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Texas Green Funds Passing Despite Economy

In the spring of 2009, students members of ReEnergize Texas wanted to convince the Texas Legislature to pass a bill letting them create campus green funds amidst talk of “the worst recession since...

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Victory: High-Carbon LNG Project Suspended, Company files Bankruptcy

2007 Convergence for Climate Action at proposed Bradwood LNG site. The weeklong event, organized by Rising Tide with local communities was a critical moment for movement building. By Nick Engelfried...

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Victory for the Mountains!

Remember those other fossil fuels, besides oil? Yeah, we’re still fighting them too.  If you’re like me and want a little bit of good news amongst all the bad news from the Gulf, today is your lucky...

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Pipeline for High-Carbon LNG Put on Hold in Northwest

After years of building the movement against liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure, challenging LNG projects in the courtroom, rallying, lobbying, and direct action, climate activists working on...

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Playing to Win

Recently I was talking with a friend who does really inspiring social change work with athlete volunteers.  He remarked that one of the great things about working with athletes is their innate...

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Clemson University to Move Off Coal on Campus!

Clemson marks the 12th campus to make such an announcement since the Sierra Student Coalition launched our Campuses Beyond Coal campaign.  Here’s more info cross-posted from the Sierra Student...

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Grassroots Power Defeats Dirty Gas Pipeline in Oregon

Amidst discouraging news that the Obama administration is expanding coal mining and investing in dangerous nuclear policies, I’m glad to report on an important victory against dirty energy in the...

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Building a self-sufficient movement

Guest post by Tabitha Skervin, one of the 9 arrested at the Capitol April 15 at the “Citizens Filibuster“ Late Wednesday night, after our last final, Jordan and I drove out to DC to make our court date...

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One Year to Earth Summit 2012: A New Generation Goes to Rio

This post was written by Michael Davidson. One year from this week, government leaders, civil society members and representatives of the business community will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the...

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VICTORY: Midwest Generation and GenOn Announce Coal Plant Closures

Well, folks, it seems the fight to phase out coal-fired electric generation is starting to work. Today, Midwest Generation announced that they will be closing their two dirty coal plants in Chicago,...

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