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The Garden Walk in Venice meets the paradise of CODEPINK http://bit.ly/dreUwS Take a look–serene beauty and outrageous boldness can coexist!

New International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Doubles Its Membership in One Year

by  Alice Slater Since 1995, at the Conference to Extend the Non-Proliferation Treaty, civil society has been calling for the establishment of an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).  Recognizing the “inextricable link” between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and urging a phase out of nuclear power, the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of [...]

Fight climate change by ending war, by Andrea Peloso

Given the immensity of pollution caused by war, peace may be the only solution to global warming. Few ecologists appear to acknowledge the impact of war on our ecological crisis, and few peace activists discuss the ecological consequences of war...

BIG APPLE BITE: Green in the World Trade Center

New York City hasn’t earned a reputation as being the most environmentally-friendly. And despite a thriving farmer’s market system citywide, many wonder where to find any “green” activism like that in Portland, OR or other cities.

“War is not Green” at PowerShift; Pelosi a no-show

CODEPINK women rocked out at the amazing PowerShift ’09 conference this past weekend in Washington and Capitol Power Plant action Monday, carrying bright pink “War Is Not Green” banners and spreading the word of the links among war, energy consumption, pollution and environmental destruction. Leslie Angeline and Blaine Clarke gave this great interview to a [...]

“War is not green!” at Capitol Plant mass action in Washington!

Today I joined Medea Benjamin, Blaine Clark, Leslie Angeline, Jay Marx, David Swanson, Cindy Sheehan and Bev Rice at the incredible Capitol Power Plant mass action today at the Capitol Plant in Washington, protesting its “clean coal,” timed with the incredible PowerShift 2009 Conference that began Friday night. (Here’s me, Desiree, Leslie, and Medea with [...]