EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - November 2, 2018
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1) World's Biggest Plastic Polluters Pledge to Cut Waste by 2025
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-pollution-companies-oceans-2616204586.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=30507287a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-30507287a7-86095421
2) Bayer Slumps After Judge Upholds Monsanto Cancer Verdict, Reduces Damages
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bayer-slumps-after-judge-upholds-monsanto-cancer-verdict-reduces-damages-14753183?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo&fbclid=IwAR28Wb_I6CARTJTs5lgRTv-h7x5NAEcH5UokGH-5ah9Or6xBd8S9Q1v4Fj4
https://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-cheerios-quaker-oats-2615111640.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=7aee6ca942-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-7aee6ca942-86095421
4) Roundup for Breakfast, Part 2: In New Tests, Weed Killer Found in All Kids’ Cereals Sampled
https://www.ewg.org/release/roundup-breakfast-part-2-new-tests-weed-killer-found-all-kids-cereals-sampled
https://www.ecowatch.com/entire-pesticide-class-must-be-banned-2615064176.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f119260570-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f119260570-86095421
6) The Lessons We Didn’t Learn From the Largest Gas Leak in U.S. History
https://www.ecowatch.com/natural-gas-leaks-health-california-2615397026.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c918d7474a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c918d7474a-86095421
AND
7) First ‘Red’ Level Tremor at UK Fracking Site Put Legal Pause on Operations
https://www.ecowatch.com/uk-fracking-cuadrilla-paused-2616185847.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c918d7474a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c918d7474a-86095421
AND
8) Arctic Oil Drilling Project Approved by Trump Administration
https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-oil-drilling-trump-2615086605.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=7aee6ca942-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-7aee6ca942-86095421
AND
9) Big Oil Pours Record $30M to Sway Voters Against Nation's First Carbon Tax
https://www.ecowatch.com/washington-carbon-tax-big-oil-2616808725.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bd2580fe38-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bd2580fe38-86095421
10) Polluted Air Sends Up to 33 Million People to the ER Each Year
https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-health-effects-2615116926.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=7aee6ca942-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-7aee6ca942-86095421
AND
11) Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt Into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
https://www.ecowatch.com/petrochemicals-rust-belt-climate-change-2616196327.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bd2580fe38-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bd2580fe38-86095421
12) 70% of Venice Flooded by Highest Tide in at Least a Decade
https://www.ecowatch.com/venice-flooding-sea-level-rise-2616467169.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=30507287a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-30507287a7-86095421
13) Yes, ExxonMobil and Chevron Are Still Distorting Climate Science
https://www.ecowatch.com/exxonmobil-and-chevron-distorting-climate-science-2614802732.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f119260570-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f119260570-86095421
AND
14) Brazil’s New President Could Spell Catastrophe for the Amazon, Indigenous Rights and Global Climate
https://www.ecowatch.com/brazil-bolsonaro-amazon-climate-2616170023.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c918d7474a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c918d7474a-86095421
15) 2018 Atlantic, Pacific Hurricane Season Most Active on Record
https://www.ecowatch.com/2018-hurricane-season-2614804981.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f119260570-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f119260570-86095421
16) Super Typhoon Yutu Slams U.S. Pacific Territories With Category 5 Strength
https://www.ecowatch.com/super-typhoon-yutu-pacific-territories-2615050660.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f119260570-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f119260570-86095421
17) Humanity 'Sleepwalking Towards the Edge of a Cliff': 60% of Earth's Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970
https://www.ecowatch.com/earths-wildlife-wiped-out-since-1970-2616534688.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=44674067af-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-44674067af-86095421
AND
18) U.S. Has 18 'Very High Threat' Volcanoes
https://www.ecowatch.com/volcanoes-us-threat-ranking-2615384531.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3e06a38b3d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3e06a38b3d-86095421
19) How Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe
https://truthout.org/articles/how-capitalism-stokes-the-far-right-and-climate-catastrophe/
20) Solar Geoengineering May Not Cool the Oceans, Study Says
https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-geoengineering-oceans-2616282868.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=30507287a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-30507287a7-86095421
21) Oceans Have Absorbed 60% More Heat Than Scientists Thought
https://www.ecowatch.com/oceans-heat-absorption-climate-change-2617077826.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bd2580fe38-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bd2580fe38-86095421
22) Teen Climate Activist to Crowd of Thousands: 'We Can't Save the World by Playing by the Rules Because the Rules Have to Change'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/20/teen-climate-activist-crowd-thousands-we-cant-save-world-playing-rules-because-rules
23) Pending Youth Climate Case Inspires Nationwide Movement
https://www.ecowatch.com/juliana-v-united-states-rally-2616270281.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=30507287a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-30507287a7-86095421
AND
25) UK Activists Kick Off ‘Extinction Rebellion’
https://www.ecowatch.com/extinction-rebellion-uk-2617088143.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bd2580fe38-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bd2580fe38-86095421
26) AND
'Wow Wow Wow... Huge News' as New York Sues ExxonMobil for Defrauding Investors by Hiding Climate Threat
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/24/wow-wow-wow-huge-news-new-york-sues-exxonmobil-defrauding-investors-hiding-climate
27) New York Sues Exxon for Deceiving Investors on Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/new-york-sues-exxon-2614883066.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f119260570-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f119260570-86095421
28) Self-Driving Cars Could Cause More Pollution – Unless Electric Grid Transforms Radically
https://www.ecowatch.com/self-driving-cars-pollution-2615443313.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=30507287a7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-30507287a7-86095421
29) Meet the Teenager Getting Bali and the World to Say ‘Bye Bye Plastic Bags’
https://www.ecowatch.com/bali-bye-bye-plastic-bags-2616847315.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=bd2580fe38-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-bd2580fe38-86095421
Thursday, November 8, 7-9 PM
Arlene Francis Center, 99 6th St., Santa Rosa
film about activist Ken Ward who turned off the valves to the US oil pipelines
Free with donations welcome
For more info: OccupySonomaCounty.org
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
Monday, November 19, 7-9 PM
Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign MeetingPeace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650
(No meeting in December)
Wednesday, November 21, 7pm
350 Sonoma
For more info go to Facebook350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sono...@gmail.com
Monday, December 3
Occupy Sonoma County Six Year Birthday!
And kick off to our month-long Winter Break (no meetings or newsletter in December)
December 6, 5-8 PM
Holiday Networking Party & Awards for Leadership in Post-fire Ecosystem Regeneration
Sebastopol
Grange
Sonoma County Conservation Council: sc...@sonic.net
Thurs. Dec. 6, 7:00-8:30 PM
Traditional
Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change Presentation with Pomo Tribal Elder
Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa
Rosa
$12
For more info: (707) 527-9277 or in...@lagunafoundation.org
Volunteer Opportunities
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We need a list of all Sonoma County bars, clubs, restaurants, food
trucks, food vendors, caterers - any company that serves food and
drinks. First we are doing a mailing to Mexican restaurants and
taquerias about GMOs in corn and then in a few months we are doing a
large mailing requesting that food vendors use paper straws and not the
new so-called compostable plastic which is only slightly better than
regular plastic. We need help compiling these mailing lists.
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.