(Also see entries in Climate Crisis)
Ag and animals
BIG AG PROTESTERS: Activists demonstrate against court decision punishing them for a break-in to expose inhumane practices at a Smithfield Foods’ hog farm. The court has imposed a gag order on what they recorded and saw. (5/24/22)
MASS ABUSE: Factory farming is the largest scale of violence and killing in the world. Only direct action will lead to its end. (March 2022)
WATER AIN’T FREE: Florida activists protest government water subsidies to Big Sugar. (5/13/22)
Civic action
SOFT POWER: The activist group Sea Shepherds got together to clean up Lake Erie. Good will was had by all. (4/24/22)
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF EARTH DAY: Spurred by an oil spill off the coast of California, Senator Gaylord Nelson came tip with the idea. Since then, it has sparked environmentalism across the world. (4/20/22)
Direct action
★ VIOLENCE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: The rationale is that “property destruction[is] a way of levying a kind of fine on despoiling nature.” But if ELF is any indicator, violent direct action drives itself underground. (5/26/22)
ACTIVISTS BEAT NAVY: Protests forced the Navy to shut its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on O‘ahu after revelations that tanks had leaked jet fuel into freshwater aquifers. What’s next? (1/12/22)
KEYSTONE REDUX: Activists have taken on the Line 3 pipeline – which, if expanded, would move crude oil from Alberta in Canada through Minnesota to Wisconsin. (6/20/21)
Environmental racism
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Decades later, the evidence continues to pour in. Communities of color face the greatest burden for dirty industries, dumping, and pollution. (5/23/22)
NVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Decades later, the evidence continues to pour in. Communities of color face the greatest burden for dirty industries, dumping, and pollution. (5/23/22)
★ GOING WAY BACK: A landmark book reveals the intense destruction of environmental racism in Detroit in the 1930s and 1940s. What’s happened since then: deindustrialization, intense metropolitan segregation, and severing the labor movement from activism. (6/23/22)
ORIGINS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM MOVEMENT: How important was the activism in South Dakota after the devastating 1982 Rapid City flood. (6/9/22)
IT’S ABOUT THE RACE CLIMATE, TOO: The founder of the global grassroots initiative Tuesdays for Trash says the climate crisis cause needs to take on racism too. (6/1/22)
THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND: Indigenous people’s battle against climate crisis. (10/15/21)
Growth limits
DEGROWTH: Not all growth is good—some of it is, in fact, destructive of basic sustainability, democracy, and opportunity. What to do, then? (5/2/22)
RETURN OF ECOFEMINISM: The climate crisis makes visible the connections between patriarchy and systems that stress the system. (4/28/22)
THE LIMITS TO GROWTH: Forging a movement against the idea that we can “grow ourselves out of problems.” (3/3/22)
Indigenous Peoples
FIGHTING FOR MOTHER EARTH: Indigenous people’s recognized for their activism on environmental issues. (5/25/22)
Labor
UNITED? The labor and environmental movements have often been at odds. But the climate crisis might be changing that. Exhibit A: A top Labor official’s move to Greenpeace. (2/24/22)
Legal activism
CLASS ACTION ON WATER QUALITY: Is a New Jersey water company responsible for high levels of pollutants? Or is it the corporation that dumped pollutants into the water? (5/8/22)
Localism
LOSING LOCALISM: Online activism does wonders at fostering national and even global conversations on the environment… but not locally, where activists has traditionally developed. (3/8/22)
Overseas
PROTESTING ECOCIDE: Brazilians protest bills to fast-track mining on indigenous lands, logging in the Amazon, and lax restrictions on pesticide use. (3/9/22)
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Environmentalists in Russia face impossible conditions. (3/9/22)
Policy ideas and debate
BLUEPRINT FOR REVIVAL: Six paths to ecological restoration. (5/22/22)
ENVIRO DISTORTIONS: Randian perspectives on environmentalism as a tribal movement. (4/23/22)
Profiles
THE POWER OF YOUTH: Profiles of three young activists working to protect the oceans. (2/16/22)
REMEMBERING SISTER MEGAN RICE: The antinuclear activist saw the connection between global nuclear peril and the other sins of the world. (12/27/21)
LOGGING JAIL TIME: Anti-logging activists says he’ll go to jail as often as necessary to prevent destruction of old-growth forests. (2/15/22)
Old growth forests
TIT FOR TAT: Canadian activists to save old-growth forests attack civic landmarks. (7/28/22)
Retaliation, threats, and trolls
THE HEAVY PRICE: Half of the killings of activists globally in the last year were environmentalists. (4/7/22)
CAMPUS TARGETS: Climate activists charge universities with violating Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act. (2/16/22) Also: The Yale story.
NUTMEG ACTIVISM: The state of environmentalism in Connecticut. (3/29/22)
FALSE FLAG: Greenpeace banners strapped to Trump buildings actually don’t exist. (2/16/22)
Social justice
IT’S THE ENVIRONMENT, STUPID: Every major issue of social justice begins with the environment. (4/27/22) Ditto for the climate crisis.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: When activists discover a viral symbol for their cause, it could undermine the overall cause. A case in point: concerns about straws. First, straws make up an infinitesimal share of trash. Second, the replacements were hardly better. (4/21/22)
FREEZE IT: As the great powers embark on another nuclear arms race, an old solution presents itself: The Freeze. Only activism can make it happen. (1/13/22)