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BREAKTHROUGH!
Key West Bans Large Ships To Protect Environment
Mayors unveil $60B plan to support Midwest energy transition
European Union plans mammoth expansion of offshore wind farms
Top court gives France three months to show climate efforts
Dozens of Faith Institutions Announce Divestment From Fossil Fuels
LOCAL REPORTS
Great Redwood Trail to cost up to $5 billion, state report finds
Largest Dam Removal Project in U.S. History Restarts With Interstate Partnership
Petaluma nonprofit hopes to create a riverfront park
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Global Outrage at FAO Plans to Partner with Pesticide Industry
Pesticide companies are climate-washing their brands
Crop Diversity in Commercial Agriculture Decreases Pests and Pesticide Use, Stabilizes Biodiversity
FOSSIL FUELS
Norway’s Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuit Challenging Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
Microplastics Discovered Near Mount Everest Summit
Study: Glass Bottles Harm the Environment More Than Plastic Bottles
These results pertain to new glass bottles. Recycled glass and aluminum is still best for the environment. Ideally we need to be moving in the direction of refilling glass. What if there were standardized glass jars and bottles in several shapes and sizes that were cleaned, sterilized and refilled to accommodate all the different packaging needs? Just like we used to do with beer and soda but also jars for salsa, ketchup, hot sauce and mayonnaise? Glass packaging doesn't put harmful chemicals into the food and it isn't made from fossil fuels. It doesn't make sense to recycle it when it can be refilled. And as this study reveals, making new glass for everything is depleting the environment.
GREEN NEW DEAL
In a Functioning Democracy, Pelosi and Schumer Would Have Already Been Tossed from Democratic Leadership
"They should choose a leader who knows better than to dismiss popular policy like the Green New Deal, or as Pelosi dubbed it, the “green dream or whatever they call it.”
WAKE UP CALL
Canada's Failure To Act On Climate Change
"The Canadian government recently introduced a bill to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050 — but unfortunately, much like the government’s climate emergency declaration in June 2019, it falls flat in a big way."
1.47 billion people face flood risk worldwide: for over a third, it could be devastating
GM Sets Sights On Overtaking Tesla With $27 Billion Push For EV Market Dominance
Profit is the only criteria for these companies.
Best Type of Forest for CO2 Storage Depends on Location and Climate, Study Finds
"In the U.S. recent research found forests with large trees may play a greater than expected role in carbon storage. Only 3 percent of the trees in the forests studied were taller than 21 inches. However, that 3 percent of trees larger than 21 inches held 42 percent of the aboveground carbon stored throughout the forests. The study proved how it would be detrimental to cut large trees on public lands in the Pacific Northwest."
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
How Banks Could Bail Us Out of the Climate Crisis
By Bill McKibben
Tree-planting's All Well And Good – But It's High Time We Addressed UK's Deforestation Guilt
"In his plans to introduce a Green Industrial Revolution, Boris Johnson
has raised the idea of mass tree-planting programmes as a way of
mitigating some of the impacts of climate change. On Wednesday, the
Prime Minister repeated his commitment to plant 30,000 hectares of trees
every year in his much-vaunted 10-point climate plan. This is all well and good, but its impact on addressing global warming will be negligible unless the much bigger issue of the UK’s imported deforestation of products from climate-critical rainforests like the Amazon is addressed. "
India only G20 nation on track to meet Paris pact’s 2°C goal
An Unlikely Alliance of Farm and Environmental Groups Takes on Climate Change
Climate Action Must Progress Far Faster to Achieve 1.5 C Goal
"A report from WRI and ClimateWorks Foundation found that in all but a couple of cases, progress is happening far too slowly for the world to meet its emissions-reduction targets – and in some cases, we’re moving in the entirely wrong direction."
The 'market' won't save us from climate disaster. We must rethink our system
"Expecting the free market to fix global warming is like trying to pound nails with a saw."
Solar Geoengineering Might Not Work if We Keep Burning Fossil Fuels, Study Finds
Globe Climate: The future of our cities also needs to be green
DIRECT ACTIONS
Barclays' tar sands investment condemned in international protests
Anti-Nuclear Pacifists Get Federal Prison Terms for Nonviolent Protest
“It shouldn’t be that the court is trying to deter people from acting
according to their sincerely held religious beliefs,” Daloisio told The
Intercept. “In terms of rehabilitation, I think everyone agrees that
there’s no rehabilitating people from the position that human beings
have the right to live, not under the threat of nuclear annihilation,
not under the threat of the destruction of the whole planet.”
In the Mercenaries’ Own Words: Documents Detail TigerSwan Infiltration of Standing Rock
"For movements like the one at Standing Rock — Indigenous land and water defenders, fighting for territory central to their identity and health, and climate activists, staving off a potential future of chaos and suffering — their actions are a matter of survival. But the same can be said for the energy companies, evidenced by their willingness to deploy war-on-terror-style tactics... Meanwhile, the idea that counterinsurgency tactics should be used to quell domestic uprisings has proliferated. David Kilcullen, a top war-on-terror adviser to the U.S. government, recently wrote that the nationwide uprisings in the wake of George Floyd’s killing might be viewed as an “incipient insurgency.” What happened at Standing Rock reveals the results such logic can produce."
Young Climate Leaders Launch Mock COP26 To Push for Climate Ambition
"We decided we had to do something because we are in a climate
emergency," co-organizer 21-year-old Dom Jaramillo of Ecuador told BBC News.
"We want to raise ambitions and show world leaders how a COP should be
run. We are not the leaders of the future. We are the leaders of today."
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
How Renewable Energy Could Power Your State
How Renewable Energy Could Power Your State
The Built Environment and Fashion Industries Are Primed to Lead the Recovery
Connecting to Nature Is Good for Kids – But They May Need Help Coping With a Planet in Peril
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Forest therapy reawakens human connection to the natural world
World's Most Remote Island Creates Largest Atlantic Ocean Sanctuary
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?
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