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Democracy Now! Published on Apr 28, 2017 http://democracynow.org – To mark the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, thousands of climate activists from around the country are converging in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for the People’s Climate March. Already, Trump … Continue reading →

Reflect Published on Apr 28, 2017 Bernie Sanders sits down with 350.org founder Bill McKibben to discuss the impacts of climate change and the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to undermine progress.

The New School Published on Nov 21, 2016 Sponsored by The Nation Institute (http://nationinstitute.org), The New School (http://newschool.edu), and the Tishman Environment and Design Center (http://newschool.edu/tishman-environm…), environmentalist and author Bill McKibben delivered the first annual Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series … Continue reading →

BPLvideos Streamed live on Apr 3, 2017 Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first … Continue reading →

The Rhodes Trust Published on May 12, 2017

Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, southeast Texas 31 August 2017. Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing – we need to stand up to the fossil fuel industry … Continue reading →

Published on Sep 7, 2017 Democracy Now! https://democracynow.org – In the Caribbean, at least 10 people have died as the historic Category 5 Hurricane Irma barrels across the Atlantic Ocean and toward the U.S. coast. Hurricane Irma is the most … Continue reading →

August 22, 2017 | September Cover Story The knock on environmentalists is that they’ve been better at opposing than proposing. Sure, being against overheating the planet or melting the ice caps should probably speak for itself—but it doesn’t give us … Continue reading →

‘Also blacklisted is the scary locution reduce greenhouse gases.’ Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters Tuesday 8 August 2017 05.00 EDT The US Department of Agriculture has forbidden the use of the words ‘climate change’. This say-no-evil policy is doomed to fail n … Continue reading →