Environmental Movement

Republicans for Enviromental Protection push back for Graham 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
all together now

Calling all radicals: Unite for Kerry-Boxer 32
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago As an activist who has been arrested for civil disobedience, organized national climate mobilizations, protested outside of coal plants, and worked for Greenpeace, I am calling on my friends and colleagues to fight for the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" and a strong global treaty in Copenhagen.
Stop being so $@%!ing polite

Dispassion as the world ends: The absent heart of the great climate affair 96
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Where is the passion? Global climate disruption foreshadows the demise of civilization and the failure of our life-support systems. In the face of all this, climate activists talk in measured tones and offer up data-driven litanies of climate science and industrial "solutions." We need a passionate response to the climate crisis. Will you chime in and add your voice?
OUTFLANKED

‘No compromise’ faction attacks climate bill 104
Posted 1 month ago Acolytes of climatologist James Hansen are not happy with the climate legislation coming out of Washington. And boy do they have some strange ways of showing it.
firing chamber

Corporations call off the old green battle, but Chamber of Commerce soldiers on [UPDATED] 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Still more trouble for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 97-year-old business advocacy group that has been courting controversy by questioning climate change and fighting a clean energy bill. Here are the companies that have quit the Chamber.
Everything old is new again

Thoreau, Walden and civil disobedience in the age of climate change 10
Posted 2 months, 1 week 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 2 months, 2 weeks 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.
Ya down with NRDC?

NRDC Action Fund goes on offense against opponents of climate action 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund is bashing representatives who voted against the House climate bill as "villains" and lauding reps who voted for it as "heroes" in a new campaign.
The revolution will be televised

Gore’s group targets swing senators in new climate ads 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
New ads from Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection are pushing swing-vote senators to back climate and clean-energy legislation, touting the job-creation angle.
Canvass(ing) their Ass(es) off

Making change, one door at a time 6
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
It's officially summer, and one thing that brings is an army of thousands of kids with clipboards, out canvassing neighborhoods, street corners, and subway stops for green: green causes and the green of cash.
First Things First

If you want a revolution, start with a clean energy one 0
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago
To air is human

MoveOn calls on Senate to preserve Clean Air Act in climate bill 14
Posted 4 months ago
MoveOn is running full-page ads in D.C.-based publications urging the Senate to maintain the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide.
Picked a peck of pickled Twitters

Top Twitterers the Grist staff can’t live without 5
Posted 4 months ago
For all the environmental news you need via Twitter -- from the instantaneous and important to the inane -- look no further than the top green Twitter picks of the Grist editorial team.
All Hands on Deck!

Activist groups rally support for climate bill 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
If you're not tapped into the various climate action networks, skim our list for who is pulling together what in the next 48 hours before the House vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Would you like frogs with that?

Frogs in the forest: the new canaries in the coal mine 4
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Today Grist devoured frogs for lunch -- well, not exactly. We sat down with conservation biologist Dr. Kerry Kriger of the newly minted nonprofit Save the Frogs! on his stop in Seattle during a country-wide speaking tour. As one of the lone voices raising the alarm for amphibians, Kriger dished about the worst disease ever to hit wildlife, why it's such a big deal that one-third of amphibians are threatened with extinction, and just how many people actually are having frogs for lunch.
Two great tastes that taste great together

Climate activists to descend on House cafeteria on Tuesday 3
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
A side of flashmob with your lunch? Climate activists will be delivering their message to diners on Capitol Hill this Tuesday.
Blitz!

White House and enviros amp up efforts to pass climate bill in House 3
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The House is gearing up to vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act as soon as next week, and both the White House and environmental groups are planning a full-court press to get it passed.
350.org—In every corner of the globe… 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Get real

New Repower America ad aims to rally support for climate bill 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Alliance for Climate Protection on Monday rolled out a new TV ad calling for a shift away from oil and toward a clean-energy economy. The ad will be airing nationally on cable channels just as the House is preparing to vote on the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill; a floor vote could come as soon as next week.
Blue-green streak

Labor teams up with enviros to pass climate bill and promote green jobs 1
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The economic crisis and the climate crisis have united unions and environmentalists as never before, as they push for a new, positive vision: a vibrant green economy. Can the blue-green partnership help get climate legislation passed?