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Featured Stories

• Hundreds Launch National Climate March from the Port of LA
  Posted on March 1, 2014 | No Comments

  Launching from the Port of Los Angeles in Wilmington, one of the most fossil-fuel polluted communities in the country, the Great March for Climate Action Energizes Communities to Act on Climate Change.

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• Coast-to-Coast Climate March: Why Launch from LA Harbor?
  Posted on February 24, 2014 | 1 Comment

  The 3,000-mile Great March for Climate Action will launch March 1st from the Los Angeles Harbor Area. Sherry Lear, San Pedro soccer mom, writes on the history of the community that has experienced debilitating effects from fossil fuel development, explaining why it's a perfect place to march en masse for clean energy solutions. More Information: http://j.mp/GreatMarchWU

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• Chumash Elder Speaks on Healing Humanity and the Climate
  Posted on February 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

  Art Cisneros is a Chumash elder and firekeeper. The Chumash People are the original native peoples of the central California Coast. Art holds the sacred space for their annual Tomol crossing to Limu on the Channel Islands. Lately, he has undertaken a series of ceremonies focused on healing humanity's relationship with the climate, responding to the ongoing drought and extreme weather, prayers that he will share with the people at the Great March for Climate Action LA Launch on March 1st in the Port of Los Angeles.

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• Stanford Scientist Plans US Transformation to Clean Energy
  Posted on February 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

  Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues recently developed detailed plans to transform the energy infrastructure of New York, California and Washington states from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable resources by 2050.

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• LA Launches the Great March for Climate Action
  Posted on February 10, 2014 | 4 Comments

  Taking heed of the growing climate turmoil such as drought in California, unprecedented melting of the Arctic glaciers and the most rain ever recorded in Great Britain, more than 60 organizations will march in Los Angeles on March 1st to launch the coast-to-coast Great March for Climate Action.

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• Banksy: Satirical Outlaw, Graffiti Bomber, Mockumentarian
  Posted on February 10, 2014 | No Comments

  Hiding in the back alleys and behind a hoodie, he stencils freehand Gorillas in Pink Masks. An international art sensation makes a film about making a film about a guy who wants to become an international art sensation. The pseudonymous street artist Banksy has turned his well-marketed cultural irreverence into a boom time in the discontent industry.

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• XL Dissent: Activists Speak Out for Clean Energy, Mother Earth
  Posted on February 8, 2014 | No Comments

  While activists in Los Angeles and across the US spoke out against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Dave Pruett writes on its threatened environmental triple-whammy, poorly documented in the latest State Department environmental report heading toward the President's desk. Protests are planned March 1-2 in Washington DC as part of "XL Dissent" and March 1 in Los Angeles with the Great March for Climate Action.

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• Honduras: Narcotrafficking Leads to Native Dispossession, Deforestation
  Posted on February 7, 2014 | No Comments

  In the isolated region of La Mosquitia, Honduras, narco-traffickers act as shock troops in the assault on native Miskitu, Tawahka, and Pech homelands, ruthlessly dispossessing residents and rapaciously converting forest commons to private pasture primed for sale to multinational corporations.

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• Fracking California: Oil Boom Bonanza a Dirty Desert Mirage
  Posted on January 30, 2014 | No Comments

  The latest target of the unconventional oil craze is California hydraulic fracturing (fracking) the Monterey Shale in the central and southern parts of the state. With wildly optimistic predictions of an economic bonanza, the oil is carbon-intensive, requires massive amounts of fresh water, creates industrial pollution and seismic risk, and is impossible to regulate effectively because of significant scientific unknowns.

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• Small Architecture: On Glass Houses Built Over Stone
  Posted on January 29, 2014 | No Comments

  In 2012, Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz quit their jobs for a time to build a West Virginia mountain hideaway cabin, a tiny summer house made with recycled windows. This is the result.

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