EARTH ACTION IN THE NEWS - November 24, 2018
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BREAKTHROUGH!
1) Clean Up 14-Year Oil Spill or Face $40K Daily Fine, Feds Tell Taylor Energy
https://www.ecowatch.com/taylor-oil-spill-cleanup-gulf-2621075177.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=056b2a84f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-056b2a84f1-86095421
2) Khanna to Pelosi: Don't Just Create
Green New Deal Select Committee, Make Ocasio-Cortez Its Chair
https://www.ecowatch.com/khanna-pelosi-green-new-deal-2620706846.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=8db74395f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-8db74395f6-86095421
BAYER/MONSANTO
3) South Africa Government Rejects Monsanto’s GMO Triple Stacked Maize
https://sustainablepulse.com/2018/11/15/south-africa-government-rejects-monsantos-gmo-triple-stacked-maize/#.W_kqbKnLdi8
GMOs
& GLYPHOSATE & PESTICIDES
4) California
recommends restrictions for popular pesticide
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8964619-181/california-recommends-restrictions-for-popular?utm_medium=email&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_term=&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiZGY4NDcwY2ItYzQ4NC00MzYxLTk3MDUtNGUyYTIxYmFmOGQyIn0%3D&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_content=&sba=AAS
5)
Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Tap Water for Millions in Corn Belt
https://www.ecowatch.com/hormone-disrupting-weed-killer-tap-water-2619721034.html?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&share_id=4164522&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=EcoWatch
Environmental
Working Group: "Our investigation found that nearly 30 million Americans
have atrazine in their tap water," said Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., EWG senior
science advisor for children's environmental health. "But many may never
know, because outdated federal policies allow utilities to test for atrazine
before or after the spike."
OIL
& GAS
6) Fracking Is Expanding Drastically in
the Southwest
https://truthout.org/articles/fracking-is-expanding-drastically-in-the-southwest/
7) Cash Buys
Elections—and Continued Fossil Fuel Dominance
https://www.ecowatch.com/cash-buys-elections-and-continued-fossil-fuel-dominance-2619922863.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=5f037c2e39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-5f037c2e39-86095421
8) Ban Gas and Diesel Vehicles? Spain Proposes Bill to Address Climate Change
https://www.ecowatch.com/spain-ban-gas-diesel-2619570306.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=373c1f82c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-373c1f82c8-86095421
Another campaign for 2040 and 2050. We need
these actions now!
ZERO
WASTE
9) 'Single-use' named 2018 word of the year
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/07/single-use-named-word-of-the-year-2018-environment-collins-dictionary?CMP=share_btn_tw
WAKE UP CALL
10) Air
Quality in California: Devastating Fires Lead to a New Danger
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/air-quality-california.html
11) Fine particle air pollution is a public health emergency hiding in
plain sight
https://theconversation.com/fine-particle-air-pollution-is-a-public-health-emergency-hiding-in-plain-sight-106030?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton
12)
U.S. Nuclear Fleet’s Dry Docks Threatened by Storms and Rising Seas
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19112018/military-ships-nuclear-fleet-norfolk-shipyard-climate-change-threat-hurricane-sea-level-rise?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
13) Maps Give
Detailed Look at Dramatic Land Use Change Over Two Decades
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/maps-give-detailed-look-at-dramatic-land-use-change-over-two-decades
14) 'The Window of Opportunity for Action Is Almost Closed': UN Report Shows Record Levels of Climate-Changing Gases
15)
Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP’s
Climate Change Denial (video)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/22/noam_chomsky_the_future_of_organized?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=6a22b62c65-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-6a22b62c65-191276697
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
16) Close to
Home: A once in a lifetime chance to restore the Eel River
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/8934834-181/close-to-home-a-once?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiZGY4NDcwY2ItYzQ4NC00MzYxLTk3MDUtNGUyYTIxYmFmOGQyIn0%3D&utm_content=&utm_campaign=pd_daily&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_term=&utm_medium=email&sba=AAS
17) What
Should We Know About Wildfires in California
https://www.ecowatch.com/what-should-we-know-about-wildfires-in-california-2620892113.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=056b2a84f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-056b2a84f1-86095421
18) As 'Green
New Deal' Demand Grows, Democrats Have Choice: Confront and Defeat Fossil Fuel
