Featured pieces from the XRPDX newsletter.
How many Black scientists, writers, organizers working on climate issues can you name? If you are like me… maybe one. Maybe none. Maybe you’ve never thought about it. (I’m assuming that most, indeed almost all, … Read more
The IPCC says we have 10 years to stop climate change. They’re wrong. We have six months. In the decades since we’ve known climate catastrophe is coming, why have we activists accomplished so little? It’s … Read more
Why is Extinction Rebellion writing about George Floyd? Because the fate of the world depends on it. XR is considered to be a relatively radical environmental group, but we are committed to nonviolent civil disobedience. … Read more
On Friday, May 29, following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I attended the moving “Eulogy for Black America” rally organized by the NAACP at Shrunk Plaza with about 150 masked-up sisters and … Read more
This is the second in a series about the 4 Demands of the Extinction Rebellion movement. The Government must enact legally binding policies to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2025 and take further action … Read more
Regenerative Cultures seek to bring a different approach to climate and other activist movements, to demonstrate the changes we want to deeply experience. New cultures of caring that are resilient and robust can support us … Read more
This is the first in a series about the 4 Demands of the Extinction Rebellion movement. That the Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, it must reverse all policies … Read more
With the Coronavirus grabbing all the media headlines, it has covered up a more prolonged crisis that had been slowly gaining traction in the press. Over the last several years, news coverage of climate change … Read more