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It’s early October and actor Mark Ruffalo takes the stage as part of The Nantucket Project, a speakers series in Massachusetts that
Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold mining company, has made big commitments to improve the lives of Chileans living in the country’s
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When environmental and social activist Van Jones was recruited in spring 2009 by the Obama administration to serve as the White House’s
Anyone who has been paying attention to environmental issues in Canada knows that relations are downright toxic between the oil industry, environmentalists,
James Hansen is director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world’s most respected climate scientists. Earlier this
In March, an Ottawa Citizen reporter named Tom Spears sent a routine request to the National Research Council (NRC). Spears had noticed
I was organizing Wall Street protests back in 2004, before it was cool. These days, I prefer to spend my time with