The Recycling Industry: Planet-Friendly or Environmental Foe?
The recycling industry is a fascinating topic. Wait! Hear me out before you shake your head and move on. The fact is that this industry, whether we like it or…
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Where is The Climate Leadership in Our Government?
The unbridled impunity with which fossil fuel companies and plastics producers greenwash their activities is deeply entrenched. It’s accepted with ignorance or cynical resignation by a nation that lacks robust,…
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Big Meat and Dairy’s Unsavory Pushback on Climate Action
The Big Meat and Dairy industries are copycats — copycats of Big Oil, that is. (Big Oil, for their part, copied from Big Tobacco.) Fueled by extraordinary wealth, these industries…
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A Wake-Up Call for Clean Energy Independence
Putin’s outrageous attack on Ukraine is an act of pure aggression that has left the global community in shock at its audacity and rampant brutality. As the Biden administration scrambles…
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Opening Our Eyes to Climate Change Myths
Climate change myths abound. Why? Well, there’s a lot of power and money behind all this storytelling. The recent study of oil giant ExxonMobil’s climate change messaging strategies is just…
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Looking for Climate Equity? Don’t Expect Much From National Leaders
The threat to humanity from the climate crisis is one felt disproportionately across the globe. This threat was made shockingly visible in 2021 with accounts of human suffering from record-breaking,…
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Are Our Leaders Copping Out at COP26?
As I watched the latest coverage of the COP26 climate summit, that unsettled feeling I’ve had since the conference began morphed into something harder to pinpoint — Frustration? Despair? Panic?…
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Let’s Call It What It Is: A Climate Crisis
I’m sitting in front of my computer after spending the morning sorting through the muddy, sewage-laden remains of our town’s beloved library. A sadly communal affair in which many of…
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When Mainstream Media Ignores the Root of Our Plastic Problem
With the planet battling a plastic problem of epic proportions and now, Plastic Free July just a couple of days away, plastic pollution is a hot news topic and one…
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The Preemption Law: An Effective Tool in Stifling Citizen Engagement
This morning while sifting through the latest news, I spotted a story about the imminent repeal of Colorado’s plastic bag preemption law. Believe it or not, this is big news.…
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