Causes Asian Development Bank/Flickr Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners
Causescommons.wikimedia.org A slow violence comes to an end in LA Nalleli Cobo has been an organizer for most of her life–despite being only 21. Her leadership is creating a new future for Los Angeles.
Causes www.nytimes.com Honduras court convicts ex-dam executive in murder of celebrated environmentalist Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres.
Solutions www.newyorker.com Bill McKibben: Our stuff weighs more than all living things on the planet This year, the weight of all “human-made mass” exceeded that of the earth’s entire biomass. We now live on Planet Stuff.
foreignpolicy.com How a journalist came to cover the brutal murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet."
Causes ohiovalleyresource.org Two decades of resistance: Coal River Mountain Watch takes stock at 20 Twenty years ago a small group of activists stood up against mountaintop removal mining in the heart of West Virginia's coal country.