Linking Students Over Rising Atlantic Waters - NYTimes.com

While there, I met three intrepid young Britons who have spent more than a year traversing Atlantic Ocean shorelines to work with, and link up, students in communities facing eroding coasts in a warming world. Their project is called Atlantic Rising. (To keep their greenhouse gas emissions down, they’ve hitched rides across the ocean on container ships.)

Pajamas Media » How the Environmental Movement Became Just Another Washington Power Bloc

It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections. (Starting today, the Washington Examiner is publishing a five-part special report in association with Pajamas Media on "Big Green.")

SPECIAL REPORT - Big Green: They’re the green gorillas of American politics | Washington Examiner

They help train journalists in covering environmental issues, teach millions of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary public and private school students, and occupy posts throughout government wherever decisions are made on where people can live, what they drive, how they earn a living, and virtually every other aspect of daily American life.

They are, in short, Big Green, the green gorillas of American politics and public policy, allied within the Democratic Party with Big Labor, trial lawyers, college professors, government dependents and abortion-at-any-cost extremists.

But there is one key difference that makes Big Green more powerful than all of the other special interests that control the Democratic Party. Big Labor can’t tell you where you can and cannot live. The trial lawyers didn’t turn your daily commute to work into a nightmare of congestion and delay.