Earth Day Action: Can you help to keep the lights on at Red GREEN and Blue?
If you’d like to make a donation to a worthy cause on this 50th Earth Day.. For the past ten years, I’ve been editing and publishing RedGREENandBlue.org, a website that brings together progressive and...
View Article50 years of Earth Day Posters, 1970-2020
Earth Day 1970 (Pogo via Walt Kelley) (Earth Day 1970 by Robert Leydenfrost, via Click Americana) ->Next Poster Unfortunately, with the current coronavirus economic meltdown, we’ve lost our primary...
View ArticleIt’s “Giving Tuesday!”… Could you help keep RedGREENandBlue going by making a...
If you’d like to make a donation to a worthy cause on this Giving Tuesday… For the past ten years, I’ve been editing and publishing RedGREENandBlue.org, a website that brings together progressive and...
View ArticleWatch live NOW as the DNC Platform Drafting Committee holds open meetings...
Responding to criticism that too much of the process of putting together the party platforms takes place behind closed doors (if not “smoke filled rooms”), the Democratic National Convention Committee...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice: Oil bankruptcies require a just transition (worker...
The California Resources Corporation (CRC), the largest oil and natural gas exploration and production company in the state, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, potentially leaving California...
View ArticleAustralia wants to build a huge concrete runway in Antarctica. Here’s why...
AAD Shaun Brooks, University of Tasmania and Julia Jabour, University of Tasmania The Conversation Australia wants to build a 2.7-kilometre concrete runway in Antarctica, the world’s biggest natural...
View ArticleCitizens Climate Lobby: Racism, climate & working together
Our country is going through an important time right now. Spurred by weeks of protest, millions of people and many organizations are reckoning with their role in America’s ongoing racial injustice,...
View ArticleDr James Hansen – Every rock has a story (and The Rock Whisperer)
Children should be introduced to our remarkable planet while young, when their curiosity is easily stoked. If you have young ones ready to sit still for 6-9 minutes, I heartily recommend the series...
View ArticleAOC’s lightning round video: There are no limits to corruption in Congress or...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to demonstrate why the GOP is terrified of her. At a committee hearing this week, she ran a “lightning round”, using her 5 minutes with devastating effect to...
View ArticleWatch this great Green New Deal explainer video from The Leap
You’ve been hearing a lot about the Green New Deal, but you’re wondering what it’s all about? If you want a quick and chatty explainer, check out this video put together by the folks at The Leap, a...
View ArticleLong-delayed Vogtle nuclear plants want to delay reporting how much longer...
When centrists insist we need to build more nuclear power plants as part of the decarbonization push to prevent climate change, they ignore one very important thing: New nuclear power plants are...
View ArticleEvan as oil companies give lip service to climate goals, they pursue “Drill,...
At the same time that oil and gas majors around the world are announcing plans to tie company climate action to employee remuneration, these same companies are still rewarding executives for pursuing...
View ArticleCitizens’ Climate Radio podcast Ep. 50: Big climate problems require bigger...
Think of this episode of the podcast as a patchwork quilt. Host Peterson Toscano has woven together five segments from around the world that each stand alone, but together tell a larger story. By...
View ArticleWe nuked American kids, too: Downwind from the bomb
With the Trump Administration discussing restarting atomic testing after 57 years, it seemed like a good idea to bring back this piece I wrote for Albany, NY’s CAPITAL magazine in 1987. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleRenewable Roundup: Understanding Q-Anon and false beliefs
The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer, began asking certain questions in 1951, when the science delving into Hitler was in its infancy. It is an article of faith on the Right that the only way to oppose...
View ArticleDr. James Hansen: Why are you optimistic?
Why are you optimistic, I have often been asked since I wrote Young People’s Burden, which describes the steep climate and energy hill that we are leaving for young people to climb. Two weeks ago I...
View ArticleEcoright Speaks podcast, episode 14: Judge Gary Clary
Hello, friends! It’s showtime! It was a great joy to feature a prominent EcoRighter, retired judge, and current South Carolina House member Rep. Gary Clary on the podcast. While of course he and Bob...
View ArticleCA AG Xavier Becerra joins native tribes in slamming Trump Administration’s...
On October 5, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a comment letter to David Brick of the Bureau of Reclamation opposing the Trump Administration’s effort to raise the Shasta Dam by up to...
View ArticlePortugal becomes Europe’s 4th country to quit coal
Environmentalists on Monday hailed the shutdown of Portugal’s last coal-fired power plant—a move that came nearly nine years ahead of the government’s 2030 target—while warning against converting the...
View ArticleThis Thanksgiving, be thankful for our farmers (Let’s help them earn a decent...
Please try to keep in mind as you shop this holiday season: Fair Trade doesn’t just apply to African villagers and Amazon tribes – it also applies to the folks who grow our food here at home. By Jeremy...
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