Environmental Movement

Moving on up

Progressive coalition spends $250,000 on ads for a green energy bill 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
A coalition of labor, environmental, and progressive groups is putting up a quarter of a million dollars for a TV ad campaign promoting national clean-energy and climate legislation.
Hoosier guru

An interview with author Scott Russell Sanders 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
The Conservationist Manifesto author on wealth, wilderness, and why the time for meek eco-messaging is over.
Screw it

We screwed Earth Day—get over it 2
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Another Earth Day has come and gone. In most cities, the green, biodegradable streamers have come down, and the free eco-swag already has been shoved under the bed. What now?

Well, if you've been hanging around Grist lately, you would know that that's the question we've been asking all along. What now? What happens the day after Earth Day? How do we extend our green commitment all year long?
Letter from Europe

The Goldman Prize: True tales of bravery 3
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
"Most environmental prizes go to worthy but well known figures, most of whose mantelpieces already groan under the burden of similar honors," writes Grist contributor and Goldman Prize juror Geoffrey Lean. "The Goldman Prize, by contrast, is for the unknowns and unrecognized, individuals who are fighting -- and winning -- desperate battles, often in obscure corners of the planet, almost always against overwhelming odds, and commonly at immense personal risk."
Our Work's Not Finished

Screw Earth Day? Not so fast 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Gaylord Nelson, the Wisconsin senator who founded Earth Day in 1970, wouldn't be surprised by some of the criticism leveled at the annual green celebration. But, says Nelson's biographer, there's a reason this holiday caught on -- and still matters.
Blunt force

LCV targets GOP Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri in new ad 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The League of Conservation Voters is taking an early swing at Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) for not supporting climate and energy legislation – and they're taking a patriotic tack.
In the New Yorker

Eustace Tilley says ‘Screw Earth Day’ 6
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Elizabeth Kolbert, the magazine's star journalist covering the climate crisis, has a very interesting essay on Earth Day in which she bemoans the fact that Americans seem to be unenthusiastic about the environment in general and confronting global warming in specific.
That White People Stuff

Broadening the Earth Day tent 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
How's Earth Day doing? Mike Cermak says environmentalists should be asking how Black History Month is doing instead.
Earth Day ... Meh

Losing Earth Day in the eco-babble 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Earth Day used to matter, but now it's lost in the eco-babble.
Man of steel

Ads call for green jobs to revitalize steel towns 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Powerful new TV ads focus on the disappearance of steel-industry jobs from Braddock, Pa., and the mayor's hope that new green jobs will replace them. Watch for yourself.
A Smug's Life

Earth Day: the ultimate empty gesture 6
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dan Akst says Earth Day has become a haven for hypocrisy.
Kicking grass, taking names

Greenpeace’s new leader talks up need for a green grassroots 2
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Greenpeace USA's announcement on Tuesday that the group is elevating its grassroots director to serve as the next executive director sends a clear signal that the 38-year-old environmental organization is focused on growing its membership and playing a lead role in rallying public support for big changes in U.S. energy and climate policies.
Just the Beginning

We need Earth Day more than ever 3
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Give up on Earth Day? Rick Bass says it's like giving up on your grandmother's birthday.
Phil 'er up

Greenpeace taps 33-year-old grassroots organizer as its new leader 1
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Greenpeace has picked a young, grassroots organizer to take up the helm of one of the country's largest environmental organizations. A spokesman for the group confirmed on Monday evening that their board has selected Philip Radford as the new executive director, effective April 27.
A Nobel Effort

Wangari Maathai film shows Kenyan tree planting as political subversion 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Taking Root has more to say about social change than about forest ecology--I’m not sure it even mentions the types of trees being planted. But it makes abundantly clear the connections between environmental health, human rights, and democracy.
Motion to reconsider

U.S. groups desert precautionary principle, 53 to 6 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
After ducking the matter for a decade, U.S. environmental organizations finally pulled together a climate policy, but the National Call to Action on Global Warming issued by 53 organizations on March 5 is a mistake and should be reconsidered.
50 green and civic groups roll out tough climate principles 10
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
NRDC climate guy to advise the global warming select committee 0
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Gore backs idea for a new .eco domain name 1
Posted 9 months ago
Waterkeeper Alliance unveils anti-coal campaign 4
Posted 9 months ago