Blog
#IllRideWithYou, Roots of Gun Massacres & Climate Changes Dual Reality
Abby Martin, discusses the hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, and how a Twitter campaign fought the Islamophobia that emerged from it. The second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and the potential reasons gun violence is so common in the US. Karen Orenstein of Friends of the Earth talks about… Read More
For Green Groups, Police-Shooting Protests Are a Path to Diversity
Green groups know they have a diversity problem. Less than a fifth of the staff at the major environmental lobbies are minorities, a figure that critics and insiders admit can skew their priorities. With minority communities facing more-immediate and stronger impacts from pollution and climate change, insiders and critics say… Read More
Renewable Fuel Standard does more harm than good
Though cellulosic ethanol holds promise as a potential renewable energy source, we cannot adapt a “by whatever means necessary” approach to developing it. Industry advocates, like James Greenwood in a recent Congress blog entry, argue that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) ? the federal policy that mandates ever-increasing volumes of biofuels… Read More
Climate talks: summit chief warns ‘we need to work’ as deadline passes as it happened
Updates and reaction from the UN climate summit in Peru, where nearly 200 countries are trying to agree the draft text for a deal to avoid dangerous global warming. Climate talks: summit chief warns ‘we need to work’ as deadline passes – as it happened -The Guardian 12/12/2014… Read More
With trade deal, will Obama be Wall Streets errand boy?
Since the Republican takeover of the Senate, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade treaty has been re-energized as a possible area of cooperation between the GOP and President Obama, who is seeking Fast Track Authority to push the deal through Congress without amendment. Activists gathered outside the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office on… Read More
Cruise Ships Dump Billions Of Litres Of Sewage In The Ocean Every Year
Cruise ships are not the most environmentally friendly holiday destinations on the planet. In fact, according to the latest Cruise Ship Report Card by Friends of the Earth, they might be about the worst. These floating resorts dump billions of litres of sewage into the open ocean every year. In a… Read More
Congress stuffed some coal in its omnibus package
The 1,000-page omnibus spending package released Tuesday night is reigniting a fight over rules for U.S. financing of coal plants abroad. Congress stuffed some coal in its omnibus package -Huffington Post 12/10/2014… Read More
COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Originally posted on Environmental Finance Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance. (Climate finance is the money developed countries owe to developing countries for climate mitigation and… Read More
Join Friends of the Earth on Twitter to #TellArnoldGoHome!
Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at the United Nations Climate Summit, COP20, in Lima, Peru on December 10 as part of World Climate Limited, a consortium of businesses, financiers, philanthropists and governments taking action on climate. But while the former movie-star-turned-governor-turned-climate-action-hero grandstands on climate, behind the scenes, Mr. Read More
Cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean every year
Some 20 million people board cruise ships every year. And while they might return to land with fond memories of umbrella drinks and shuffleboard, they leave a lot at sea. About a billion gallons (3.8 billion liters) of sewage (pdf), in fact. That’s according to Friends of the Earth, a… Read More