The Meaning of Green

Renewables, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, Don Quixote, and bats

Rachel Carson vs. the scientific establishment, Bill Ruckelshaus vs. DDT, and President Nixon vs. the Clean Water Act

Eula and the snakes, edges in eastern Oregon, a secessionist movement, and ecotones

Trash as pollution and commerce, the US's mega-landfills, the EU vs. the US in trash management, local stories, and Fresh Kills

Trash management, a meatball predicament, learning from the Danes, and a Labrador mix named Harry Potter

John Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman on their provocative new book about power and a post-coal future in Appalachia, and Kathy Selvage, a coal miner's daughter and anti-coal activist, on exploitation by coal companies and The Nature Conservancy

Green-minded Scots demand a say in wind farm expansions, the UK's aggressive climate change program, Ralph Nader and Al Gore, and a dog theft law

A new exposé called Profit vs. Progress, how the wealthy dump on the rest of us and what to do about it, and Democracy in America

Of manatees and Mata Hari, happiness vs. stuff, George Carlin, Mt. Trashmore in Miami, reducing waste in Canada, the US, and the EU, and a controversial trash incinerator

The Klamath River undammed, a dam proposal likened to flooding the Sistine Chapel, fighting to preserve the forests that feed the Panama Canal, and Brazil's energy transition