Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! Photo by antoine.mcgrath Two speakers at the Los Angeles Green Festival, held on Nov. 17 and 18, reminded showgoers that organizing is essential to the future of the environment. Amy Goodman, host of independent global news program...
Photo of Derrick Jensen Once again, environmentalist author Derrick Jensen is partnering with radical cartoonist Stephanie McMillan to stun audiences, but this time it is with their new novel The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. Described as “darkly comic and...
Photo by ProgressOhio via flickr Throughout the campaign, Obama touted his “all of the above” energy policy. He claimed that he supported coal and oil, even though the administration put strict air pollution regulations in place. Similarly, he supported the natural gas...
Photo by binaryoptionsbinaires via flickr The first of three debates between presidential candidates demonstrated just how far climate change is from the minds of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. During the debate, neither candidate mentioned it or the impact it is having on...
Photo by niXerKG via flickr Some environmentalists are calling the 2012 presidential election the most important of our time. The choices are clear – all three of them. But the media only focuses on two. TreeHugger recently rated the three presidential candidates –...
Photo by Stephanie Moore via flickr “Don’t frack my mother,” sings Sean Lennon. “Don’t frack me! Don’t frack me!” chants Yoko Ono. The mother and son duo recently appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to launch Artists Against Fracking with their spirited...
Photo of Texas State Capital by Stu Seegar via flickr Everything is bigger in Texas, including environmental headlines. Nearly one year after several young plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in state court, Texas District Judge...
Photo by A S Lahiri via flickr As I get older, I realize that most of the people I grew up with have become more fearful and conservative. Why is that people return to their roots when things get hard? Why do they go back to the fundamentals, or better, or worse yet...
Photo by Sam Howzlt via flickr The federal government recently threw out a lawsuit brought against it by a small group of American youth who are concerned for the health of the planet and the consequent survival of their generation. Specifically, this lawsuit demands that...
This post was originally published on the United Nations Environmental Programme's WED (World Environment Day) Voices page. "World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action,"...
