Alec Loorz, founder of Kids vs. Global Warming, began his career as a climate change activist when he was 12 years old. You read that right, 12! That’s when he saw Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that “changed his life forever.” He became so moved that he has been speaking truth to power, organizing and [...]
Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
18 Oct
Bioneers 2010: Dispatch from an Earth Community Movement
Once again, the 3-day Bioneers mother-ship has landed and departed, and a thousand pods of social and environmental change have dispersed across the globe, refreshed and re-energized. Or to use the less technological metaphor by Janine Benyus, founder of the Biomimicry Institute, “This is kind of a seasonal migration ceremony, Bioneers. If we were migrating [...]
6 Oct
10/10/10 Global Work Party Oakland Style: Food Justice Bike Tour!
Just a reminder about the Food Justice/Urban Ag Bike Tour for 10/10/10. Its HELLA grassroots and free, fun, and for-surely-inspiring! I hope many of you can make it. Please spread the word, facebook, personal invites to friends you want there, etc. Start out with a bike ride in the morning, then head over to the [...]
25 Sep
5 Reasons Why Californians Must Crush Prop 23
The showdown for a clean energy and clean air future is here and we should be jolted. In November we all have to come out in force and vote no on the Dirty Energy Proposition 23. And we must not just beat Prop 23, we must pulverize it like the dust beneath our feet. Here [...]
11 Sep
Proposition 23 Opponents: Climate Change Impacts National Security
Some heavy-weights across the political spectrum are weighing in against Prop. 23 as a threat to national security. Imagine if we treated issues of food policy, health care, job creation, housing, flood recovery, etc. as the national security issues that they are? Do you think then they would finally get the urgency they deserve? Check [...]
1 Sep
“When I say Chevron, you say, ‘Clean up!’, When I say BP, you say, ‘Pay up!’”
On August 30, a couple hundred people snaked through downtown San Francisco to confront Big Oil and demand accountability for the damage they have done to impacted communities worldwide. It marked the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It was also the largest non-violent direct action since the BP oil disaster. After a die-in on a [...]
