Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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How 350.org went from “strange kid” to head of the green class
350.org's May Boeve explains how the organization nearly got founded at a Montana microbrewery, how it drew a line in the tar sands, and where it’s going next.
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![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
Low impact: State Department says Keystone won’t hurt much at all
The latest report isn’t the final word, but it gives President Obama one more excuse to approve the pipeline project protesters detest most.
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Did spying take Copenhagen from Hopenhagen to Brokenhagen?
New documents show NSA snoops worked hard to spy on the U.S.'s negotiating partners in 2009's failed climate negotiations.
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Front-vine lessons: What made Florida’s tomato-field uprising work
How the Immokalee Coalition got Walmart and the fast food chains to do right by tomato workers -- and propagated a new-model activism.
