As New CO2 Milestone Is Reached, Climate Science and Action Grow Inseparable
Standing atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii, with this gorgeous view in front of me, it was hard to imagine…
The Indypendent
Bryan Farrell
In Historic Turn, Sierra Club Gets Arrested For the Climate
What happens when people from the nation’s largest and oldest environmental organization — the kind that sends cute nature…
Mountain Mobilization Organizer Discusses Police Crackdown
A new chapter was added to the storied history of resistance against the coal industry on Saturday with not…
Conspiracy Theorist takes a Swing at Tar Sands Action but Misses
An article published by CounterPunch yesterday, “Inconvenient Truths about Tar Sands Action,” argues that the grassroots campaign targeting the…
Finally, OWS Gets Police to Arrest the People in Suits
Sometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York…
Embracing Tree Huggers: The Powerful Roots of (Un)armed Environmental Protection
Show the slightest bit of concern for the environment and you get labeled a tree hugger. That’s what poor…
Tuning Up the Orchestra: A Symphony of Protest Builds Against Extreme Energy
Environmental victories are so rare that apparently even environmentalists don’t quite know how to kick back and rejoice. At…
No Longer Just a Pipedream: Obama Delays KeystoneXL, Tar Sands Action Claims Victory
“We won. You won.” Those were Bill McKibben’s first words after the Obama administration’s announcement yesterday that it would…
On the Morality of Pie-Throwing
How is it that despite thousands of people in the streets of Sanaa, Casablanca, Bissau and Rangoon, the top…
Understanding the Protests in Egypt
The massive anti-government protests that flared in Egypt yesterday, in which tens of thousands filled the streets of several…