Industry or Take Credit for 'Doomed' Planet
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/15/green-new-deal-demand-grows-democrats-have-choice-confront-and-defeat-fossil-fuel
19) Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study
finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/16/climate-change-champions-still-pursuing-devastating-policies-new-study-reveals?CMP=share_btn_tw
20) Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-change-is-the-product-of-how-capitalism-values-nature/
DIRECT
ACTIONS
21) Dozens arrested after climate protest blocks five London bridges
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/17/thousands-gather-to-block-london-bridges-in-climate-rebellion
22) Because
'Good Planets Are Hard to Find,' Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down London Bridges
to Save Mother Earth
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/17/because-good-planets-are-hard-find-extinction-rebellion-shuts-down-central-london
23) 6,000
Climate Activists Block 5 London Bridges, Demand Urgent Action
https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change-activists-london-2620658243.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=e823f1db10-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-e823f1db10-86095421
24) In Pictures: Climate change activists hold London bridge protests
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pictures-climate-change-activists-hold-145021821.html
25) 20,000+
Students to UN: Publicize Key Facts to Prevent Global Collapse
https://www.ecowatch.com/students-un-our-future-uncompromised-2619886733.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=5f037c2e39-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-5f037c2e39-86095421
SUSTAINABLE
LIVING
26) Over 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Say Going Vegan Will Help Save The
Planet
https://www.livekindly.co/scientists-say-going-vegan-help-save-planet/
"According
to the Alliance of World Scientists, a group comprised of over 15,000
scientists from over 184 countries, humans need to change their individual
consumption and behavior… soon. Among encouraging people to lower their use of
fossil fuels and reduce their reproduction rates — because, seriously, the
Earth can’t sustain all of us — they urged folks to, essentially, go
vegan."
27) World's
Largest E-Bike Fleet to Roll Out in Paris Region
https://www.ecowatch.com/paris-electric-bike-2618730834.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a6581d3d58-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a6581d3d58-86095421
28) Could 'Bionic Mushrooms' Be the Future of Renewable Energy?
https://www.ecowatch.com/bionic-mushrooms-renewable-energy-2618702145.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=a6581d3d58-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-a6581d3d58-86095421
ENDING
ON A POSITIVE
29) Indian
Cinema Legend Clears Debts of 1,398 Farmers
https://www.ecowatch.com/indian-farmers-debt-bollywood-2621057201.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=99e572d7eb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-99e572d7eb-86095421
Community Seed Exchange
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd., Sebastopol
For more info: communityseedexchange@gmail.com
9-10:30 Optional Work Party
12-1 Free Workshop
9-12 Seed Library
Occupy Sonoma County Six Year Birthday!
And kick off to our month-long Winter Break (no meetings or newsletter in December)
Thursday, December 6, 2018, 5 – 8 pm, $30 per person includes dinner and one drink
Annual Holiday Networking Party & Environmental Awards
Sonoma County Conservation Council & Sierra Club Sonoma Group
Sebastopol Grange (co-host), 6000 Sebastopol Ave/Hwy 12
Food, wine, hot cider and music with the New Grange Jam Band
SCCC awards for Leadership in Post-Fire Ecosystem Regeneration to Betty Young and Caitlin Cornwall
Go to Envirocentersoco.org for advance tickets or pay at the door.
Volunteers needed to bake, set up, clean up and drink service. To volunteer or for more information contact 707-544-4582 or w...@sonic.net
Thurs. Dec. 6, 7:00-8:30 PM, $12
Traditional Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change Presentation with Pomo Tribal Elder
Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa
For more info: (707) 527-9277 or in...@lagunafoundation.org
Monday, February 4, 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: Anne Jacopetti
Notetaker: Jory Adamson
Volunteer Opportunities
• We are evaluating our practice of posting event flyers to bulletin boards. The OSC person who does this drives an old truck so the cost to the environment is even more significant than what we are spending financially to cover Sonoma County's bulletin boards six times a year. Some of us take flyers to the locations where we already shop. If everyone did this we could cover the bulletin boards without someone driving around in an old truck. Can you agree to cover the bulletin boards where you already shop? Please let us know what bulletin boards you can cover. Flyers can always be downloaded from our website.
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.