climate change

Find Out Which State Contributes Most to Climate Change

Find Out Which State Contributes Most to Climate Change

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the 2013 figures for its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, now in its fourth year. These figures show which states, as well as which industry sectors and which individual businesses, produce the most climate change-inducing greenhouse gas emissions. The undisputed winner—or loser, if you prefer—is Texas, with its […]

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    102 Arrested at Flood Wall Street

    102 Arrested at Flood Wall Street

    Shortly after the New York Stock Exchange 4 p.m. closing bell and hours after the protest began, New York City police arrested 102 people who were part of the Flood Wall Street protest yesterday, including several individuals in wheelchairs and one dressed as a polar bear. Peter Galvin, co-founder of Center for Biological Diversity, dressed in […]

    To Change Everything We Need Everyone

    To Change Everything We Need Everyone

    The slogan of the 300,000+ People’s Climate March that rolled over Manhattan like a tsunami yesterday, “To change everything we need everyone” was embodied not only in the raw numbers—larger than the 1963 March for Jobs and Justice led by Martin Luther King—but also in the incredible diversity of the crowd and the organizations participating, and the careful structuring […]

    Rockefellers Join $50B Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    Rockefellers Join $50B Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    At a press conference today in New York City on the heels of yesterday’s massive People’s Climate March, the international Invest-Divest coalition announced commitments for more than $50 billion in assets that will be divested from fossil fuels and moved into clean energy to address climate change. They include scores of foundations, faith groups, health […]

    Waterkeepers March!

    Waterkeepers March!

    It was euphoric! Never in my life have I been in such a mass of humanity as I was today in New York City in the largest climate march in world history. Joining me were 100 members of Waterkeeper Alliance as we marched along with more than 300,000 people through the streets of Manhattan. The march was three times bigger […]

    Desmond Tutu: It’s Time to ‘Move Beyond the Fossil Fuel Era’

    Desmond Tutu: It’s Time to ‘Move Beyond the Fossil Fuel Era’

    This weekend, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a long-time advocate for the environment, released a powerful video urging the world leaders in New York City for the UN Climate Summit to “move beyond the fossil fuel era.” The Nobel Prize-winning retired archbishop from South Africa said “the destruction of Earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of […]

    400,000 Demand Climate Action Now at Largest Climate March in World History

    400,000 Demand Climate Action Now at Largest Climate March in World History

    Today in New York City 400,000 people attended what is now known as the largest climate action in world history. The march in New York City was by far the largest of the 2,808 People’s Climate rallies that took place today in 166 countries from around the world. From the crowded streets of New Delhi to Melbourne to Johannesburg, […]

    How to Build a Wind Turbine From Scratch

    How to Build a Wind Turbine From Scratch

    Thanks to filmmaker Jake Beed and the Action4Climate video competition, you can have a first-hand look at what it’s like to build a wind turbine from scratch. In If You Build It, watch a group of young Canadians strive for a more sustainable way of life by figuring out how to generate their own power via a […]

    World Population to Hit 12 Billion in 2100, New Study Predicts

    World Population to Hit 12 Billion in 2100, New Study Predicts

    Researchers had been predicting a leveling off of the world’s population, currently more than seven million. But Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published a paper today projecting that population will continue to grow in this century and could reach 12 billion by 2100. The paper gave an 80 percent chance […]