Before Inauguration Day, the Trump era has opened with an extremist agenda that poses an alarming threat to our people, our environment and the core values we share about justice, fair play and our commitment to leave future generations a livable world. Already, we’ve seen a set of cabinet nominees dominated by fossil fuel advocates, […]
In war, natural disaster and poverty, water is the first relief to arrive alongside the security of life and limb. It is the gift that aids the weary traveler, sits at the table before a meal arrives. The lack of it kills before the lack of food does. It is not a commodity, as in […]
What’s one of the most insidious myths we’ve bought into, when it comes to climate change? It has nothing to do with the science: It’s the simple idea that we have to be a certain type of person to care about climate change. If I’m a liberal, if I bike to work and call myself […]
The U.S. is bracing for President-elect Donald Trump. All initial indications are that the U.S. is in for a dramatic change of leadership, more like some of the authoritarian regimes we are used to reading about in other parts of the world. Over the last decade, I have worked as an environmental and human-rights philanthropist […]
How much stuff will you give and receive this holiday season? Add it to the growing pile—the 30-trillion-ton pile. That’s how much technology and goods humans have produced, according to a study by an international team led by England’s University of Leicester. It adds up to more than all living matter on the planet, estimated […]
Last night, Vladimir Putin visited Donald Trump—played by Alec Baldwin—at Trump Tower during the opening skit on Saturday Night Live. While Trump and Putin where discussing whether it’s a good idea for the two of them to be seen together, SNL’s Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway announces that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick for […]
Whatever his voters intended, we can abandon the notion that President-elect Donald Trump is a right-wing populist. Right-wing, yes, authoritarian, probably, demagogue certainly. But his cabinet gives the lie to populism as part of his character. Wall Street may have paid Hilary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars to make speeches; but it is Trump […]
If anyone has any questions left about what Donald Trump’s energy plans will do to the climate, just read his brand new website GreatAgain.gov for clarity. Click on “Energy Independence,” sit back and start reading. It’s short, succinct and devastatingly to the point: “The Trump Administration will make America energy independent. Our energy policies will […]
Undercover police raided an environmental activist’s home. Cabinet ministers hacked and then released to the media emails and sensitive financial information from an environmental group. When the Supreme Court ruled that the cabinet ministers had violated the environmentalists’ right to privacy, the ministers tried to jail the environmental group’s lawyer and the judge who decided […]
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