How Much Would Giving Up Meat Help the Environment?
It is no secret that steaks and chops are delicious. But guzzling them incurs high costs for both carnivorous humans and the planet.
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From a Young Climate Movement Leader, a Determined Call for Action
Xiye Bastida Patrick, a New York high school student, has become a key leader in the growing youth climate movement. In an e360 interview, she talks about why students are taking to the streets to demand action and how this is changing the climate conversation globally.
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Last Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
Read More The Impact of Animal Farming on the Planet: Interview with Dr Sailesh Rao
Mic the Vegan interviews Dr. Sailesh Rao, systems specialist with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and co-producer of the documentary Cowspiracy.
Read More Death by Oligarchy
Written by Chris Hedges / TruthDig Oligarchs are blinded by hubris, wealth and power. Their...
Read More Climate Change: ‘Clear and Unequivocal’ Emergency, Say Scientists
A global group of around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.
Read More Italy Becomes First Country to Require Climate Change Studies in Schools
Italy is the first country to incorporate climate change and sustainable development into its national curriculum.
Read More Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems, including, in particular, capitalism. Despite this potential, in actual practice, there is the risk that NVC, like other forms of psychotherapy and personal growth, can risk acting as a narcotic, making people happier to live in dysfunctional social systems.
Read More Walmart, Costco, Target, McDonalds and More! Companies Linked to Promoting Amazon Deforestation
Fires in the Amazon made global headlines for weeks. Alongside the criticism of the Brazilian government for encouraging anti-environmental stances, new information is now available on business and companies‘ impact on the fires in the Amazon.
Read More This Is How to Go Vegan When You Have a Tight Budget
This is a useful how-to guide for people who want to incorporate affordable, delicious plant-based food into their diet.
Read More In the Presence of Elephants and Whales: Interview with Katy Payne
Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist who has discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs and that elephants communicate across long distances by infrasound.
Read More The Scariest Horror Movie of the Year Is an Environmental Documentary
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch takes viewers on a hypnotic worldwide tour of the destruction we have wrought.
Read More There is Infinite Hope, But Not For Us: Interview with Barbara Cecil & Dahr Jamail
In this episode of Transitions, Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ series published at Truthout, are interviewed about what they feel it means to openly and honestly face the unprecedented global ecological collapse presently taking place.
Read More What Does the U.S. Public Think of Its Government Arming and Bombing the World?
We finally have some U.S. polling data that is helpful in the project of ending war. That it accurately uses the term “military” rather than “defense” and that it asks about moving the money to useful things is a cut above the usual corporate polling, rare as even that is, on whether so-called defense spending should go up or down.
Read More Prime Ministers Urged to Take 30 Day Challenge to Help Climate Crisis
Four member organisations of the Vegan World Alliance are challenging the leaders of their countries to try vegan for a month, starting on 1 November, World Vegan Day. They want their leaders to commit to a low carbon way of life and to educate their government and the public about the huge negative impact animal agriculture has on the environment.
Read More Mainstream Journalists Who Refuse To Defend Dissident Journalists Are Worshippers Of Power
It isn’t that those who work in mainstream news media are ignorant. They’re subservient. They’ve made a lifelong commitment to continue to worship at the altar of power, no matter what form that power takes.
Read More Say ‘Cheese’ – But There’s Nothing to Smile About
How many nonvegans know the difference between 1) the kind of cheese we were all raised to think of as ‘normal’, 2) vegetarian cheese and 3) vegan cheese?
Read More Assange in Court
The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society.
Read More The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised: Media uninterested in protest movements around the world
Which protest movements interest corporate media has little to do with their righteousness or popularity, and much more to do with whom they are protesting against. If you’re fighting against corporate power or corruption in a US-client state, don’t expect many TV cameras to show up; that revolution is rarely televised.
Read More Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’
Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years
Read More In A Society Built On War, We Must Do More Than Just Prefer Peace
We live in a civilization that was built by war. A civilization that is currently propped up by war. A civilization that has its future mapped out with war as its career and war as its retirement plan.
