Climate Movement

From the Tar Sands Comes a Real Climate Movement

Keith Harrington | Posted 11.06.2011

Keith Harrington

The climate cause has had its moments before. But with those 1,252 tar-sands arrests outside the White House, it has finally graduated. It's a true movement now.

Lessons From the Rapture That Wasn't for the Climate Movement? No -- Just Ideas on a Way Forward.

Carla Wise | Posted 08.01.2011

Carla Wise

Although Claire Hope Cummings makes some good points, she fails to offers a coherent way forward. Do dire warnings turn people off? Perhaps sometimes. But here's the problem.

Power Shift 2011: Climate Youth Mobilize For The Largest Organizer Training In History

wonkroom.thinkprogress.org | Posted 06.15.2011

Power Shift 2011, the biennial national summit of the youth climate movement, begins this Friday in Washington, DC. The challenges facing the Millenni...

We Worked: Pictures From the Biggest Day of Climate Action in History

Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill McKibben

We have to build a movement big enough to matter. We're not going to beat Exxon Mobil with money; if we beat them it will be with passion, spirit, creativity. With bodies.

Recovering the Commons: Inteview with Scholars on the Climate Justice Frontlines

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

Standing at the now infamous 7,500-acre mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, long-time scholars and activists Herb Reid and ...

Why Obama Should Put Solar (Back) On The White House Roof

Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill McKibben

We're on our way to D.C., towing behind us a solar panel from the Carter White House. It's decades old, though it still works just fine. In a sense, we're traveling backward -- which is what we're going to have to do for a while in the U.S. climate movement.

Could This Be a Crime? U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life on Our Earth Continues to Perish

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Subhankar Banerjee

Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles.

Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed

Keith Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Keith Harrington

As long as growth remains the number one priority of governments worldwide any effort to by those governments to seriously address climate change will be doomed to end in failure.

An open letter to all people and organizations working to combat global warming

Betsy Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Betsy Taylor

From members of the 1Sky Board of Directors: Jessica Bailey, KC Golden, Bracken Hendricks, Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, Vicky Rateau, Gus Speth and Be...

An open letter from 1Sky to all people and organizations working to combat global warming

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

Gillian Caldwell

From members of the 1Sky Board of Directors: Jessica Bailey, KC Golden, Bracken Hendricks, Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, Vicky Rateau, Gus Speth and Be...

Cochabamba PWCCC - Latinos and the Environment

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

Kety Esquivel

This blog post was written by Angela Adrar, Lance Rios and myself (Kety Esquivel). "As a Colombiana naturalized in the US, going to Cochabamba for t...