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May 31, 2017

COP23 Creative Challenge Vs. Trump’s Paris Agreement Decision

By Allie Rosenbluth and Jon Kirsch, COP23 Creative Challenge participants

In a spectacular display of activism and solidarity, young Americans all over the country signed and shared a letter to…

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Oct 28, 2016

To decarbonize? Decolonize.

The third floor hallway dropped off sharply to my left, my feet and a chasm to the great outdoors separated by a disarray of bricks and orange plastic netting. To my right, a sleek black glass door and a room filled with suits. India is a series of contrasts — a postcolonial…

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Oct 13, 2016

Stand with Standing Rock — Not on It

The sun was hot, and the pavement on Highway 1806 was even hotter. The guests at Sacred Stone Camp had just finished a communal lunch. They began falling into line behind the same banners that had led this march every day, a march up the highway to pray for the…

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Sep 30, 2016

Art for Climate Justice

It’s been two years since the People’s Climate March, the largest of its kind in history, took place in New York City. Many of us can still recall the anger, energy and hope evoked from that historic day but few may have paid nearly as much attention to the visually striking artworks…

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Apr 22, 2016

Taking the Paris Agreement Seriously

Today in New York, representatives of world leaders are at United Nations’ headquarters to sign the Paris Agreement. This could be a historic day. But we say “could” because the aspirations of the agreement are far greater than current national commitments.

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Dec 16, 2015

A Determined Delegation

This post originally appeared on the CSSC blog, and is part of an on-going, inter-organizational series of reflections by activist Ryan Camero. You can find the first post here, on Restore the Delta’s blog.

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Nov 24, 2015

19 Ways You Can Workfor Climate Justice

Article reposted from Buzzfeed.

If the sight of #COP21 makes you giddy, queasy, or want to go throw confetti onto perfect strangers in the street, you may be gearing up for the United Nations Climate Conference this December in Paris…

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Nov 23, 2015

True Political Change Starts At Home

The climate movement aims to create a political culture in which climate action is a matter of political necessity. This kind of true political change is a bottom-up process. It starts at the local level, evolves to the national level, and bursts forth onto the…