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The Climate Youth Movement’s Earth Day Message to Biden
Last weekend, we flooded our streets and campuses with our voices and votes. Tens of thousands of young people along with the Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future U.S., and Reclaim Earth Day, in more...
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To Curb Climate Pollution, We Must Address the Elephant in the Room:...
In cities and in rural areas, in red states and blue states, most residents want cleaner and more connected communities. Public transit—including trains, buses, and dial-a-ride services—and accessible...
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Degrowth Is the Only Sane Survival Plan
Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a...
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Strategic Perspectives of the Green New Deal from Below
The Green New Deal from Below represents a unique formation which therefore requires – and has developed — a unique strategy. It is not the same as an electoral campaign, a civil disobedience struggle,...
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This April, Climate and War are Linked More Than Ever
It’s Earth Day today, and the U.S. and the world seem determined to ignore the climate crisis and instead invest in war. That’s a huge mistake. This weekend, the House passed $95 billion in new war...
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Transition Farm Throwing Open Its Gates
The benefits of growing food together should be accessible to everyone, believes Transition Town Dorchester. And this week their community farm launches a new partnership with another local charity to...
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Eco-Collapse Hasn’t Happened Yet, But You Can See It Coming
Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a...
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Trump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case
Apanel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the...
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The Heat’s On – Big Time!
“Nearly nineteen thousand (19,000) weather stations have notched record high temperatures since Jan. 1.” (Source: Earth’s Record Hot Streak Might be a Sign of a New Climate Era, The Washington Post,...
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Sustainable Food Systems, Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Brussels is currently not the most hopeful place for those wishing to see EU food systems in a fair, ecological transition. But hope is on the ground. Not waiting for the impetus to come from above,...
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Climate, Energy and Natural Resources
Speech by Jason Hickel, Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, at the 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana. Thank you to PI for organizing this event, and thank you to our Cuban hosts,...
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The End Of The World
A sobering article published in The Guardian yesterday has gotten me thinking, not for the first time, about why, despite difficult odds and repeated disappointments, I and many others keep plugging...
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Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I’ll Help You Wreck the Planet
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a straightforward offer to some of the top fossil fuel executives in the United States during a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club last month,...
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UN Report: Climate Extremes Slammed Latin America and the Caribbean Last Year
Extreme climate shocks, intensified by global warming, killed hundreds of people and devastated livelihoods and ecosystems across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, scientists with the World...
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Local Newspapers Are Lifelines for Climate-Disaster Communities
When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local...
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said. Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures...
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Climate Crisis-Driven Wildfires in Canada Prompt Air Quality Warnings in US
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted air quality warnings for some states in the upper Midwest of the U.S. Although wildfires in Canada have not yet reached levels seen during last year’s...
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UK Professor Condemns Own University Over Collaboration With Oil Giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash. Ian Williams, professor in applied environmental...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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Local News Is Vital: Can We Survive the Climate Crisis Without It?
Local news has its finger on the pulse of our communities. When city council acts (or acts up), when disaster strikes, when corruption or scandal needs to be scrutinized, local news steps up. From our...
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11,000% Return: Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall...
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to...
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Thirsty in Paradise: Water Crises Are a Growing Problem Across the Caribbean...
In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind the images of balmy beaches and lush hotel grounds lies a crisis, the likes of which its residents have...
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Extreme Heatwaves in South and Southeast Asia are a Sign of Disasters to Come
Since April 2024, wide areas of south and southeast Asia, from Pakistan to the Philippines, have experienced prolonged extreme heat. Covering some of the most densely populated regions in the world,...
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What Is Actually Being Done to Phase Out Fossil Fuels?
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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Economic Damage From Climate Change Six Times Worse Than Thought
The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a...
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Yet More Boondoggles: Extracting Carbon Dioxide from the Air, Mining Asteroids
The dictionary doesn’t quite do justice to the word “boondoggle” according to author Dmitri Orlov, best known for his book Reinventing Collapse. A contemporary boondoggle must not only be wasteful, it...
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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative...
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There is an Alternative to Costly, Carbon-emitting Chemical Fertilisers
At the recent African Union (AU) Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit in Nairobi on 7-9 May, African leaders unveiled the new 10-year Fertilizer and Soil Health Action Plan 2023-2033. Designed to...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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Essential Voices for the Turn Away from Car Dependency
In forward-thinking municipalities across North America, elected officials and staff members can learn important lessons by taking on the Week Without Driving Challenge. As Anna Letitia Zivarts...
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