Green activists press the President to live up to his rhetoric.read more

Watching Bill McKibben almost get hit by a car, and talking to activist students from Smith and Spelman, I had the privilege of covering the largest rally against global warming in U.S. history.read more

Offering “fierce friendship,” they urge him to take the action that is needed to curb global warming.read more

Good Vibes Take on Corporate Rule

On Tuesday night, the eve of Occupy Oakland’s shutdown of the fifth busiest port in the United States, a strange blast of warm wind came up from the Central Valley, over the Oakland Hills and down to the Bay. It was like the No Cal version of LA’s weird Santa Annas, the kind of weather that makes people wired. “This is earthquake weather,” said my girlfriend, Nell Greenberg (who, full disclosure, is the communications director at Rainforest Action Network). “This is when you have earthquakes.”read more

“The public has this growing sense of dis-ease," Leonard says. "People know things are wrong."read more