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Climate Education For Children Final Thoughts [Video]

In Dec, 2010 I started a Climate Education Series of posts for children. What upset me the most was how hard it was, to put together a series of Educational information on Climate Change for children.

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Mom Walks From New Orleans To Washington To Highlight Suffering A Year After...

A month and a day after she left New Orleans on foot with a mission to meet President Barack Obama and describe to him the continued suffering of folks in the Gulf a year after the BP oil spill, Cherri...

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Fracking Emissions vs Coal Emissions! Guess Which Is Worse?

Natural gas is touted as a good way to power the US over the coming decades, But it could be worse than using coal and make it much more difficult to cut greenhouse gas emissions more broadly.

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Severe Storm Shuts Down Nuclear Reactors In Tennessee

After the Japan Earthquake and the Nuclear plant disaster I wish they would just switch to Coal fired power plants. I hate to say that being totally against Coal fired plants. But if the power goes out...

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The Upper Big Branch Mining Memorial Group Needs Donations

I am totally against Coal and the destruction it has brought to our state and our Planet. But I am in no way against the Coal miner’s. They are only working to take care of their families, West...

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Energy Secretary May Start “National Climate Change Education Campaign”

One of the top members of the House Energy and Commerce committee has written a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu urging him to start a National Climate Change Education Campaign.

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The History of the Battle of Blair Mountain

The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the biggest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed insurrection since the American Civil War. For five days in late August and early...

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One West Virginia Tree Sitter’s Story of Fighting Injustice

Becks Kolins writes about fighting to protect the Coal River Watershed and their experience coming down from living 80 feet up in a poplar tree, being arrested and taken into the jail system. Becks...

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New Study Finds – Shifting from Coal to Natural Gas will not solve Climate...

Shifting from coal to natural gas would have limited impacts on climate, new research finds. If methane leaks from natural gas operations could be kept to 2.5% or less, the increase in global...

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Patriot Coal Plans to Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining

Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia under an agreement...

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