A community media project involving student and youth leaders from the movement to stop global warming and to build a more just and sustainable future.
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Tomorrow, June 1, is a big day in Boston. In the midst of a heat advisory with temperatures expected in the 90s, a broad coalition of 40 community organizations and businesses are joining Mayor Menino in the Boston 500: Challenge to Save Energy , a citywide day of action to save energ...
It’s no surprise that ERM painted a rosy picture of Keystone XL’s environmental impact. Their business depends on it. ERM’s major clients in the fossil fuel industry would steer clear of an environmental consulting company that determines fossil fuel projects are not environmentally r...
Cross-posted from the Understory Does the Tar Sands Blockade (TSB) have a crystal ball we didn’t know about? Yesterday in Tyler County, TX, a pipeline operated by Sunoco Logistics sprung a leak and spilled 20,000 gallons (or 550 barrels) of oil into local East Texas waterways . Deep E...
It’s hard to keep up with everything that’s going on across the country, but here are a few updates from the growing movement. Earlier this month, Unity College in Maine became the first in the nation to meet our demands and fully divest from fossil fuels (Hampshire College in Massach...
By Daniel Rosen and Billy Parish, co-founders of Mosaic First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy. We’ve seen the impacts of climate change in other parts of the world, but with Hurricane Sandy, we saw for the fir...
This is outrageous! TransCanada sits by and tells police to torture peaceful protestors handcuffed. TransCanada Actively Encouraged Torture Tactics to be Used on Peaceful Protestors Yesterday two Texans, Shannon Bebe and Benjamin Franklin, were subjected to torture tactics at the hand...
Our last mass action several weeks ago was an important escalation of our power when over 50 people defied TransCanada’s police repression and re-claimed the Keystone XL easement around the tree blockade. Now 48 days later the tree blockade still stands but they are building the pipel...
Grim new report from the NAACP. Grim, but not surprising. The new report says that 78 percent of African-Americans live within 30 miles of a coal fired power plant. Of the 378 coal plants across the country, 75 are considered to be the most toxic and receive an “F” on the report’s env...
