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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By George Black
How to Slow Climate Change? Stop Talking About It
The Edge | (13) Comments
January 27, 2012: Whether you focus on slowing global warming or improving public health in the world's poorest countries, eliminating black carbon is a climate solution that makes even skeptics smile.
My Top Greenreads of 2011: Good News, Bad News, and a Little Soul-Searching
The Edge | (1) Comments
December 28, 2011: Praise for the environmental journalism that shed the brightest light this year on monumental questions facing our civilization.
Renewable Energy's Ugly Duckling
The Edge | (2) Comments
December 15, 2011: Getting clean energy from the sun is sexy. But for more than 700 million people in South Asia, burning rice husks and cow dung may be the more important, and realistic, power source.
Top Down or Bottom Up?
The Edge | (2) Comments
December 13, 2011: Our columnist traveled to India’s Silicon Valley in search of Tom Friedman's famed new energy economy. What he found requires a radical shift in thinking.
The Sweet Spot
Q&A | (0) Comments
December 1, 2011: An economist questions the virtues of perpetual growth -- and finds some corporations surprisingly ready to listen.
India's Climate Change Ground Zero
The Edge | (1) Comments
November 18, 2011: In one of the poorest parts of India, where farmers live and die by the weather, there’s little dispute that the summers are getting hotter and drier, the winters are getting colder, and climate change is to blame. A major new report from the IPCC confirms that these weather extremes are a worldwide phenomenon – and they’re only getting worse.
As IPCC Links Extreme Weather to Climate, Its Controversial Chief Braces for Storms of Denial
The Edge | (0) Comments
November 17, 2011: Our columnist sits down with Dr. Rajendra Pachauri to talk about past attacks on the panel’s credibility and its disturbing new report that says floods, droughts, and heat waves are only going to get worse.
Two Faces of Old King Coal
The Edge | (2) Comments
November 3, 2011: Remember the cynical "coal carolers" from a few years back? Big Coal's been singing that tune since at least the 1970s -- but the reality is a much starker picture.
Next Up: Occupy Texas?
The Edge | (3) Comments
October 12, 2011: The Lone Star State is a shining example of American exceptionalism -- unfortunately by getting it all wrong on climate change.
Ask an Aggie: Climate Change is Real
The Edge | (3) Comments
September 29, 2011: Deep in the heart of Texas, the scientific consensus is alive and kicking -- no matter what the local politicians say.
George Black
OnEarth's executive editor has reported from five continents, chronicling civil war in Central America, the democracy movement in China, and climate change in countries from Bangladesh to Peru. His next book, Empire of Shadows, to be published by St. Martin's... More