The Heat is On: Sweeping Actions Urged Ahead of U.N. Climate Summit
Each new year brings record high temperatures, expanded wildfires, intensified hurricanes, floods and droughts, melting permafrost, acidification of the…
The Indypendent
Nancy Romer
Eco-Anxiety: A Meditation on David Buckel’s Life and Death
David Buckel — a ground-breaking lawyer for gay rights, an environmental activist, father, partner, community builder — who burned…
How New Yorkers Won Fossil Fuel Divestment
A climate activist reflects on the grassroots movement that spawned this pivotal change.
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‘Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change’
By Ashley Dawson
Verso, 2017
After the People’s Climate March
What New Yorkers and the rest of us can do now that the historic day of protest is over.
Victory at Standing Rock, but the Struggle Goes On
Victory….for now After eight months, starting with a few hundred young Native Americans and swelling to up to 15,000…
Here’s What I Learned Canvassing Flatbush for Bernie
Late afternoon, on a chilly but sunny day in Flatbush, Brooklyn, I set out to do door-to-door canvassing for…
I Hosted a Phone Bank for Bernie at My Home in Brooklyn: Here’s What I Learned
I had just come back from a trip to Bolivia and Colombia and had been avidly reading about the…
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Supporters of left-leaning presidential candidate Xiomara Castro are claiming fraud after Honduran authorities declared on December…
Putting a New Food System on the Table
Nancy Romer Secretary Department of Agriculture Can you imagine a food system that is centered around the local and…