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Pennsylvania’s Plastics Resistance
This week, the Break Free From Plastic coalition and Earthworks have launched the “Stopping Plastic Where it Starts Tour,” a two-week grassroots tour that will travel to Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania,…
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Faces of the Future
The doorbell rings and hugs are gleefully exchanged between two teenage girls at the This is Zero Hour home base in Petworth, Washington D.C. What started as 16-year-old Seattle native…
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How One Diver Woke Up to the Plastic Pollution Problem
A couple years ago, I had the pleasure of teaching a young couple to dive in Thailand on one of my favorite reefs. Weather conditions were perfect, with mild currents…
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A Beautiful Past, and a Future for the Indonesian Forest Worth Fighting For
I remember when I was a kid, papa always took me back to his hometown to see Oma, my grandmother, every Christmas. The town Papa is from is called Manado,…
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Amidst this climate crisis, I found hope from halfway across the world
It was three days into my editorial internship at Bangkok Post, where I was free to write about anything I wished to, be it the city’s wild nightlife scene or…
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2019: A Landmark Year for Climate Justice
Thanks to you and millions of others, 2019 has been a milestone year in the fight for climate justice. Grassroots power and a growing movement have irrevocably shifted what is…
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Travis Nichols on our Climate in Crisis
Meditations in an Emergency In the beginning, there was no beginning. In the end, there will be no end. Chonky little wavelets of misery and comfort expire into the air…
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Camille T. Dungy on our Climate in Crisis
Camille T. Dungy is an award-winning author, professor, and editor. For the past few months, she and Greenpeace USA media director Travis Nichols have discussed poetry, climate change, and activism…
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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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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…
