EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - October 29, 2020

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Oct 29, 2020, 6:49:28 AM10/29/20
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BREAKTHROUGH!
World's Largest Solar Farm in Australia Will Also Supply 20% of Singapore's Electricity
https://www.ecowatch.com/worlds-largest-solar-farm-singapore-australia-2648425842.html?mc_cid=e6e97ddcee&mc_eid=41817bb0a2

It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34372005/solar-cheapest-energy-ever/

LOCAL REPORTS
Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?
https://newrepublic.com/article/159910/forest-service-making-wildfires-worse

How Would Oakland Community Groups Spend $30 Billion? We Asked Four of Them ...
https://www.kqed.org/science/1970663/how-would-oakland-community-groups-spend-30-billion-we-asked-four-of-them?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20201026_News_News%20Daily_Newsletter&mc_key=00Q1Y00001xsPQmUAM

Five years after the Aliso Canyon methane leak, California is still too reliant on fossil fuelshttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-23/aliso-canyon-methane-leak

Wildfire safety starts with communities, not cutting forests
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Wildfire-safety-starts-with-communities-not-15629824.php

Behind the Battle for the Future of California’s Oil
https://www.kqed.org/news/11841676/behind-the-battle-for-the-future-of-californias-oil?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20201023_News_News%20Daily_Newsletter&mc_key=00Q1Y00001xsPQmUAM
"Environmentalists, petroleum industry executives, union leaders and communities near oil drilling sites are all gearing up for what's expected to be a fierce political battle over efforts to reduce California's oil production. This time around, Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants a ban on fracking, and a key state lawmaker says the Legislature should go further and reduce oil drilling of all kinds."

Tule Elk Decision Looms: Pt. Reyes Could Soon Renew Ranch Leases and Thin Elk Herds
https://www.kqed.org/science/1970500/tule-elk-decision-looms-pt-reyes-could-soon-renew-ranch-leases-and-thin-elk-herds?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20201009_Science_ScienceNewsletter_Newsletter&mc_key=00Q1Y00001xsPQmUAM

Rohnert Park City Council race divided over climate change
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/rohnert-park-city-council-race-divided-over-climate-change/?trk_msg=MPJH2FCOAJEKB0SQGJ8V8LOD7G&trk_contact=QQQLPEJ4NTMGK1AJ6O84IQKD2K&trk_module=new&trk_sid=21GVV9TKGU9D3BT3H1FMEP65E8&utm_email=94D5D43DA4752562A4E1D47CED&g2i_eui=ltCmFhHaOJlhoc2NDLU8wbswC8RaJYm4G89Z5lDLgjE%3d&g2i_source=newsletter&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pressdemocrat.com%2farticle%2fnews%2frohnert-park-city-council-race-divided-over-climate-change%2f&utm_campaign=pd_daily&sba=AAS
"Of Sonoma County’s nine cities, Rohnert Park also is the only one that has not adopted a resolution declaring a climate emergency. The action recommended by the county’s Regional Climate Protection Authority to influence municipal policymaking has sat dormant in City Hall for more than a year while all of the other cities and Board of Supervisors have signed on."

GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Despite Court Ruling and Drift Concerns, EPA Approves Use of Dicamba Products on Soybeans and Cotton for Five Years
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/27/despite-court-ruling-and-drift-concerns-epa-approves-use-dicamba-products-soybeans#

The U.S. Still Uses Dozens of Hazardous Pesticides Banned in Other Countries
https://inthesetimes.com/article/banned-pesticides-herbicides-agricultural-chemicals-industrial-farming?link_id=12&can_id=4ac90aceb77dd266e204a905365379d8&source=email-a-new-crew-of-left-challengers-is-bringing-movement-politics-to-congress-the-socialists-and-progressives-working-to-oust-trump-2&email_referrer=email_971064&email_subject=exxon-spends-millions-on-facebook-to-keep-the-fossil-fuel-industry-alive-playing-chicken-with-economic-relief-while-americans-starve

Explore the science of GMOs and related pesticides, and their impact on health, agriculture and the environment
https://gmoresearch.org/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6d16fc12-f647-4eaf-a0e2-90534a9952b2

FOSSIL FUELS
Report Reveals Auto Giants Knew About Car Emissions and Climate Change — in the 1960s
https://www.ecowatch.com/car-emissions-climate-change-2648512930.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/08/08/bakken-fracking-oil-boom-bust-hess-cleanup

Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
https://www.desmogblog.com/permian-basin-problems-fracking-series

Stricken Venezuelan oil tanker raises fears of Caribbean ecological disaster
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/stricken-venezuelan-oil-tanker-raises-fears-caribbean-ecological-disaster-n1243966

Texas Regulators Failing to Act on Pollution Complaints in Permian Oilfields, New Report Finds
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/10/21/texas-commission-environmental-quality-pollution-complaints-permian-earthworks

Unplugged: The Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to 'Electrify Everything'
https://www.desmogblog.com/unplugged-gas-industry-fighting-electric-buildings

Mysterious Oil Spill Spreads Along 11 Miles of Delaware Beach
https://www.ecowatch.com/oil-spill-delaware-coast-2648458759.html?mc_cid=e97404646b&mc_eid=41817bb0a2

Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive
https://inthesetimes.com/article/exxon-facebook-instagram-advertising-fracking-climate-fossil-fuels?link_id=2&can_id=4ac90aceb77dd266e204a905365379d8&source=email-a-new-crew-of-left-challengers-is-bringing-movement-politics-to-congress-the-socialists-and-progressives-working-to-oust-trump-2&email_referrer=email_971064&email_subject=exxon-spends-millions-on-facebook-to-keep-the-fossil-fuel-industry-alive-playing-chicken-with-economic-relief-while-americans-starve

PLASTIC & POLLUTION
Strict Air Quality Rules Are Helping, London’s Mayor Sayshttps://ecowatch.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=214ab5fbb3f6015d74ffab4ec&id=97b75180ef&e=41817bb0a2

How Air Pollution, Food Delivery and Plastic Waste Are Connected
https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-food-delivery-plastic-waste-2648454324.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Small increases in air pollution linked to rise in depression, finds study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/24/small-increases-in-air-pollution-linked-to-rise-in-depression-finds-study?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_568&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1603540986

The Plastic Myth and the Misunderstood Triangle
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-recycling-triangle-myth-2648460721.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
"As long as it remains cheaper to create new plastics from fossil fuels rather than from bioplastics or from recycling, we're going to be stuck with plastic garbage islands floating in our oceans."

GREEN NEW DEAL
Video of First-Ever Climate Change Segment in a Presidential Debate
https://www.kqed.org/science/1970641/watch-video-of-first-ever-climate-change-segment-in-a-presidential-debate?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20201009_Science_ScienceNewsletter_Newsletter&mc_key=00Q1Y00001xsPQmUAM

WAKE UP CALL
Climate scientists throw cold water on 'Arctic methane bomb' report
https://theweek.com/speedreads/946300/climate-scientists-throw-cold-water-arctic-methane-bomb-report

Scientists Say Methane Release Is Starting in Arctic Ocean. How Concerned Should We Be?
https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-release-arctic-ocean-2648529839.html?mc_cid=8f32d557c0&mc_eid=41817bb0a2

Climate change worrying more Australians than ever before, Australia Institute report reveals
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-28/australia-institute-2020-climate-change-report-concern-growing/12764874?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=twitter&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

Arctic sea-ice shrinks to near record low extent
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54211760

'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-release-scientists-find

South African environmental activist shot dead in her home
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/south-african-environmental-activist-shot-dead-in-her-home?fbclid=IwAR3_QzsU02pFQIcPPY_mglOTIYBMzF8CJMEnr6VNH9VOKA0-t0E3L-vjedw

Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/alarm-as-arctic-sea-ice-not-yet-freezing-at-latest-date-on-record?CMP=share_btn_tw

THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Researcher proposes sea-level rise global observing system
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-sea-level-global.html

Wide Awake: The past four years have birthed a progressive movement so extraordinary it just might survive the forces that threaten its extinction.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/progressive-protest-movement-under-trump.html#_ga=2.5879030.473369133.1603885769-1326512689.1603885769

A Message From the Future II: The Years of Repair
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/01/naomi-klein-message-from-future-covid/

It’s Not Enough to Fight — Labor and the Left Have to Be Serious About How to Win
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/jane-mcalevey-strike-school-organizing-mobilizing

DIRECT ACTIONS
‘We don’t have any choice’: The young climate activists naming and shaming politicians
https://grist.org/politics/we-dont-have-any-choice-the-young-climate-activists-naming-and-shaming-politicians/

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical

Designing Batteries for Easier Recycling Could Avert Looming E-Waste Crisis
https://www.ecowatch.com/e-waste-battery-recycling-2648458470.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
"Today's lithium-ion batteries are highly sophisticated and not designed for recyclability. They contain hazardous chemicals, such as toxic lithium salts and transition metals, that can damage the environment and leach into water sources. Used lithium batteries also contain embedded electrochemical energy – a small amount of charge left over after they can no longer power devices – which can cause fires or explosions, or harm people that handle them."

ENDING ON A POSITIVE
'What the Future Can Look Like': Study Shows US Switch to 100% Renewables Would Save Hundreds of Billions Each Year
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/22/what-future-can-look-study-shows-us-switch-100-renewables-would-save-hundreds?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email#

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
https://OccupySonomaCounty.org
 (en español)

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.

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Nov 14, 2020, 2:37:07 PM11/14/20
to Emerald, Earth Action Campaign
Dear Climate Activists,

With the intense hope, the joy and sadness this documentary film will bring, I would like to share:

YOUTH v GOV 

The trailer is here:

https://www.facebook.com/theredfordcenter/videos/youth-v-gov-film-trailer/260506831549919/

It is now premiering at the NYC Film Festival. Hats off to this group of filmmakers!

On a more personal note, I have known youth climate activist Kelsey Juliana and her father Tim Ingalsbee (Director, Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology) for a few years, interviewed them in 2018, and I have to say to all: This is amazing.

You can see the full film. Tim sent links to more information about the film, and the link to buy tickets to see the film.  When you buy a ticket, you have till Nov. 19  to view the film whenever it is convenient to you.  Here is the info needed:

The documentary film YOUTH v GOV. DOC NYC is taking place online in the United States from November 11-19.

For tickets click here: docnyc.net/film/youth-v-gov 

Please let me know if you have questions.
Best regards,
Maya




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