10 reasons to still be pissed off about the BP disaster | Grist

Nearly three-quarters of Gulf Coast residents that the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental justice group, polled this year reported health concerns that they believe are related to the spill.

A global green economy: ‘Let no man say it cannot be done’ | Grist

In short, we need to build a new economy, one powered with carbon-free sources of energy -- wind, solar, and geothermal -- one that has a diversified transport system and that reuses and recycles everything. We can change course and move onto a path of sustainable progress, but it will take a massive mobilization -- at wartime speed.

Renewed energy for renewable energy | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

[caption] Shrimp farmer Diana Wilson from Texas daubed with oil as she tries to gain access to the BP shareholders' AGM in London this weekend; shortly afterwards, she was arrested for disturbing the peace...

More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, DC, this past week to discuss, organise, mobilise and protest around the issue of climate change. While tax day Tea Party gatherings of a few hundred scattered around the country made the news, this massive gathering, Power Shift 2011, was largely ignored by the media.