Working together, local groups in Portland's Cully neighborhood are redefining sustainability and development as an anti-poverty strategy.
Clean energy sector employs more Californians than film, radio and TV; Hawaiian utility bought out by nation’s largest windpower firm; wrangling continues at Lima climate talks; and more stories of the week in clean energy.
Ending polluters' free ride is the key recommendation of Governor Inslee's task force on carbon emissions.
Reverberations of the U.S.-China climate commitments keep echoing, federal clean energy fund turns a profit, lightweight solar panels you can unroll, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.
Worldwide switch to clean power would save $1.8 trillion, rainforests store less carbon once they’re fragmented, WA carbon tax would pay steady dividends, and other stories of the week in clean energy solutions.
From Tahrir Square to hurricane-ravaged Staten Island, our climate crisis is also a crisis of equity and environmental justice.
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Women may be the most important resource in our efforts to fight climate change. We are worried about what we are doing to our children now and for generations to come.... and we have more power than you think.
Civil-society climate justice advocates and vulnerable nations may be succeeding in their push for a more aggressive target for limiting global warming. This development shows a shift in power towards the priorities of a massive global climate movement–and it's the news from Paris, as much as the climate agreement text itself.
The New Economy Get-Together is a flagship event of the national New Economy Week 2015. Now in its third year, and for the first time with a Seattle event, New Economy Week 2015 will challenge us to explore what systemic change really looks like. We hope that by drawing attention to big ideas and concrete examples of real solutions, we will expand the public conversation and what's politically possible, bringing us closer to a just, sustainable, and democratic society.
Join Earth Ministry/WA Interfaith Power & Light for an overview of the Pope’s statement that calls people of faith to act now on climate change. The encyclical is historic in that it is addressed not just to Catholics but to all people of good will – including you!
Fight CO2lonialism, End U.S. Imperialism, Demand Global Justice!
March from Beacon Hill - Seattle's historically Filipino community, into Georgetown site of some of Seattle's worst environmental justice and the staging grounds for fossil fuel exports! Wear Blue.
The 1st annual Indigenous Climate Justice Symposium will be held at The Evergreen State College Longhouse on November 5-6, 2015. It will bring together speakers from Native communities that are working to keep fossil fuels in the ground, by stopping coal terminals, oil trains and fracking, and protecting treaty resources from the threat of climate change. Its major goal would be to get students and youth, particularly tribal youth, involved in community-based climate justice efforts. All events are free and open to Evergreen students and the public.
Join the City of Tacoma’s Office of Environmental Policy and Sustainability for a free three-part series on climate risks and what as a nation, state and city we can do to reduce our climate pollution and improve our local environment, all while preparing for change.
The Race and Climate Justice group invites you to our next bimonthly community event, a participatory evening exploring the impact of racism on each of us, our society, and our environmental movements. No charge; everyone welcome!
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Broad coalitions for climate action took bold steps this week in Oregon and Washington, announcing plans to put climate and clean energy measures on the 2016 ballot.
The dangers of oil trains are dominating headlines about proposed oil terminals in Washington. As a long-time crab fisherman out of Grays Harbor, I’m very concerned about another risk: the potential consequences of a major oil spill.
