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Activism and policy are not the same thing
Keystone scolds seem to think that what activists are engaged in is a policy proposal. That's stupid.
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Montana and Minnesota: Coal vs. Clean Energy
It’s easy to get excited about the future coming off our recent announcement that we’re half-way to our goal of retiring one-third of the nation’s coal fleet. Seeing those successes city-by-city and state-by-state is inspiring, but it also is a frequent example of how different two places can be when it comes to clean energy […]
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Climate change is making animals shrink
Animals worldwide cope with climate change by getting physically smaller, in a biological trend scientists call "adorbs."
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No Fracking, No Fracking Pipelines
Something is happening in the Delaware River watershed, something important and inspiring. Yesterday over 100 people from dozens of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware groups joined together in one of the most empowering actions I’ve been part of in a long time. For two and a half hours, led by Maya Van Rossom […]
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King Coal’s tragic puppet show, Part 2 – Coal export is wrong
…originally published at GRIP…. When last we left our intrepid heroes, the great Northwest had woken up to find itself cast in the wrong movie, sort of like Owen Wilson playing Richard Nixon (see Part 1). If we’re disoriented, it’s no wonder – what, with all the crap flying around trying to convince us that […]
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Where Has All the Ice Gone?
By Emily E. Adams As the earth warms, glaciers and ice sheets are melting and seas are rising. Over the last century, the global average sea level rose by 17 centimeters (7 inches). This century, as waters warm and ice continues to melt, seas are projected to rise nearly 2 meters (6 feet), inundating coastal […]
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Carbon dioxide levels made a big, scary jump in 2012
Last year saw the second-biggest spike in CO2 levels on record, meaning we're even less likely to meet goals for keeping climate change in check.
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Clean Break Inspires Americans to Pursue “Energy Change”
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing the German Energiewende (translation: energy change). It’s a story of how the Germans systematically shifted to clean energy, finding as they proceeded that the possibilities were greater, the costs lower, and the benefits for ordinary citizens more prodigious than anyone could […]
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Mind-bending four-dimensional graffiti takes street art to the next level
Street artist INSA paints, photographs, re-paints, and re-photographs his works over a span of days, resulting in a piece of graffiti art that becomes really special when viewed as a time-lapse animation.
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Learning from the cap-and-trade debate
The author of a much-discussed report on failed climate legislation reflects on what she's learned, and what activists need to do next.
