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Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free

Some mainstream environmental organizations are trying to wean themselves from fossil fuel investments—but some aren’t.

Naomi Klein

Why Aren't Environmental Groups Divesting from Fossil Fuels?
Some of big green's most powerful players still invest in energy companies.
Naomi Klein
Posted May 2 2013 - 10:18am
Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
Farming communities are being turned into huge, open-air laboratories by energy companies—with ordinary people serving as guinea pigs.
Ellen Cantarow
Posted May 2 2013 - 10:05am
How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
In the coming decades, two converging nightmares are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.
Michael T. Klare
Posted Apr 22 2013 - 10:06am

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Protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
The Keystone Test: Will President Obama Pass? (Barack Obama, Environmental Issues)

Yes, he said the word “climate”—but he hasn’t committed to any of the big steps needed to avert catastrophe.

The Editors
Protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
Climate Activists Put the Heat on Obama (Barack Obama, Climate Change)

Awaiting a Keystone decision, environmentalists make a historic vow to engage in mass civil disobedience. 

Mark Hertsgaard
Pollution in China
China's Green Leap Backward (Renewable Energy, Green Energy, World)

The latest trend toward fossil fuels is dangerous for the entire planet, since China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Lucia Green-Weiskel
Keystone protest
Obama Versus Physics (Activism, Environment, Politics)

Why climate change won’t wait for the president.

Bill McKibben
Drought
Why Aren't Environmental Groups Divesting from Fossil Fuels? (Environment)

Some of big green's most powerful players still invest in energy companies.

Naomi Klein

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