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Mexico: Researcher Raises Alert About Environmental Dangers of Wind Farms
Southern Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec has the largest concentration of wind farm projects in Latin America. Biologist Patricia Mora explains what environmental impact studies leave out: the negative impacts …
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How Residents of a Rural New Mexico County Fought the Fracking Barons and Won – for Now
Energy companies are seeking fracking permits in New Mexico's Mora County. But the area's traditional livelihoods, farming and ranching, rely on clean rivers and streams.
Climate in Our Hands
The destruction and exploitation that human hands have inflicted on our planet are undeniable - and there's no question that our species' actions have thrown our own future survival …
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Of Jenga Towers and Environmental Offsets
It's time we recognize that once certain essential building blocks are gone, it's game over.
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Where Are the White Feminists? MIA on Racist Misogynist Police Violence
The historic failure of both the civil rights movement and women's movement to grasp intersectionality keeps black women criminalized.
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Chamber of Commerce Should Apologize for Attack on Wife of Walker Prosecutor
The Chamber apparently thinks that “foul is fair,” but that is not the way we have done it in Wisconsin.
Progressive Change Institute and Massive Coalition of Advocates Come Out in Opposition to USA Freedom Act
The Progressive Change Institute and a trans-partisan coalition of surveillance whistleblowers, civil liberties advocates, and organizations representing millions of Americans are urging Congress to reject the Senate version of …
New Study: Lack of Voting Resources Leads to Long Lines, Delays Longer in Minority Precincts
Lack of poll workers and low numbers of voting machines are key contributors to long voting lines, and precincts with more minorities experienced longer waits, according to a new …
Nationalist Illusions
After thousands of years of bloody wars among contending tribes, regions, and nations, is it finally possible to dispense with the chauvinist ideas of the past?
Protest Groups Call for Linking Arms on Wall Street to Stop the Destruction of the Ecosystem
Thousands of demonstrators are planning to disrupt business-as-usual on Wall Street and at the NY Stock Exchange, sending a message to Obama and world leaders meeting at the UN …