While we\’re getting everything ready for the iMatter March this weekend, I started to wonder, how much has changed since the first Earth Day in 1970? Look back over the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite on April 22nd, 1970. The EPA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and many other legal …
by Judy Molland April 13, 2013 Good news and bad news: The good news is that U.S. students will for the first time receive instruction on climate change following the adoption last Tuesday of new science education guidelines. The guidelines also take a firm stand that children must learn about evolution, the central organizing idea in the biological sciences for …
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Written by a friend and a fellow Leader in The Climate Reality Project. Enjoy! David Goldstein Close Encounters: A Fable for Our Time Originally Posted: 04/07/2013 3:04 pm in Huff Post Comedy Dateline: August 16, 2013: Yesterday, at precisely 1:17 P.M., GMT, they came. From London to Moscow, from New York to Beijing, their ships …
Galileo. Darwin. Hansen. A giant among scientists for taking on the burden of the most controversial and essential science in history. He faced down congress, faced censorship, and faced religious leaders in a race against time to save the world. And he never stopped working to advance knowledge. Our survival, and the survival of life as we …
How could I forget World Water Day? Don\’t make me laugh. It was March 22nd?? Oh. But clean drinking Water, seriously the most important wonderful stuff on the planet! (Unless you\’re a rock in a hard place, or completely full of hot air.) I used to think there was nothing funny about World Water Day. So I owe …
This is giant, super-BIG good news! The Mayor of Los Angeles just announced one of the largest cities in the world, that gets electricity from out of state coal plants, goes Coal-Free by 2025. Yes! Way to go Los Angeles! Watch today\’s announcement with the Mayor, or the \”Thank You Mayor\” video on the Sierra …
All across the nation this week, activists like you will stand up to the companies that profit from building the Keystone XL pipeline. Stay engaged and find a blockade action you can support! Every voice counts. Make yours loud and clear. Show up for an event this week! Follow the link to Tar Sands Blockade where …
Rideshareonline matches riders with drivers to fill up carpools all over the area! It\’s simple, so easy to use, and free. Sign up for an account and see what I mean. Starting in April 2013, Lincoln APP Elementary gets to test out a program called SchoolPool that allows our elementary parents to access a secure …
Alec Loorz, founder of kids vs. global warming, wrote this new Declaration as a teenager. For the last few years he has been collecting signatures of youth from across the country and delivering them to congress each year. You can read the text here, and then go to iMatteryouth.org to Sign the document online and …