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Green activists navigate life in the post-privacy era

Technology forces organizers to be cagier and savvier. They can also make transparency their friend.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy

Will someone please pay the farm bill?

Congress returns to the business of trying to agree on what to do about farm and food subsidies before the law turns into a pumpkin and the calendar flips back to 1940.

Nathanael Johnson Food and Agriculture

West Coast Leaders Providing Trickle Up Leadership

Monday in San Francisco four elected officials boldly went where few politicians will these days – they talked openly and passionately about the urgent need to take action on climate change including putting a price on carbon. As California governor Jerry Brown noted, “To utter the term Global Warming is deviant and radical!” But utter […]

Cylvia Hayes Uncategorized

The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to

Another climate-denier talking point bites the dust: A new study confirms that oceans are absorbing more heat, helping to explain the slowdown in warming on land.

Ben Adler Climate & Energy

GMO labeling: Trick or treat?

Many of the arguments against Washington state's GMO labeling initiative make sense. Here's why, despite that, it should pass.

Nathanael Johnson Food and Agriculture

2013 to be Record Year for Offshore Wind

By J. Matthew Roney Offshore wind power installations are on track to hit a seventh consecutive annual record in 2013. Developers added 1,080 megawatts of generating capacity in the first half of the year, expanding the world total by 20 percent in just six months. Fifteen countries host some 6,500 megawatts of offshore wind capacity. […]

Earth Policy Institute Uncategorized

Utility says nuclear greener than solar – for their shareholders

Two weeks ago, I listened – incredulously – to Minnesota’s largest utility, Xcel Energy, suggest that solar energy offers its ratepayers no value as an environmental hedge against carbon emissions or as a price hedge against natural gas fuel price fluctuations. See and share the infographic related to this post But just three days later, […]

John Farrell Uncategorized

2014 Climate Movement Strategy

What should be the objectives of the US-based climate movement in 2014? Over the past few years, since the death in 2010 of cap-and-trade legislation in the US Senate and the emergence a year later of a broadly-based noKXL movement, there’s been an upturn in successful working unity among many of the groups that make […]

Ted Glick Uncategorized

Democracy in action: 300 enviros, unionists and locals “town hall” together on proposed LNG export terminal

The first town hall meeting concerning the risks of the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal in Maryland was held Tuesday night, October 23. It was a big and rousing success. At least 300 people attended, most of them local residents. It was held at the Southern Community Center in Lusby, Md. in Calvert County, […]