Environmental Activism

A New Green Agenda for Commuters

A New Green Agenda for Commuters A New Green Agenda for Commuters

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

Mar 27, 2012 / Feature / Lisa Margonelli

90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like 90 Degrees in Winter: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

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

Mar 20, 2012 / Bill McKibben

Occupy Climate Change Occupy Climate Change

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

Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher

Madeline Ostrander: How Nebraskans Defeated the Keystone XL Pipeline

Madeline Ostrander: How Nebraskans Defeated the Keystone XL Pipeline Madeline Ostrander: How Nebraskans Defeated the Keystone XL Pipeline

The grassroots victory shows that concern for fundamental issues such as health and clean water transcends party politics.

Feb 2, 2012 / Audio / The Nation

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains Transpartisan Politics on the Plains

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

Jan 31, 2012 / Feature / Madeline Ostrander

Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement

Widespread resistance to natural gas fracking is rising above New York's Marcellus Shale.

Jan 23, 2012 / Ellen Cantarow

On the Plains, a Rare Chance at Trans-Partisan Politics

On the Plains, a Rare Chance at Trans-Partisan Politics On the Plains, a Rare Chance at Trans-Partisan Politics

In Nebraska, the Keystone XL fight opened up the sense that ordinary citizens with little money could wield political influence. Can the improbable alliance stick together?

Jan 12, 2012 / Madeline Ostrander

Buying Congress in 2012 Buying Congress in 2012

Time to stop being cynical about corporate money in politics and start being angry.

Jan 5, 2012 / Bill McKibben

The Keystone Victory

The Keystone Victory The Keystone Victory

The moment couldn't have been more ripe for a real advance in the fight against climate change.

Nov 16, 2011 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard

Drought

Capitalism vs. the Climate Capitalism vs. the Climate

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

Nov 9, 2011 / Feature / Naomi Klein

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