No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response. Had we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making [...]
For years, experts in conservation and climate science have urgently pursued two parallel paths—one to interrupt a large-scale extinction event, the other to avert a runaway climate crisis. Now, [...]
Since Britain voted to leave the E.U. in 2016, the country has witnessed an alarming spike in rightwing hate crime. Many are now warning that the “febrile” atmosphere escalating around Brexit as [...]
Last fall 15,000 scientists issued a second dire notice to humanity that we are on a collision course with the limits of our planet. They concluded, “To prevent widespread misery, humanity must [...]
May 23, 2018 — Every so often an environmentally friendly building gives us a glimpse of the low-carbon future so many climate plans envision. With the development of Clichy-Batignolles, the city [...]
May 09, 2018 "Information Clearing House" - There is no time for long introductions. The world is, possibly heading for yet another catastrophe. This one, if we, human beings will not manage to [...]
Even the most stubborn climate skeptics found the events of 2017 difficult to cope with. It wasn't just a matter of turning up the air conditioner and switching the channel to Fox News: this [...]
By Dahr Jamail for Truth Out - We are living in a time of the convergence of multiple cataclysmic forces: runaway anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD), chronic wars and the most grotesque [...]
By Staff of Climate and Capitalism - Mr. President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Melo; Mr. UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; Your Excellencies; An important biological species is in [...]
By Carolyn Lochhead for SF Gate - WASHINGTON — Evidence of what scientists are calling the planet’s Sixth Mass Extinction is appearing in San Francisco Bay and its estuary, the largest on the [...]
By Dana Varinsky for Business Insider - If you move into a new neighborhood being constructed outside of Amsterdam, your salad greens might come from the greenhouse attached to your home. Your [...]
By Staff of TRANSCEND Media Service - We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests and emitting more carbon dioxide into [...]
By Olivier Favier and Translated by Leslie Thatcher for Basta! - Grande-Synthe, in the north of France, is one of the very few French towns that welcome hundreds of migrants with dignity and [...]
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By Western Environment Law Center - On Tuesday, King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill issued a landmark decision in Zoe & Stella Foster v. Washington Department of Ecology, the climate [...]
We live in a material world, people — synthetic material, that is, with all the attendant mess that makes. But how can a society addicted to Ziploc baggies, Styrofoam coffee cups, and cheap [...]
