EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - October 11, 2018

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​EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS  

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1) Valve Turners on Trial: Judge Acquits Three Climate Activists Who Shut Down Tar Sands Pipelines (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/10/valve_turners_on_trial_judge_acquits?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=cf35472ba8-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-cf35472ba8-191276697

2) Deadly Hurricane Michael Strongest Storm Ever to Hit Florida Panhandle
https://www.ecowatch.com/hurricane-michael-florida-panhandle-2611595307.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=6749671fa5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-6749671fa5-86095421

3) Life Without a Farm Bill: Expiration Day Arrives
http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/path-to-the-2018-farm-bill/

The expiration date for the Farm Bill has come and gone. 

4) Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
https://earther.gizmodo.com/wind-farms-may-actually-warm-the-planet-controversial-1829519783

5) Greens urge 'friend of bees' Michael Gove to ban glyphosate following new study
https://www.keithtaylormep.org.uk/news/greens-urge-friend-bees-michael-gove-ban-glyphosate-following-new-study#.W7dnnuLYjcE.twitter

6) Stopping Climate Change Is Hopeless. Let’s Do It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-global-warming.html

The New York Times placed an ad by Exxon Mobil right in the middle of this article.

7) Connection to Mother Earth Compels Indigenous Women to Protect It
https://truthout.org/articles/connection-to-mother-earth-compels-indigenous-women-to-protect-it/

8) How are we doing on a ‘Green New Deal?’
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/edward-robinson/how-are-we-doing-on-green-new-deal?utm_source=Transformation&utm_campaign=6c8a4919e4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9f93c95423-6c8a4919e4-408171033

9) How extreme weather can harm children's mental health

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/10/extreme-weather-can-harm-kids-mental-health/

Psychologists have found that extreme weather events put children at risk of PTSD, depression, and anxiety. So mental health impacts can linger long after the floodwaters are gone.

10) How to Get Carbon-Free in 10 Years
https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-free-in-10-years-2611138022.html?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&share_id=4036365&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=EcoWatch

11) IPCC climate change report calls for urgent action to phase out fossil fuels – as it happened
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2018/oct/08/ipcc-climate-change-report-urgent-action-fossil-fuels-live

AND

Report Details Brutal Cost of Climate Inaction
https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/report-details-brutal-cost-of-climate-inaction-8a5a038bd6e0

AND
Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to Civilization, New U.N. Report Concludes
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/un-report-climate-change-fossil-fuels/

AND
Why We Can’t Reverse Climate Change With ‘Negative Emissions’ Technologies
https://www.ecowatch.com/negative-emissions-technologies-climate-change-2611111962.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=61bda5f29b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-61bda5f29b-86095421

AND
Climate Scientist: As U.N. Warns of Global Catastrophe, We Need a “Marshall Plan” for Climate Change (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/9/climate_scientist_as_un_warns_of?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=221f48652e-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-221f48652e-191276697

12) Standing Rock activist faces prison after officer shot him in the face
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/04/standing-rock-marcus-mitchell-shooting-charges

13) Ex-NASA Scientist Dr. James Hansen: We Need to Act Now to Preserve Our Planet for Future Generations (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/10/ex_nasa_scientist_dr_james_hansen?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=cf35472ba8-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-cf35472ba8-191276697

14) Under the USDA’s Definition, 90 Percent of Iowa’s Farms Are “Family Farms”
https://modernfarmer.com/2018/09/under-the-usdas-definition-90-percent-of-iowas-farms-are-family-farms/

15) Great Lakes 'At Risk' From Plan to Replace Aging Enbridge Pipelines, Environmentalists Argue
https://www.ecowatch.com/enbridge-line-5-replacement-2609955963.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=8df6821648-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-8df6821648-86095421

AND
Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Permit Revoked by Federal Court
https://www.ecowatch.com/mountain-valley-pipeline-construction-2609999282.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3c477f2ca5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3c477f2ca5-86095421

16) A Local Food Revolution in Puerto Rico
https://www.ecowatch.com/puerto-rico-local-food-revolution-2609255811.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=3c477f2ca5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-3c477f2ca5-86095421

AND
Urban Farming Organization Visualizes a Franchise Model to Produce Fresh Fish and Vegetables
https://www.ecowatch.com/urban-farming-franchise-model-2611146461.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=6749671fa5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-6749671fa5-86095421
AND
5 Ways to Make Your Garden Regenerative (video)
https://www.ecowatch.com/make-your-garden-regenerative-2609843183.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=6b03b699f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-6b03b699f3-86095421
"Ron Finley and Rosario Dawson explain how you can make your home garden regenerative in this new video premiere from Kiss The Ground and Green America."

17) U.S. Recyclers in 'Mounting Crisis' After China's Plastic Waste Ban
https://www.ecowatch.com/u-s-recyclers-chinas-plastic-waste-ban-2610246012.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=63733a5212-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-63733a5212-86095421
AND
You Won’t Believe the Age of This Plastic Bottle Found on a UK Beach
https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-bottle-uk-beach-2611377081.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=6749671fa5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-6749671fa5-86095421

18) Red Tide Plagues Both of Florida's Coasts for First Time in Decades
https://www.ecowatch.com/red-tide-plagues-floridas-coasts-2610279647.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=63733a5212-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-63733a5212-86095421

19) Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-economists-nobel-prize-2610889484.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=203d039c96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-203d039c96-86095421

20) Solar Plant Opens at Uninhabitable Chernobyl Nuclear Site
https://www.ecowatch.com/chernobyl-solar-plant-2610924156.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=203d039c96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-203d039c96-86095421

21) Climate Change, Inspired By Banksy (6 second video and art photos)
https://www.ecowatch.com/banksy-artwork-auction-2611413729.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=6749671fa5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-6749671fa5-86095421

22) Hemp is on the Horizon. Will it Change the Game for Farm Country?

https://civileats.com/2018/03/06/hemp-is-on-the-horizon-will-it-change-the-game-for-farmers/

As of 2019, California farmers will be able to grow and produce hemp for commercial and industrial uses.

23) Historic Climate Ruling Upheld by Dutch Appeals Court
https://www.ecowatch.com/netherlands-climate-change-lawsuit-2611132561.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=61bda5f29b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-61bda5f29b-86095421

Take Action - Get Involved!

Saturday, October 13, 1:30 - 4:30 PM
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, October 15, 7-9 PM

Occupy Sonoma County Earth Action Campaign Meeting
Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa
For more information go to http://OccupySonomaCounty.org or call 707-877-6650

Wednesday, October 17, 7pm
350 Sonoma
For more info go to Facebook350 Sonoma or webpage 350sonoma.org. Email 350Sono...@gmail.com

Saturday October 27 (the last Saturday every month)

Community Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
11-12 Free Workshop
9-12 Seed Library

Monday, October 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: Terri Moon

Thursday, November 8, 7-9 PM
The Reluctant Radical - Occupy Sonoma County film showing
Arlene Frances 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

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

Volunteer Opportunities

• 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.