empowerment & inner transformation…
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A night to remember just how grim the oil industry really is I’m writing this late at night on the West Coast. I’ve spent the evening at a rally in Sacramento, listening to residents from around the area tell about the effects of oil drilling on their lives: the asthma, the cancers, the spills. And... Continue Reading →
Some big wins, and some big campaigns launching! The next phase of the climate fight is going to center on the big banks that fund the fossil fuel industry. It’s going to be big, loud, and important—and there are signs this week that it’s already starting to be effective. Climate activists have been taking on... Continue Reading →
March 21st will be a Tuesday, it will be the best palindromic day ever…And it will be the biggest day yet in the fight to shut off the flow of cash from Big Banking to Big Oil, a fight that is may be the most important front left in the effort to keep the planet... Continue Reading →
Official Title: How Bad Is It? And what does that question even mean? I got a phone call last night, from a person I admire as much as anyone I know; she’s spent her life working, with great effectiveness, for a wide variety of progressive causes. I turn to her for guidance on dozens of questions.... Continue Reading →
Rally Thursday Against Manchin's Dirty Deal--and Do Some Lobbying in the Meantime! . The Washington Post, which has done remarkable climate reporting in recent years, had a less successful story in this morning’s paper. Headlined (in oddly editorial fashion) “To fight climate change, environmentalists may have to give up a core belief,” it argues (citing... Continue Reading →
Joe should declare one now; Hillary would have in 2017 Jeff Stein of the Washington Post had a genuine scoop yesterday—President Biden, stung by Joe Manchin’s brushoff of climate legislation, was weighing whether to declare a “climate emergency.” He should, of course—it’s hard to think of what else to call it when the UK, with... Continue Reading →
Joe Biden Could Damage Putin Badly--and He Doesn't Have to Ask Joe Manchin It’s amazing to watch people across the planet rallying to the defense of brave Ukraine—choirs singing outside Russian embassies, soccer teams refusing to play Russian teams. And it’s wonderful to watch governments rise to the occasion: shutting off airspace to Russian airplanes,... Continue Reading →
+Climate scientist Peter Kalmus, arrested in civil disobedience actions with many of his colleagues last week, explains why researchers are increasingly willing to take to the streets: Earth breakdown is much worse than most people realize. The science indicates that as fossil fuels continue to heat our planet, everything we love is at risk. For... Continue Reading →
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
Because they're down to the nub At 5 a.m. this morning we were supposed to get the report from Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It didn’t come—because delegates were still arguing. And the arguments were over the two most fundamental questions of the climate era: must we get off fossil... Continue Reading →
Which is why solving the climate crisis might require aluminum bike panniers... Most of the time I’m writing about vested interest as the key obstacle to making the energy transition. And it is—without the endless campaign of delay, denial, and disinformation from Big Oil and its friends, we’d have started making big changes long ago.... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 