Year: 2016

30 High-Protein Snacks

30 High-Protein Snacks

By Brianna Elliott When you live a busy lifestyle, snacks can be useful for when hunger hits and you don’t have time to prepare a meal. However, many snack foods available today are high in refined carbs and sugar, which can leave you feeling unsatisfied and craving more food. The key is to make sure […]

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    The Unintended Consequences of Giving Water

    The Unintended Consequences of Giving Water

    In war, natural disaster and poverty, water is the first relief to arrive alongside the security of life and limb. It is the gift that aids the weary traveler, sits at the table before a meal arrives. The lack of it kills before the lack of food does. It is not a commodity, as in […]

    20 Photos From My Seven Months of Living at Standing Rock

    20 Photos From My Seven Months of Living at Standing Rock

    By Desiree Kane I arrived at Standing Rock in the very last days of May, alongside some comrades, at the request of Wiyaka Eagleman, the first firekeeper at Camp of the Sacred Stones and a founding member of the Keystone XL campaign. He had put out a call to folks in Indian Country for support […]

    10 Reasons to Be Optimistic for a Low-Carbon Future

    10 Reasons to Be Optimistic for a Low-Carbon Future

    Sure, many of my friends in the climate change movement can’t wait to forget 2016, the year when an incoming Trump presidency brought new meaning to climate uncertainty. But there is a movement taking hold that is far bigger than the U.S.—I’ve seen it in the last year in Africa, in Europe and the U.S. […]

    Locally-Owned Renewables Powers 300,000 Homes in Scotland

    Locally-Owned Renewables Powers 300,000 Homes in Scotland

    Locally-owned renewable energy projects are beneficial for communities in more ways than just reducing carbon pollution. Just look at Scotland. About 300,000 Scottish homes are powered with 595 megawatts of clean energy thanks to the government’s support of community and locally-owned renewable projects, according to a government report. That’s a 17 percent increase from the […]

    Youth Seek Testimony From Exxon’s Rex Tillerson in Federal Climate Lawsuit

    Youth Seek Testimony From Exxon’s Rex Tillerson in Federal Climate Lawsuit

    Attorneys representing 21 young people in their federal climate lawsuit, sought today to obtain testimony from Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil and President-elect Trump‘s candidate for Secretary of State. Leaked Documents Raise New Questions Over #Tillerson's Russian Links https://t.co/EMb5YOwVAe @PriceofOil @NRDC @greenpeaceusa @Greenpeace — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) December 19, 2016 The notice seeks Tillerson’s testimony […]