(In this issue, we feature the following selected notes from Gary Olson’s Substack and invite readers to subscribe to get full access to all the posts and updates.) [https://glolson.substack.com/] NATO plan to purchase US weapons is crumbling On July 14, President Trump, seated next to NATO’s chief Mark Rutte, announced that the EU would pay for US weapons to be shipped … [Read more...] about Notes from the Editors – Summer 2025
activism
What do Three Mile Island, the Julian Assange case, and the US role with Israel have common?
I think they all show the government's willingness to protect itself (and corporations) even when it harms the people, violating its fundamental responsibility to act in the best interests of the people. They also demonstrate the willingness to keep government actions secret (even while reducing individual privacy). Here are four stories that shed some light on this: … [Read more...] about What do Three Mile Island, the Julian Assange case, and the US role with Israel have common?
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
by Genevieve Guenther Published 10 July 2024 | Oxford University Press | ISBN 978019764223 … [Read more...] about The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Attention High School Students!
This summer, the Alliance will publish a special Youth Voices issue of Sustainable Lehigh Valley focused on work from local high-school students — and we’d like to include your voice! Your creative abilities can help move us toward a more sustainable world! — whether your primary interest is the climate, environment, healthy food, social justice, public health, … [Read more...] about Attention High School Students!
Bright Green Lies
This book made me recall the line 'Stop the world — I want to get off'. (I think it's actually the title of a Broadway musical back in the 1960s.) I won't attempt to do a review of Bright Green Lies,* but the opening gives you a glimpse of the problem: “We need to stop being guided by the general story that we can have it all,” Derrick concluded, “that we can have an … [Read more...] about Bright Green Lies
Neocolonialism v. Stewardship & Rights of Nature
It's widely accepted that electric vehicles [EV] are a solution to the fossil-fuel problem. Unfortunately, the huge demand for lithium and other minerals is actually creating another massive wave of environmental degradation and environmental injustice. Have we learned nothing in the last 100 years about the disastrous effects of colonialism and irresponsible extraction‽ We … [Read more...] about Neocolonialism v. Stewardship & Rights of Nature
“Youth Turn Up the Heat”
A story in Lever News reports on Climate Defiance, a new youth-led group/movement that calls out politicians' hypocrisy. (funded in part by the Climate Emergency Fund) In the three months since it was founded, Climate Defiance has organized high-profile actions including blockading the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, shutting down a speech by Sen. Joe Manchin … [Read more...] about “Youth Turn Up the Heat”
Who Are We?
By Robert Jensen Editors’ Note: This is the Introduction to the book An Inconvenient Apocalypse, by Robert Jensen and Wes Jackson. In the many phone conversations between the authors when this book was under construction, one of us would say that a particular point was so important that we need to get it right up front. After a few of these comments, we joked that there … [Read more...] about Who Are We?
Notes from the Editor
The denial of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination is arguably the very heart of the injustice in Palestine. Most north Americans are unaware that Article 55 of the Charter of the UN recognized this right in the aftermath of World War Two. It states in part: “With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for … [Read more...] about Notes from the Editor
Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 —There are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today. “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only … [Read more...] about Urgent climate action can secure a liveable future