Any antidote to climate anxiety involves organizing
Doing the work, nurturing community and organizing, and being prepared to act is the best guarantee that we’ll have a life worth living. This is my hope.
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The New Face of Climate Protest: Can You Hear Them Now?
So, the next time you’re stuck in traffic because some d**n eco-snowflake glued themselves to the highway, think about why they did it. You can quibble about their tactics but not their intentions or sense of urgency.
Five Steps to Climate Sanity: Beyond Both Despair and Hopium
We must act even in the face of hopelessness, warriors defending a sacred place, simply because it is the right thing to do, rebelling beyond hope because the human spirit tells us with insistence that what is unacceptable—all the suffering, all the loss, all the tears—must not be accepted. Fight.
Reviving hope: Wild horses and ecosystem restoration in Appalachia, USA
Amidst rugged Appalachia, where coal mining scars run deep, a tale of resilience, renewal, and collaboration emerges.
The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
The “lungs of North America,” the Tongass National Forest is the Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Protecting it means protecting the entire planet.
The Truth Please – Your Personal One
Therefore, honesty is the only thing I demand of both political decision makers and the scientific experts.
How climate activists won the American Climate Corps
Last month, President Joe Biden announced the launch of the American Climate Corps, or ACC — a program that will train some 20,000 young people in careers in climate and clean energy.
Frontlines Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Balkans
The Adriatic Climate Camp created a vibrant training program and community that pulled off two major direct actions against the natural gas industry and remains resilient in the face of police brutality.
We’re poisoning teenagers (but it doesn’t seem to matter)
What happens when guilt gets spread around so thin that no one feels responsible.
Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
A product of entrenched, historic racism, “sacrifice zones”—designed to site pollution hot spots within communities of color—are a front line in a largely silent, often deadly, and steadily growing health crisis across the United States.
Getting Mad and Getting Even
Let’s hope that California succeeds in both setting a meaningful precedent and making those companies pay in a big way, ending impunity for the most dangerous and deceitful assault on our environment in human history.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington
Dominating politics this week is the war in the Middle East between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, in which thousands have died and many more have been wounded.