Category: Climate Change

By Clark A. Miller Everyone knows an energy revolution is coming—yet the most important feature of that revolution remains obscure to most people, even inside the energy industry. The social and economic organization of energy is about to change radically,…

By Mary Jane Parmentier It has been <a title="Yasuni National Park One of Most Biodiverse Places On Earth" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133510 team collaboration app.htmhttp://” target=”_blank”>said that there are more types of frogs in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador than in the…

Nature, Pristine, Wild. These words ground the modern conservation movement. But a growing circle of new conservationists is making the bedrock shake. The call to action was most clearly sounded in a 2012 Breakthrough Institute essay titled, “Conservation in the…

What is “environmental justice” and how can ordinary people hold engineers, and the socio-technological systems that underpin our daily lives, accountable? Gwen Ottinger sets about answering important questions about the pursuit of “responsible innovation,” and the barriers to achieving it,…

By Miles Brundage, Should we expect technological innovations to cure society’s problems? The media are filled with reports of cutting-edge breakthroughs in health, energy, computing, and other technology areas, often accompanied by the explicit or implicit hope that such breakthroughs…

By Clark A. Miller This article also appears on Slate.  Arizona State University is a partner in Future Tense with Slate and the New America Foundation. All storms tell stories. Some are inevitably about destruction. Others are about heroism and…