The People’s Climate Weekend: A Guide The People’s Climate Weekend: A Guide
A roster of events and happenings leading up to the People’s Climate March mobilization in New York City.
Sep 19, 2014 / Peter Rothberg
Why We Still Need Wilderness in the Era of Climate Change Why We Still Need Wilderness in the Era of Climate Change
Thoreau was right: “in Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
Sep 19, 2014 / Jason Mark
While We March for the Climate, Governments Meet With Polluters While We March for the Climate, Governments Meet With Polluters
As climate activists converge on New York, world leaders will meet behind closed doors with corporate honchos who bank on fossil fuels.
Sep 18, 2014 / Janet Redman and Foreign Policy In Focus
Can the Climate Crisis Finally Force Us to Change Our Broken System? Can the Climate Crisis Finally Force Us to Change Our Broken System?
We've already lost a lot to climate change, and we'll lose more unless we take collective action.
Sep 18, 2014 / Rebecca Solnit
How Hard Times Are Healing Bosnia How Hard Times Are Healing Bosnia
Amid rising anti-government sentiment and a series of natural disasters, Bosnia-Herzegovina's fractured ethnic communities are drawing strength from an unlikely source: each ot...
Sep 17, 2014 / Peter Lippman and Foreign Policy In Focus
While the Fashion World Swoons Over This Season’s Styles, the Workers Making Them Are Fainting on the Job While the Fashion World Swoons Over This Season’s Styles, the Workers Making Them Are Fainting on the Job
Cambodia’s garment workers are fighting for something they’ve never had before: a living wage.
Sep 17, 2014 / Michelle Chen
How Art Inspires Change How Art Inspires Change
The Nation and the Center for Community Change partnered together for an essay contest in which young people were asked to submit a photo they found meaningful and an essay ex...
Sep 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation and Faron Manuel
Climate Change Is a People’s Shock Climate Change Is a People’s Shock
What if, instead of accepting a future of climate catastrophe and private profits, we decide to change everything?
Sep 16, 2014 / Naomi Klein
How to Define Success for the People’s Climate March How to Define Success for the People’s Climate March
Organizers want to transform the image of the climate movement from one dominated by white liberals to one populated by the entire spectrum of race and class in America.
Sep 16, 2014 / Mark Hertsgaard
The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS The Questions Congress Should Ask About Obama’s War on ISIS
More than two-dozen groups are calling on lawmakers to address serious gaps and inconsistencies in the president’s strategy.
Sep 16, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter