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Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?

Mexican peasants pay the price for U.S. energy consumption 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago Chances are, the average U.S. citizen has no idea that their demand for electricity might require that a Mexican village be flooded for a hydroelectric dam.
Did Melissa Etheridge need to "wake up" too?

Thousands send Global Climate Wake-Up Call to world leaders, leave messages 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago Thousands of activists Monday called out world leaders for their loads of lip-flapping and foot-dragging on climate action. Literally. The voicemail message they left? Quit hitting snooze and wake up to the threat of climate change. See the photos and videos of the Wake-Up Calls.
Up in Rupert's business

Yes Men pranksters make fake New York Post about real climate emergency 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
More culture jamming fun from The Yes Men: A fake (but true!) edition of the New York Post helps kick off Climate Week NYC.
Youth activism guy talks about the youth, the activism

MTV-approved advice on reaching those who aren’t paying attention 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Pete Griffin talks about directing youth campaigns for Energy Action Coalition and the lessons he brings from MTV’s do-gooder division.
What a difference a week makes?

Climate Week kicks off in New York with bigwigs and big hopes 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
This week, leaders from around the world are coming to a U.N. Climate Summit in New York, where President Obama will give a speech on climate change and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes to make real progress toward a new international climate treaty. Activists will be out in force at a slew of climate-related events in NYC, and then they'll take the show to Pittsburgh, where world leaders will be assembling for a G20 summit.
Spiraling Towards What?

Copenhagen: turning point or more of the same old same old? 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week 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.
Paved paradise put up a lot of parks

Slideshow: PARK(ing) Day puts people and greenery, not cars, in transformed parking spaces 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
I think you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks parking spaces are prettier and more fun than public parks. Which is one reason artists and citizens across the world are transforming city parking spots into one-day public green spaces for PARK(ing) Day 2009. Check out a slideshow of these PARKs from all over -- and don't forget to feed the meter!
It's the end of the world and we know it

Climate doomsday film ‘The Age of Stupid’ still hopeful, says director in video interview 9
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The new film The Age of Stupid paints a grim view of the future: In 2055, a man living in a world wrecked by climate change gets pissed off at the people of today who knew they were messing with the climate but failed to do much about it. Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong video-chatted with Grist before the film's U.S. premiere.
Welcome to America, Stephen Harper!

Activists drape Niagara Falls with banner to protest tar-sands oil 6
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
There's a 70 foot banner and activists dangling over the observation tower at Niagara Falls.
The battle begins

On eve of Senate showdown and COP15, the climate movement locks in 2
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Aside from all the immense negatives, the recent Van Jones character assassination has done one very important thing for the climate movement.
I know what you did ...

Climate and dirty-energy groups were busy over summer vacation 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
National lawmakers did next to nothing about climate change over the August congressional recess, but climate activists and their fossil-fuel foes were busy. Here are highlights from their summer antics.
Or Are We Already Made?

Can we make it? 4
Posted 3 months 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."
The Life Aquatic

Oxfam activists dive into the 100 day countdown to Copenhagen climate talks at the London Aquarium 0
Posted 3 months ago
With only 100 days left until the historic climate talks convene in Copenhagen, Oxfam activists plunge into the London Aquarium to foreshadow what it might be like living with the impacts of climate change.
Everything old is new again

Thoreau, Walden and civil disobedience in the age of climate change 10
Posted 3 months ago
What the sacred text of old-school environmentalism can teach the climate change movement, and why it won't leave me alone.
Tell it like it is

The fallacy of climate activism 100
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Climate activists are obsessed with greenhouse-gas emissions and concentrations. This is a mistake. The problem runs much deeper -- and as long as we fail to tell the public the truth, we're never going to get anywhere.
activism as hot as the planet

Climate disobedience: Is a new “Seattle” in the making? 7
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The idea that now is the right time for more resolute action to address the climate crisis is spreading fast enough to dot the global map with hot spots of disobedience.
But Wait, There’s More!

Resources and links for the art-hungry 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Climate art isn't limited to one-off works -- it's gaining an institutional foothold too. See which groups are taking a broader look at climate through art, and learn where to find even more.
All the world's a stage

Slideshow: Climate activism as performance art 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Someone wise in the PR biz once said "any publicity is good publicity," and climate activists certainly seem to take these words to heart. Here's a slideshow of their costumed creativity.
Signed. Sealed. Will they deliver?

ForestEthics mails Fortune 500 companies to kick off tar-sands campaign 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
ForestEthics has mailed letters to more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, warning that their continued consumption of fuels from Canada’s tar sands—the world’s dirtiest oil—puts their brands at risk.
socially acceptable

10 ways to support charity through social media 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Trying to be a good person in a down economy can be tricky. What can you do for your favorite social causes in addition to donating? Max Gladwell presents ten ways to throw more weight behind nonprofits through the magic of social media.