Faces of Fracking: Rosanna Esparza
As an environmental journalist I meet a lot of environmental organizers – it’s par for the course. But Rosanna is not like any I’ve come across before.
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Blame the Environmentalists
CEOs of companies engaged in shale gas and tight oil drilling are undoubtedly aware of what’s going on in their own balance sheets, hype is an essential part of their business model.
Corporate hegemony and the Keystone Pipeline
The oil industry has corrupted the Keystone XL environmental assessment process just as it has hijacked the climate change debate and interfered with action.
Brought Together by Pipeline Fight, “Cowboys and Indians” Heal Old Wounds
What they “get” is a connection to land, the sense that one’s identity is rooted in a particular place that cannot be sold or exchanged for another.
My Environmentalism will be Intersectional or it will be bullshit
The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focusses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis – the powerful.
Green Bans, Red Unions: Review
Considering the depth of opposition and the potential for such movements to intervene into ongoing debates about fuel poverty and sustainable economic development, it is useful to pause and consider what and who might actually be able to stop fracking.
Scenari Dopo La Crescita
This is an Italian translation of the joint Post Carbon Institute/Transition Network report Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience.
David 5, Goliath 0 (and Counting)
In one multi-billion dollar mega-project after another, David is standing up to Goliath—and winning.
How anti-coal campaigners are protecting Australia’s economy
Irony doesn’t get any better than this. Environmentalists and farmers fighting the expansion of coal mining and coal seam gas across Australia are protecting the economy. If they are successful in slowing down or reversing these sectors in Australia, future governments will be spared an economic mess, Australian workers will have much improved employment prospects and our big banks will be spared major losses.
Building an Enduring Environmental Movement
…it is time for the environmental movement to evolve. It needs to accelerate the shift to a sustainable society and to become more independent and resilient, even in the worst-case scenario of a rapid ecological transition. The only question is, How?
Beyond Zombie-Environmentalism: The Great Lakes Commons
It’s been said that the fate of any great movement is to be cannibalized by the mainstream or to die. I’d like to suggest two others paths: zombiehood and courageous re-invention.