The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial dedication was canceled last August 22 because of Hurricane Irene, a storm that grazed D.C. on its way to causing devastation in parts of northern New England. While the dedication events down by the Lincoln Memorial were put on hold, another sort of celebration...

Hundreds of people marched through the halls of the UN Climate Talks this afternoon to demand that negotiators not sign a "death sentence" in Durban.

The protest began in the tradition of occupy movements around the world, with a lone person yelling "Mic Check!" in the middle of the hall...

Ever since President Obama said "no" to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last Thursday, the Fox News media monster has been working itself into a frenzy. The President is a "coward" and a "jobs killer." He's bending to "radical environmentalists" and letting the Chinese steal our oil.

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Sometimes, the 99 percent win.

On Thursday afternoon, President Obama announced that the State Department will be sending plans for TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline back to the drawing board. Most analysts think the 12- to 18-month delay will cause enough cost overruns and missed...

The Keystone XL saga is entering another exciting week. As thousands of people prepare to completely surround the White House November 6 to push President Obama to deny the permit for the 1,700-mile pipeline, Lisa Jackson and the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to release their final review...

Here's a unique political strategy for you: in the lead up to a crucial election, as anti-corporate sentiment is sweeping the nation, consider giving a huge handout to a major corporation that happens to be your biggest political enemy and is already spending hundreds of millions to defeat you and...

I'd driven through California's Redwood State Park a number of times, but it wasn't until a few weeks ago when I rode through the trees on my bicycle that I truly appreciated them.

Spinning down the Avenue of the Giants and then southward on Highway 101, it was hard...

On Monday afternoon, I received an email from Jim Messina, the Campaign Manager for Obama for America. The email's subject line was, "3,418 people in Oakland, CA" and I assume similar emails went out for San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and cities across the country. Normally, I just hit "Archive" on...

It's been raining photos for 36 hours at 350.org HQ in Oakland. As the sun moves around the globe, we've been watching images pour in from almost everywhere (except North Korea) -- from Hanoi, from Cape Town, from Buenos Aires, from Delhi.

They've come in great numbers from across...

Just your usual environmentalists are getting ready for "Moving Planet," this Saturday's global day of action to "move the planet beyond fossil fuels."

In Egypt, Sarah Rifaat is working with thousands of young people to create a "Human Nile" through the streets of Cairo to raise awareness...

This is a letter from the executive directors, coordinators, presidents and other organizational leaders of the nation's leading environmental and allied groups, writing in their capacity as individual citizens, encouraging us all to take part in two weeks of sit-ins this August at the White House to pressure...

Rather than blame undocumented immigrants for the fires ravaging his home state, Sen. John McCain should be educating the public about something he used to profess to know something about: the climate crisis.

At a press conference last Saturday, McCain said, “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires...

Thousands of young people and their allies from around the country took over the streets of Washington, DC today -- standing up to reclaim their future from big polluters, and call for bold leadership towards a clean and just energy economy. Check out PowerShift2011.org for more.

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Watch out polluters: over 10,000 youth leaders descended on Washington, DC this weekend for Power Shift 2011, a conference to build a grassroots movement to take on the fossil fuel industry and push for clean energy and climate action.

"While they're stuck on stupid in DC, your...

On Thursday, a jury in Salt Lake City declared climate activist Tim DeChristopher guilty for his interference with an oil and gas auction held at the end of the Bush administration. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years, to be determined by a judge.

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The climate talks here in Cancún aren't a negotiation. They're a hostage crisis. For years, the United States has continued to use its outsized influence (and emissions) to hold back progress on an international treaty. While the US is not the only roadblock to overcome -- many other nations are...

On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronaut William Anders raised his camera to the window of the Apollo 8 spacecraft and took one of the most iconic pictures of all time. "Earth Rise," as the photograph became known, was the first image that showed humans the fragile planet that we live on....

The two main options for Wednesday morning seem to be: 1. sulk or 2. start building the movement that's going to save our country.

Many commentators, from Thomas Friedman on down the line, have written about the need for a Greatest Generation 2.0. But what would it look...

In a new article in the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza examines the Senate's failure to pass climate legislation in 2010. It's a detailed and compelling account, the type of palace intrigue that titillates even far outside the beltway. I think the main conclusion you should take away from...

There's a reason David brought a slingshot and not a suit when he took on Goliath.

During the height of the legislative fight, in 2009, environmental groups spent a record $22.4 million on lobby efforts in DC, double the average expenditure between 2000 and 2008. Of course, that's chump...