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10 Little-Known Shark Facts
Did you know that July 14 is Shark Awareness Day? Every day, sharks suffer from different threats. Up to 100 million sharks disappear every year, due to destructive fishing by…
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Why I became an environmentalist and why I’m dying of cancer—they’re related
Asarco is Killing Me For the past two years, I have been fighting a battle with terminal liver cancer, which was discovered in May 2018. The kind of disease that…
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Standing Together in Hope
We are in a really difficult moment. Many of us don’t have the words to express the roller coaster of emotions we have been on these past few weeks, let…
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#CreateArtForEarth: 5 Images That Show the Worldwide Impact of Art
As a result of my research for my six year project, “The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction” I came to understand the terrible harm we are doing to…
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Biodiversity and the Amazon Rainforest
What is Biodiversity? Biodiversity describes the differences and variations that exist between all living beings: animals, plants, microscopic bacteria, funghi, and everything else you can imagine that is considered living.…
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The 5 #CreateArtForEarth Images Inspiring Me Right Now
When my friend Judy Chicago asked me to join her new project calling for creative responses to the ecological crisis, I knew I had to help. In the midst of…
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Love in Action during COVID- 19: Building power for a more just recovery
I am sitting on the back porch of my parent’s home, receiving deeply sought after emotional support from my family and the warm Georgia sun. I flew in from my…
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Greenpeace talks with Denis Hayes: 50 years of Earth Day, and where we go from here
Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day in 1970 and is board chair of the international Earth Day Network. Last week, he and Greenpeace USA Digital Content Strategist, Katie Myer,…
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On Earth Day, let’s shape this plastic-free future together
As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on April 22nd, I am inspired by Greenpeace supporters who are modeling how we can come together as a community to support…
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Protect Indigenous sovereignty—demand profiteers defund the Coastal GasLink pipeline
When I found out that Kohlberg Kravitz Roberts (KKR) was acquiring a significant equity interest in the Coastal GasLink pipeline that is trying to invade the sacred ground of my…
