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Picking an Issue: From Service Projects to Issue Campaigns
Picking an Issue: From Service Projects to Issue Campaigns Originally published by the Student Environmental Action Coalition, and written by Adam Berrey (1993), expanded and updated by Mike Ewall (1999) Have you felt that your group was doing a lot of activities but not getting anything done? Have you started to wonder if another Earth Day…
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Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution
Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution – by Karen Orr, Energy Justice Network Clean, truly renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030, according to recent research published by the Journal of Power Sources. This can be done economically and without government subsidies if…
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The Ecological Importance of California’s Rim Fire
The Ecological Importance of California’s Rim Fire – by Chad Hanson, John Muir Project Photo: Doug Bevington Since the Rim fire began in the central Sierra Nevada on August 17, there has been a steady stream of fearful, hyperbolic, and misinformed reporting in much of the media. The fire, which is currently 188,000 acres in size and covers…
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West Coast Wood Exports Undercut Economy and Environment
West Coast Wood Exports Undercut Economy and Environment – by Samantha Chirillo, Energy Justice Network Since the European Union (EU) countries set high carbon reduction standards and counted biomass energy as carbon neutral and renewable, biomass exports from the southeastern U.S. have skyrocketed. Now, as Japan looks for an alternative to nuclear energy, as U.S. corporations…
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We predicted the nation’s largest city bankruptcy — 8 years ago
Pennsylvania’s capital city is now filing for bankruptcy. We hate to say it, but we told them so… eight years ago. In 2003, Energy Justice founder, Mike Ewall, testified before Harrisburg City Council at the request of the coalition of black clergy in the region, warning them that if they borrowed another $125 million to rebuilt…
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We Won a Google Adwords Grant
Today Energy Justice won a Google Adwords grant! This provides us with an in-kind donation of advertising which we can use to increase our traffic and reach more people. Our ads will start showing up on the right hand side when you do searches in Google for any terms that we target (so long as…
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Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Pilot Project for Environmental Destruction
On Thursday, March 23rd, executive deputy secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, John Hines, hit send on an unanticipated and regressive email memo ordering all Pennsylvania gas inspectors to stop issuing violations against drillers without prior approval from political appointee Michael Krancer. The dramatic policy change will effectively suppress “Notice of Violations” (NOV)…
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Power Shift Recruitment 2011
Power Shift is happening April 1-4 in DC this year! Sign up to be a coordinator for your school or community and learn more below! Please visit: http://energyactioncoalition.org/powershift2011/organize Or don’t be shy and just shoot me an email at: ljubica@energyjustice.net Power Shift 2011 Lets talk about Power Shift 2011. Power Shift is the name of an annual youth summit…
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Mine. Yours. Ours.
That was the campaign tagline someone suggested in the “How to Keep Them Out” strategy session of the 2010 National People’s Oil and Gas Summit in Pittsbugh, PA (Nov. 19 and 20, 2010). I jotted it down because I thought it would be a fitting slogan to allude to a campaign to slow, stop, and antagonize the…
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People’s Gas and Oil Summit in Pittsburgh
For those of you who haven’t watched Gasland, I would strongly recommend checking it out. Besides the cool shots and excellent banjo accompaniments, the story at the heart of the film is extremely compelling and well told. There are honest and admirable protagonists in the movie, as well as shadowy corporations. The movie was created by Josh…
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