Environmental Activism

The Street-by-Street Battle Against Climate Change

The Street-by-Street Battle Against Climate Change The Street-by-Street Battle Against Climate Change

While the Trump administration rolls back environmental protections and flouts science, this neighborhood is actually preparing.

Jul 17, 2019 / Audrea Lim

Women's March 2017

To Fight Trump, Take to the Streets! To Fight Trump, Take to the Streets!

The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting? 

Jul 15, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Jose Gurrola

Meet the Millennial Mayor Who Took On Big Oil—and Won Meet the Millennial Mayor Who Took On Big Oil—and Won

Jose Gurrola is just 25, with barely 20,000 constituents, but he’s managed to put California’s powerful oil industry on the defensive.

Jul 12, 2019 / Gabriel Thompson

Destroyed House Climate Change

We Were Already Over 350 ppm When I Was Born We Were Already Over 350 ppm When I Was Born

The devastation is too great. We can’t simply slap solar panels everywhere and call it a day.

Jul 12, 2019 / Jamie Margolin

Marshall Islands Mushroom Cloud

America’s Colonial Climate Crisis America’s Colonial Climate Crisis

What should the United States’ island territories expect from rising sea levels and global warming?

Jul 11, 2019 / Chris Gelardi

Oregon

Behind Oregon’s GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash Behind Oregon’s GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash

Industry and belligerence won out over climate legislation. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Zoë Carpenter

Alexandria Villaseñor

Why I’m Climate Striking Against Fox News on Friday Why I’m Climate Striking Against Fox News on Friday

The news media is society’s alarm clock: It needs to wake us up.

Jun 26, 2019 / Alexandria Villaseñor

New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land

New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land New York Is About to Pass One of the Most Ambitious Climate Bills in the Land

The credit goes to the activists who pushed it for more than three years.

Jun 19, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz

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Letters From the July 1-8, 2019, Issue Letters From the July 1-8, 2019, Issue

Devil in the details… Furry logic… Debunking junk science…

Jun 18, 2019 / Our Readers

Why Should I Embrace This Abomination of a Future?

Why Should I Embrace This Abomination of a Future? Why Should I Embrace This Abomination of a Future?

Another reader asks about his “so-called” Christian sister.

Jun 14, 2019 / Liza Featherstone

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