• Environment • Health • Personal Resilience • Social Justice and Equity

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    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    She is present, she is gone beyond, she has become a falcon, a storm, a great song.

  • Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Health

    Nation of Fear

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

  • Environment • Press Freedom

    Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

    Columbia Journalism Review

    Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

  • Environment • Regulations • Science

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

  • Environment • Executive Power • Financial

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

  • Economy • Environment • Financial • Recommended

    Trump’s Nuclear Power Obsession

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    CounterPunch

    Yet while prices and production times for renewable sources plummet, Trump and his anti-green minions have been vigorously assaulting the wind, solar and other green energy technologies.

  • Economy • Environment • Health • Science

    Why Climate Action is Unstoppable

    Al Gore

    Ted Talks

    In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

  • Environment • Health • Science • Technology

    Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

    Science News Staff

    Science

    Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

  • Environment • Science • Threat Management

    Trump’s Climate and Clean Energy Rollback Tracker

    Climate Action Campaign

    Climate Action Campaign

    By cutting carbon pollution and accelerating the transition to clean energy, we will improve public health and create a more resilient economy and a more sustainable future for all.

  • Environment • Fascism

    The rise of end times fascism

    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

    The Guardian

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

  • Environment • Regulations

    The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game

    J. Dylan Sandifer

    The New Republic

    Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?

  • Environment • Health

    How MAHA Poisons the Food Movement

    Tom Philpott

    Mother Jones

    RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

  • Democracy • Environment

    How to Stop Trump’s Climate Pollution

    David Fenton

    Framelab

    The oil, coal, and gas industries are now effectively running all branches of government.

  • Environment • Personal Resilience • Social Justice and Equity

    adrienne maree brown On Radical Imagination

    Krista Tippett

    On Being

    "It’s like, how do we get in a right relationship with change that allows us to harness and shape things, towards community, towards liberation, towards justice?"

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