Environment

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The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet

A blue-collar manufacturing town in southern Appalachia offers a roadmap for reclaiming the Internet’s utopian potential.

Nov 28, 2017 / Evan Malmgren

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

A Gallop in the Wrong Direction A Gallop in the Wrong Direction

The Trump administration continues to push coal and defund alternative energy.

Nov 28, 2017 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy ‘Time’ Magazine

A former Time editor condemns the billionaires’ bid to buy a stalwart advocate of climate action.

Nov 22, 2017 / Charles Alexander

Postcards From the Interior

Postcards From the Interior Postcards From the Interior

Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is aiming to open many national parks to oil, gas, and coal industries. Our American heritage is up for grabs.

Nov 22, 2017 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

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Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year Pollution Kills an Estimated 9 Million People Every Year

And the world’s poorest people bear the brunt.

Nov 21, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal—and I’m Willing to Go to Jail to Say So Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Is a Climate Criminal—and I’m Willing to Go to Jail to Say So

A big part of what makes nonviolent civil disobedience powerful is the willingness of those engaging in it to suffer the consequences.

Nov 21, 2017 / Wen Stephenson

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Trump’s Pentagon Wants to Make Nuclear Weapons More ‘Usable’ Trump’s Pentagon Wants to Make Nuclear Weapons More ‘Usable’

That sounds like a good idea.

Nov 20, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

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These Women Nobelists Are Fighting for Grassroots Activists in Central America These Women Nobelists Are Fighting for Grassroots Activists in Central America

They’re bringing limelight to women-led movements resisting land grabs and destruction from mining companies, hydroelectric plants, and monoculture plantations.

Nov 17, 2017 / Laura Carlsen

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video)

The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video) The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness (Video)

A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason is reshaping the Department of the Interior.

Nov 17, 2017 / OppArt / The Nation

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Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis? Could a Marshall Plan for the Planet Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the few climate scientists willing to grapple with our unsustainable economic system.

Nov 16, 2017 / Kate Aronoff

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