From Avaaz.org Breaking news! This week, the whole world could agree to switch from fossil fuels to 100% clean energy! But polluter profiteers are lobbying hard to stop it. Climate Ministers from 195 countries are about to leave for the global summit in Peru. Let’s show them this commitment this…

By Margaret Flowers, originally posted at Popular Resistance The People’s Climate March in New York this September brought hundreds of thousands of people into the street to call for climate action. It was the largest climate march ever in the United States and it was beautiful for its energy, diversity…

By Bill McKibben, originally posted at Huffington Post, and reposted here from 350.org. 1) It is historic. John Kerry was right to use the phrase in his New York Times oped announcing the deal: for the first time a developing nation has agreed to eventually limit its emissions, which has…

Originally posted at Popular Resistance, by Anastasia Pantsios As the participants in the Great March for Climate Action ended up in Washington, DC, on Nov. 1 after a six-month trek across the country, they joined with other environmental groups to launch a week of action under the banner Beyond Extreme Energy. The actions revolved around…

From Popular Resistance by Richard Filder We are “ecosocialists” because the climate crisis now bearing down on us is the major issue facing the world’s peoples. It threatens the very survival of human life. It is directly caused by capitalism as a system. The alternative to capitalism is socialism, and…

From Moyers & Company, 9/12/14 (With some fantastic links to this week’s activities and actions) This past Sunday, Sept. 21, a climate march through midtown Manhattan kicked off a week of high-profile climate events in the Big Apple. Promoted as an effort to bring unprecedented attention to climate change, the…

By Jamie Henn, 350.org September 21, 2014  Today, 310,000 people took to the streets of New York City to call for climate action — the largest climate march in history. And we were joined by hundreds of thousands of others around the world at over 2646 events in 156 countries.…

Article by Justin Gillis, originally posted May 30, 2014 at The New York Times Bryan T. Pagel, a dairy farmer, watched as a glistening slurry of cow manure disappeared down a culvert. If recycling the waste on his family’s farm would help to save the world, he was happy to…

(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday he was hopeful that a goal of limiting global temperature rises to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius could be achieved, but urged governments to take practical action before it was too late. “We have to ask the leaders to commit…

Great news! We have a bill! U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Doris Matsui (D-CA) have introduced the Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act of 2014! One of Green America’s high-priority initiatives for some time, Clean Energy Victory Bonds (CEVBs) are modeled after World War II Victory bonds (one of the…