Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

Regional Energy Organizations Lean into the Future and Long-term Goals

Green Alliance table in Portsmouth, NH at the 2017 Earth Day Party. Pictured (L-R): GA intern Diana Sarni, GA Co-owner Chad Butson (middle) and GA loyalty card holder on the right. Photo: Green Alliance

By Hope O’Shaughnessy

A number of regional New England organizations formed to address urgent environmental issues are expanding their […]

SAVE THE DATE–People’s CLIMATE MARCH–Washington DC Saturday April 29, 2017

Join the People’s Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate.

Throughout the first 100 days in office, the People’s Climate Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating on April 29th in Washington DC in a powerful mobilization to […]

Time to Turn off Your Lights!

Paint the Town Dark

For one hour on Saturday, March 28, more than 7,000 cities in 162 countries will go black from 8:30 to 9:30 pm local time. Paris, the City of Lights, will disappear in the night and for a brief moment even the Eifel tower will stand […]

Act of War: Congress Authorizes Keystone XL Pipeline

By Bill Moore

Known as the Sioux, the Lakota of America’s Great Plains have fought fiercely for their rights, especially when it endangered their wellbeing, first Red Cloud’s War and the Lakota War of the 19th century, then the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973. Now they see the authorization […]

Energy Independent Vermont Petition

Sign the Energy Independent Vermont petition with the Sierra Club

Dear Friends,

As Vermonters, we know the damage global warming can cause. Climate change is no longer a thing of the future, it is affecting Vermont now. Tropical Storm Irene took lives, leveled homes, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. According to the Vermont […]

URGENT: The House is voting on Keystone XL

The House of Representatives is voting on approving Keystone XL today! Tell your representative to protect our environment by voting NO »

There’s literally no time to waste, so I’m going to get right to it: The Keystone XL pipeline, the massive environmental threat that we’ve been battling against for years, will be […]

From Bona Fide Green Goods

Just in case you happened to miss the largest event in climate change in history, on September 21st over 400,000 people filled the streets of New York City in what was billed as The People’s Climate March. People came from all over the world to call on leaders to do something now to fight global […]

Stamp Money out of Politics

Hi, it’s Ben, the guy on the right, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and now Head Stamper at StampStampede.org a non-profit, trans-partisan organization fighting to amend the constitution to get money out of politics.

While VPIRG’s taking on big money in politics at the state level, the Stampede helps to build the […]

Sanders Joins People’s Climate March

NEW YORK Sept. 21 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will be among tens of thousands of demonstrators taking part in the People’s Climate March here today in advance of a United Nations Climate Summit this week.

Sanders is a member of the Senate environment and energy committees and the author –with environment […]

Help Make Sept. 21, 2014 Historical – GET to NYC!

Why We March September 15, 2014 by Bill McKibben, Eddie Bautista and La Tonya Crisp-Sauray

This post first appeared at TomDispatch.

On Sunday, September 21st, a huge crowd will march through the middle of Manhattan. It will almost certainly be the largest rally about climate change in human history, and one of the largest political […]