Of one mind and vision
“It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela. The following months after the signing of the Paris Agreement has been a challenging time for the East Asia region The fossil fuel industry is still active with a host of projects on the ground and are still bent on expanding dirty energy development... (More...)
September 9, 2016
Nuclear: No room for revival
Five years ago, I stood in front of the control room of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), listening to an engineer trying to convince us that it was safe and wise to operate the 32-year-old facility. At the time, I thought that the debate about the safety of reviving the BNPP was finally laid... (More...)
September 8, 2016
Solidarity, love, & resistance: marching for justice in the Gulf Coast
Photos by Weenta Girmay, owner and co-director at Weenta Productions. She has a sincere love for people and their stories, which is what inspires her to keep making new media. In the last two months, the Gulf South region of the US experienced an onslaught of the most devastating impacts of climate change and fossil... (More...)
September 2, 2016
The Movement for Black Lives platform offers vision for stronger movements
This blog was written by the 350.org Divestment Team. It has been a couple of weeks since the Movement for Black Lives released a policy platform, and it is beautiful. We initially wanted to write this blog to acknowledge and celebrate the inclusion of fossil fuel divestment in the platform, but as we sketched out some... (More...)
August 30, 2016
The story of the first Spanish renewable energy cooperative
By Urszula Papajak In 2010 Gijsbert Huijink and a group of friends launched a campaign to find 350 people to join the first renewable energy cooperative in Spain. Six years later Som Energia reached 27,000 members, 37,000 customers and is now generating enough renewable energy to meet the annual needs of 3,200 families! Huijink explains how,... (More...)
August 29, 2016
Pope Francis inspires bishops, priests and the faithful in the battle against Fracking in Brazil
by Não Fracking Brasil Born in Argentina, Pope Francis knows the devastating reality of fracking and supports the international fight against the exploration of oil and shale gas. His Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ (Praised Be) is inspiring bishops, priests and the faithful in the battle against hydraulic fracturing, a highly polluting non-conventional method for shale gas... (More...)
August 25, 2016
Exxon Killed The Reef
The seas of dead coral are a crime scene. This year, the world witnessed the most devastating mass coral bleaching event ever recorded which left behind dead reefs in at least 38 countries. Many of these reefs will never recover. The immediate cause is clear: the ongoing rise in global ocean temperatures that comes from climate... (More...)
August 25, 2016
Keep it in the ground! Just how much exactly?
Pretty much every government on the planet committed in Paris last year to hold global temperature rise ‘well below 2 °C’, aiming for 1.5 °C. We already know that there is a massive gap between these goals and governments’ actual plans for action. But what would need to happen to meet these goals and avoid... (More...)
August 23, 2016
Love, Resistance, and Solidarity from Standing Rock to the Gulf
On Saturday, August 20 hundreds of people from around the country gathered in New Orleans and at the Sacred Stone Camp in North Dakota to fight for justice and action. Together, they spread their message loud and clear: reject the Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) and stop all fossil fuel leasing in the Gulf of Mexico... (More...)
August 20, 2016
1,000 year flood in Louisiana
Blog by Guest Blogger: Cherri Foytlin, Gulf Coast Mother of 6, and State Director, Bold Louisiana. This week, central and southwestern Louisiana have been slammed by unprecedented floods. Over the weekend, I watched heavy rains pour down on my community and my own home sink into rising waters. Across the region, tens of thousands of people have... (More...)
August 18, 2016
