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Bill McKibben's wrap up of the more than 4300 demonstrations for 350 ppm around the planet
The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. We’re sitting here in our temporary offices in lower Manhattan hunched over laptops drowning in images—15,000 photos and thousands of minutes of video have arrived from what turned out to be 5,200 rallies, protests, and demonstrations in 181 countries around the world. It was, according to any number of journalistic accounts, “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s...
Democrats Unveil Ambitious Draft Climate Change Bill To The US Senate
Article by Suzanne Goldenberg The Capitol in Washington, DC, with the Senate to the left of the dome and the House of Representatives to the right Photograph: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP Democratic leaders are expected to take on the monumental challenge of getting the Senate to act on global warming today by formally unveiling a draft climate change bill proposing a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions.The draft bill, which is to be announced by Senators Barbara...
Why Bicycles Are a Must-Have for Modern Civil Disobedience
by Peter Walker What is it that makes the bicycle and the demonstration such good companions? When the location of this year's Climate Camp protest was finally revealed on Wednesday, the first activists to arrive were a select group in rented vans, tasked with setting up tripods and fencing off a section of the land at Blackheath, south-east London.But shortly afterwards, the first influx of protesters taking part in the "swoop" on the site from a series of meeting points around the capital...
Vandana Shiva on Sustaining India’s Agriculture
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva has been working to build an organic agriculture movement across India for the past 22 years through the Navdanya Trust, an organization that she founded and directs. She recently spoke with Worldwatch India Fellow Anna da Costa about the connections between sustainable agriculture, climate change, and poverty alleviation. by Anna da Costa What led you to work on the environment, and particularly on sustainable agriculture? The big transition to...
Electric Bicycle World Tour: One Person Can Send a Loud Message
Nominated by Petz Scholtus I'd like to grant Guim Valls Teruel, who is doing the Electric Bicycle World Tour. The main goal of the tour is to promote sustainable transport and actions to stop global warming on a glocal level. I'd like to highlight the fact that one person raises plenty of awareness with positive action in a way that's simple to understand, and that's inclusive to people around the world. Nominator Petz Scholtus is an eco designer. You can follow her on her blog. This...
Youth Networks: Climate Action Networks Expand Globally
As Copenhagen nears, we'll be hearing regularly from the spokespeople for the big green groups. But if you want to know who's really powering the climate change movement right now, you need to look at young people. As I travel the globe organizing the giant day of action for 350.org, it's people between the ages of 15 to 25 who are carrying the load in country after country. This movement began in the states with Billy Parish, Jessy Tolkan, and EnergyAction, which drew 12,000 college kids to...
A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining by James Hansen
by James Hansen Tighter restrictions on mountaintop removal mining are simply not enough. Instead, a leading climate scientist argues, the Obama administration must prohibit this destructive practice, which is devastating vast stretches of Appalachia. President Obama speaks of “a planet in peril.” The president and the brilliant people he appointed in energy and science know that we must move rapidly to carbon-free energy to avoid handing our children a planet that has passed climate...
NASA'S James Hansen Arrested During Coal Mining Protest
NASA climate scientist James Hansen and 30 other demonstrators were arrested in West Virginia while protesting the practice of mountaintop=removal coal mining, which Hansen says President Obama must ban as the U.S. weans itself off fossil fuels. Hansen; actress Darryl Hannah; Michael Brune, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network; and Ken Hechler, a 94-year-old former congressman, were among those arrested as they blocked traffic on a highway in front of a Massey Energy coal plant...
Suriname Tribe Protects Land, Ensures Rights
Six relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 20th year, is considered the Nobel Prize for the environment. Past recipients include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, and Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was killed seven months after his recognition. The...
U.S. Activist Battles West Virginia Coal Industry
Six relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 20th year, is considered the Nobel Prize for the environment. Past recipients include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva, and Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was killed seven months after his recognition. The...
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