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Beers You Should Drink If You Care About the Climate

Beers You Should Drink If You Care About the Climate

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, it’s good to know that conscientious breweries are taking action for the planet. Two dozen breweries announced yesterday that they’ve signed the Climate Declaration, “a business call to action that urges policymakers to seize the economic opportunity of tackling climate change.” The 24 signatories come from all across the U.S. (plus […]

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    Catholics Fast for Lent in Support of Pope Francis’ Call for Climate Action

    Catholics Fast for Lent in Support of Pope Francis’ Call for Climate Action

    Today marks Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent for Catholics. The 40-day period leading up to Easter is a time when Catholics fast, and many try to give up something as a way to deepen their faith. This Lenten season, the Global Catholic Climate Movement, which formed in January, officially announced today the Lenten Fast for Climate […]

    Global Divestment Day: A Huge Success

    Global Divestment Day: A Huge Success

    Global Divestment Day is a huge success with more than 400 events in 48 countries spanning six continents, with events planned for tomorrow too. Global Divestment Day—put on by Fossil Free, a project of 350.org—is bringing people together to stop the fossil fuel industry in its tracks. When a Fossil Free group demonstrated outside of a Commbank branch, the branch closed. Photo […]

    Why Utilities Hate the Clean Power Rule

    Why Utilities Hate the Clean Power Rule

    This article is the first of a three-part series on the Future of Electricity. Read Part II and Part III. The vicious coal industry/right-wing attack on President Obama’s proposed Clean Power Rule is not fundamentally about the rule itself. Substantively, the proposal is simply the fulfillment of one of George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign promises—to clean up […]

    Ski Resorts Close as West Coast Drought Intensifies

    Ski Resorts Close as West Coast Drought Intensifies

    As we all know, California is experiencing its fourth year of extreme and exceptional drought. Scientists have confirmed it’s the worst drought in the region in the last 1,200 years. Thankfully, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced on Feb. 6 that the Bureau of Reclamation is “making $50 million in funds available for drought relief projects […]

    First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up

    First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up

    Back in 2012, Bill McKibben with fellow activists including Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Josh Fox and Reverend Lennox Yearwood began a nationwide tour to promote fossil fuel divestment—that is, selling off your shares in fossil fuel companies–in an effort to combat climate change. “Norway made all its money on oil, but now it’s dumping its fossil fuel stocks. It’s the […]

    Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

    Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

    Fifty-five years ago Jibreel Khazan of the Greensboro Four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960 with three other classmates from North Carolina A&T University to highlight racial injustices in America. At that time, Jibreel and his classmates were fighting for equality, and the goal to desegregate the […]