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Archives: Environmentalists

How Soon until we’re Using More Than The Earth Can Provide?

By David Korten | ( Yes! Magazine ) | - - Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter. Four days after President Trump announced…

Don’t get mad over Trump’s Climate Policies, Get Even

By Michael Brune | ( Otherwords.org ) | - - The White House may have accidentally sparked a revolution in efforts to address climate change. If it makes you mad that President…

Trump’s new Clash of Civilizations: Carbonites v. Greens

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment…

Sorry, Trump, Electric Car sales doubled last Year, dooming dirty Fossil fuels

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road doubled worldwide to 2 million in the past year with 40% of EVs being…

Hawaii defies Trump, commits to Paris Accords

TeleSur | - - Even the limited environmental reforms of the Paris Agreements were too much for the United States. Hawaii has broken from the White House's abrupt exit from the Paris…

Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Thursday, Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush's…

Retraining Workers for Climate Action: How the Light Gets In

H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Every now and then I re-visit these lines of the Canadian poet and songwriter, Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that cannot ring Forget…

The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…

CO2 putting Oceans on verge of Oxygen Starvation for next Million Years

University of Exeter | - - Scientists believe the modern ocean is “on the edge of anoxia” – and the Exeter researchers say it is “critical” to limit carbon emissions to prevent…

Also Fired: Scientists at Environmental Protection Agency Review Board

Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian | ( The Young Turks) | (Video Report) | - - "Scott Pruitt has let go of scientists and replaced them with industry types. Cenk Uygur and…

China’s covering a Football field with Solar Panels Every Hour in Quest to End Coal

By Janet Xuanli Liao | (The Conversation) | - - China’s remarkable growth over the past three decades has elevated it to global superpower status. But its economic miracle has also attracted…

Who are the Children suing Trump over Climate Future?

By John Light | ( BillMoyers.com) | - - Congress and the White House aren't going to address the climate crisis anytime soon. Will judges? “We are not going to wait until…

Top 3 Ways the People can build a Trump-Free, Carbon-Free Future

By Jeremy Brecher | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - As the thousands of foot-weary protesters look back on the Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. — and its scores of…

As Millions March for Climate, Stab in Back by EPA & NYT

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - An estimated 200,000 climate protesters rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, braving record temperatures in the 90s, well above the average temperature for…

Can Climate Solutions also help Low-Income Consumers fight inequality?

By Basav Sen. | ( Inequality.org) | - - Renew Oregon is advancing innovative climate justice proposals, building on a legislative victory to expand the state’s use of renewable energy, with strong…

Donald Trump: Global Ecocide

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute…

Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?

By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | - - Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast,…

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | - - "Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union have promised not to build new coal power plants after 2020." Newsy:…

When it comes to Climate Change, you are what you Eat

By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EURACTIV.com) | - - Governments are “trapped” by lobbyists, and it’s hard to fight climate change. But if young people are mobilised and turn to healthy lifestyles,…