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Progress Can Make Us More Spiritual, Not Less

September 13, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

An Environmental Confession for the High Holidays

September 7, 2011
By Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Huffington Post

The Jewish month of Elul is the last month in the year and marks the beginning of the season of repentance that culminates with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Ten Days of Repentance, also known as the High Holidays.

The Jewish concept of repentance is called Teshuvah (“return” in English) and one of...

Decision on Canadian tar sands pipeline is chance for Obama to fulfill an environmental promise

September 1, 2011
By Russell Powell
New Haven Register

SIXTY-five people, including me, were arrested Aug. 20 and spent the weekend in jail for holding a nonviolent sit-in in front of the White House. It was the first day of a planned two weeks of civil disobedience, where thousands from across the country would sit down to demonstrate against the proposed construction of the...

Sitting down, so Obama will stand up

September 1, 2011
By Russ Powell
Yale Daily News

With great fervor, I, together with millions of hopeful Americans, went to the polls in 2008 to vote for Barack Obama. In the months leading up to the presidential election he had galvanized incredible support for his candidacy, capitalizing on America’s deep desire to see change in Washington. I especially remember how I hung...

For Protesters, Keystone Pipeline Is Line In Tar Sand

September 1, 2011
By Richard Harris
NPR: All Things Considered

Listen to the story:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/01/140117187/for-protesters-keystone-pipeline-is-line-in-tar-sand

Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House Thursday...

An Appeal from Bill McKibben

 

August 29, 2011

Dear colleagues,

Lessons From Central Cell Block

August 29, 2011
By Bill McKibben
The Nation

I’m a wuss.
 
I figured that out on August 20, when a guard was leading me down the cellblock in manacles and leg irons, and I looked through the bars of one cage, and there was Dan Choi, the former Army lieutenant turned gay rights activist.

Green groups add to pressure on Obama

August 24, 2011
By Ben Geman
The Hill

Top officials with several prominent environmental groups are voicing support for demonstrations at the White House that call for President Obama to block a pipeline that would greatly expand...

Vermont Law School Professor and Middlebury Scholar Arrested at White House Protest

August 21, 2011
By Kevin J. Kelley
Blurt: 7 Days Staff Blog

A Vermont Law School professor and a Middlebury College scholar were arrested in front of the White House on Saturday at the start of the environmental movement’s biggest series of civil-disobedience protests in decades.

Tar Sands and the Carbon Numbers

August 21, 2011
New York Times

This page opposes the building of a 1,700-mile pipeline called the Keystone XL, which would carry diluted bitumen — an acidic crude oil — from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast. We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of...

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