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?
THE POLITICAL MOVEMENT TO COME
How Cambridge can put public need before private greed A five-hour city council hearing can really get you thinking. As I sat watching the latest chapter in the East Cambridge courthouse saga unfold at city hall on Monday, I mulled over what it would take to start moving the city away from dependence […]
EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON JOINS MOVEMENT TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING
Calls for regional consortium of news outlets to improve and expand climate change coverage Last month, during the fearsome heat wave that saw Boston temperatures soar to 98 degrees Fahrenheit for two days in a row, 400 chickens died in New Hampshire. According to the Boston Globe, they succumbed to “heatstroke at […]
BRING CONTAINERS, LEAVE YOUR GUILT AT HOME
Package-free shopping comes to Boston Sixty-five Fenway Parks’ worth. That’s how much garbage the state of Massachusetts disposes of each year. And Cleenland, a store that opened this June in Central Square, is betting on your willingness to prevent at least a few ballparks’ worth of waste—not just from going to landfill, but […]
