Did You Hear The One About The Bank That Couldn’t Count?
Last week, Bank of America (BofA) admitted a huge accounting error—for several years, it claimed a whopping $4 billion more in capital than it actually has. The day BofA announced…
Divestment Movement Escalates
This week, the national fossil fuel divestment movement escalated, as student blockades popped up at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. By the end of the week, 8 students…
Why We Are Blocking the Office of Harvard’s President
Co-authored by Sima Atri, Benjamin Franta, Sidni Frederick, Ted Hamilton, Jacob Lipton, Chloe Maxmin, Brett Roche, Kelsey Skaggs, Henney Sullivan, Tyler VanValkenburg, Jacob Lipton, Zoë Onion, Olivia Kivel, and Canyon…
Resisting Exxon and Peabody’s Dark Age
Forget the reign of Tywin Lannister and his bloodthirsty brood of children, grandchildren and henchmen raping and pillaging their way through the fantastical land of Westeros while hapless Starks are…
All Our Water is Going to a Plant We Don’t Eat to Support a Diet We Don’t Need.
2013 went down as the driest year in California’s recorded history. A major reservoir outside of Sacramento has been reduced from 83% to 36% capacity in just over 2 years. …
Revelations on illegal Indonesian logging sends clear message to governments and buyers
Last week the former governor of Riau province in Sumatra, the epicenter of deforestation in Indonesia, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by Indonesia’s anti corruption court for taking…
Blockade: Fighting strip mine expansion Rocky Branch, Illinois
This post is by activist Jeff Lucas. Residents of Illinois’ Rocky Branch community halt Peabody strip mine expansion for three hours with a road blockade. 321 miles south of Chicago…
Climate Culprits Exposed In New Scorecard
We know that keeping forests standing, along with keeping fossil fuels in the ground, offers Earth’s best hope for fighting catastrophic climate change. Yet everyday rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands are…
XL Dissent: “We Are Building A Culture of Resistance”
This Sunday, over one thousand young people will descend on the White House. By the end of the day, hundreds of them, most of them students at more than 200…
VIDEO: Thousands Take Action Saying #NOKXL
On January 31, the U.S. State Department released its final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL. The report was heavily influenced by the oil industry, but it still gave the…