Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty

Reflections on 10 Years of Building Opportunities

In 2007 a group of Carbondale, Colorado residents had a vision that an empty elementary school building could become a dynamic community resource filled with artist studios, social service offices, and meeting space for organizations, businesses, neighborhood groups and environmentalists of all kinds. With the town's vision and ongoing support, a broad partnership grew that included a local developer, an architect, a community development corporation, a local bank, and a social entrepreneurship fund. Rather than start from scratch, this group decided to see if anyone else had tried this idea and what they could learn from them.

Tides Supports a National Dialogue on Tolerance

Happy New Year! As with the beginning of any new year we recognize change, resolutions and commitments. However, with the entrance of 2011, the type of change and commitments we make need to look very different. We need to be much more intentional and strategic in our work as the reliance on the social sector increases dramatically.

Project Word in National Geographic News Watch

Project Word, a three-year-old project of Tides that promotes media diversity as an editor-at-large to media outlets, had two articles published on National Geographic News Watch while the UN climate conference took place in Cancún this December: a story on Panama and an essay by a Native American forest specialist.

Everybody’s Movement; Environmental Justice And Climate Change

At this year's Bioneers (2010), Tides is once again co-hosting a panel that seeks to bring more depth and rigor to the values and practices of environmental advocacy work. "Everybody's Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change," is a remarkable paper written and published in 2009 by Angela Park, Executive Director of Diversity Matters. It is particularly aimed at educating us about how "many people of color and low-income communities regard climate change and the environment as priorities," but those issues are framed as environmental justice issues – the ways in which climate change affects communities, impacts public health, and is intertwined with social justice, transportation and labor issues.

One Nation Working Together: March With Us

On October 2, something special is going to happen. Everyday Americans from all walks of life will come together to take a step past the divisiveness that has plagued our country and towards a tomorrow built on a shared vision of prosperity. It is the One Nation Working Together march, and I hope you will be a part of it. Tides is the fiscal sponsor for One Nation Working Together providing it with operational infrastructure services.

Pakistan's Call for Help

Floods have devastated Pakistan in recent weeks leaving millions homeless and in need of emergency assistance. About one third of Pakistan has now been affected by the floods – which have marooned hundreds of villages and destroyed power stations, roads and bridges – complicating relief efforts. The toll of dead and injured is mounting daily, water-borne diseases are spreading, and international relief officials have said the pace of aid donations is still not sufficient to deal with what might be the nation's worst disaster.

Oil and Anguish: Alaska, Nigeria, and the Gulf Coast

Today, Prince William Sound appears "normal" to the naked eye. However, if you look below the surface, oil continues to contaminate beaches, national parks, and designated wilderness areas.

The Story of Cosmetics: "N-Nitrosoethanolmaine?"

In The Story of Stuff, Annie explained that as long as we keep putting toxic chemicals into our production system, we'll keep bringing toxic stuff into our homes, workplaces, and schools. Which means we'll keep getting toxics in us.

We're revisiting 'Toxics In, Toxics Out' on July 21st with the release of The Story of Cosmetics, which exposes the $50 billion cosmetics industry's use of toxic chemicals in everything from lipstick to baby shampoo-even chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. Yuck!

Center for Environment and Population Launches New Population, Climate Change, Environment Fellowships

The most recent report from Center for Environment and Population, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit research, policy and public outreach organization that addresses the relationship between human population, resource consumption, and the environment.

The Center for Environment and Population - a project of Tides - with four leading U.S. and global institutes, announces the launch of the 2010 CEP Fellows on Population, Climate Change and the Environment.  This...