May Boeve
May Boeve is the executive director of 350.org. Previously, May co-founded and helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign, and prior to that was active in the campus climate movement while a student at Middlebury College. May is the co-author, with Bill McKibben, of "Fight Global Warming Now" (2007).
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Views Friday, August 31, 2018 Writing a New Chapter, Not an Obituary, for the Planet No, it’s not too late to address climate change. No, families with minivans aren’t equally to blame for failing to address the climate crisis as are oil executives who have stopped at nothing to protect their profits. And with respect, no, the only meaningful attempts to address climate change... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Still Opposing a Congressional Move to Protect Exxon It’s an unprecedented move to demand that 17 Attorneys General, as well as environmental and non-profit groups, including Greenpeace USA and 350.org, turn over internal documents and communications related to our work to expose Exxon’s climate denial. But that’s what Representative Lamar Smith and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 26, 2016 Climate Action is Needed Whether Exxon Likes it or Not. Last week, we were among a handful of organizations who received a letter signed by 13 members of Congress claiming that we may be violating Exxon’s right to free speech. They’re requesting that we divulge any communication we may have had with state officials and many private organizations with... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 24, 2015 The US Can Go Fossil Free — Here's How The world must go fossil free – and fast. But the proposals for reducing greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions that the US and other countries are proposing for next month’s climate summit in Paris will still allow nearly twice as much global warming as scientists -- and even those very governments -- say... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 06, 2015 Obama Rejects Keystone XL: This Is Big.... And Just the Beginning This is a big win. President Obama’s decision to reject Keystone XL because of its impact on the climate is nothing short of historic -- and sets an important precedent that should send shockwaves through the fossil fuel industry. Just a few years ago, insiders and experts wrote us off and assured... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 17, 2015 Time for Feeling Powerless in the Face of Climate Chaos Is Over 2015 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, and this December hundreds of world governments will meet in Paris to try to strike a global climate agreement. It will be the biggest gathering of its kind since 2009, and it's potentially a big deal for our global movement. "No matter... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 12, 2015 Divestment is Working. Now It’s Time To Escalate the Fight It seems that every day now there’s another editorial, study, rant —even animations! —criticizing the fossil fuel divestment campaign. The pieces, usually written by lobbyists associated with fossil fuel companies, stodgy academics, or conservative politicians, usually cite the same arguments:... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 06, 2015 'Fighting for the Places We Love': A Vision for the Climate Battles to Come CD editor's note: The following conversation between Naomi Klein and May Boeve took place as an online webinar hosted by 350.org last week in advance of the upcoming Global Divestment Day (s), taking place on February 13 and 14, during which individuals and institutions from around the world will... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 06, 2014 What the Election Means for the Climate Movement Tuesday’s election results were pretty bad. But when times get rough, it’s really important to remember to breathe, and focus on how we’re going to fix this problem together. Here’s my early sense of what this election means for the climate movement: 1. The fossil fuel industry knows it’s in a... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 24, 2014 Want To Create Jobs? Reject Keystone XL and Get To Work Fixing What's Broken Read more |