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O n the evening of March 25, 2021, Karen Levy relaxed with some friends on her front porch in Seattle. They were having dinner, enjoying the cool evening weather and cloudless skies, when they noticed something odd. A bright squadron of fiery objects had invaded the night sky and was …

This article was produced by Capital & Main in collaboration with Rolling Stone. “It could be two steps forward or 20 steps back, cautious optimism or completely hopeless.” The next meeting of the largest annual climate conference in the world takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, just six days after the …

The small town where I live, along the spine of the Green Mountains of Vermont, was a water world last summer. Endless days of rain, the most in our history, washed out the roads east and west out of town. We lost one house to a landslide, but we were …

This story was adapted from “Everything you need to know about food waste,” a comprehensive guide from our friends at one5c. one5c is the original optimistic newsletter about climate action and sustainable living. Subscribe here to get their best world-saving know-how sent right in your inbox. O n a per-person …

NEW YORK — Activists and donors, young and old, packed into a luxury co-op on the Upper West Side last Wednesday to celebrate the one-year birthday of Climate Defiance, a disruptive climate action group that is quite good at making powerful politicians, government officials, and corporate executives uncomfortable — with …

The morning of the blockade, Emily Collins, co-founder of the climate group Rave Revolution, suits up in a pair of camo pants and combat boots, unaware of the conflict that lies ahead. In the garage, her fellow co-founder, Tommy Diacono, puts the finishing touches on his masterpiece — a human-size …

I T STARTED WITH smoke settling so thick over the highway that Roger Romero slowed his car to a crawl, no longer able to see others on the road. It was April 2022, and he was making his way down northern New Mexico, from Raton to Mora County, a remote …

Katie Porter — the California representative famous for skewering corporate CEOs in congressional hearings — is sick of the “glacial” pace of the U.S. Senate and is brimming with plans to shake up the “stale” institution. If she can get elected. The Golden State’s primary election wraps up Tuesday, March …

Plenty of aspects of the climate movement need revamping — the terminology and phrases that only scientists, governments and corporate sustainability departments understand, the faceless statistics smeared across news headlines, the incessant admonishment of consumer behavior and the doom and gloom storytelling — to name a few. Concurrently, while the …

On Thursday, fresh off a major policy victory, organizers and activists from Climate Defiance confronted Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan at an event at a country club in his home town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Moynihan was there to participate in a fireside chat about the economy and the finance …