They put what in my food? TPP and food safety threats
The TPP would cost jobs, raise the cost of medical care, and degrade labor conditions and the environment.
Poverty and child brain damage
When it comes to how we treat children, UNICEF ranks the U.S. at 34 out of 35 industrialized countries; 22 percent of children in the U.S. live in poverty
Study: Cutting carbon dioxide saves 3,500 U.S. lives a year
The study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced.
World's largest indoor farm putting down roots in New Jersey
The Newark-based farm will take the space currently being occupied by an abandoned steel factory, with the first phase of operations there to begin later this year.
Blue-Green Alliance calls for planet-wide move to clean energy
"We must act now to address global climate change and promote the creation and maintenance of good jobs in the clean energy economy."
A “field of dreams” takes root in West Oakland
After the urban farm is up and running, further plans include a fitness center, a tech business, a juice bar, athletic shoe and clothing manufacturing companies.
ATU, Sierra Cub to band together in pro-mass transit campaign
Calling themselves "natural partners," the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Sierra Club are banding together in a nationwide campaign.
March on Washington's powerful lessons for the environmental movement
Like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the environmental movement has both moral and practical aspects. It needs a strategy that unites both inside and outside struggles and goals.
Obama talks clean energy jobs, LA launches solar rooftop program
President Obama included job creation in his climate change speech June 25, while Los Angeles launched the largest-ever urban solar rooftop program.
Atmosphere's carbon dioxide breaches 400
Many climate scientists, such as James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute, believe that any sustained period of time with higher than 350 ppm threatens catastrophic global warming.
