EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - November 30, 2017
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1) Can Plastic Ever Be Made Illegal?
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-made-illegal-2509110321.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=04dfc769c4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-04dfc769c4-86095421
AND
3D Printing Turns Plastic Trash Into Public Furniture
https://www.ecowatch.com/3d-printing-plastic-furniture-2511668208.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=193859ae06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-193859ae06-86095421
2) Why These 8 States Could Soon Form the 'Great American Desert'
3) One Simple Trick to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Union Of Concerned Scientists: "Replace one conference travel flight with a train ride. Repeat every year."
4) How to Talk to Your Relatives About Climate Change: A Guide for the Holidays
5) Victory: Concerned Citizens and
Environmental Groups Stop Oil Train in Its Tracks
https://www.ecowatch.com/victory-crude-oil-transportation-2511622791.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=193859ae06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-193859ae06-86095421
6) Report: Social Cost of Carbon Has Been
Drastically Underestimated
https://www.ecowatch.com/social-cost-carbon-estimates-2511340431.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=193859ae06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-193859ae06-86095421
7) 3 Major Spills in 7 Years: Keystone Has
Leaked Far More Than TransCanada Estimated
https://www.ecowatch.com/keystone-oil-spills-2512913573.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a505cc33e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a505cc33e4-86095421
8) French Court Temporarily Bans Two Pesticides Over Possible Threat to Bees
https://www.ecowatch.com/france-pesticide-bees-sulfoxaflor-2512915823.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a505cc33e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a505cc33e4-86095421
9) First Nations occupy fish farms in British Columbia to force government
action
https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/first-nations-occupy-fish-farms-british-columbia/
10) Is Grass-fed Beef Better for the Climate? It’s Complicated.
https://civileats.com/2017/11/13/is-grass-fed-beef-better-for-the-climate-its-complicated/
Civil Eats: "300 academic peer-reviewed research papers from the last 20-plus years concluded that the carbon sequestered by raising cattle exclusively on pasture, even if they’re sustainably managed, doesn’t balance out the methane released over the cow’s lifecycle... reduced meat consumption is the only way for us to meet global climate goals."
11) Natural Remedy: After the fires, mycoremediation offers a 'tragic
opportunity'
https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/natural-remedy/Content?oid=4550045
Bohemian:
"The use of mushrooms to clean up landscapes is called mycoremediation, a
technique that's gaining acceptance in cleaning up oil fields and toxic waste
sites."
12) Native American Woman Olivia Lone
Bear, Mother of 5, Missing in North Dakota Oil Fields (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/29/native_american_woman_olivia_lone_bear?utm_source=Democracy+Now!&utm_campaign=f16f1b2abc-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-f16f1b2abc-191276697
13) Environmental Groups Blast Michigan Officials for 'Trust' in Pipeline
Operator
https://www.ecowatch.com/michigan-enbridge-pipeline-2513486536.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f6c791c0a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f6c791c0a6-86095421
14) China's Solar Surge Hits New Heights
https://www.ecowatch.com/chinas-solar-surge-hits-new-heights-2513286346.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f6c791c0a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f6c791c0a6-86095421
15) Report: Shell Complicit in Human Rights Abuses
https://www.ecowatch.com/shell-nigeria-amnesty-2513278575.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=f6c791c0a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-f6c791c0a6-86095421
16) Migratory Birds Are Being Driven Northward by Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/migratory-birds-climate-change-2513206808.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&ts=1511887646
17) 'Historical Mistake': Green Groups Decry EU's Glyphosate License Extension
https://www.ecowatch.com/eu-glyphosate-license-extension-2513022181.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=93cd1cb80b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-93cd1cb80b-86095421
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
18) Ditch Plastic Lunches: Stand Up for Zero-Waste Schools
https://www.ecowatch.com/kids-plastic-lunch-2511102062.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=93cd1cb80b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-93cd1cb80b-86095421
19) EFSEC unanimous in vote against Port of Vancouver oil terminal
https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/28/vancouver-port-oil-terminal-efsec/
20) How Gardening Turned This Poor-Performing School In The Bronx Around
https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/how-gardening-turned-this-poor-performing-school-in-the-bronx-around?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=Social&utm_term=1185613214&utm_campaign=Rodale%27s%20Organic%20Life
21) Marin anti-Keystone pipeline activists applaud legal victory
http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20171128/NEWS/171129816
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%!
Take Action - Get Involved!
Monday, December 4, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
"Divestment has never been more important." Bill McKibben. Join us to divest the two largest public pension funds in the country CalSTRS and CalPERS from fossil fuels by 2020. Morally, it's the right thing to do: financially it's the smart thing to do.
Contact Jane at calstr...@gmail.com for more information and location in Santa Rosa.
Sonoma Solidarity with Standing Rock
Saturday, December 9, 3
Next Steps: 1) Join
Meetings meet on the 2nd Saturday of each month:
2
3:30-5
For more info:
Peace & Justice Center - 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
Attend our next Earth Action Campaign meeting
Monday, January 15, 7-9 PM
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
This campaign meets monthly on the 3rd Mondays. Meet in person or call in
from home.
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650.
No meeting in December.
Sonoma County Climate Change Activists
Meeting
Monday, January 28, 7-9 PM, Peace & Justice Center
Climate change groups and individuals working together to coordinate efforts
and make action plans.
At the last meeting we all agreed to support the 350 Sonoma Green Rebuild Campaign. We encourage
you to get involved. Contact http://350SonomaCounty.org or 350Sono...@gmail.com to endorse their proposal and support their work.
Look for Public Bank Santa Rosa on Facebook or email them at in...@publicbanksantarosa.com.
Volunteer Opportunities
• Join The Shopper's Guide Research Team
We will be updating our shopper's guide
in December. You can help with research - finding companies that meet
our criteria, and the ones that don't. This update will expand to
include pet food companies and continue adding more beer companies. If
you use a product that is not in our shopper's guide you can help
research it or send us the name for us to scrutinize.
• Adopt-A-Bulletin Board
What locations do you
already go to that have bulletin boards? Where can you easily go to in
your own neighborhood to help us publicize teach-ins and events? Download
our latest flyer from our website and let us know where you are posting.
• Graphic Artist Needed For Converting Our New Logo To Vector Art
We have a logo design that is 8-10". We would like to be able to scale it up to 3-4'.
• Video editing help is always needed - even one hour would help
We are behind in our video projects and could use some help in getting caught up.
Can you help us upload some video clips to our Youtube page?
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 county-wide social justice campaigns that are globally relevant.