EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - May 10, 2019
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EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS
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UK Parliament First in World to Declare Climate Emergency
https://www.ecowatch.com/uk-parliament-climate-emergency-2636090140.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=10764274bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-10764274bf-86095421
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/2/george_monbiot_on_uk_climate_emergency?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=b0fab8f3e6-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-b0fab8f3e6-191276697
https://www.ecowatch.com/house-climate-change-bill-2636180068.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
"The U.S. House of Representatives approved its first major climate change legislation in a decade on Thursday, Reuters reported. The Climate Action Now Act would require President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the Paris agreement, mandating that he outlines steps to reduce greenhouse emissions and prohibiting him from using federal funds to withdraw from the agreement. The bill passed 231 to 190, with three Republicans crossing the aisle to approve it with the Democrats. It is unlikely to pass the Senate, but the Democrats see it as a way to stake out a climate position ahead of the 2020 election and to signal to the international community that a future Democratic president would stay in the agreement, The Washington Post reported."
Amsterdam Plans to Ban All Non-Electric Vehicles by 2030
https://tinyurl.com/y29h92zo
https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-spin-check-2636099916.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c5ed70e280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c5ed70e280-86095421
https://sustainablepulse.com/2019/05/05/epa-ignores-glyphosate-health-damage-in-proposing-re-approval/#.XNFbqanLdi9
Brazil's Bolsonaro Green-Lights 150+ Pesticides This Year
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-bolsonaro-pesticides-2636194015.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=9a855717e8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-9a855717e8-86095421
UK Fracking Commissioner Admits to Deleting Correspondence With Industry
https://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ca%2Br88s%2FTz3EwU5Ika%2BcqH%2Bjb0Ft0neQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drinking-water-may-contain-pfas-chemicals-in-43-states-according-to-new-study-by-environmental-working-group/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a
Maine First U.S. State to Ban Styrofoam Containers
https://www.ecowatch.com/indonesia-to-move-capital-jakarta-2636197365.html
'Call It a Crisis': New Report Details Failure of Cable and Network Outlets to Accurately Describe Climate Emergency
https://tinyurl.com/yyed6uvz
The Vicious Climate-Wildfire Cycle
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-wildfires-2636008989.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=1bea196347-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-1bea196347-86095421
Cyclone Fani Kills at Least 38, Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Homeless in India and Bangladesh
https://www.ecowatch.com/cyclone-fani-india-bangladesh-2636402554.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=1bea196347-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-1bea196347-86095421
https://theecologist.org/2019/may/03/2018-fourth-worst-year-deforestation
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report
https://www.treehugger.com/travel/carnival-corp-continues-violate-environmental-laws-even-while-probation.html
Restaurants in California May Start Adding an Optional 1% Climate Change Fee to Your Bill
https://www.ecowatch.com/california-restaurants-climate-change-fee-2635915363.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=10764274bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-10764274bf-86095421
EPA Releases Report Advising Communities to Prepare for Climate Change-Related Disasters
https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-climate-change-disasters-report-2636186015.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c5ed70e280-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c5ed70e280-86095421
4 Reasons Why We Need a Climate Debate
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-debate-2020-election-2636096070.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
Climate Crisis Forces Us to Ask: To What Do We Devote Ourselves?
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-forces-us-to-ask-to-what-do-we-devote-ourselves/
'Beautiful Trouble' Grows With Friday Climate Strikes on Multiple Continents
https://tinyurl.com/yybascsn
SMART finds rail service expansion to Napa and Solano counties would cost about $1 billion
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9547010-181/smart-finds-rail-service-expansion?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&utm_content&bt_ee=fGfhdF8cWeMtHrwpraTzQyeu1ffL/FTJ62/V2olvbWxAZkEWn8qRLXR0NLNsaSQL&bt_ts=1557069606158&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_term=ad8e6cac3284183e0c31c7abd0557b09&utm_content&bt_ee=%2BBTM26rBALSqixTu7mSOozX0L7B%2Fh%2FgunjRwovIhXIcDbrltyL6L%2F9hEQ1Yc080C&bt_ts=1557069606085
UK Achieves First Coal-Free Week Since Industrial Revolution
https://www.ecowatch.com/uk-coal-renewable-energy-2636673241.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=42fdb23269-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-42fdb23269-86095421
The May Meat Challenge is an annual educational campaign about the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact of animal agriculture and conventional food production. To reduce our GHG footprint a shift to plant-based foods is essential to preventing a climate catastrophe. But for many, plant-based eating seems intimidating. The May Meat Challenge provides motivation and resources to start exploring a plant-based diet.
