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Few places have played a more important role in the generation of the modern climate movement than Vermont’s Middlebury College. It was in 2005 that a group of Middlebury students, many of whom were in a class climate change and social movements taught by Professor Jon Isham, founded what was then known as the Sunday…
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I recently had the privilege of talking with several activists who were involved in one of the most exciting forest defense actions I’ve heard about happening in the Pacific Northwest in quite some time. Read on for their inspiring story! Earlier this year, seven activists entered the site of a proposed timber sale in Washington…
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While working on my latest story for Columbia Insight, I talked to folks who are or have been directly impacted by the wood biomass industry. I learned about the devastating impact biomass companies like Drax and Enviva have had on forests in the Southeast. I heard the concerns of people in the Washington communities of…
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I wrote this piece for Waging Nonviolence after learning about the great work students at the University of Florida are doing to push back against the extreme agenda of the DeSantis administration. Read on to be inspired by how young people in red states are fighting for the climate! The University of Florida made history…
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Rachel Carson’s name is legendary in environmental circles–and for good reason. Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, sounded the alarm about the hazardous effects of pesticides such as DDT, and is widely credited with helping spark the modern environmental movement. The book came out at a time when Congress and the White House were far more…
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The Samish Flats in Skagit County are one of Northwest Washington’s premiere destinations for seeing birds in winter and early spring. Thousands of snow geese, mallards, pintails, green-winged teal, American wigeons, and both tundra and trumpeter swans spend the winter in the wetlands and fallow farmlands of this area, in some cases feeding on leftover…
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We often think of wild nature and magnificent animal life as things that can only be seen by travelling far away to remote places. However, nature abounds all around us. I was reminded of this reality yesterday, when I was on the beach of Lummi Island with a group of students. One of the spotted…
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There is so much bad news about the state of Earth’s climate that sometimes it’s important to focus on the good. And, while the news of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather from around the world certainly is devastating, it’s also true there are real encouraging trends. Not many years ago, almost no country with a…
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As someone who’s been following international climate politics for years, I’ve long been familiar with UK company Drax, which at one time operated the largest coal plant in Western Europe. Over the last couple decades, Drax has tried to brand itself as a “renewable energy” company while phasing out its use of coal and replacing…
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Back in the ’00s, a huge and relatively new threat to biodiversity and the global climate began catching the attention of activists. The palm oil industry was expanding plantations as never before–particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia–to meet rising demand for both food oils and biofuels in countries around the world. This juggernaut seemed unstoppable, and…
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Nick Engelfried 