Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Earth Network shared a live update from Standing Rock today. She describes the way the National Guard, police from five states, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Dakota Access corporation have corralled indigenous people in camps near DA Pipeline construction. And she calls for trans-ethnic solidarity. [These states are] sending their […]
Get up to speed on #NODAPL
Last summer, Peterson Toscano’s Climate Stew podcast included segments imagining major turning points in environmental justice. Each of these segments featured ordinary people moved to act and the determined grassroots activism they developed to mobilize others and create change on energy or climate policy. “On This Day In Climate History” will one day need to include this […]
Defining “Us”
A few recent headlines on climate and environmental justice: While Shell’s Perdido platform has spilled 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and Shell faces a lawsuit on behalf of communities in Nigeria, Exxon’s shareholders have rejected proposals to include a climate change expert on their corporate board or consider how global carbon-reduction agreements would impact the company. Residents […]
What Renovating My Website Taught Me About Climate Change
You may have noticed some radical changes to this site in the last month. Yes, I’m renovating! Please excuse the dust. Last winter, I reviewed all of my web spaces, culled a few, downgraded others, and created an upgrade plan for this one. I literally drew out several new pages with fine-tip Sharpies and hand-lettered captions, set […]
The Change We Want Is Not Inevitable
Today, several US states have observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The annual commemoration usually means anodyne reflections on love driving out hate, a corporate-friendly and mostly un-challenging King, and wholesale disregard of the fact that he died only because his countrymen and government considered him a threat. But hashtags like #MLKAlsoSaid and #ReclaimMLK are […]
After the March: Photos
The People’s Climate March last Sunday was an overwhelming experience in many ways: where the route was planned for 100,000 to 250,000 people, between 310,000 and 400,000 people actually participated by the end of the day. Halfway through the morning, one of my march buddies looked around and said to me: “So many people here. And not one […]