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Climate Change
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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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Bank of America Dumps Coal Mining In Sweeping New Policy
The announcement at BofA's annual shareholder meeting to cut off financing for coal extraction projects represents a major shift for one of the largest U.S. banks – long a financier of the dirtiest energy projects.
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What Alberta's shocking election results could mean for the oil sands
As Alberta overthrows its oil-rich conservatives, the world is waiting to see what it will mean for the infamous Oil Sands.
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With Elections A Week Away, Which British Party Can Deliver On Climate Promises?
If the next U.K. government is to take the climate crisis by the horns, rhetoric must be replaced by concrete action – something the majority in Britain have long been awaiting.
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Earth Day Redux: As Climate Talks Belch Hot Air, Activists Put Lives On the Line
Artificial, self-important UN summits could not be further from the frontline of protest, where environmentalists are being killed at an alarming rate.
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Danish Wind Power Shatters Records, But Opposition Still Stands In the Way
Wind power in Denmark has created tens of thousands of jobs, yet it's still facing stiff opposition from corporations and politicians.
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At Harvard Heat Week, Students and Faculty Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment Now
A mobilization and sit-in by students, alumni and other activists – including a civil disobedience blockade of Massachusetts Hall, housing the office of President Faust – seeks to spur America's elite university to divest from fossil fuels.
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Water or Wine: California Facing Record Drought Must Pick A Side, And Fast
The crisis for many in northern California comes down to this: we're exporting our precious water in the form of profitable wine.
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Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies Now and Bring In Carbon Tax, Says World Bank Chief
Jim Yong Kim predicts that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology to lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Guardian Media Divests £800 Million from Fossil Fuels; Syracuse U. Dumps $1.18 Billion
The Guardian Media Group became the largest fund yet known to pull out of coal, oil and gas companies, while Syracuse University announced it too was divesting its billion dollar portfolio of fossil fuels.
