Blake Skylar
LATEST ARTICLES BY Blake Skylar
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Environment
At state park, fight is on to stop mountaintop removal
October 21, 2014The Kanawha Forest Coalition is desperately fighting a mountaintop removal project just outside of Kanawha State Forest, a state park in Loudendale, West Virginia.
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Arts
Panopticon’s breathtaking ride on “Roads to the North”
October 17, 2014When it comes to underground music, the black metal genre is about as subterranean as it gets.
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Environment
On climate train, green architect talks blueprints for future
October 14, 2014It's not just about reforming building regulations and materials, or outfitting buildings with snappy new energy-efficient technology, we also need to get everybody on board.
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Environment
Occupy Alaska: Thousands of walrus stranded
October 10, 2014Without a source of sea ice on which to spend the winter, the mammals have been forced to come ashore seeking refuge, in record numbers, confused and stranded.
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Environment
From trains to streets, Climate March moved people
October 7, 2014From the Chicago climate train full of activists, to the People's Climate March itself, every person there seemed to feel passionately about a particular environmental issue.
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Environment
Climate march underscores the high stakes of using palm oil
October 3, 2014Palm oil imports to the U.S. have increased 485 percent in the last decade, and companies producing palm oil are cutting away massive tracts of rainforest.
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Labor
Labor played big part in massive climate march
September 25, 2014"There are good potential union jobs in clean energy; there's no reason why it can't happen, we just have a lot of work to do."
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U.S.
Some 400,000 climate marchers paint New York green
September 22, 2014Generating some of the most excitement were activists from other nations who stood in solidarity with their peers.
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