environmental activism
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The first coordinated effort to boot Pruitt from the EPA just launched
“It is clear that Administrator Pruitt is unfit to serve in public office.”
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Berta Cáceres is the most recent environmental activist to be killed trying to protect her home
This Honduran activist is one tragic example of what it means to be on the front lines of environmental justice.
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Tim DeChristopher out of solitary
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, who has been in solitary confinement since March 9 for confusing reasons, was released back into regular old prison Wednesday night.
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21st Century Activism: Why big business doesn’t always have to be the bad guy
Today is a great day for the future of the IT sector. Over the past few years, we’ve campaigned hard against Facebook to get them to commit to clean energy – specifically, we wanted them to change their siting policy-the decisions that they make about how to power their massive football-stadium-sized data centers. When […]
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Stop crying: Environmental tales don’t have to be ‘The Lorax’
Cross-posted from the Last Word on Nothing. I’ve spent a lot of time this past year thinking and writing about extinction, which means I’ve also spent a lot of time drinking thinking about the tragic narrative in environmental journalism. There’s a lot of genuine tragedy on the environmental beat, and it doesn’t take a partisan to see […]
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Do environmentalists need shrinks?
Is the sorry state of the planet dragging you into the dumps? Psychologist John Fraser thinks a lot of enviros are suffering from traumatic distress.
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Calling all artists: The climate movement needs you!See related slideshowThroughout history, artists have joined forces with political movements to battle injustice and demand a better and more beautiful world. Picasso’s “Guernica” captured the horrors of the German bombing of civilians in 1937. “Solidarity Forever,” “We Shall Overcome,” and “Give Peace a Chance” expressed the optimism and power of the labor, civil rights, […]
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Salt of the earth: Environmentalists and urbanists collide in San Francisco Bay [UPDATED]
In a collection of salt evaporation ponds tucked between a freeway, a sleepy little marina, and the headquarters of Dreamworks Animation, the San Francisco Bay’s ecological future hangs in the balance. The ponds themselves look deceptively blank: Vast flat rectangles of shallow water once used by Cargill to produce salt, the two-and-a-quarter square miles are […]
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350.org and 1Sky merge into one mass climate movement
Let’s get together — yeah, yeah, yeah.We environmentalists hear this periodically from friends and family and other concerned citizens: “I wish there weren’t so many groups. It’s confusing. I don’t know who to volunteer for. Wouldn’t it work better if you all got together?” This isn’t quite as obvious as it sounds. Different groups have […]
