June 6, 20140Comments

Utah protesters oppose tar sands mining

About 20 or more protesters have set up camp at an oil sands operation in eastern Utah in the United States. The group Utah Tar Sands Resistance says tar sands resisters new...

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June 6, 20140Comments

Brazilian Indian leader assaulted 10 days before World Cup

A young Brazilian Indian leader was assaulted recently by four armed men, despite being under the care of a government protection program since he witnessed the murder of his...

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May 31, 20140Comments

‘The Boomers failed us’ – Tim DeChristopher

Sarah van Gelder, writing for Yes! Magazine, talks to “America’s most creative climate criminal” on anger, love and sacrifice. On the morning of December 19,...

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May 24, 20140Comments

How to live off the grid in a tiny house

How to get electricity, water, and the Internet in your tiny home on the range, by Cat Johnson. LaMar Alexander grew up in a homesteading family. For him, self-sufficiency,...

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May 22, 20140Comments

If right-wing violence is up 400% in the US, why is the FBI targeting environmentalists?

Violent attacks by right-wing groups and individuals have increased by 400 percent since 1990, and dramatically in the last five years, according to a new report by West...

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May 19, 20140Comments

How a biology geek became an ocean lawyer

Andrea Treece works in the Oceans program to protect forage fish species like herring, anchovies and sardines, which serve as the building blocks of the ocean food web and are...

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May 18, 20140Comments

Slouching Toward … Hell on Earth

John Atcheson writes: In 1961 Joan Didion released a collection of essays titled, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. The first essay, “Dreamers of a Golden Dream,” contains the...

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May 14, 20140Comments

Students convince Stanford to stop investing in coal

On May 6, Stanford University announced that they would no longer invest any of their endowment funds—which are worth more than $18 billion—in “companies whose principal...

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May 14, 20140Comments

Message for a climate defeatist

To My Friend the Climate Defeatist: Here’s Why I’m Still In the Fight, says Jim Shultz, writing for Yes! Magazine. It is good to mourn for what’s being lost....

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May 13, 20140Comments

Building bike commuters one bike lane at a time

Bicycle commuting can improve health and mitigate climate change. But most states in the US are in neutral, says Brian Bienkowski. It’s that time of year: Bicyclists...

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May 3, 20140Comments

Young activists get creative

Two young activists found creative ways to tackle environmental issues. Olivia Bouler: Painting to rescue birds and restore habitat Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil...

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April 29, 20140Comments

Fighting against the ‘black snake’ – KXL

Members of the Cowboy Indian Alliance — a coalition of tribal members, ranchers, and landowners from the Great Plains — are camping out on the National Mall in Washington,...

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