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Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to gut investor advocacy
While most Americans are sheltering in place, homeschooling their kids, or finding ways to support their neighbors through the coronavirus crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission seems to be taking the opportunity to kneecap investors who care about climate change, labor rights and protecting democracy. Read More
We need our tropical forests more than ever
Our violent disregard for biodiversity and our own part in the web of life has generated a perfect storm of global proportions. When the world returns to normal – if the world returns to normal – let’s use this time to think about which parts of normal we want to return to. Read More
Feeling helpless? How you can help people, not polluters during the coronavirus
Thousands are sick and people are dying. Millions are out of work and wondering how they will feed their families and pay rent. And instead of focusing on providing relief to everyday Americans, the Trump Administration has been working around the clock to give bailouts to dirty, polluting corporations. Read More
Fighting for my community
Yesterday, I was arrested outside the Supreme Court alongside nine other activists and pipeline fighters for taking a stand against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Read More
The Case for Deforestation Free Investing
Who wants to retire into a world blazing with wildfires, raging with floods, and boiling over with mass discontent? Read More
For Arctic Indigenous people, is foresight 2020?
It is important for Arctic Indigenous peoples to be heard at this crucial meeting, to help people understand why we need the Arctic to remain cool by reducing emissions from shipping and other sectors. Read More
International examples offer US a blueprint for aquaculture regulation in 2020
For many years, powerful corporations, assisted by the very U.S. agencies tasked with protecting and managing our ocean resources, have collectively been pushing for development of industrialized fish farms off the coasts of our shoreline communities. Read More
California budget boosts healthy food for kids and markets for farmers
School food advocates cheered earlier this month when California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a major boost in state funding for California school food. Read More
Harvard and TIAA’s farmland grab in Brazil goes up in smoke
TIAA, Harvard and the other institutions buying up farmland in Brazil and elsewhere around the world must stop pretending that their practices are sustainable. Read More
EXIM should not fund detrimental natural gas project in Mozambique
An obscure government agency, the U.S. Export Import Bank (EXIM), will decide this week whether or not to fund a $5 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) investment, the agency’s largest transaction ever. Read More