video from the Cliffside Climate Action
Check out this great video from the Cliffside Climate Action. [vimeo 4347727]
video from the Cliffside Climate Action
Check out this great video from the Cliffside Climate Action. [vimeo 4347727]
video from the Cliffside Climate Action
Check out this great video from the Cliffside Climate Action. [vimeo 4347727]
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate – NYTimes.com
In order to create controversy over the cause or even the reality of Global Warming, Big Oil, Big Auto and Big Coal promoted the idea that there was a debate…
Agrofuels Rally at Low Carbon Fuel Standard Hearing
Yesterday’s Agrofuels rally at the Low Carbon Fuel Standard was, in a word, beautiful. We rode up to Sacramento in Lola, the Mexican bus (fueled by biodiesel made from recycled…
Bank of America: Now that Obama Made Me a Co-Owner, How about No More Coal?
Last Monday, hundreds rallied (with 44 arrested in a peaceful civil disobedience) in downtown Charlotte to tell Duke Energy “Stop Cliffside, No New Coal.” Charlotte’s other hometown company, Bank of…
Anti-Mountaintop Removal Lockdown Depicted on Fox’s “House”
Anyone watch Fox’s “House?” The medical profession’s answer to “CSI” and “Law and Order” with a cantankerous jaded doctor played by Hugh Laurie. [youtube U2fPuO7xBV4&eur] On this week’s episode, the…
Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change – Anchorage, Alaska
For the last 4 days about 500 Indigenous peoples from 80 nations have attended the Indigenous Peoples‘ Global Summit on Climate Change, to create a plan and demand that countries…
Vikram Pandit – I OWN your bank
As a taxpayer, I now own a large portion of Citi – and so do you for that matter. But since I have the dual honor of being a taxpayer…
Mother Gunnoe: Mountaintop Removal Organizer Wins Goldman “Environmental Nobel” Prize
Last night Maria Gunnoe received a Goldman Prize for her work to end mountain top removal coal mining (MTR) – and protect her home. This is an issue that we…
Update on Logging Grassy Narrows
Regular Understory readers will remember that Grassy Narrows first Nation succeeded in suspending logging within its traditional territory last year (newbies can read all about it). Since then, Grassy’s been…
Hershey’s Stickering Action-see the photos and stories!
I want to thank all the activists who joined our Stickering Action the week before Easter. Over 600 activists headed out to their local grocery stores to put “Palm Oil…
I really don’t like Big Coal
I really don’t like Big Coal. I don’t like it when they blow the tops of mountains. I don’t like it when their power plants pollute local air and water….
Syncrude in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta apologizing for the 1606 dead ducks
Last April 1606 migratory ducks landed on a tar sands tailings pond, or what I would like to call a man made toxic tar pit, and met their end. The…
44 Arrested at Duke Energy’s Headquarters
Community members engage in civil disobedience to prevent the construction of coal fired facility. This morning, the Cliffside Climate Action brought hundreds to Duke Energy’s headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina…
44 Arrested Protesting Cliffside Coal Plant
A few hours ago hundreds of protesters converged on the headquarters of Duke Energy in Charlotte NC to demand a stop to the construction of the Cliffside Coal-fired power plant….
It’s About Time
The E.P.A. is putting “Protection” back into their name. From The New York Times: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to…
Activists hang “EPA stop MTR” banner on Massey mine, 5 arrested
My friends Madeline, Charles and Jordan were part of a team that got arrested in Naoma WV today while hanging a banner on a Massey mine. SUNDIAL, W.Va. – Three…
An Open Letter to Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
Democracy will be in the streets of Charlotte on April 20. Be there or be square! April 15, 2009 Jim Rogers, President and CEO Duke Energy Charlotte, North Carolina Subject:…
Upstaging Duke Energy’s Greenwashing Antics
Yesterday, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers spoke at the 6th annual Sustainable Energy Conference in Raleigh to promote Duke’s clean energy agenda which includes building a dirty coal plant in…
British Police Pre-Emptively Arrest 114 Anti-Coal Activists
While the 24 hour cable news cycle has been obsessing over “Obama vs. the Pirates,” this weekend the British police pre-emptively arrested 114 anti-coal activists suspected of planning actions at…
Focus Earth on the Capitol Climate Action and Power Shift 09
A news clip coverage of the Capitol Climate Action and Power Shift 09 [youtube DiHhPBudZHs]
Why I might not invest in that coal plant after all
So there I was, thinking about this GREAT opportunity I just heard about to invest in a new coal-fired power plant. But then, just yesterday, our own special envoy for…
Let’s not block out sunshine using hi-tech upper atmosphere pollution, OK?
In and AP interview (how much longer will we be able to reference those by the way?) President Obama’s top science adviser John Holdren suggested that we may have to…
Dr. James Hansen endorses Cliffside Climate Action! 2 weeks until we take direct action against Duke Energy
Reposted from Matt Wilkerson’s blog on It’s Getting Hot In Here With just 2 weeks to go until we hit the streets of Charlotte, NC to demand that Duke Energy…