Read More Not Worth Going Vegan for the Climate?
Going vegan won’t help the planet? Not worth it for the climate? All of these notions are based on the EPA’s figures for livestock emissions. Why are they drastically different than the FAO’s reports? Time to investigate.
Read More The Age of Radical Evil
We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction.
Read More Climate Action: Only the Most Radical Approach Will Work
Capitalism’s drive for profit at all costs is responsible for the climate crisis. In order to have a hope of halting the damage and coping with what is already locked in, we will have to move beyond capitalism towards a society where the needs of the mass of people come first.
Read More The Big Polluters’ Masterstroke Was to Blame the Climate Crisis on You and Me
While we are all participants in the first great extermination, our responsibility is not evenly shared. Even middle-class people in the rich world, whose effects are significant, are guided by a system of thought and action that is shaped in large part by corporations.
Read More News from Extinction Rebellion – Nonviolently Hitting Our Stride
As we approached the first weekend of the October Rebellion, Extinction Rebels showed no sign of slowing down.
Read More Overfishing Ban Could Save the Oceans From Climate Change
A ban on overfishing could protect the oceans and help fight climate change, a new report says. Overfishing is impacting the oceans’ health and resilience.
Read More Plastic? What’s Really Killing Our Oceans?
The public has expressed growing concern for the state of our oceans, as plastic is quickly outnumbering the amount of fish in the sea. But what is the main driver of ocean plastic? It turns out that close to 50% of the plastic debris in our oceans is abandoned fishing gear.
Read More Joker Star Joaquin Phoenix Explains Why He Went Vegan
Acclaimed actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix speaks about his family’s transition away from eating animals at the age of 3, and his lifelong commitment to being vegan and speaking out for animals.
Read More Time to Rebel
Monday, Oct. 7. marks the start of what the British-based group Extinction Rebellion is calling the International Rebellion. Thousands of people will occupy the centers of some 60 cities around the globe, including Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris and New York, to stage nonviolent occupations of bridges and roads for at least a week.
Read More How Do We Understand Non-Violence?
October 2 has been designated as the International Day of Nonviolence to coincide with the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. But Nonviolence is often misinterpreted.
Read More The US’s New Evil Empire
The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China.
Read More The Complicated Reasons People Eat Meat
Why do people eat meat? The answer about our beliefs, habits, and ethics is more complicated than you might think.
Read More The Wounds of War in Afghanistan
Recovering from a broken hip, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war.
Read More Greta Thunberg Is a Painful Reminder of Decades of Climate Failures
Until our leaders implement major policy changes to mitigate the climate crisis, Greta’s generation will be wholly justified in lecturing them for selfishly frittering away the stability of our global climate. And based on the abhorrent attacks on Greta that clumsily mask a deep sense of guilt, her critics know it.
Read More Sixty Scientists Sign Open Letter Calling for Less Meat and Dairy in Schools and Hospitals
‘Mayors are in charge of millions of meals every day – they should do everything in their power to create a healthy future for the planet,’ these scientists say.
Read More The Greta Thunberg Helpline
If you’re a grown adult enraged by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, satirist Mark Humphries and his co-writer Evan Williams have created a new service that could help.
Read More Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
Creator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter.
Read More Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario? (A. Keller)
Arther Keller, rocket scientist and ecology consultant, gives us an eye opening description of complex system collapse, illuminating the possible futures of the human social system.
Read More Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Written by Caitlin Johnstone / Medium Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations...
Read More Trump Moves to Open 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Refuge for Oil Drilling By End of the Year
The Trump administration has initialized the final steps to open up nearly 1.6 million acres of the protected Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to allow oil and gas drilling.
Read More Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
Climate change is by far the most serious crisis facing the world today. At stake is the future of civilization as we know it. In this interview, Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss the challenges ahead and what needs to be done.
Read More Changing How We Eat Is Complicated
A successful transition to a more plant-based diet requires not only motivation but capability and opportunity. This review summarizes existing research on what helps (and hinders) that process.
