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We Need a Human Environmentalism to Fight AI's Assault on Meaning

We Need a Human Environmentalism to Fight AI's Assault on Meaning

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Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI

Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI

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30.09.2026 10

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I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.

I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

29.09.2026 30

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It's Time for the Democrats to Run Against the AI Apocalypse

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16.09.2026 10

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We've Overshot—What Now?

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08.09.2026 10

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The Blessings of Wendell Berry in a World Cursed by Men Like Elon Musk

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01.09.2026 10

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A Deadly Glacier Collapse... and All the Future Damage We Could Still Forestall

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31.08.2026 10

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The Reality of the Climate Emergency Is Becoming Impossible to Ignore

We vow—with your help—to keep fighting like hell for it.

27.08.2026 10

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The Climate Crisis and Its Solutions, by the Numbers

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14.08.2026 20

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Europe's Extreme Summer Shows the Climate Can't Be Hushed

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03.08.2026 20

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It's Time to Make Gas a Dirty Word

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28.07.2026 20

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MAGA's Response to Wildfire Smoke? Blame Canada!

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20.07.2026 20

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The Trump Energy Agenda Means Astronomical Bills and Smoky Skies

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16.07.2026 30

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Drone Warfare Turns Oil From a Resource Into a Liability

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08.07.2026 20

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The Climate Crisis Won't Let the Political Cycle Ignore It for Too Long

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28.06.2026 30

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Good Climate Policy Is Also Affordability Policy

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26.06.2026 30

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Climate Denier Lee Raymond Left the World Hotter Than He Found It

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12.06.2026 40

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Ignoring Trump's Stupidity Long Enough to Imagine a Green, Equal Future

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09.06.2026 40

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'Scilencing': The Trump Admin Wants to Gag American Scientists When We Need Them Most

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01.06.2026 30

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Greed and Shortsightedness Are Shrinking the Space Where Humans Can Live

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21.05.2026 30

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The War on Wind Power Is 190-Proof Trumpism

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13.05.2026 40

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In a Race Between Trump, Climate Chaos, and the Green Tech Build-Out, Who Will Win?

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09.05.2026 50

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As Santa Marta Leads the World Into the Energy Future, the US Clings to the Past

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02.05.2026 50

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This Earth Day and Every Day, We Need to Talk About Climate

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22.04.2026 40

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The Climate Crisis Is About to Usher in a World We Haven't Seen Before

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14.04.2026 40

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Trump's Iran War Is Transforming the Psychological Meaning of Fossil Fuels

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08.04.2026 40

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Earn Your Hope by Going to a No Kings Day Protest Near You

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27.03.2026 40

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It's About to Get Even Hotter—Can We Learn From It?

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14.03.2026 40

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Here Comes the Sun... to Light Our Way Out of the Age of Fuel Blockades and Oil Wars

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03.03.2026 50

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Why Pausing the Data Center Buildout Is the (Humanly) Intelligent Choice

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24.02.2026 50

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How Climate Denial Greased Trump's Ascent to Fibber-in-Chief

03.02.2026 40

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The Cowardice of the Financial Elite Could Doom Us All to Climate Hell

29.01.2026 40

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The Planetary Crime of a Trump Invasion of Greenland

07.01.2026 40

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Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign

06.01.2026 30

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The Science Equivalent of Tearing Down the East Wing of the White House

19.12.2025 40

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Trump's Oil Piracy Shows Why the Push for Renewable Energy Is the Push for Peace

11.12.2025 30

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Facing the Climate Crisis, Can We Make Politics Move Faster Than Physics?

29.11.2025 40

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Our Home Is on Fire! Why Don't Leaders Act Like It?

21.11.2025 40

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There's Nothing Fair About It, But the Global South Is Leading the Way on Climate

13.11.2025 40

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Why We Shouldn't Care What Bill Gates Has to Say About the Climate Crisis

01.11.2025 40

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The History of Whaling Shows Energy Transitions Are Possible

29.10.2025 40

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I Returned to the Site of the Original No Kings Protest

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the...

18.10.2025 50

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An Inflatable Frog Is the Hero the Anti-Trump Resistance Needs

17.10.2025 50

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Green Energy Is Still a Better Bet Than AI

15.10.2025 50

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Trump Is Turning the US Into the Planet's Rogue Nation

08.10.2025 50

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Sun Day Visions of a Brighter Future

22.09.2025 60

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This Sunday Is... 'SUN DAY'—Join Us!

19.09.2025 50

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Trump and Wright Are Turning America Into a Gas Station Masquerading as a Nation

09.09.2025 50

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Trump's War on Clean Energy Could Be His Downfall... If the Dems Exploit It

20.08.2025 50

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Life Under the Spooky, Shrouded, Trumpian Sun

08.08.2025 60

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