Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think

The movement itself has mostly disappeared. But 10 years later, its legacy is everywhere.

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America shows how to tackle climate change from the bottom up

Michael Levitin reports on the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, where ambitious climate action by mayors and state governors was in the spotlight

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TransCanada's $15 Billion Suit Against U.S. Is Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst

When the NAFTA nations meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy goals may be overshadowed by TransCanada's use of NAFTA to sue the U.S. government over the Keystone pipeline.

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Berkeley's "Uncharted" Festival Brings Big Minds and Ideas Together

The city that birthed the Free Speech Movement and was the staging ground for America's cultural revolution of the 1960s is now building on that past with a festival to reinvigorate the spirit of active political and intellectual debate.

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Justice for All: Seattle's Kshama Sawant, Leader in Fight for $15, Talks About Movement's Next Steps

"All [working] people are latent activists. But to make them into activists they need to feel something deep in their hearts – in their gut. At the end of the day it is the tangible struggles that masses of people come out to fight."

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The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street

Nearly four years after the precipitous rise of Occupy Wall Street, the movement so many thought had disappeared has instead splintered and regrown into a variety of focused causes.

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California Leads New Community Energy Model Speeding U.S. Move To Renewables

Sewage and solar power may be odd bedfellows in the race to save the climate. But in Sonoma County, Calif., an experiment is underway to install the nation’s largest floating solar array on wastewater treatment ponds.

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"Zuccotti Park" Musical In New York Shines A Light on Occupy and Economic Justice

It's not easy writing a play about injustice in America much as it's not easy telling the complex, multi-layered story of the Occupy movement – something Catherine Hurd set out to do in her musical that premieres this week.

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Thousands of Californians March In Largest Ever Anti-Frack Protest, Calling For Statewide Ban

Californians marched Saturday through downtown Oakland calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to fulfill his promise as a climate leader by enacting an all-out ban on fracking in the state.

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Communities Of Color Tackle Climate As "Our Power" Movement Heats Up Richmond

The Bay Area city hosts a four-day gathering this week bringing social activists together from across America to share strategies and solutions to today's economic-ecological crises.

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