Read More An Oxford Elementary School Just Banned Meat
The Swan School in Oxford in the UK serves vegetarian lunches to its students. More schools are introducing a meat ban for the sake of the planet.
Read More Youth vs. Apocalypse: An Allied Approach to Climate Justice Leadership
Isha Clarke of Youth vs. Apocalypse discusses how their group is redesigning the climate justice movement to centralize justice and provide a platform for youth of color and indigenous youth. YvA is doing deep work to build local, national and global coalitions with other youth movements and adult allies.
Read MorePesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
Regardless of a rapidly emerging health and environmental apocalypse, with the pesticide industry being one of the key drivers, unrestrained capitalism reigns, profits trump public interest and its business as usual.
Read More Nonviolence Denial Is As Dangerous As Climate Denial
Persistent willful ignorance of necessary knowledge can be deadly. This is true of denial of climate collapse. It is also true of denial of the tools and power of nonviolent action.
Read More CIA, Climate And Conspiracy: More Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Many believe that the mass media just tell whole-cloth, outright lies all the time, but that’s not usually how it works. What they do is selectively omit inconvenient facts, disproportionately amplify convenient facts, and uncritically report on dubious government assertions.
Read More Greta Thunberg’s Speech to World Leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit (Hold On To Your Seat!)
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, age 16 and representing the world’s youth, came to New York City from Europe via sailboat to address world leaders at the U.N.’s Climate Action Summit.
Read More To Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy
Marit Hammond, a lecturer in environmental politics at Keele University in the U.K., advocates for the necessity of an “ecological democracy” in order to meet the climate emergency urgently and sustainably. In this interview, Hammond offers insights on what this new form of democracy would look like and how we can get there.
Read More Greta Thunberg Is Right to Panic
The teenage climate-change activist has taken on anxieties far beyond her years. Adults should listen.
Read More Global Warming Causing Profound Changes to the World’s Oceans, Scientists Warn
Climate change is profoundly altering the world’s oceans and frozen regions, threatening ecosystems and putting millions of people and their livelihoods at risk, according to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Read More How a London Arms Fair Shields the War on Yemen
As the world’s largest arms fair takes place in London, Lydia Noon talks to Yemeni artist Ahmed Jahaf about living under a Saudi-led military siege.
Read More At 45, I’m Healthier and Happier Than I Was in My 20s
Start by adding a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes to your diet. Then try ditching meat, dairy, and junk food. You will never know how good it feels until you feel it for yourself. I’m never going back; I’m only moving forward.
Read More America’s First Plant-Based, Solar-Powered, Zero-Waste School Is Opening Its Second Location
America’s first plant-based school is opening a new location! Founded in 2006 by movie-industry legend James Cameron; his wife, actress Suzy Amis Cameron; and her sister, Rebecca Amis, the MUSE School is not only completely vegan but solar powered and zero waste.
Read More Wild Mind: Reclaiming Our Original Wholeness
It’s time to take another look at ourselves — to re-enliven our sense of what it is to be human, to breathe new life into ancient intuitions of who we are, and to learn again to celebrate, as we once did, our instinctive affinity with the Earth community in which we’re rooted.
Read More Palestinians Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire?
Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader has ever been kind to the Palestinian people, the dynamics of the latest Israeli elections on September 17 are likely to affect the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a profound way.
Read More Greta Thunberg and Indigenous Amazon Defender Among Visionary Campaigners Honored With Right Livelihood Awards
The Right Livelihood Foundation celebrated four “practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a livable future for all on planet Earth.”
Read More Jacinda Ardern Says Economic Growth Is Pointless If People Aren’t Thriving
New Zealand’s new well-being budget focuses on mental health and poverty reduction.
Read More More Bad News for Glyphosate
The Glyphosate controversy continues making news around the world and in Australia. The latest news being that the German Government has recently announced that it will phase out all uses for Glyphosate by 2023.
