Image credit: Climate Camp From beautiful images of a climate camp protest in Wales, to skepticism over protesters' targeting of offset companies—the ever growing Climate Camp movement never fails to get a reaction—both here on TreeHugger and elsewhere. But it seems the latest Climate Camp protests have garnered atten...Read the full story on TreeHugger

In case you haven't seen it yet, world renowned climatologist Dr James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has an excellent new piece in The Guardian wherein he talks at length about his journey from straight science to self-imposed media silence to seemingly reluctant and outspoken (not to mention arrested) climate activist. There's lots of good stuff in in so I highly enco...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Neptune Network From Climate Camp targeting offset companies, to a renegade protester single-handedly shutting down an entire power plant, the TreeHugger has seen some pretty dramatic direct action protests. But when activists in Norway decided to stop an 80-ton freight train in the far-North of Norway, they chose an interesting tool for doing it - the diminuti...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image courtesy of Sierra Club It's just about back to school time, so what better moment than now for Sierra magazine to reveal the nation's top 20 "coolest" schools for their efforts to stop climate change and educate students about sustainability. From Green Mountain College's innovative biomass electricity generation to Georgia Tech's sustainable engineering classes, the magazine's September/October cover story spotlights the schools that are making a true difference for the planet, and marks Sierra's fourth annual listing of America's greenest universities and colleges. The complete scorecard is available online ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via It's Getting Hot in Here In the weeks since the clean energy and climate bill died unceremoniously in the Senate, there's been much soul-searching in both green and policy circles alike. Some people blame the bill's failure to pass on intransigent Republicans, others a lack of leadership from Obama, and some have pointed their fingers directly at environmentalists. Charles Komanoff, however, is simply relieved. He argues that the failure of the cap and trade bill is good news, b...Read the full story on TreeHugger