BREAKTHROUGH!
World Mayors Call for Car-Free Streets, End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies as Part of ‘Green and Just Recovery’
LOCAL REPORTS
Shutdown of Marathon's Martinez Refinery Prompts Calls for 'Just Transition' for Oil Workers
"The mostly low-income, Latino residents of Arvin have joined with other
communities to demand setbacks for wells. Their slogan: “No drilling
where we are living.”
SMART seeks support for low-income discount program in ticket price review
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
New York State Legislature Bans Glyphosate (Roundup) in Public Parks, Bill Goes to Governor for Signature
FOSSIL FUELS
Bankrupt Fracking Companies Are Harming the Climate and Taxpayers
Germany Approves Coal Phaseout by 2038
PIPELINES
In Wake of Recent Victories, Standing Rock Activists Carry On With Renewed Hope
Trans Mountain Pipeline’s Lead Insurer Zurich Drops Coverage
Who’s Insuring the Trans Mountain Pipeline?
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
Which states are making the most progress on emissions? Not the ones you think.
This Carbon Emissions Law Actually Has Helped Kids Breathe
'It gives you a sense of pride': what four people learned from quitting plastic for a month
"This year, the campaign estimates they had 326 million participants,
worldwide... Plastic Free July really grew because so many people
felt the same thing. This was something practical and tangible we could
do.”
COVID-19 Is Laying Waste to Many U.S. Recycling Programs
"Prices for the most-recycled categories of reclaimed plastics — PET (#1)
and PE (#2 and #4) – were at 10-year lows. An influx of cheap oil has
driven the raw material cost of oil-derived virgin plastics to their
lowest levels in decades, outcompeting recycled feedstocks."
WAKE UP CALL
There's a Heatwave at the Arctic ‘Doomsday Vault’
Last Year Was the Deadliest for Environmental Activists, Defenders
212 Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year, a Record Number
John Lewis fought for equal protection. That means tackling pollution, poverty, and policing.
"It’s not a coincidence that race is the most salient factor explaining
the location of hazardous waste sites and the worst polluters... Baked-in patterns of
segregation have led to inequalities in environmental exposure, which
are determined by the resources and the political power a community has
to fight the siting of industrial facilities, as well as zoning and
land-use decisions."
Amazon region: Brazil records big increase in fires
City Staff Working on Houston's Climate Plan Are Being Paid by BP
Portland awards itself a participation trophy for climate
"Portland’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 440,000 tons per year, instead of decreasing as called for in its 2015 plan."
How Cooling Things Down
Is Heating Things Up
"A visual essay about how cooling equipment like air conditioning and refrigerators cause climate change and what to do about it."
The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Is on Fire
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Environmental Advocates Call for Ban on SUV Ads
How to Be an Effective Online Ally for the Social and Environmental Justice Fight
Climate Goals Are Key to Economic Recovery
'Huge' implications to Irish climate case
How to create 25 million jobs by decarbonizing the economy
"A new plan shows how the U.S. could massively
mobilize to hit the Paris climate goals by building up the power grid
with renewable energy to support a newly electrified economy."
This country regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?
Could Plastic-Free 'Reef Cubes' Help Save the Ocean?
"The cubes interlock, leaving larger living spaces for fish, crabs and
lobsters, and their porous surface is designed to allow marine plants to
establish easily and grow. The aim is for these alternative reefs to
protect vital offshore installations from storms and erosion while also
encouraging marine biodiversity."
Want to Design a Livable Future? Try ‘Multisolving’
"We come
across people who have the impression that [the climate crisis is]
pretty much hopeless. "It's too late. We've left it too long." And
En-ROADS, for those people, is motivating because it shows that the goal
of the Paris Climate Agreement to keep temperature increase well below 2
degrees [Celsius] is still physically possible. There's a huge amount
of social and political will needed to do it, but it's within reach."
DIRECT ACTIONS
The evolution of Extinction Rebellion
We’re way off track! Extinction Rebellion send a message to the world at today’s Formula 1
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Unique Performance Space in Scotland Is Being Built With Recycled Pianos
How this Dutch city is redesigning itself for extreme heat
Why Energy Efficiency Is A Big Deal
Now Is the Perfect Time to Rethink Green Transportation
"Increasingly, thinking about the future of cities suggests that chiefly
relying on cars as a form of transport has run its course."
Startup Company Recycles Electric Car Batteries
"The approach generates less carbon pollution than mining those minerals
from the ground. And it solves another problem the booming industry is
grappling with: how to safely and sustainably dispose of spent
batteries."
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
26 Organizations Working to Conserve Seed Biodiversity
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
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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.