Read More Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Friday’s climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. They should have. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
Read More These 7 Vegan NFL Players Get Their Power From Plants
Vegan NFL players — including Cam Newton and Wesley Woodyard — are proving you don’t need meat to succeed in football. More athletes than ever are going vegan.
Read More How the Mainstream Media Pushes for Endless War
Written by Joshua Cho / FAIR On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the illegal US...
Read More David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall Want to Talk to You About Climate Change
From disappearing species to plastic pollution and our disastrously weak attempts to recycle it, here’s what the top voices on climate change have to say about the planet’s escalating biodiversity crisis.
Read More 7 things you can do if you can’t do a Climate Strike
The TreeHugger team has put together some suggestions for those who can’t take the day off work to go to a climate strike but want to do something.
Read More The Climate Strikes Are About So Much More Than Green Colonialism
Solutions to the environmental crisis won’t come in the shape of a battery – they come in the shape of justice, reparations and equity.
Read More ‘Biggest Day of Climate Action in Planetary History’
In what was the largest mass climate demonstration in history, millions of young people and their adult allies flooded the streets around the world Friday to take part in the Global Climate Strike and pressure world leaders to confront the ecological crisis with bold and urgent action.
Read More 5 Innovative Ways Cities Are Combating Climate Change
Cities are making sure the Paris climate agreement remains viable.
Read More Meat and Plastic Sales Are Slowly Dropping, Survey Finds
As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.
Read More World ‘Losing Battle Against Deforestation’
A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation has failed, according to a report.
Read More On the Precipice: The Collective Asteroid of Human History
It looks as if, in some future that seems ever closer, we might be our own asteroid, the one that will collapse human civilization as we’ve known it.
Read More Conflict With Iran Portends World War III
The importance of this cannot be overemphasized. It is, quite possibly, life-and-death for the planet.
Read More Actually, There’s Nothing Fake About Fake Meat
What is “fake meat”? Vegan meat is the healthy, sustainable, and inevitable next step in the evolution of meat — so why are labeling laws calling it fake?
Read More New Review Shows Plant-Based Diet May Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
A plant-based diet may benefit individuals who experience rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a review of clinical trials and observational studies published in Frontiers in Nutrition in September 2019.
Read More 4 Ways You Can Have a Positive Impact on the Planet
Take action today to protect the Earth.
Read More Empires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
Many are predicting that the U.S. Empire is on the verge of collapse. While the dangers of this are extreme, this also presents us with the opportunity to make great strides towards a world free of oppression, violence, and poverty.
Read More California to Become Third State to Ban Wild Animal Circuses
Animal-rights groups rejoice as the new legislation, which will effectively ban wild animal circuses statewide, heads to the governor’s desk.
Read More Why Protecting the Amazon Is Critical to Solving the Climate Crisis.
The world has spent weeks watching fires ravage the Amazon Rainforest, and along with it, our chances of meeting the Paris Agreement’s goals. What’s more, scientists predict that this critical ecosystem is nearing an irreversible tipping point: a decline from lush rainforest to dry savanna.
Read More The True Life of the Forest – An Interview With Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, botanist, medical biochemist, an expert on the medicinal, environmental and nutritional properties of trees, and author most recently of The Global Forest.
Read More Extreme Weather Displaced 7 Million People in First Half of 2019
Natural disasters forced a record 7 million people to be displaced in the first half of this year, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all the internal displacements worldwide, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).
Read More Thoughts About Diluting the Animal Rights Message
The victims of our food habits have no one but us to tell the truth about the grave injustice of the ordeal to which we routinely subject them. We owe that truth to them as they queue in the milking parlours and hatcheries and slaughterhouses; and we owe that truth to every single member of our own species.
Read More Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused A Huge Surge in the Toxicity of Agriculture
The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.
Read More Global Climate Strike – Sep. 20–27
By now, you’ve probably received plenty of emails about the Climate Strike on September 20th. You probably already know that masses of people of all ages will join youth in the streets in over 500 US cities. But you might still be wondering, why are all these people striking? Why should I get involved?
