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Earth Day 2024: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide
Earth Day 2024: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide As Earth Day approaches, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the planet while disregarding the devastation their actions wreak. The harsh reality is that alongside their hollow pledges lies a trail of […]
Imagine Earth Day in ten years
Imagine Earth Day in ten years It’s a bit of a challenge, to imagine what Earth Day will look like in ten years. Part of that challenge arises from the fact that it depends on what we do throughout that decade to deal with and try to correct the ravages of incipient climate change effects. […]
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator […]
On Earth Day: Environmenal Activism is Spreading
On Earth Day: Environmenal Activism is Spreading Across America environmental activism is growing, and government and the fossil fuel industry are taking notice, say Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Tree-sits are growing in West Virginia where people are putting their bodies on the line to stop the destruction of the natural habitat that would result from building the […]
Conflict Over the Future of the Planet
Conflict Over the Future of the Planet On this Earth Day, it is difficult to look at the state of the planet and the current political leadership and see much hope. In “Junk Planet”, Robert Burrowes writes a comprehensive description of the degradation of the atmosphere, oceans, waterways, groundwater, and soil as well as the […]
Wake Up the Earth!
Wake Up the Earth! Time for Restorative Justice On17 April it was more than 70 degrees Fahrenheit in Ann Arbor. The daffodills were in full bloom. As usual on Wednesdays at the court house we were protesting the police shooting of Aura Roser last November and the prosecutor who refused to indict the policeman for […]
Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day
Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day If you haven’t already given your treehugger friends a big Earth Day hug today, please don’t forget! And I am of course more than happy to take all the Earth Day hugs I can get! Why the hugs? Well Earth Day is reason enough I think, but an even better […]
READING I.F. STONE ON EARTH DAY: WHY WE STILL WON’T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS WE CONNECT THE DOTS
READING I.F. STONE ON EARTH DAY: WHY WE STILL WON’T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS WE CONNECT THE DOTS One week ago, I was honoured to receive an “Izzy Award” for “outstanding achievement in independent media and journalism.” The annual award, which this year also went to David Sirota for his groundbreaking investigations into political corruption in the U.S. […]
Building the new environmentalism | Ensia
Building the new environmentalism | Ensia. Forty-four years after the first Earth Day, we must ask a basic question: What is an environmental issue? Air and water pollution, yes. But what if the right answer is that an environmental issue is anything that determines environmental outcomes? Then the definition becomes something much broader, rooted in […]
