Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change at COP21 and Beyond
Women are rising up across the globe to say, ‘we are not just victims, we are the solution!’
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Protest Ban? What Protest Ban?
The French government’s attempts to crack down on climate protesters have only made their voices louder
Rallying Hip Hop Culture For A More Inclusive Climate Fight
For the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., hip hop culture may be the key to bringing together the movements for social and environmental justice.
This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re-imagines Vast Challenge of Climate Change
We speak to the duo behind the new film, "This Changes Everything," which re-imagines the vast challenge of climate change.
As ‘This Changes Everything’ Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door
‘People are ready for a deeper, much more systemic critique and much more grassroots, radical solutions,’ says film’s director Avi Lewis.
Why the climate movement needs to move beyond the ‘big tent’
Unfortunately, a lot of the time the big tent feels a little too much like it’s just throwing a big sheet over already existing divisions and inequality across and within movements.
Social Justice and Climate Justice Movements Merge in New Orleans 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Marguerite Doyle Johnston, a resident of New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward, did not take part in the multitude of events surrounding Hurricane Katrina’s 10th anniversary that celebrated the city’s resilience.
“You Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life”
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
Degrowth & the Climate Crisis – from a Climate Justice Perspective
There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences.
Re-Imagining Climate Justice at the COP: Finding Our Frontlines at a Gathering in Bellagio, Italy
We should be trying to identify the strategies that give us the best chances of creating “tipping points” in the climate wars. I dream of a movement that can create a non-linear trajectory into the future… One idea … is a COP21-focused campaign for “Just Climate Futures: Saying No in Paris.” The best “outcome” for the COP would be NO treaty/agreement.
Obama Climate Plan: Testament to People Power, but Much More to Do
President Barack Obama on Monday officially unrolled the first-ever federal plan to limit power plant emissions of greenhouse gases, in a move that environmental campaigners are alternately calling "significant" and "not enough."
No Climate Protection without Climate Justice; No Climate Justice without Degrowth
…[T]he…climate movement tends to deny…that renewables are unable to maintain our Western…consumer lifestyles on a global level.