Author Archives: Bard

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Next week’s National Climate Seminar: China and Climate, with Andrew Stevenson from Resources for the Future. This week’s food for thought: Since 2000, coal production in China has tripled. Over the next decade, China will add … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, This Wednesday at noon eastern, the National Climate Seminar welcomes Penn State’s Dr. Donald Brown on Climate Ethics. Dr. Brown argues that the moral case for action is critical to move climate politics, with concrete practical … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Know anyone teaching courses related to environmental politics or policy this term? Please forward this e-mail along to them. Why? Because we have a terrific, easy opportunity for them to get face-time for their students with … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Is it time for the American Clean Energy Party? Join us Wednesday at noon eastern, where I will be making the case, as we launch the 2011 National Climate Seminar. I’ll talk about my Grist article … Continue reading →

By Eban Goodstein Last year was a bad year for the future of humans and other creatures of the earth. The US failed to act on climate, and the victory of dozens of Tea Party Republicans in November eliminated any … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In 1986, when I was 26, I helped a then-29 year old friend of mine, Dean Baker run for Congress in a Republican district outside of Ann Arbor, MI. Dean won the Democratic nomination, and ran … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The 2011 National Climate Seminar launches on 1/19 with a discussion on my new idea for the climate– The American Clean Energy Party: “A Clean Energy Party can move beyond the Obama phenomenon, and broadly tap this … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, C2C/EARTHweek!

With your help, during Earthweek 2011 C2C will host over a hundred video-dialogues between Campus and Congress on clean energy, climate and jobs. If you want to invite your member of congress or senator to talk … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The elections earlier this month saw the breaching of the 2016 deadline set by NASA’s Jim Hansen for global CO2 stabilization, and also moved us well beyond IPCC Chair Rajendra Pauchuari’s statement that action beyond 2012 … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Please join Time Magazine reporter Bryan Walsh on The National Climate Seminar, this Wednesday, noon eastern. Bryan will discuss, in light of the US elections and the global economic crisis, whether there is room for progress … Continue reading →