Ryan Van Lenning
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Ryan Van Lenning is a writer and organizer whose work appears in various outlets including Oakland Local, Truthout, and Ecolocalizer, where he is co-editor. He is a communications associate at California Food & Justice Coalition and Live Local Marin. Formerly an instructor in Philosophy, Comparative Religions, and Environmental Ethics at Sinclair College, he now serves on the Board of Directors of Planting Justice and is active in the Bay Area's food justice and new economy movements. Follow him on Twitter @vanlenning.

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Mapping the Money and PR Behind Prop 23

Posted October 27, 2010 | 02:07:45 (EST)

Proposition 23, called the "California Jobs Initiative" by its proponents and the "Dirty Energy Prop" by opponents, has become a lightning rod of debate about the clean energy and air future of not just California, but of the nation. The proposition would suspend implementing California's landmark greenhouse emission reduction law...

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Mapping the Money on California's Prop 25 and 26

Posted October 26, 2010 | 13:48:28 (EST)

With nationwide attention being focused on the battle over California's Proposition 23 (concerning its global warming law AB32) and Proposition 19 (concerning legalization of marijuana), two of California's other ballot initiatives -- Prop 25 and Prop 26 -- have perhaps not received the attention they deserve.

Neither proposition has gone...

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Bioneers 2010: Million Kid March for Climate Action Announced

Posted October 20, 2010 | 17:28:35 (EST)

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Alec Loorz, founder of Kids vs. Global Warming, began his career as a climate change activist when he was 12 years old. You read that right, 12! That's when he saw Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" that "changed his life forever."...

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Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23

Posted September 25, 2010 | 14:06:10 (EST)

By now most people are aware of Proposition 23, called the "California Jobs Initiative" by its oil-slick proponents, despite the fact that it would reduce state revenue and stall the growing clean energy job sector. It has become a lightning rod of debate about the clean energy and air future...

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