Cover Story
Driven by public concern, all the candidates agree that action is needed to slow global warming. No matter who's elected, America's policy will be different a year from now.
TECHNOLOGY
Oratory is not enough. It often takes a national crisis to persuade Americans to make sacrifices.
IDEAS
Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs are focusing on ways to help the environment. Some of our favorite ideas.
LESSONS
The tiny island nation can teach the United States valuable lessons about energy policy.
EDUCATION
Business schools are teaching entrepreneurs how to get rich helping to save the environment.
VENUES
Ever wonder what happens to all those ballpark hot-dog wrappers? Starting now, they'll be recycled.
FASHION
Clothes that are stylish and sustainable are hitting the fashion shows. Will they get to your closet?
TECHNOLOGY
We can't afford to make any more mistakes in how to 'save the planet.' Start by ditching corn ethanol.
INTERVIEW
The inventor of the Segway scooter sets his sites on a new problem: delivering electricity and clean water to the world's poorest.
PREVIOUS COVERAGE
Carbon czar: California's Hummer-loving governor is turning the Golden State into the greenest in the land, a place where environmentalism and hedonism can coexist. How a star turned pol's become the muscle behind saving the planet.
Is the push to save the planet a fad, or a turning point? Here's hoping it's the real deal.
CITIES
The federal government has been dithering on climate change and energy conservation for years. Lucky for us, America's local leaders are filling the vacuum.
ASIA
The most dramatic national transformation in human history is being threatened by a lack of water.
ACTIVISM
For today's young people, fixing the environment is job one. And they have their own ideas about how to do it.
SCIENCE
We're great at spewing CO2 into the air. Visionaries are now devising ways to suck it out.
ANXIETY
How to talk to kids worried about global warming.
DEBATE
Whether it's climate 'chaos', 'change' or 'crisis', language comes first in the environment fight.
RESOURCES
A few ways to help reduce the billions of metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions created yearly by the U.S.
INTERVIEW
'The Governator' walks where Washington fears to tread when it comes to global warming.
LIVE TALK
NEWSWEEK's Jerry Adler took your questions on Thursday, April 12, on the perils of human-generated climate change.
Global Environmental Leadership: Mayor Bloomberg I
04/08/08: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s introduction and opening remarks on the second annual Global Environmental Leadership Conference hosted by Newsweek.
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