Read More This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It’s the First Extermination Event.
From the “insect apocalypse” to the “biological annihilation” of 60 percent of all wild animals in the past 50 years, life is careening across every planetary boundary that might stop it from experiencing a “Great Dying” once more. But this atrocity has no goelogical analogue. To call it the “sixth extinction event” is to make what is an active, organized eradication sound like some kind of passive accident. We are in the midst of the First Extermination Event.
Read More ‘This Is Eco-Apartheid’: Post-Dorian Refugees Fleeing Bahamas Ordered Off Ferry Bound for US
Hundreds of Bahamian refugees were ordered off a ferry headed for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida from Freeport in the Bahamas days after Hurricane Dorian pummeled the islands, leaving at least 44 people dead and tens of thousands without homes.
Read More Room to Roam: How Animals Benefit From Wildlife Corridors
Development, resource extraction and roadbuilding have fragmented landscapes and reduced wild spaces making it harder for animals to find food, search for a mate and adapt to a changing climate. Ecologists and conservationists have been working for decades to create wildlife corridors — areas of natural habitat that can reconnect fragmented habitats.
Read More So What’s Wrong with Wool?
Despite the fact that farming sheep is at least as harmful to the environment as farming cows, many sheep raised for wool are treated very cruelly. This video reveals the very disturbing treatment of sheep on an Australian wool farm, which is unfortunately considered “treatment as usual” across Australia and much of the world.
Read More The Capitalists Are Afraid
Capitalists know the reigning ideology of neoliberalism no longer has any credibility. Its lies have been exposed. They also know they are to blame.
Read More The Epidemic of Prescription Drug Dependence: Interview with Dr John Read
Sky news discusses dependence on prescription drugs and the soon to be released Public Health England review. Interviewed are Professor John Read and therapist Marion Brown.
Read More The Natural World Can Help Save Us From Climate Catastrophe
To prevent a full-spectrum catastrophe, we need not only to decarbonise our economy in the shortest possible time, but also to draw down carbon dioxide that has already been released.T But how? The greatest potential identified so far is in protecting and restoring natural forests and allowing native trees to repopulate deforested land.
Read More How to Have Difficult Conversations
Campaigners aren’t known for being contemplative. By definition they are trying to change something beyond themselves. But what if collective introspection made us into better campaigners by improving our ability to listen and learn, especially from those we disagree with?
Read More People’s Mobilization Unites For People And Planet
The People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet is two weeks away. The “People’s Mobe” will be held from September 20 to 23 in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly.
Read More Climate Crisis: CO2 Levels Rise to Highest Point Since Evolution of Humans
The Mauna Loa Observatory, which has measured the parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1958, took a reading of 415.26ppm in the air on 11 May – thought to be the highest concentration since humans evolved.
Read More The Work Of Love Is To Love
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire and I find myself in the presence of love.
Read More What Animals Are Thinking and Feeling, and Why It Should Matter | Carl Safina | TEDxMidAtlantic
Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah’s Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?
Read More The Rise of a New Climate Activism
Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject. For many campaigners, who have grown weary of watching their warnings fall on deaf ears, it has felt like hope has arrived at last.
Read More In Their Own Words: The Challenges Of Being Vegan
Being vegan involves far more than dietary choices. This doctoral dissertation examines the communication challenges and coping strategies that can protect, maintain, and enhance vegan identity.
Read More Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe
When most people think of climate change, what come to mind are the poles, Asia’s fast vanishing glaciers, or Australia, where punishing droughts are drying up the sub-continent’s longest river, the Murray. But climate change is an equal opportunity disrupter, and Europe is facing a one-two punch of too much water in the north and center and not enough in the south.
Read More California Becomes First State to Ban Fur Trapping
Written by Louis Sahagun and Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — California has enacted a...
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Driver of Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis
In a submission to an Australian government inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis, Vegan Australia urged the government to move towards a vegan agricultural system to help save koalas and many other threatened species.
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