WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans A plausible summary on global public policies to deal with climate change would boil down to a lot of talk that produces little real action. At least that was my takeaway in reading about the German-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change’s analysis of 1500 climate policies in …
Taipei In order to get a sense of the issues that Taiwan is facing as the climate changes, we met with two groups: the Green Citizens Action Alliance and the Taiwan Climate Action Network. The GCCA is an older organization at more than twenty years. One of their major campaigns dating to their …
Marble Falls Working with groups that are part of the Anthropocene Alliance the issue of flooding comes up frequently, whether it’s Miami, Oklahoma, Philadelphia, or Jackson, Mississippi. Everyone knows that climate change is real, temperatures are going up, record rains are already here. Water is rising. Areas that always flooded are now flooding more …