Why Bicycles Are a Must-Have for Modern Civil Disobedience
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby Peter Walker What is it that makes the bicycle and the demonstration such good companions? When the location of this year's Climate Camp protest was finally revealed on Wednesday, the first activists to arrive were a select ...
Vandana Shiva on Sustaining India’s Agriculture
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEnvironmental activist Vandana Shiva has been working to build an organic agriculture movement across India for the past 22 years through the Navdanya Trust, an organization that she founded and directs. She recently spoke with Worldwatch ...
Electric Bicycle World Tour: One Person Can Send a Loud Message
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffNominated by Petz Scholtus I'd like to grant Guim Valls Teruel, who is doing the Electric Bicycle World Tour. The main goal of the tour is to promote sustainable transport and actions to stop global warming on ...
Youth Networks: Climate Action Networks Expand Globally
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffAs Copenhagen nears, we'll be hearing regularly from the spokespeople for the big green groups. But if you want to know who's really powering the climate change movement right now, you need to look at young ...
Youth Networks: Climate Action Networks Expand Globally
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffAs Copenhagen nears, we'll be hearing regularly from the spokespeople for the big green groups. But if you want to know who's really powering the climate change movement right now, you need to look at young ...
A Plea To President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining by James Hansen
Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby James Hansen Tighter restrictions on mountaintop removal mining are simply not enough. Instead, a leading climate scientist argues, the Obama administration must prohibit this destructive practice, which is devastating vast stretches of Appalachia. President Obama speaks ...
NASA’S James Hansen Arrested During Coal Mining Protest
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffNASA climate scientist James Hansen and 30 other demonstrators were arrested in West Virginia while protesting the practice of mountaintop=removal coal mining, which Hansen says President Obama must ban as the U.S. weans itself off fossil ...
NASA’S James Hansen Arrested During Coal Mining Protest
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffNASA climate scientist James Hansen and 30 other demonstrators were arrested in West Virginia while protesting the practice of mountaintop=removal coal mining, which Hansen says President Obama must ban as the U.S. weans itself off fossil ...
Suriname Tribe Protects Land, Ensures Rights
Friday, May 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffSix relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 20th year, is considered ...
U.S. Activist Battles West Virginia Coal Industry
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffSix relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 20th year, is considered the ...
Russian Activist Seeks End to Soviet Toxic Legacies
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffSix relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 20th year, is considered the ...
Got a Minute? Use Your Cell Phone to Volunteer
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffBored on the bus? Twiddling your fingers at the doctor's office? Why not use these micro-time slots to volunteer? On-demand volunteerism organization, The Extraordinaries, wants to help you use your spare time for social good. Their smart ...
The World Has Changed
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffReading the president's inaugural address a few days later, these words stand out even more strongly: To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the ...
Climate Protests Escalate Worldwide
Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffPhoto courtesy Evergaldes Earth First! Members of Everglades Earth First!, a Florida-based environmental group, block the construction site of a natural gas-fired power plant in February. Lynne Purvis and seven other members face charges next month ...
The Post-Election is the New Election
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffEveryone's buzzing about what to do after November 4th to make change happen. We're collaborating on some great projects and debates. Stay tuned. Help us change the world - DONATE NOW! (Posted by Alex Steffen in Movement Building ...
An Inconvenient Youth
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffWhen now high school senior Mary Doerr signed up for Al Gore's Climate Project training in 2007, she was 16, and she was surprised find out that she was one of the youngest people to ...
An Inconvenient Youth
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffWhen now high school senior Mary Doerr signed up for Al Gore's Climate Project training in 2007, she was 16, and she was surprised to find out that she was one of the youngest people to ...
A Solar-Powered Pilgrim
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby Ben Block Martin Vosseler wakes each morning and walks towards the rising sun. For seven months and counting, the retired Swiss doctor has crossed the United States to discuss the merits of solar power and other ...
Scenius, Innovation and Epicenters
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments OffAlly Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece up about Brian Eno's concept of scenius: Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: ...
One Approach To Sustainability: Work Less
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Movement Building and Activism | Comments Offby John de Graaf About six years ago, I addressed the annual state conference of the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin, an organization of private and public waste managers. The topic of my talk, “Haste Makes Waste,” ...