The political saga of the Keystone XL pipeline is like a real-life version of The Force Awakens. So why are we giving the Dark Side even more power?

This is not the first time forward progress has ended in a right-wing regime. And the past has plenty of lessons for how to go forward effectively.

“There may be no greater, growing threat facing the world’s children—and their children—than climate change.”

No global agreement is coming to save the day. Our powers lie elsewhere, in our communities especially, and this is where we must take the battle.

Negotiators have stopped trying to win a binding international agreement on carbon emissions. Now it’s up to the people to push our governments to action.

The leading strategies in the climate justice movement already resemble the Cold War policies of containment, roll-back, and isolation. But can they wear down the political power of the fossil fuel industry?

Three major international meetings about climate change are on the horizon. Is this the moment to fix the failures of Copenhagen?

It is good to mourn for what's being lost. But giving up just gives the fossil fuel industry what it wants.

Targeting the fossil fuel industry is essential, but divestment as the target for action raises the same question as global summitry does: Is it enough?

How do Davids bring down Goliaths? Three tactics that worked.

From the White House lawn to the jungles of Bolivia—what happens when a president fails to live up to his environmental rhetoric?

The climate summit in Bolivia is based on the start of a strategy—to bring social movements inside discussions about combating climate change—but more careful planning is needed.

A decade after the streets of Cochabamba exploded in what became known as the Water Revolt, the people of Bolivia’s third largest city filled the streets once again to commemorate the anniversary of a grassroots victory that has become known around the world.