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Why is WGBH Legitimizing David Koch’s Climate Change Denial?
Last Wednesday, more than 50 people gathered outside of WGBH — Boston’s public television station and the largest producer of national PBS television content — with 119,000 petition signatures calling on the station to drop David Koch from its board. Even Elmo was there (well, a local climate activist dressed up as Elmo), to say that a man who […]
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Norway’s massive oil wealth could be invested in renewables, “change the world”
Norway has more money than it knows what to do with. And while leaders figure out how they want to manage the nation’s roughly $790 billion public pension fund going forward, there’s real potential for an “unprecedented shift” in renewable energy investment. Norway’s enormous pension coffers, fat off the country’s offshore oil wealth, could ironically […]
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Ontario Kills Coal, But Local Renewables Program Falters
It was one of the most ambitious renewable energy programs in the world when it launched in 2009, committing the Canadian province to buy power from thousands of new renewable energy systems. It was open and accessible to the average person, and it was committed to buying power only from projects that were “made in […]
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How long did the North Dakota oil spill remain undetected?
20,600 barrels of crude oil spilled from a six inch pipeline owned and operated by Tesoro Logistics, according to the company, spreading over 7 acres of a North Dakota wheat field until a farmer discovered it on September 29. But information about this major spill wasn’t made public for another 11 days – and only […]
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Building a Culture of Mass Resistance to Climate Disruption
Without question, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization essential to the Southern-based civil rights movement of the 1960’s. If SNCC had not come forward, that movement never would have won the victories that it did. SNCC was youth-based and youth-led. It was the most uncompromising, most risk-taking, most participatory and democratic and […]
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Banksy’s latest project shows screaming stuffed animals being taken to slaughter
The street artist is sending a truckload of squealing puppets on a tour of the Meatpacking District.
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10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
October 16 is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the […]
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Grist’s looking for a few good fellows
Come work, write, and learn with us in Seattle for six months. Applications are open now.
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Money talks: Climate change is going to be really bad for business
Over the past couple of weeks, a group of cold, calculating experts have been spouting warning after warning about the severity of the climate threat. No, I’m not talking about climate scientists (though they’ve just had something to say on the topic too). I’m talking about the capitalists. You know, the bankers, the insurers, the […]
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5 ways Monsanto wants to profit off climate change
The agriculture giant has a variety solutions for mitigating and adapting to global warming.