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Walking the Tightrope: Canvassing and Change
At a grassroots organization, making change is an art. The support of the people allows us to win campaigns.
Local Isn’t Little: Community Action and the Climate Fight
My internship with Clean Water Action has taught me that campaigns with a local focus can often have the biggest impact on an individual’s life.
How I Take Action When The World is On Fire
National widespread issues can be difficult to tackle with limited resources, but when enough of us take smaller steps, we can achieve large goals together and work our way up to win the big changes that we need.
A River Quest, a Canoe and a Commitment to #MakeGEPay
Follow Joel on Twitter: @joelwool When Denny Alsop first canoed across Massachusetts in 1988 (see the New York Times) to raise awareness of water pollution and push for environmental progress, he probably did not expect to be making the same trek nearly thirty years later. But General Electric's February statement that it would fight the EPA's proposed cleanup plan for the Housatonic River convinced him that there was need to push hard for true restoration of the waterway still tarnished by toxic PCBs. Early in 2016, GE announced it would relocate to Boston and receive a whopping public
Kinder Morgan is Down for the Count. We're Fighting Forward!
UPDATE: Join us at the Massachusetts State House 5/3 for a hearing and rally.* RSVP here. We are at an incredible moment. Yesterday, Kinder Morgan announced they are suspending work on their massive, multi-billion dollar fracked gas pipeline proposal. This is a huge victory for New England, for Clean Water Action and for our many partners who have fought the project for years. Clean Water Action has organized for progressive energy policy, advancing the solutions to our power transition away from fossil fuels. Working with groups like Toxics Action Center and Better Future Project, we launched
