Category: Climate crisis
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Can Cap-and-Invest Fix the Climate Crisis?
Federal climate action in the US is in a nosedive, with most policies and programs related to reducing carbon emissions…
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Hurricane Ridge: Journey to the Olympic Mountains Alpine
Whenever I visit an alpine environment I’m struck by the degree to which these ecosystems seem like a whole different…
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When Green Energy Goes Wrong
Above: watch the official teaser for These Sacred Hills I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the years to fighting…
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In Praise of Intergenerational Activism
Image: elders sit around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol last month, during a sit-in for climate…
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Washington State Will Help Lead the Climate Fight in the Next Trump Era
Last month’s election may have been a disaster for environmental progress at the national level–but state-level results tell a different…
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University of Toronto students score a win for the climate — and campus protests more broadly
When the University of Toronto’s School of the Environment announced in October that it will no longer accept donations from…
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Will Washington’s Most Important Climate Law be Repealed on Election Day?
If you live in Washington State and you pay any attention to climate politics, you probably know about the state’s…
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West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
In this piece for Waging Nonviolence, I describe the growing grassroots movement to save our forests from being turned into…
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Why is Washington DNR Logging So Many Old, “Legacy” Forests?
Protecting the Pacific Northwest’s last ancient forests has been a priority for the region’s environmental movement since at least the…
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The Beauty of Alpine Lakes Wilderness
I recently made the hike to Kendall Katwalk in Alpine Lakes Wilderness–a spectacular day trip into one of the most…
Nick Engelfried 