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Attacks on Queer/Trans Folks Are Also Attacks on the Environment
Photo courtesy of Randy Downs2022 is shaping up to be one of the worst years on record for legislative attacks on queer and trans youth and their families. Last week, the Florida legislature passed an...
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Are You Ready to Climate-Strike With Fridays for Future This Friday?
Four years after Greta Thunberg's 2018 solo sit-in outside Sweden’s parliament at age 15, the notion of kids shirking school for climate strikes has turned global. Much credit is due to Thunberg's...
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For Rachel Parham, Practice Makes Perfect
Illustration by Jon Stich When I was in high school, I sat in the middle of the classroom, where the teacher wouldn't notice me. I never raised my hand. If I got called on, I would turn bright red. As...
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Menace II Anxiety
Science writer Britt Wray’s new book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (Knopf Canada, May 2022), promises to teach readers how to turn their eco-anxiety into a superpower....
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Goldman Prize Winner Nalleli Cobo Sees Hope for the Future
At nine years old, while still in elementary school, Nalleli Cobo would finish up a typical day in the classroom, and then do something very atypical for someone her age: Every night, she and her...
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Six Lessons in Organizing From an Underground Abortion Network
In 1964, Heather Booth, an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, traveled to the South as part of Freedom Summer. While she and other civil rights activists worked to register voters, police...
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Colombian Elections Could Move Environmentalism to Center Stage
Dozens of brilliantly colored turbans shone in Plaza de Bolívar, the seat of government in Bogotá. The more than 70 Afro-Colombian women who wore them had marched hundreds of miles across central...
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Check Out These 4 LGBTQI Environmental Organizations
Queer activism doesn’t stop when Pride Month ends. Across the United States—and globally—LGBTQI environmental organizations are making a difference in issues of sustainability, environmental justice,...
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Moving at the Speed of Trust
Ren-Caspar Smith, Fossil Free Front Range organizerDenver, ColoradoI graduated from high school in 2016. Seeing Trump get elected immediately after Obama was a jarring experience for me, as a young,...
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The Magic of Coaching: Building a Movement Through Mentorship
Photo by Chelsea WatsonIn 2018, I was hired at the Sierra Club as a distributed organizer. I have since organized roughly a dozen national mobilizations aimed at blocking or passing federal...
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What Are the SEC Climate Rules?
The shocking announcement from Senator Joe Manchin that he now supports a sweeping clean energy package quickly brought President Biden’s climate agenda back from the dead. If passed into law, the...
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Do You Know Where Your Water Comes From?
It wasn’t until she was 26 and had one degree in environmental science and another in water recycling that Nina Gordon-Kirsch learned where the water in her faucet came from. The Mokelumne River, which...
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This Invasive Fish Got an Anti-Racist Rebrand
Kevin Irons spent years on a top-secret project at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), where he’s the assistant fisheries chief. But on June 22, he was finally ready for the big...
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What It Means to Sign On to the New Outdoorist Oath
“The baby Weddell seal has not grown into her flippers. She is awkward. She does not want to swim. She does not know she can breathe underwater.” José González is reciting to us, 250 outdoor...
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This Climate Movement Victory is Because of YOU...
Photo by Chelsea Watson...and we still have work to do.On August 15, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law, marking the passage of the single largest investment ever in...
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