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Strengthening the Movement by Shrinking It

An interview with the innovators behind ioby.org 0
Posted 6 months ago
Can small-scale, local giving have a large-scale environmental impact? The anti-NIMBY activists behind the first green micro-lending site think so. Stephanie Ogburn reports.
National River Heroes announced 1
Posted 6 months ago
This weekend, six people who fight for America's waterways will be showered with attention, from a mammalian geneticist to a federal mining enforcement employee. Here's your sneak peek!
Al be seeing you in all the old familiar places

Gore’s green groups kick into campaign mode to push climate legislation 11
Posted 6 months ago
Al Gore is drawing lessons from the Obama campaign as he works to rally support for the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill in the House.
Salmon, polar bears, and crabs, oh my!

‘Regular people’ cheer on climate action at Seattle rally 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
At a U.S. EPA hearing on climate change in Seattle on Thursday, hundreds of citizens urged the agency to fight climate change.
Centuries apart

Citizens in Seattle, fossils in D.C. 3
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
The difference between the nation's government and its people has never been more stark than it is today, as the former squabble in D.C. and the latter inspire in Seattle.
Green David v. Brown Goliath

Rethinking the rules of engagement 10
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
How can clean economy Davids beat dirty energy Goliaths?
Socially changed

Facebook app translates online efforts into real-world environmental change 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Climate change may take place in the offline world, but that doesn't mean fighting it can't start in the online world. Take a look at the creative grassroots actions a group of average citizens took with the help of the Facebook application Hot Dish.
Social mediators

10 ways to change the world through social media 2
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
For most of us, social media has changed our lives in some meaningful way. Collectively it is changing the world for good. Check out these ten innovative ways social media is accomplishing this.
The Prince and the Poper

Charles and Benedict chat about climate 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Prince Charles and Pope Benedict XVI met to discuss their shared environmental concerns. With press reports containing scant details, we are left to imagine the proceedings.
A Fit of Peak

An interview with ‘Green Nobel’ winner Maria Gunnoe 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
The West Virginia activist talks about the horrors of mountaintop mining, the fierceness of Appalachian mothers, and the unintended motivation that Obama's giving Big Coal.
Our Work's Not Finished

Screw Earth Day? Not so fast 3
Posted 7 months, 1 week 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.
WV activist the second to win the green nobel for fighting MTR

Gunnoe gets Goldman 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Proud to say that one of the Orion Grassroots Network's own, Maria Gunnoe, an organizer for Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, has won the "environmental nobel" for her courageous grassroots activism to end mountaintop removal (MTR) in the face of fierce intimidation.
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.
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, 2 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.
Following granddad's advice

An apology and an explanation for Friedman 22
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
My reaction to Friedman's column yesterday was overheated and excessively confrontational. It's worth explaining why I and many others are so frustrated right now.
The end of an era

Closing the door on building new coal-fired power plants in America 2
Posted 8 months ago