Jamie Henn
Common Dreams
New York, United States
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Our Greener, Climate-Friendly Future Is Going to Be Amazing—It's Our Job to Tell That Story
A more comfortable apartment. Cheaper electricity bills. Your stove cooks faster, your dishwasher washes cleaner, and the lightbulbs look great. Even the food is more delicious!.. Two stories caught my eye while scrolling through the New York Times over coffee the other morning. → Read More
A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018
With the transition to 100% renewable energy, we have perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild our economy in a more just and equitable way. → Read More
Fossil Free Fast: A Climate Resistance Game Plan for 2018
With the transition to 100% renewable energy, we have perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild our economy in a more just and equitable way... Let’s talk for a moment about how the climate movement is going to fight back in 2018.But first, a public service announcement. → Read More
Dirty Promises: The Climate Talks Need to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground
There’s a key question lingering over the climate talks currently in the final hours here in Bonn, Germany this week: how do we close the gap between the... → Read More
NY AG: Exxon Mislead Investors on Cost of Climate Regs
"Because of Exxon's decades of lies and bankrolling of climate denying politicians, the U.S. is now a pariah nation on climate change, having dropped the Paris climate agreement and gutting our nation's environmental protections." → Read More
The Paris Climate Agreement Is Up To Us Now
Politicians were never going to save the world. That’s up to the rest of us. There’s a moment in the movie “The Martian” where in order to save the... → Read More
Shareholder Uprising: Measure Approved Instructing Exxon to Report Climate Impacts
Along with the shareholder uprising, Exxon is also facing an investigation by multiple Attorneys General over whether it lied to the public about climate change → Read More
Trump’s 100 Days of Attacks on the Environment are Tanking His Poll Numbers
Trump’s 100 days of attacks on the environment are tanking his poll numbers, but it’s going to take big mobilizations like the Peoples Climate March to t... → Read More
After The March For Science, It's Time To Get Political
Solving the climate crisis will take activism, protest, and movement building. → Read More
The Fights to Protect Science, People and Planet Are Inherently Connected
The election of Donald Trump has sparked an unprecedented outpouring of public mobilization across the United States and around the world. From the Women’s March to rallies against the Muslim Ban, people are demonstrating creative and powerful ways to take action, in Washington, D.C. and beyond, to resist Trump and fight for the world they want. This April, two powerful mobilizations will take… → Read More
Only Mass Mobilization Can Save the EPA
SHARE if you agree with 350.org: "The People's Climate Mobilization on April 29 is a huge chance to show that we won't let our climate and communities be sacrificed so that the fossil fuel industry can have one last hurrah before renewables inevitably take their place." → Read More
Only Mass Mobilization Can Save the EPA
SHARE if you agree with 350.org: "The People's Climate Mobilization on April 29 is a huge chance to show that we won't let our climate and communities be sacrificed so that the fossil fuel industry can have one last hurrah before renewables inevitably take their place." → Read More
Trump's Pick Of Rex Tillerson Will Put ExxonMobil On Trial
Trump just picked ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee for Secretary of State. The State Department handles nearly all of our foreign policy, incl... → Read More
Tens of Thousands Join Protests Against Dakota Access Pipeline
Tens of thousands of people joined protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in all 50 states and in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, looking to send a cle... → Read More
How To Fight For The Climate During A Trump Administration
Late last week, Trump's transition team put up a website that lists its top priorities for their administration. For those of us concerned with maintaini... → Read More
Jamie Henn | Huffington Post
Jamie Henn is Co-founder and Strategy and Communications Director for 350.org, an international climate campaign, as well as the Communications Director for 350 Action. Over the past five years, 350.org has organized more than 20,000 climate demonstrations in over 180 countries around the world. In the United States, 350.org has helped lead the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline and… → Read More
It's ExxonMobil And The GOP Who Are 'Chilling' Scientific Inquiry
Jesse Bragg, Media Director for Corporate Accountability International, at an ExxonKnew campaign press conference at the Capitol today As the campaign to hold ExxonMobil accountable for hiding what they knew about climate change gains momentum, Exxon's defenders have fallen back on a bizarre strategy to try and protect the company: claiming that environmental groups and attorneys general are… → Read More
President Obama's Final Climate Test: Keep It in the Ground
Now, as the President gives his final State of the Union and prepares for his last year in office, the question remains: which path will he take? Will he continue to act in the way he did on Keystone XL, standing up to Big Oil and turning down projects that endanger the climate and our communities? Or will the President backslide to the Obama we saw in Cushing and continue to promote fossil fuel… → Read More
TransCanada's Pathetic Keystone XL Lawsuit Could Galvanize Resistance to New Trade Agreements
Talk about sore losers. The Canadian pipeline company TransCanada announced this afternoon that it is suing Obama Administration over its decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. The lawsuit won't do anything to help get the pipeline built, it's too late for that. → Read More
After Paris: The Climate Talks End and the Movement Continues
Four years ago last August, a group of us sat down in front of the White House holding placards with climate promises that President Obama had made during his campaign and waited to get arrested. We were there to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, which our nation's top climate scientist had said would be a fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet, but which the President was by all accounts… → Read More