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Youth to Bush: That’s not enough!

On Wednesday, President Bush gave a speech demonstrating his lack of leadership on the issue of climate, reiterating the false idea that bold action and economic growth must be mutually exclusive and touting nuclear and coal as solutions to climate change. SustainUS, a youth organization active at the international level, issued a statement today responding to [...]

The Alphabet Game

How many acronyms does it take to trick politicians and the media into thinking coal is really a clean energy choice? Well, let’s just go through them, shall we? ABEC stands for Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, a coal industry campaign that has spent more than $40 million to promote “clean coal” technologies on the campaign [...]

We Shut Down a Major Corporation On an Hour of Sleep and So Can You!

Written by Willie Dodson of Blue Ridge Earth First! This past Tuesday (April 15th) I was blessed by my creator and honored by my friends to participate in a blockade that shut down Dominion Power’s headquarters for close to two hours at the beginning of the work day. The action was taken by Blue Ridge Earth [...]

Kilo-who’s-its and Mega-what’s-its: A Primer on Energy, Power and Capacity

Gentle reader, In the course of your readings in the blogosphere, your academic research, or your energy-related activism, you will likely see a number of similar and often confusing terms bandied about to describe how much power a power plant can produce (MW vs MWa), how much it generates (KWh vs MWh), how much an appliance [...]

MTV Greens the Real World

Our good friend over at Think MTV, Pete, had a splendid idea to build environmental consciousness into MTV’s most popular show, The Real World. MTV has been a good ally to the youth climate change movement–from Break the Addiction to covering Power Shift — and this is another testament to great ways of reaching out [...]

Wind Power = Dirty Energy?!

In the spirit of questioning assumptions, I want to do some serious questioning of the constant push for wind and solar electricity as a solution to the climate crisis. At conferences, direct actions, and in the media, I’ve seen countless calls for transitioning from fossil fuels and nuclear power to a “clean energy economy” powered [...]

A Major Achievement for the Protection of Biodiversity in Madagascar

(photo via Lova ) A major study about a new methodology for protecting biodiversity in Madagascar was published in the latest Science issue. The findings from the study were so critical that it was reported in numerous news articles: AFP, BBC, Discovery, New York Times and Reuters. This is a significant victory for environmentalists who [...]

Is That Where We Are?

Last year, Friends of the Earth Canada (FOE) launched a lawsuit against the Minister of the Environment to hold him accountable for the fact that Canada won’t meet its Kyoto target. Not only the country won’t meet its Kyoto target, but the actual Government didn’t even try. The lawsuit rests on the fact that the [...]

How not to Solve Climate Change

50 cheering steelworkers in Maryland foreshadow a struggle at the national level.

Because the Dalai Lama Said So

This past weekend I was lucky enough to get to see the Dalai Lama on his five-day trip to Seattle. He was here for an event called Seeds of Compassion. The event was focused around compassionately teaching and caring for children. On Tuesday they will be busing in thousands of children from around the area [...]