Women in Thailand’s Pattani Province are rising to oppose a planned coal-fired power plant with potentially serious environmental and health impacts for their families and the Pattani Bay community.
As reported in recent weeks, we are launching a new Clean Revolution campaign here on CleanTechnica in order to help stimulate political action on the ground level and help elect strong cleantech champions at various levels of government.
At just 16 years old, Climate Reality Leader Jamie Margolin is one of the 13 plaintiffs suing Washington State for failing to take adequate steps to fight climate change.
Yes, it was a publicity stunt. But it’s also a fundraiser for the NRDC. Eco-rapper Dephree says he’ll donate half the profits from this song to the NRDC.
Deep in the woods on either side of the border between Virginia and West Virginia, a battle is raging that pits ordinary people against the full might of the fossil fuel industry and the government agencies they control. The issue, at least on the surface, is the construction of a natural gas transmission line being built through the forest by Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, which in turn is owned by EQT Corporation.
Did the title anger you or make the hair on the back of your neck stand up? Does it seem foolish or careless to make that statement since people could become complacent about climate change?
There are a lot of things that are exciting and cool about various cleantech products, but when it comes down to it, many of us hardcore cleantech enthusiasts follow this stuff because it saves lives. Saving any life is great, but there’s something extra special about saving a baby’s life. On the flip side, there’s something extra harsh about seeing or even hearing about a baby’s death.
As a sustainable clothing company, Patagonia has taken a different tack with its product lines and regularly opts to use chest-sized billboards known as t-shirts to send powerful activist-oriented messages out to the world.
Jacqui Patterson, the director of the NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, joined ILSR co-founder and Waste to Wealth initiative researcher Neil Seldman and ILSR’s Communications Manager Nick Stumo-Langer for the latest edition of our Building Local Power podcast.
The Trump administration is determined to boost fossil fuels and diminish renewable energy. Is there anything we as individual citizens can do? Bill McKibben and Robert Pollin have some ideas.
