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Public opinion on climate just tipped
An unlikely confluence of events in recent weeks could be the final push needed for awareness and action on climate change.
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Taking the suits to the street and protesting Keystone XL
I'm a behind-the-scenes climate activist who decided it's time to trade emails and meetings for front-line action against the tar-sands pipeline.
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Pants low, spirits high: McKibben on the ongoing tar-sands protest [VIDEO]
Bill McKibben was sprung from jail on Monday, as were the dozens of others arrested at the start of a protest against the proposed Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline. He said the freed protestors may have looked a bit saggy because they'd lost their belts, but that wasn't bringing them down: "Our pants may be low but our spirits are high, and our determination intact."
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Why I’m marching against the tar-sands pipeline
A lifelong union member, I'm protesting the tar-sands pipeline because if labor is to have a sustainable future, it must be as a central player in the sustainability movement.
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Mr. Obama: XL + Tar Sands = Bad Political Equation
Three years ago, I spent a number of weekends going door to door in Virginia urging people to vote for our President. In that campaign I found a sense of pride, a sense of excitement, a sense of energizing virtue. This weekend, I spent a good chunk of time training to do civil disobedience at […]
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Daryl Hannah joins tar-sands protest
It can be mildly annoying when movie stars get activist, because it usually just means looking sincere while wearing the ribbon color of the day. Which is why it's kind of cool that Daryl Hannah, who has never really stopped defending the environment since she came out of the ocean in 1984, is headed down to the Keystone XL protests where people are being arrested left and right.
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'I'm scared out of my mind' — but still getting arrested to stop the tar-sands pipeline [VIDEO]
More than 100 activists have been arrested so far for protesting against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. Watch on video.
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The New York Times thinks the tar-sands pipeline sucks. Here’s why.
The New York Times has come out with an editorial position on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and it’s unusually definitive, considering that we still have news media trying to represent “both sides” of the climate change “debate.” Here’s how they break it down.
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Critical List: Keystone XL protests begin; Fukushima area could be uninhabitable for decades
In DC, protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began this weekend. The first round of protesters that cops arrested sat in jail through the weekend, longer than police had said they'd be detained.
The area around Fukushima has levels of radioactivity so high, it could be uninhabitable for decades.
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