Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
•Youths Sue U.S. Government Over Climate Inaction •Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland Security Congress •FTSE joins Blackrock to help investors avoid fossil fuels •What’s at Stake in Harvard’s Fossil-Fuel Divestment Debate •’Divest It Like It’s Hot’
"People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. We can, for instance, boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil-fuel energy companies."
“What can I do about climate change?” “Very little. What can WE do about climate change? EVERYTHING.”
Those who are fighting to save the climate need a new strategy. One such strategy to consider is a global nonviolent law-enforcing insurgency, where citizens take it upon themselves to defend the climate directly and preserve the public trust for generations to come.
At the Universtiy of Michigan we are readying our campaign to become more inclusive and strategic.
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War
It feels like this could be the beginning of the fight back we have all been waiting for, the one that will chase Harper from power and restore the power of working people in Canada.
Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Summer has been the season of climate action for the past two years.
One point of the campaign is simply to say: these are now rogue industries. We don’t want to be associated with them.
Two thousand eight hundred high-spirited and sunflower-carrying demonstrators—numbers estimated by the Richmond Police Department (RPD)—converged in front of the main gate to Chevron’s refinery in Richmond Saturday to demand that the oil giant address ongoing health and safety concerns, stop processing extreme crude like tar sands, and cease its political and taxation manipulations.
