By all accounts there is no time to lose. Last May, the UN report on the earth’s biodiversity and ecosystems described the dramatic losses of species, ecosystems, and genetic diversity. This month’s special report on the ocean from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will likely express equally ominous language. Scientists who fear we […]
COMMUNITIES RESPONDING TO EXTREME WEATHER
Facing challenges in climate change preparedness, Mass neighbors assist neighbors Human civilization is living in difficult and unprecedented times, the likes of which we have never seen before. There are many injustices happening in our world today that manifest in forms of racism, sexism, ageism, classism, xenophobia, environmental devastation, and other forms of […]
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE
The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice …
BOSTON’S CLIMATE STRIKE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Gov Baker has failed to lead on climate change, so it’s time for him to come face to face with the climate catastrophes around the state he is ignoring.
WEYMOUTH ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Against all odds, a dogged group of Fore River Basin residents decided to put up a fight, the ferocity of which Enbridge never saw coming.
INTRODUCTION: OUR SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE
Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.
WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED
The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”
BARELY A GLIMMER OF HOPE: MCKIBBEN LOOKS AT WHAT COULD BE THE END OF ‘THE HUMAN GAME’ IN ‘FALTER’
“By most accounts, we’ve used more energy and resources during the last thirty-five years than in all of human history.”
THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT TO COME: HOW CAN WE BUILD THE MAJORITARIAN SOCIAL FORCE WE NEED TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING?
If brilliant Boston and the supposedly clever state surrounding it can’t get their climate remediation and preparedness acts together, how are less wealthy parts of the country supposed to manage the job?
