Environmental Activism

What Will It Take To Force a Real Conversation About Climate Change?

What Will It Take To Force a Real Conversation About Climate Change? What Will It Take To Force a Real Conversation About Climate Change?

Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Wen Stephenson discuss the truly transformative change that our climate crisis requires.

Oct 26, 2015 / Wen Stephenson, Naomi Klein, and Avi Lewis

What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse

What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse What I Learned on a Luxury Cruise Through the Global-Warming Apocalypse

To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth: We can’t make it stop.

Oct 21, 2015 / Feature / Roy Scranton

Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It

Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It Exxon Knew Everything There Was to Know About Climate Change by the Mid-1980s—and Denied It

And thanks to their willingness to sucker the world, the world is now a chaotic mess.

Oct 20, 2015 / Bill McKibben

How a Gentrification Scam Threatens New York’s Community Gardens

How a Gentrification Scam Threatens New York’s Community Gardens How a Gentrification Scam Threatens New York’s Community Gardens

Shady developers know one easy way to build luxury condos: Claim ownership of communal land.

Oct 20, 2015 / Feature / DW Gibson

The Day After Tomorrow

Are Disaster Movies Predicting Our Future? Are Disaster Movies Predicting Our Future?

The latest IPCC report suggests that sudden climate catastrophes with irreversible consequences may not be as improbable as we once thought.

Oct 8, 2015 / Michael T. Klare

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement

Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Climate Justice Movement

The new American radicals know that it’s time to fight like there’s nothing left to lose but our humanity.

Oct 8, 2015 / Feature / Wen Stephenson

Mother and child in Detroit

The Art of Parenting on a Disappearing Planet The Art of Parenting on a Disappearing Planet

From mommy magazines to child-development specialists, we are constantly told how to protect our children—but how do we protect them from climate change?

Oct 6, 2015 / Frida Berrigan

It’s Time to Lock In the Wins of the Climate Movement

It’s Time to Lock In the Wins of the Climate Movement It’s Time to Lock In the Wins of the Climate Movement

This is a new generation’s moment in history.

Oct 1, 2015 / Tom Hayden

On Climate Change, Listen to Pope Francis, Not Jeb Bush

On Climate Change, Listen to Pope Francis, Not Jeb Bush On Climate Change, Listen to Pope Francis, Not Jeb Bush

The politician says we should disregard the pope because “he’s not a scientist.” But the pope’s background is in chemistry and his counselors are top scientists.

Sep 27, 2015 / John Nichols

John Fetterman

This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania This Tattooed, Head-shaven, Straight-talking Mayor Wants to Be the Next Senator From Pennsylvania

John Fetterman talks inequality, immigration, drug legalization, same-sex marriage, “bittergate,” and how to revive post-industrial America.

Sep 25, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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