environmental Hysteria
Environmentalism is now more religion than science.
The Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today
It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. What could be worse?
