Janet Weil 
Finally, after 7 years of Indigenous-led resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline expansion (NOT replacement) project, the huge Treaty People Gathering with thousands on site broke through mainstream media silence. Media coverage helps protect people doing … Read more
Imagine if Earth Day, and the environmental movement overall, had not been so easily co-opted into “green” consumerism and once-a-year craft and trash pickup projects. A reckoning with the history of Earth Day provides grim but necessary lessons for the climate movement.
Want to know more about Extinction Rebellion as a planetary movement, with over 1100 local groups active in 76 countries? Here are a few ways to expand your awareness: Sign up for the weekly Global … Read more
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Congressman Earl Blumenauer have joined East Coasters Senator Chuck Schumer and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bill to compel our new president to declare a national Climate Emergency Declaration (CED):https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/02/04/congressional-bill-urges-biden-declare-climate-emergency … Read more
Yes, we CAN win. This week the “thin green line” held, scoring two big victories over proposed projects for corporate profiteering. The first win: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission upheld the Oregon Department of Environmental … Read more
On Day One of his presidency, Joe Biden signed executive orders to re-enter the United States into the Paris Climate Agreement and rescind the Keystone XL pipeline permit. Pretty good for starters. Kudos to all … Read more
tipping point: 1. (mathematics, catastrophe theory) The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences. 2. (sociology) A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting … Read more
As the plague-haunted year of 2020 comes to a close, the Paris Climate Accord concludes its first five years…of ever-higher greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts. Greta Thunberg shared a video message about this sad … Read more
Icy rain was hitting my window as I read through my Twitter feed. November’s gray gloom made the afternoon feel like an endless evening, and a recent report published in Nature titled “An earth system … Read more
The tsunami of money, stunts, bluster and coup threats known as the 2020 Elections is over. Finally! The climate crisis continues, along with other crises of ecological and human devastation, including a sharp uptick in … Read more