by Chris Blankenhorn | Mar 11, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy Policy
By Howie Hawkins, March 11, 2021 Ten years ago today the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. It is far from over. It won’t be over for decades to come at best. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake caused the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan to shut down. A...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 24, 2021 | Climate Change, Ecosocialism
By Howie Hawkins February 24, 2021 I was asked by Energy Advisor, a weekly publication of the Inter-American Dialogue, to write a 250 word commentary responding to the following questions. I sent them a shorter version of my response below, but here is a fuller...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Aug 20, 2020 | Climate Change, Ecosocialism
By Howie Hawkins, Mark Dunlea, and Jon Rynn The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party in the 2010s. Howie Hawkins was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010 running for New York governor. The Green Party’s presidential...
by H20 Staff | Dec 17, 2019 | Climate Change
Since forming in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) has had a nearly annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to review implementation and make decisions regarding the framework convention. The 25th COP meeting in Madrid this year...
by H20 Staff | Nov 28, 2019 | Climate Change
The Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strikers are challenging the power structure with their own suffering. In Washington, DC the strikers are focused on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and refusing to eat until Pelosi agrees to a one-hour public meeting with them over...
by H20 Staff | Sep 4, 2019 | Climate Change
Labor Day, September 2, 2019 I spent Labor Day weekend with people in northern Michigan who are fighting to shut down Enbridge Line 5. This oil pipeline runs 645 miles from Superior WI to Sarnia ON across over 100 tributaries and 400 bodies of water, including the...
