My friend Hugh Kaufman, who’s worked for the EPA since its inception in 1970, sent a chilling email yesterday: “When does oil drilling off the Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, & Nantucket shores begin? ‘In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has ordered the local commission that advises the Cape Cod National Seashore to suspend its […]
The banks to contact about the Keystone XL pipeline funding
This article, with contact information, appeared in Yes! Magazine and the Nation of Change website today. I felt it important enough to share here, in its entirety. [NationofChange is reader-supported. Donate or give monthly.] Of the more than 60 banks helping to finance the expansion of tar sands infrastructure, the indigenous-led environmental campaign Mazaska Talks […]
FIGHT-BACK: GOING LOCAL
It turns out that the Trump EPA’s purge of climate data from its website includes a 50-page “A Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change,” which once displayed educational videos and taught how to calculate your personal climate footprint. Well, it’s not been removed entirely, but buried deep enough that even a Google search won’t help in […]
THE END OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE?
I read two articles on a plane yesterday. Both had the same message about the same place. One, a cover story in Discover Magazine, was headlined: “What You Need to Know about our Melting Planet.” The other, featured in Rolling Stone, was a special report: “Doomsday Glacier: How Fast Will the Oceans Rise?” The […]
“HORSEMEN of the APOCALYPSE” Making Waves
After only one week of sales, Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the number one nature conservation book selling on Amazon. An eye opening perspective on climate and energy issues, Dick Russell’s newest book is already making waves. Leonardo DiCaprio, Oscar winning actor (finally) and outspoken environmentalist, has tweeted that the book is “a must read […]
IN WAKE OF CLIMATE MARCH, TRUMP DEVASTATION CONTINUES
Tens of thousands gathered in front of the White House last Saturday, and thousands more came to rallies and marches all across the country for the People’s Climate March. I was part of a large L.A. contingent that walked several miles to protest the Tesoro oil refinery’s merger with BP and plan to vastly increase […]
The Historic People’s Climate March
On the 100th day of the Trump presidency, the people will gather all across the country to make their voices heard. In Washington, D.C., they will arrive on buses and trains, with thousands expected to converge on the Mall. They will start at the Capitol building, move on to surround the gates of the White […]
EARTH DAY 2017: THE NEW EPA AND THE LOOMING CLIMATE APOCALYPSE
Closing in on half-a-century since the first Earth Day and the beginning of the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s all come down to this: the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is being provided a “24/7 security detail.” This line item in the new agency budget was revealed by the Washington Post on the same day that […]
Dick Russell and Romeo Keyes talk about mentoring
In March 2017, I gave a half-hour talk about the importance of youth mentoring at the Agape Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. My brilliant young mentee, 19-year-old Romeo Keyes, followed mine with his first public speaking appearance. Romeo will also appear on a story-telling panel at the Pacifica Graduate Institute’s conference “Response at the Radical […]
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AND STATES GO TO WAR WITH TRUMP
A week ago, Trump signed an executive order to forge ahead with the Keystone XL oil pipeline that had been scotched by Obama in 2015. This is the deal to send tons of dirty tar sands Koched-up oil from Canada across 1,200 miles of the U.S. to Gulf Coast refineries. Well, it ain’t going to […]