Dear Friends, This will be a slightly longer letter than common for the internet age—it’s serious stuff. The short version is we want you to consider doing something hard: coming to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and engaging in civil disobedience that will likely get you arrested. The full version goes [...]

La idea de extender el cultivo de los agrocombustibles en el mundo y particularmente en los países del Sur es desastrosa. Ella forma parte de una perspectiva global de solución a la crisis energética. En los próximos 50 años tendremos que cambiar de ciclo energético, pasando de la energía fósil, que [...]

Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah’s national parks, [...]

Three Strikes and You’re Hot In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, or so I remember somebody saying. But those nostalgic for an earlier day, take heart. The Obama administration is [...]

Un informe reciente de la asociación italiana Legambiente (Prófugos ambientales: cambio climático y migraciones forzosas), sostiene que en el año 2010 , 40 millones de personas se vieron obligadas a dejar sus territorios debido a los cambios climáticos y más generalmente debido a las crisis ambientales. Los países más afectados han [...]

Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder: Is this somehow related to the tornado outbreak three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised [...]

El punto de partida para un debate como el de hoy es constatar que la humanidad se encuentra frente a una crisis ecológica global que forma parte intrínseca de la crisis sistémica del capitalismo. Y una de las diferencias respecto a las crisis económicas anteriores, de los años 70 o el crack del 29, es, [...]

La decisión de EDF Trading, subsidiaria en Londres de la sociedad anónima francesa de capital público EDF SA e integrante del coloso energético EDF Group, de rescindir un contrato comercial de 2.8 millones de dólares con Exportadora del Atlántico S.A. (Grupo Dinant), para la compra de créditos de carbono en el Bajo Aguán, [...]

Here’s How We Can Fight Back and Win  We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It’s not impossible. Not for forty years has there been such a stretch of bad news for environmentalists in Washington.  Last month in the House, the newly [...]

Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their tales At least since Noah, and likely long before, we’ve stared in horror at catastrophe and tried to suss out deeper meaning – it was but weeks ago that the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, [...]