Forest service to remove your voice from public lands decisions
A new proposal would shrink the public’s right to comment on the rulebooks that govern grazing, logging, and permits across the national forests. You can have your say right now.
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The data center showdown in Lackawanna County
As AI drives a boom in massive, power-hungry data centers, tech companies are targeting small, vulnerable communities for sprawling “hyperscale” complexes. In Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, the tiny borough of Archbald, facing five proposed facilities, has become a flashpoint in a growing nationwide backlash over who pays the price for the digital future.
The UK can’t debate its way out of climate impacts. It needs a Plan B now
As climate impacts intensify, the UK remains dangerously unprepared for systemic shocks, from global heating to biodiversity collapse. Instead of waiting for consensus on long-term solutions, the focus must shift to resilience.
Without pluralism within the climate movement, we risk handing the future to the far right
The climate crisis demands urgency, not ideological uniformity. In an already fragmented movement, requiring adherence to specific positions on issues beyond climate action deepens division and opens space for anti-democratic influence.
There is no room for ‘hero worship’ in the fight for climate justice
Tangible, inclusive and insistently hopeful, “It’s Not That Radical” will spur newcomers into activism and re-energize those of us whose hopes are dwindling
On Climate: Grieve, Cry, But Don’t Give Up!
Grief calls climate activists to embrace the most difficult challenge: to fight to save as much life as possible and—hopefully—to restore some of what’s gone.
Climate Action Epistemology Part 6: Developing an Intellectually and Politically Active Culture
It’s essential to understand that knowledge is power, to have a solid analytical framework with the right guiding questions, and to work with others to share the significant costs involved in becoming deeply informed.
Hope Amid Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Can the things that are coming together — which, of course, for me would be the positive things, the climate movement and the changes we’re trying to make — outrun the negative things, which are both climate change and its catastrophes and destruction?
A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus returns to Crazy Town, but this time with a green badge of courage. Earlier this year, he locked himself to the entrance of the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown Los Angeles to protest their ongoing investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Feeling at odds with Just Stop Oil’s tomato soup protest? That’s the point
This action is designed to be destabilizing. It is meant to hit us and to challenge us: What are we ready to do, what are we eager to give up, or even to sacrifice to try to save what can still be saved?
“We Have to Start Questioning What Systems We Are Participating In”
That is why they are called non-renewable resources, for example. Because Mother Earth doesn’t have the ability to renew those resources at the same speed at which we’re taking them.
There’s no place for burnout in a burning world
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
