The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Bill McKibben
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Women Who Stop Oil: Female Leadership Crucial At Dakota Pipeline Protests
Women are leading the battle against the Black Snake, the latest in fast-tracked fossil fuel pipeline projects attempting to carry crude oil across the U.S.
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Victory In Landmark Climate Case As Oregon Judge Rules for Future Generations
In what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein called the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now,” 21 plaintiffs under the age of 19 sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.
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TransCanada Asks the State Department To Suspend Review Of the Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada has lost, and it’s one of the climate movement's great victories.
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Climate Movement Momentum: Carbon Divestments Top $2.6 Trillion As Hillary Rejects Keystone XL
A new report shows the fossil fuel divestment movement has grown 50-fold in one year, with more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals pledging to dump carbon stocks – news that complemented Clinton's promise to oppose the tar sands pipeline.
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University of California Divests $200 Million From Coal and Tar Sands
The UC system has sold off its endowment and pension fund holdings in coal and oil sands companies, a $200-million move that officials said Wednesday was in response to both environmental concerns and rising financial risk in those industries.
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How We Reach Critical Mass With a Climate Movement to Lead the World
The next critical step for the climate movement is gaining mainstream cultural relevance – put plainly, if our movement does not become more inclusive, the goal of transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy will not happen.
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Much of World's Fossil Fuel Reserve Must Stay Buried to Prevent Climate Change, Study Says
The new research published in Nature identifies for the first time which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2 degrees C.
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The Comeback of the Commons: Uniting People, Resources and Economies
Commoning forms the basis for a kind of economics run by neither state nor market but rather by community relationships in which everyone has a personal stake in a shared property or project.
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Now Is the Moment To Win the Battle Over the Tar Sands
"Peoples' movements will either succeed in transforming our economic and political systems to build a new world, or we will burn with the old one."
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State of the Climate Movement: Rowdy and Getting Rowdier
Marches around the country last week showed diversity among a new and growing cohort of activists taking climate justice to new levels of resistance.
