by Ted Glick
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Hungering for climate justice 0
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago We will not be able to overcome the power of Big Oil, King Coal, other corporate interests allied with them and subservient elected officials without the taking of risks, over and over again. Read More -
It's not in the halls of Congress
The power of the people 0
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago What is the one thing most needed right now if we are to win the race against climate change? Oct. 24 showed us: a visible, growing, mass movement in the streets. Read More -
Today and Always
Gandhi today 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago On Oct. 2, 140 years ago, Mohandus Gandhi was born in Gujarat province in India. I didn’t learn this from the New York Times, CNN, or any other mainstream media source. I didn’t learn about it from progressive media outlets, although it is very possible that one or more of them publicized it and I missed it. Read More -
and not with chump change
Want a Strong Climate Bill? Then Pay Up! 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The guest post below is by my CCAN co-worker, Keith Harrington.This past week, on the heels of “Climate Week” and attendant Copenhagen preliminaries in New York, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a nice article in the New Yorker in which she mused over what it would actually take for the US to show real leadership on climate change. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/10/05/091005taco_talk_kolbert.
None of the suggestions Kolbert offered at all resembled the Senate climate bill Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry unveiled Wednesday. While an improvement over the Waxman Markey bill, overall the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act falls far short… Read More
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Spiraling Towards What?
Copenhagen: turning point or more of the same old same old? 0
Posted 2 months ago This coming week, in New York City and Pittsburgh, there will be important United Nations and G20 meetings that could advance the process of coming up with a new international treaty to address the climate crisis. Read More -
Or Are We Already Made?
Can we make it? 4
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago More than once over the last several years I have talked with people who understand the deep hole humankind has dug for itself because of our reliance on fossil fuels and the dominant system's environmentally destructive model of "development." Read More -
Getting to a healthy climate, progressively
Health care, climate, and the progressive movement 0
Posted 3 months ago It would be a good thing -- more than that, it is imperative -- to have a presence of progressive activists at "Energy Citizen" rallies. Read More -
When Will They End?
James Lovelock and the End Times 8
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago British scientist and author James Lovelock has just published a follow-up book to his 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity entitled, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. Throughout both books he presents scientific evidence to support his view that the chances of humankind surviving a worldwide climate catastrophe are not that good. Read More -
First Things First
If you want a revolution, start with a clean energy one 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago It was about five years ago. I was talking with a radical friend about my then-recent personal decision to prioritize work on the climate crisis. I had done so after the European heat wave in the summer of 2003 that led to 30,000 or more deaths. This catastrophe jolted me into serious study about the issue of global warming, study which led me to conclude that the dangerous, earth-heating-up process was happening much more quickly than I had thought it was.My friend didn’t disagree about the urgency of the climate crisis, but his view was that what we needed… Read More
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A Beginning, Barely
We need more than ACES 3
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago Yesterday morning, on the day that the House of Representatives very narrowly passed a very problematic--a bad--climate bill, I finally became clear in my mind what I was hoping for. Read More
