“Basic Training” f...

Dec 2, 2018 by

There are five things each of us can do to recover a saner image of who we are, whether we think of ourselves as peace activists or not.

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Everything you’ve been t...

Dec 2, 2018 by

Recycling is an easy cop-out for governments and large corporations, but the truth is that we have to take very different action if we want to stop irreversibly poisoning the planet

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A Conspiracy No More: US Gover...

Dec 1, 2018 by

Wednesday marked the first time that the U.S. government openly acknowledged and discussed the reality of chemtrails — or as they and their ilk call it, “geoengineering.”

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Oceans Highlighted in Dire Whi...

Dec 1, 2018 by

Last week, the White House released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a dire warning on climate change risks and impacts across the U.S.

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Students at every grade need t...

Dec 1, 2018 by

The National Climate Assessment, released the day after Thanksgiving, offers motivation and opportunity to bring climate topics into the classroom at every grade level.

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The Elders demand urgent clima...

Dec 1, 2018 by

G20 countries must take decisive, long-overdue action to cut emissions and end fossil fuel subsidies to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe.

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Trump officials accused of usi...

Nov 30, 2018 by

Interior secretary Ryan Zinke says he hopes new laws will end environmental reviews and allow ‘thinning’ of forests

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We broke down what climate cha...

Nov 30, 2018 by

Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to.

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COP24: Nationalism and the cha...

Nov 29, 2018 by

At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.

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How to provide a backyard habi...

Nov 27, 2018 by

We live in an ecosystem where plants and animals depend upon one another for survival.

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Ecological Design Book Extract

Nov 26, 2018 by

In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used.

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Thoreau on Nature as Prayer

Nov 25, 2018 by

Walt Whitman saw trees — “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage” — as a wellspring of wisdom on being rather than seeming.

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In a massive new report, feder...

Nov 24, 2018 by

In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.

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Giving Thanks in Time of Fire

Nov 24, 2018 by

Settling into my airplane seat on the next leg of a long business trip, I heard a man say to his seat companion behind me, “I am so happy we live here.

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A Poem from Trudy

Nov 24, 2018 by

This poem, Thanks, from W. S. Merwin, reminds me of the
last lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah

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NYC plans to cut its biggest s...

Nov 23, 2018 by

New York City, already a relatively sustainable town, could reach new green heights if a certain city lawmaker has his way.

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Tribes risk exploitation when ...

Nov 23, 2018 by

The trash and toxic runoff are bad enough. They are killing off the tribe’s local fish population and medicinal plants.

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Killing Plants Is the Fastest ...

Nov 21, 2018 by

A recently published study has found that “[c]limate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.”

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Trump’s Military Deployment to...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Donald Trump’s decision to send thousands of troops to the US-Mexican border to intercept migrants who intend to apply for asylum is not just a bald-faced political stunt — it is also illegal.

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A Letter on Loyalty, Agency, U...

Nov 19, 2018 by

This is not intended to persuade or to convince, it is my voice and my experience and my truth.

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Trump’s Defense Spending...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more

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Climate change on track to mak...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is “pretty much uninsurable”, with poorer communities likely to bear the brunt of the effects.

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Agenda 21? The Plan To Depopul...

Nov 19, 2018 by

The United Nations for some people conjure up images of a benevolent organization intended for the preservation of human life wherever conflict occurs, and of encouraging international cooperation and peace.

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How Plato Foresaw Facebook’s F...

Nov 18, 2018 by

Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.

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The Dangerous Naïveté of Trump...

Nov 17, 2018 by

The United States and China may be on a collision course yet their presidents each underestimate the pain the other could inflict.

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Migration roils global politic...

Nov 16, 2018 by

Never before have so many people – 70 million – been forcibly displaced from their homes. Millions more have chosen to leave in search of a better life. And traditional politics have been thrown into disarray.

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Your Children’s Yellowstone Wi...

Nov 16, 2018 by

In Yellowstone National Park, warming has brought rapid changes.
Winters are shorter. Less snow is falling.
Summers are hotter and drier.
In a few decades, this iconic American landscape will not be the same

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Mass HPV Vaccination Plan for ...

Nov 15, 2018 by

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has set an aggressive goal to achieve an 80 percent uptake rate among American children with two doses human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine by 2026.

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Call climate change what it is...

Nov 14, 2018 by

Social unrest and famine, superstorms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth

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The Interior Department Is Sid...

Nov 14, 2018 by

In early September, the DOI quietly rescinded two memos that provided guidance on protecting vulnerable communities and Native American sacred sites.

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