A Healing Walk through Canada鈥檚 Tar Sands Dystopia
Cree organizer Clayton Thomas-Muller provides a deeply personal account of a ceremonial healing walk through the broken landscape of Canada鈥檚 tar sands. This year鈥檚 walk begins July 4.
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Illinois鈥� Flawed Fracking Law Is Everyone鈥檚 Problem, Ecologist Says
The backroom negotiations behind the midwestern state鈥檚 new fracking regulations may be a taste of what鈥檚 to come in other places.
Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia鈥攁nd the neighbors aren鈥檛 pleased.
Would Smokey the Bear Get Arrested to Stop Fracking?
When artist Lopi LaRoe used Smokey the Bear imagery to encourage anti-fracking activism, the Forest Service threatened her with a lawsuit.
鈥淲orld鈥檚 Greenest Office Building鈥� Makes Net-Zero Look Easy
It鈥檚 a commercial office space equipped with composting toilets, rainwater showers, and a stairway designed to be so beautiful that no one ever takes the elevator.
Newly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage
Tim DeChristopher, who was just released from federal custody, is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. But there鈥檚 more to his story than his role as 鈥淏idder 70.鈥�
Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops
Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.
A World without Landfills? It鈥檚 Closer than You Think
Two recipients of this year鈥檚 Goldman Environmental Prize are working to abolish the practice of sending trash to landfills and incinerators. And the idea is catching on.
Building a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii
Hawaii generates more of its power from the sun than any other state. Here鈥檚 what the rest of us can learn from the obstacles that came up along the way and and what鈥檚 being done to overcome them.
Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
The book Harvesting Justice isn鈥檛 just a look at the world鈥檚 most exciting food justice groups鈥攊t鈥檚 also a knockout organizing tool.
Gas Industry Report Calls Anti-Fracking Movement a 鈥淗ighly Effective Campaign鈥�
A report intended to help the oil and gas industry squash the anti-fracking movement turns out to be full of useful information鈥攁nd admits that much of what activists are saying is true.
Shh! Will U.S. Navy Turn It Down for Whales and Dolphins?
Human allies of whales and dolphins have long had difficulty reining in the Navy鈥檚 use of sonar that harms these animals. But recent developments suggest that may be starting to change.
Three Tactics for a Stronger Climate Movement
In January, the Sierra Club reversed a 121-year-old ban on civil disobedience to reflect the urgency of climate change. The move presents an opening for radical groups to try new tactics like the three discussed here.
Cartoon: The Endless Uses of a Plastic Bag
To catch up on past cartoons by Joe Mohr
The Coming Climate Exodus: What We鈥檙e Doing to Help Wildlife鈥檚 New Migration
As climate change forces species to head for cooler climates, biologists are using new tools and partnerships to make sure we help鈥攁nd don't hinder鈥攖heir flight.
Puget Sound Tribe Plans for Rising Seas
Video: The Swinomish tribe could lose up to 15 percent of their land on low-lying Fidalgo Island to climate-change related sea level rise. They鈥檙e working with planners to make sure they can survive鈥攁nd thrive鈥攊n the region鈥檚 changing climate.
Farmer-Philosopher Fred Kirschenmann on Food and the Warming Future
In this wide-ranging interview, Kirschenmann gives YES! the dirt on the future of farming.
Largest Climate Rally in U.S. History Comes to Washington
What does it sound like when 40,000 people raise their voices for climate justice at once?
Edible Insects: Gross-Out or Global Food Solution?
Cultural attitudes toward food tend to change slowly. But as we struggle to feed a growing population, insects present a remarkably plentiful source of nutrition.
Arrests in Washington Signal Increasing Urgency on Keystone Pipeline
Forty-eight leaders of environmentalist groups such as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and 350.org were arrested today while participating in civil disobedience. They were demanding that President Barack Obama stop construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Can Carbon-Mopping 鈥淎rtificial Trees鈥� Slow Climate Crisis?
Two scientists at Columbia University believe that carbon-mopping machines modeled after trees could sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow global warming. But can we produce them quickly (and cheaply) enough for the plan to work?
Students to Colleges: Take Our Money Out of Dirty Energy
A divestment campaign led by students is changing the national conversation about energy, creating a market for sustainable stocks, and linking up students with communities facing off against the fossil fuel industry.
Hank D and the Bee: Daily Waste
To catch up on Hank’s past .
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
Back in the 鈥�60s, Frances Moore Lapp茅 realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
How President Obama Can Turn Climate Speech Into Action
Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today鈥檚 inaugural address. Here are a few ways the president can seize the moment and transform our approach to climate action.
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