Jamie Henn

Can a single photograph change the world? Can a thousand pictures inspire a global movement?

On Christmas Eve, 1968, Bill Anders, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, snapped what would become one of the most iconic photographs of all time, an image of planet Earth rising in the...

Striking images and video are beginning to stream in from more than 1,000 events in more than 100 countries where people are "connecting the dots" between climate change and extreme weather. The events are part of a global effort called "Climate Impacts Day," organized by the international climate campaign 350.org....

Over the last year, millions of people around the world have felt first-hand the impacts of the growing climate crisis. From devastating flooding in Thailand to historic drought in Texas, global warming has moved from an abstraction to a dangerous new reality. Here in the United...

The fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is starting to feel more like a bad horror movie everyday. Just when you think our heroes have struck a fateful blow, out comes a hand from the soil. "The zombie lives!"

This Thursday, President Obama will travel to Cushing,...

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.

The...

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...