Protest ExxonMobil's dominance at DC's new "green" ball park
The Washington Nationals ballpark is the first stadium to be LEED Silver Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.
Yet the Nationals continue to accept millions of advertising dollars from Exxon, by far one of the world’s biggest contributors to global warming.
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Opposition to the boondoggle Wise County coal plant is huge and growing! Over 20,000 Virginians have signed a petition against the plant, putting us well on our way to reaching our 50,000 goal.
This April, can you commit to helping us reach our signature goal? Thanks to your efforts, we've slowed down the process and the opposition to this plant is growing. But we need your help to reach critical mass and stop the plant once and for all!
New report on the Chesapeake Bay and sea level rise If global warming continues unabated, projected rising sea levels will significantly reshape the region's coastal landscape, according to a recently released report by National Wildlife Federation. They predict that by 2100 nearly all of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will be underwater and that 58% of our beaches would disappear. Read our summary for activists.
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1 Sky 1 sky is an effort to galvanize a more powerful climate movement around a positive vision and a clear, simple set of goals and policy initiatives that are commensurate with the scale of the climate challenge. It is not a new institution or even a coalition. Its purpose is to communicate a vision and a simple set of goals around which a very diverse movement - with many audiences and organizing strategies -- can gather and gain power. It is being born from the collective urgency and determination of a diverse group of activists who believe that we must converge quickly and enthusiastically to form a movement capable of achieving solutions on the scale of the problem.
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Campus Climate Challenge College students and young people have been visionaries in every revolution in the last century, from the women's suffrage movement to the anti-war movement. As the generation that will live through the worst impacts of global warming, it is time to stand up and demand action. And what better place then on campus
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What you Eat Affects the Climate Few of us realize it, but the food we put in our mouths each day dramatically affects the global climate. The typical American diet requires the staggering equivalent of 400 gallons of oil each year. That, in turn, generates, nearly as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as the average U.S. car creates.
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If global warming continues unabated, projected rising sea levels will significantly reshape the region's coastal landscape, according to a recently released report by National Wildlife Federation. They predict that by 2100 nearly all of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will be underwater and that 58% of our beaches would disappear. Read our summary for activists.
Few of us realize it, but the food we put in our mouths each day dramatically affects the global climate. The typical American diet requires the staggering equivalent of 400 gallons of oil each year. That, in turn, generates, nearly as much planet-warming carbon dioxide as the average U.S. car creates.