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Recently, I had the chance to visit one of the oldest remaining forests in Whatcom County, WA. The Bessie Sorts stand, as this special place is called, is part of an expanse of “legacy forest” near the south end of Lake Whatcom, just outside the city of Bellingham. The protection of legacy forests–forests that were…
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Image: protests across the country on April 5. Credit: Nick Knudsen via Bluesky (cropped from original image) There’s a natural tendency among activists–understandable, though not always fair–to criticize the media. We don’t like how they cover our protests, how they portray our movements, or how gullibly they seem to swallow the arguments of our opponents.…
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Image: a view of Burrard Inlet, just north of Vancouver, Canada The first time I saw the US-Canada border, I found myself looking at a gash in the forest. It was the early ’10s, and I was in Montana’s Yaak Valley, with other members of one of my grad school classes and our professor. We…
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Banner image: A photo I took in Missoula, MT years ago that helped document the growing resistance to coal train traffic. Being an activist in the United States is more dangerous than it used to be. The expansive growth of social movements for racial justice, climate action, gender equity, and much more has provoked a…
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Above: watch the official teaser for These Sacred Hills I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the years to fighting for renewable energy. If we are going to have any chance at avoiding the worst effects of climate change, a rapid, massive buildout of clean energy sources all over the world is our only hope.…
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The explosive growth of the plastics industry is a crisis our society is ill-equipped to address. The flood of plastic waste pouring into the global environment threatens the climate, human health, and myriad other species–and yet, there seems to be no end to the tide in sight. It’s essential that we take action to curb…
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Image: elders sit around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol last month, during a sit-in for climate action. I first got involved in the climate movement as an undergrad back in the ’00s, and since then I’ve written a lot about the youth climate movement. From the Fridays for Future climate strikes,…
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On the evening of Dec. 10, 12 self-identified elder climate activists sat around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol, in Albany, singing carols as they waited to be arrested. The protesters, who were there to support New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, had been told by police they would face criminal misdemeanor…
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Today seems like a good day to consider how progressives and people who truly care about US democracy can resist the incoming second Trump administration. It’s clear that many thousands, maybe millions of people are eager to stand up to Trump’s assault on elected government, human rights, and the global climate. However, what’s clear for…
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Last month’s election may have been a disaster for environmental progress at the national level–but state-level results tell a different story, as shown in my latest piece for Columbia Insight. This story looks at some of the big wins for a stable climate and a healthy environment coming out of the 2024 election. And there…
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Nick Engelfried 