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Inventor, visionary, and architect Buckminster Fuller used design to tackle problems including homelessness and environmental degradation.

Proponents say carbon trading is an essential market-based strategy for combating global warming while critics argue that it provides cover for corporate polluters.

Physicist and renowned environmental leader, Vandana Shiva, talks about globalization, emissions trading, and environmental justice.

The author of one of the most controversial book of the 1960s, considered to be the mother of the modern environmental movement, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.

An interview with Keith Ernst, senior policy counsel for the Center for Responsible Lending, on the devastating impact of subprime loans on home ownership.

Hundreds of government scientists accuse the Bush administration of interfering with their work and misrepresenting their findings about climate change.

Interviews with authors who warned about New Orleans' vulnerability to hurricanes years ago.

As gas prices go up, what is the future for hybrid cars and other alternative fuels for cars?

Interviews with representives from Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, and two Arctic explorers who report on their expedition to find the impact of global warming.

To mark World Water Day 2005, Amy Goodman looks at the issue of water privatization in U.S. cities.

Does climate change have anything to do with the strange weather we have been experiecing lately?

As local governments consider affordable community-owned broadband Internet access, they clash with cable and telephone service providers.

Twenty years after one of the world's worst environmental disasters, an elaborate hoax puts it back into the media spotlight.

Amy Goodman interviews David Helvarg and George Monbiot about extreme weather and the effects of global warming.

Despite a million dollar public relations effort, Wal-Mart plans for a "Supercenter" in Inglewood, CA, were thwarted by a historic grassroots intiative.

A Pentagon-commissioned report concludes that in the next 20 years the impact of global climate change could lead to millions of deaths from war and natural disasters.

Scientists accuse the Bush administration of distorting science to make it appear to support the administration's policy goals.

An interview with environmental reporter and author Ross Gelbspan.

How the Federal Emergency Management Agency encourages coastal sprawl.

Critics say EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman, who stepped down last week, played an active role in weakening environmental protections.