Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Jan. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Climate change, Erich pica
Often, I am asked to assess the environmental movement. Will we win the fight against the fossil fuel industry? Can we prevent the worst impacts of climate disruption? Who’s out there fighting the good fight for a healthy and just world? My...
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Dec. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Earth budget, Erich pica, Tax
Call it the fiscal cliff, the fiscal slope or an “austerity crisis,” but no matter the nomenclature, a battle is underway over the role of government in the U.S.: Should we take care of our own or should people be left to fend for them...
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Nov. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Climate change, Erich pica
This week, Hurricane Sandy fulfilled what many of us had been dreading as we watched it move up the coast: its landfall on the coast of New Jersey and a merger with a massive cold front left millions in the East without power, shelter, or worse. A...
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Aug. 1, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl
Last Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of the start of the Kalamazoo River disaster where Canadian oil corporation Enbridge spilled over a million gallons of tar sands oil into waters near Marshall, Michigan. The following piece is cross-pos...
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Mar. 22, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica
I wish every test and every decision we made had the answer “all of the above” as an option. It would definitely make life easier. It would make Friday evening conversations with my wife a breeze: Hi, honey, should we go see a movie, ...
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Mar. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica
One year ago I, like many people across the United States and around the world, watched as the horrible images flooded in from Japan and the Fukushima Province after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated the coastline. News...
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Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog / Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl, Wall street
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
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Apr. 5, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica, Nuclear reactors
Update on the nuclear crisis in Japan By Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth April 5, 2011 It's hard to believe that this week marks nearly a month since Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the ensu...
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