...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
“Some of the laws of revolution are so simple they seem impossible. The basis of any struggle is people coming together to fight against a common enemy.”
Wed, Jan 22 2025
Remembering the Franklin River Campaign
On December 14th 1982, a blockade was launched to stop the construction of a hydroelectric dam that would have flooded Tasmania’s Franklin and Gordon rivers and surrounding old-growth forests. Over the next 3 months, over 1,340 people were arrested for [...]
Sat, Jan 18 2025
Degrowth Is Inevitable
Editor’s note: This article was written over a year and a half ago. Things are so much more worse now. Overshoot Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable [...]
Wed, Jan 15 2025
New Lawsuit Against Offshore Wind
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Organization: Save Long Beach Island, Inc. (Save LBI) Contact: Bob Stern, Ph.D., President Email: info@savelbi.org Phone: 917-952-5016 Contact: Attorney – Thomas Stavola, Jr., Esq. [...]
Sat, Jan 11 2025
Net Zero Plans Are Largely Meaningless
Editor’s note: “75 of the world’s largest 114 fossil fuel companies have now made net zero by 2050 commitments, yet not a single fossil fuel company has committed to phasing out oil and gas production by 2050 nor have any committed to [...]
Sun, Jan 05 2025
Renewables Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe
By GERRY MCGOVERN, SUE BRANFORD / Mongabay In 2022, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres declared that the “lifeline of renewable energy can steer [the] world out of climate crisis.” In saying so, he echoed a popular and tantalizing idea: that, if we [...]
Tue, Dec 31 2024
For the Wild This Holiday Season
Join Us During the New Moon For A DGR New Year’s Eve! 🌑 No matter how dark the night, the sun will return. Join DGR on Facebook for some New Year’s Eve tidings of comfort and joy . . . and bears and lions, cave paintings and bison, hope and [...]
Fri, Dec 27 2024
‘Monumental Victory’: Norway Halts Plans for Deep-Sea Mining
By Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams from Dec 02, 2024 Environmental organizations cheered as Norway’s controversial plans to move forward with deep-sea mining in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean were iced on Sunday. The pause was won in [...]
Tue, Dec 24 2024
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY SOLSTICE TO ALL!
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Mon, Dec 23 2024
The AI Lie
Editor’s note: You have nothing to fear from Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least that is what IT will tell you. It is called “alignment faking“, someone or thing purports to believe something they don’t because it could raise them [...]
Wed, Dec 18 2024
The Underreported Killing of Colombia’s Indigenous Land Guard
Editor’s note: This year’s biannual Biodiversity COP was in Cali, Colombia, a country with the dubious distinction of topping the list of the number of environmental activists killed by a country in both 2022 (60) and 2023 (79) and will probably have [...]