Climate Collaborative

capitalist imperialism isn't earth, people or environmentally-friendly

None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use A sobering new study finds that the world’s biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it’s the only reason they turn a profit.

Vancouver Raging Grannies sends a message to Kinder Morgan

A "full frontal" assault on Kinder Morgan The Raging Grannies take on the with their signature flair

“vote with your dollar” is capitalistic propaganda.

According to the lore of conscious consumerism, every purchase you make is a “moral act”—an opportunity to “vote with your dollar” for the world you want to see. We are told that if we don’t like what a company is doing, we should stop buying their products and force them to change. We believe that if we give consumers transparency and information, they’ll make the right choice. But sadly, this is not the way capitalism is set up to work.

Conscious consumerism is a lie. Here’s a better way to help save the world Choosing fashion made from h**p or grilling the waiter about how your fish was caught is no substitute for systematic change.

BREAKING NEWS: All tar sands oil crossing the Canada/US Border shut down by 5 brave activists. shutitdown.today/liveupdates

"No one is safe from the collective impacts of a crisis like this".

As an entire City Of Fort Mcmurray is forced to evacuate, Road to Athabasca riders: Derek Hoshiko and Erika Carlene Lundahl wrote a piece on their ride and friends at Fort Mcmurray #468 First Nation.

Wildfire in the tar sands region—More than a humanitarian crisis | Climate Solutions By now, news has reached many of us of the wildfire raging through the Athabasca River Basin, forcing the entire city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, to evacuate. As of right now, the entire province of Alberta is in a declared tate of emergency. (Find out more about what’s happening here, here, and here...

Mitigating Climate Change: A “World Climate Simulation” Exercise for Educators

http://www.antiochseattle.edu/event/mitigating-climate-change/

Thanks Race & Climate Justice for hosting Seattle's COP21 Paris Report Back with friends from Salmon Is Life, 350 Seattle, Got Green?/Women of Color Speak Out. Here's the Q&A portion that speaks to the need for climate justice.

Paris Report Back Part 2 questions

Our second public event on the intersectionality of Capitalism, Colonialism, Prision Industrial Complex with Climate Change.

Photos by Alex Garland Photography.

Thanks to Cascadia Climate Collaborative, Backbone Campaign, Got Green?, 350 Seattle, Kshama Sawant Solidarity Fund, Latino Community Fund of Washington State, Sierra Club, Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, OneAmerica, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Climate Solutions, ForestEthics, Greenpeace USA, Communities of Color for Climate Justice and The Seattle Channel!

With Canada's election last week, the people have spoken.

BREAKING: Shell just cancelled their 80,000-barrel-a-day Carmon Creek oilsands project in Alberta.

Transformation through long term value based organizing!

Transformation without Apocalypse - Episode #6: Tim DeChristopher On February 14th and 15th, the Spring Creek Project sponsored a symposium entitled "Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live Well on an Altered Planet"...