Yearly Archives: 2021
The emerging culture of compassion
"Take your brothers need as the measure for your actions."
In a historic victory over the fashion industry, garment workers have won billions in...
“If a brand is refusing to pay up, it’s likely they’re paying slave wages in the first place, not caring about the climate and burning billions of dollars of excess clothing every year.”
‘Not in 2030 or 2050…now!’: Climate strikers worldwide demand urgent action
"We strike because climate justice isn't a myth, but a reality we intend to build."
Taking on a billionaire landlord in the Twin Cities
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
CitiGroup pledges to end coal power financing in updated environmental policy
The announcement came just a month after CitiGroup pledged that its financing reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
5 things to know about the fate of wild salmon
Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.
Hypocrisy and projection: the right’s cynical ‘culture wars’
If they can find the will, the American progressive left can fight these culture war arguments with one of their own: it isn’t the cancellation of those they have political disagreements with that they are asking for but rather a culture of consequences.
Comeback for truth? Criminal comeuppance for Trump’s reign of terror, impoverished for lying?
A tsunami of criminal indictments, buoyed by massive civil penalties – who cares then if Trump ends up a jailbird?
Seaweed is key to reducing greenhouse gas contributions of cows, researchers discovered
Seaweed might be the answer to reducing the greenhouse gas contributions of cows. Researches discovered that feeding cows a small amount of...
Florida police officer resigns after attacking innocent man on video
When Officer Black was ordered to watch the video of the arrest, he wrote in another report, “I believe my perception was altered due to the high stress of the incident.”