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Critical Look at Seattle’s Green Festival

This past weekend I attended Seattle’s first Green Festival [ed note: that's JP looking surprised at the Green festival!]. The Green Festivals are a joint collaboration between Co-Op America and Global Exchange and are held in cities across the U.S. (this year in Seattle, D.C., San Francisco and Chicago). The Festivals invite in luminary [...]

Bush is Looking Through Rosey-colored Glasses

Here it comes folks…hold your hats, brace yourself, and keep your seats. Tomorrow President Bush will be addressing the country from the rose garden to unveil his plan for reducing the emissions from the US. He is not yet outlining a specific policy, merely imagining a plan for our country. As a community we need [...]

Some views from the Global South

[photo is Walden Bello] It’s all too easy for us living in the insular United States to ignore or make a lot of assumptions on where our climate change allies from the less developed nations (aka the “Global South”) are at. There’s also a lot of claiming of ideas as “new” that have actually [...]

CHILL OUT TOMORROW!!

Chill Out is shaping up to be even better than last year! With over 215 sites in 5 countries, Chill Out will reach thousands of students and faculty members! It’s not to late to host Chill Out on your campus - visit www.campuschillout.org to find all the information you’ll need to watch this interactive broadcast [...]

Give Me a Break

I have been listening to the Breakthrough Institute and Joe Romm from Climate Progress bickering over a recent Nature article about the magnitude of carbon emissions cuts required and if our current path will get us to where we desperately need to go. Unfortunately, we seem to have constructed a circular firing squad, again, magnified [...]

Fossil Fool Don Blankenship Assaults ABC Reporter

What may not be completely clear (one minute in) from this clip is that Blankenship actually pushes the reporter about a hundred feet while the reported says “Please let go of me” about 12 times. All the while Blankenship has this creepy grimacey smile on his face. Oh, and he threatens to shoot the reporter. In [...]

The Dream Reborn: Green for All

Last weekend, I watched a new movement developing right in front of my eyes. As I scanned the faces around me in the plenary room at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, it was impossible to not feel a sense of excitement. We were emerging as a powerful new force for progressive change, one [...]

The Debate Gets Civil

Rather than "debunk" this effort, we need to start dealing with the hard questions.

Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups

My last post, I swear….. But this is REALLY disturbing, yet not surprising. They talk a good game with all their greenwashing rhetoric, hiring public relations firms to give the company an environmental face, touring their executives through environmental sacrifice zones and talk about reducing emissions. But these companies are pretty serious about maintaining their public [...]

Video: Ken Lewis “Fossil Fool of the Year”

Check out the video of RAN folks trying to deliver the Fossil Fool of the Year plaque to Ken Lewis in NYC.