Sam Parsons, co-founder and director of campaigns for UnKoch My Campus, was kind enough to talk to us about her experience as a student activist, and share some ideas for how student activists can partner with faculty and community members, and not butt heads.

While sti...

The Youth Climate Movement and the Virginia Green New Deal were highlighted last weekend as Northern Virginia residents danced to social justice rock music and heard from a powerful line-up of speakers at our third annual Mother’s Day Climate Rally.

MOTHER'S DAY CLIMATE...

If you're wondering how to be an "Adult Ally" to youth activists, come out to our Mother's Day Climate Rally on Sunday May 5, 2019 in Fairfax, Virginia! Kristin Hogue will speak about about parenting a young climate activist. Her thirteen-year-old daughter Alexandria V...

My father, Earl Boyer, was born on a farm in northwestern Illinois in 1910 and became a large animal veterinarian after completing his studies at Iowa State University. He worked into his seventies, traveling the rural roads of Stephenson County, tending to the livesto...

Last Friday, my six-year-old son and I met up with fellow NOVA Climate activists (and a lot of other people dedicated to caring for our planet) outside the U.S. Capitol building. As we added our voices to the International Youth Climate Strike, I felt lucky to live a s...

We need a plan to save the planet while creating great jobs. Actually, there is one.

Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October 2018, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2...

To my five-year-old son,

You asked me why I’ve been working so hard on the Mother’s Day Climate Rally. (Which is happening TOMORROW, rain or shine.) Like the other moms and dads in NOVA Climate, I believe the best thing I can do as a parent is to protect you. To fight f...

Let me just get this out there for anyone who may be unaware– I’m no super mom. As a freelance writer and stay at home mom, I barely have time to get dinner on the table most nights and/or keep the floors to a minimum level of dog hair.

So when my mom came dow...

What do dark money, climate change and George Mason University students have in common? The Koch Brothers. Join us at the Fairfax County Courthouse on Tuesday, April 24, at 9 am, to stand up for transparency in our universities, and against the dark money that influenc...

We are about to go to the polls to choose Ralph Northam or Ed Gillespie as our next governor. It’s an election that’s being closely watched by the entire country, and is arguably the most important state election of our lifetime – not just because it’s been called the...