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Diaries published: 69 (1110 days since last diary on Thu Apr 27, 2017 at 10:19 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 351 (1110 days since last comment on Thu Apr 27, 2017 at 10:19 AM PDT)
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Total Recommends: 13589
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Most Recommended Diary: How the media are missing the real drama of the Oil Spill , 340 comments, 595 recommends
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I don’t spend much time in DC. Like everyone else in the movement I’ve been at work around the country, fighting frack wells and pipelines, coal ports and LNG terminals. Because the fossil fuel industry is everywhere we have to be everywhere...
by Bill McKibben
 34 comments
on Thu Apr 27, 2017 at 10:19 AM PDT
with 117 Recommends
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Look, I’m lazy. I should do things like write posts here regularly, but I tend to let it slip. That’s why I was always grateful when Linda McClure, aka PatriotDaily, would round me up for one of her blogathons. She helped pioneer a new way to use the...
by Bill McKibben
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on Mon Dec 19, 2016 at 04:49 PM PST
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Sellus Wilder is running in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary. He’s really good—he led the fight to stop the Bluegrass Pipeline across Kentucky, and he actually has a plan for moving the state past coal, instead of pretending it’s going to come back....
by Bill McKibben
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on Fri May 13, 2016 at 08:26 AM PDT
with 155 Recommends
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It doesn’t come with delegates, this primary, but it does come with a real vote of support from those who care the most about what’s probably the biggest issue our planet has ever faced.
Here’s the backstory. ClimateHawksVote is a relatively new
by Bill McKibben
115 comments
on Thu Mar 10, 2016 at 08:33 AM PST
with 300 Recommends
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Back in the early days of the Keystone fight, it was hard to get anyone to pay attention. But when we wrote diaries at Kos, people helped spread the word and build the movement
By last night, that ...
by Bill McKibben
135 comments
on Tue Nov 03, 2015 at 05:49 AM PST
with 573 Recommends
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About ten minutes ago a letter went out from the heads of almost all the country's environmental groups and many of its civil rights, indigenous, and other progressive campaigns. It called--as ...
by Bill McKibben
75 comments
on Fri Oct 30, 2015 at 07:36 AM PDT
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