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

Four decades ago, he spoke out bravely against the Vietnam War. Will he show the same courage today, in helping to end the fossil-fuel era?
 

Why is it so tough for people to get their heads around climate change?

Just how strategically important is the pipeline?

Latinos—along with other minorities and youth—are the strongest supporters of action against climate change. It’s time mainstream enviros got the message.

350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.

As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.

How progressives can make energy a pocketbook issue, with greener rides—and greener wallets—for the middle class.

The last days of winter and the first days of spring have seen hundreds of record-breaking high temperatures. Worry.

The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.