The Truth Please – Your Personal One
Therefore, honesty is the only thing I demand of both political decision makers and the scientific experts.
Environment featured
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.
Thoughts on cultural appropriation
Maybe we could spend some time today learning how indigenous peoples the world over have managed to create cultures and communities that have lasted for millennia, successfully adapting to all sorts of changes — except the advent of colonialism.
Review: Regenerating Life
As more and more people are learning, there’s another side to the climate that’s been overlooked, one having less to do with what we put in the air than what we do to the land and this film bring it beautifully to life.
United by the flow of the River Exe
Last month, the River Exe came alive with song, night swimming, stories and a wild salmon run for the first Festival of the River Exe.
The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?
It couldn’t be more inappropriate to use the term “new Cold War” right now on a globe where a previously unimagined version of a hot war is staring us all, including most distinctly the United States and China, in the face.
Everyone and everywhere is now on the climate frontline
While seeing might be believing, until you’ve actually experienced a climate disaster, it’s still difficult to really comprehend – even for climate activists.
