BREAKING: Blockade Stops Construction of Keystone XL

Cross Posted from TarSandsBlockade.org **UPDATE 12:40PM – Our first action in Oklahoma! TransCanada is starting construction at the beginning of the  Keystone XL route in Cushing, Oklahoma. Tar Sands Blockade organizers are there with a clear message, that while this project has started, we will not […]

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Blockade Showdown Against Fracking Pipeline in Manhattan

by Shannon Ayala [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon5ZlCxPxo] Activists gathered yesterday at a sanitation pier near the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan where Spectra Energy has begun construction on a natural gas pipeline (which partially picks up gas in the Marcellus Shale area where […]

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Think Globally, Act Selfishly:

How Utilitarian Environmentalism Can Backfire by Brandon Keim  / Wired.com In short, telling people how much money carpooling will save them won’t convince them to recycle, but telling them how transcendent carpooling is because it will save the planet will. Earnest, well-meaning […]

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