Youth have power to insist that their parents boycott BP until they clean up the disaster they caused. They made $5billion this quarter…DURING the oil spill (135% more than last year.) All of that extra profit needs to go to disaster response and we can help them make that decision.

I was speaking recently with a college student who was saying that she didn’t think she would continue to participate in her school’s environmental club next year. I know environmental issues were important to her, so I asked why. She told me couldn’t really explain, but it felt like an ineffective use of her time. [...]

Are you tired of reading my posts about how devastating mountaintop removal (MTR) mining is to the environment and communities throughout Appalachia? If MTR makes you angry and you’re ready to do something about it, join RAN, Coal River Mountain Watch, Climate Ground Zero, and lots of other great groups in the fight to end [...]

For these last ten days of our expedition, we got on a boat and headed to paradise.  Literally.  The white sandy beaches, swaying palm trees and the warm turquoise waters of Maratua Island were much too picturesque to seem real.  As part of our stay here, we went in two groups to spend a night [...]

It’s March 3rd!
You know what that means? That means that all the fines I accrued from participating in a direct action last June are due to the West Virginia magistrate… and then I’m free! I feel like this is a good time to reflect on that action, as it was a pretty amazing one.
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