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MLK Day: No Celebration Without Legislation
January 17, 2022- Washington DC and Dallas, Texas. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022, Dr. King’s family–along with faith leaders, civil rights leaders, and voting rights advocates across the…
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Let’s Honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day With Action for Our Democracy and Our Planet
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny…We aren’t going…
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Don’t Look Up: the dangerous sidelining of scientists and the difficulty of climate change communication
Katie Camosy, senior visual producer, recently interviewed John Hocevar, Oceans Campaign Director, about the challenges of science communication and the Netflix movie, Don’t Look Up. What do you think of…
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Climate Hope is everywhere that you are
Like clean air and fresh water, it keeps us going every day. Like lush forests and pristine coasts, it restores us for tomorrow. Like too many natural resources, though, hope can feel in short…
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President Biden’s alarming choice to allow the largest sale of public waters for offshore oil drilling in U.S. history
This past November, just days after pledging a return to U.S. climate leadership at COP26, President Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland allowed a sale of 80 million acres of…
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Farmworkers, Community Organizers, and Latinx power: How Communities are Fighting Against the Climate Crisis in California
Planeta G is back for Season 2 where we’re telling the real stories of powerful Latinx activists, farmworkers, and other community members, who are fighting on the ground to stop…
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Don’t Look Up: can we really solve the Climate Crisis as easily as a Comet Crisis?
2022 is shaping up to be the worst year yet for the climate crisis, so it’s fitting that the #1 movie on streaming giant Netflix is a thinly-veiled satire about…
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Frankly, Grace: What Jane Fonda and the Fire Drill Fridays “Firefighters” have reminded me about having faith
This has been a really hard year. I know that we’re not supposed to say that. We’re supposed to be, to borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, pandemic…
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2021 Tuna Retailer Scorecard: The High Cost of Cheap Tuna
When Greenpeace USA published the first edition of Carting Away the Oceans (CATO) in 2008, not a single company out of the 16 major US retailers ranked on seafood sustainability received a passing score. Most of the companies surveyed had hardly given a thought to sustainable seafood; many had weak or non-existent policies, and commonly…
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8 reasons why we need to phase out the fossil fuel industry
Fossil fuel corporations are profiting from the continued consumption of coal, oil and gas, which are driving global warming to dangerous levels. A Greenpeace report illustrated the need for managed…