For more information, visit Occupy Sonoma County's May Meat Challenge page at http://OccupySonomaCounty.org/MayMeatChallenge.
Monday May 13th from 12:00 to
1:30pm
Youth Climate Action Panel
Santa Rosa Junior College, Newman Auditorium
Congressman Jared Huffman (2nd District) is a special guest on the panel
RSVP free registration: http://climate-panel-srjc.eventbrite.com
Green New Deal Town Hall
Sonoma County Conservation Action, 350 Sonoma, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Jobs with Justice, Sonoma County Indivisible, the Sonoma County Democratic Party and others.
For more info go to Facebook: 350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sonomacounty@gmail.com
Spring Social by the Sonoma County Conservation Council
Nolan Ranch, Forestville
Potluck finger foods, music, eco-fun
RSVP by May 18 to w...@sonic.net or (707) 544-4582
Monday, May 20, 7-9 PM
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
We will be discussing our plans for Plastic Free July - and other stuff.
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650
Sonoma Solidarity With Standing Rock meeting
Peace and Justice Center - 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa
1:30 to 3:00 PM - Public Banking meeting
3:00 to 4:30 PM - Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock admin/divestment meeting
For more info, visit: www.sonomasolidarity.org
Saturday, May 25 (the last Saturday every month)
Community Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop
9-12:30 Seed Library
For more info: communitys...@gmail.com
Monday, July 29, 7-9 PM
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa 95401
Please submit campaign proposals in writing: SonomaC...@gmail.com or to the SoCoCAN listserv (preferred)
Facilitator for this meeting: June
Notetaker: You? Please let us know if you can take notes for this meeting
Volunteer
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OSC is putting on teach-ins on May 6
(plant-based eating for climate change), and July 22 (zero waste).
Please adopt the bulletin boards where you already shop. Download
flyers from our website or pick them up at the Peace & Justice Center Monday-Friday 1-4 PM. Please let us know what bulletin boards you can
cover. Thank you.
• If you are an experienced builder who can
help us build raised bed garden boxes please contact us. We also need
help delivering them if you have a truck. This could be an occasional
or ongoing project. Sadly, our garden box builder is no longer with us.
Call To Action!
We urge all groups including schools,
neighborhood associations, organizations, clubs and groups of any kind to adopt
a Climate Declaration. Adopt ours or write your own. Share your
Climate Declaration with local governments, the media, write articles, and share
information.
Occupy Sonoma County Climate Declaration
Occupy Sonoma County, along with concerned, forward thinking people all over the world, declares that climate change has reached catastrophic proportions as evidenced by the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere, the melting of polar ice caps, and the continual rising of global temperatures. This is a global emergency, and we must act immediately. We invite all forces of life to join together for our survival. We stand up for life.
We recognize that the root of climate change is a capitalist system run by money greedy corporations and the governments that they control. We actively oppose greenhouse gas producers, nuclear power investors, and fossil fuel companies by boycotting their products, developing alternatives, divesting from corporations that endorse them and insisting that governments at all levels take action. We call on all governments and corporations to adopt life-sustaining practices immediately.
The people must act now to
stop this destruction from continuing and reverse the damage this has
caused. The future is in our hands. We are the 99%!
What Earth Actions are you taking?
707-877-6650
http://OccupySonomaCounty.org
http://OccupySonomaCounty.org/es (en
español)
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySonomaCounty
https://twitter.com/OcSoCo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmJoCP-ePUTPWNgHZwtBelg
Occupy Sonoma County embraces the egalitarian, deep democracy principles of the
Occupy Movement with a regional strategy for effectively organizing countywide
social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.