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BREAKTHROUGH!
First downstate project through Illinois community solar program completed
Austin, Texas, puts a price on carbon
Solar farm the size of 313 football fields to be built at Edmonton airport
LOCAL REPORTS
Is America's biggest gas utility abusing customer money? A California watchdog demands answers
Trump can’t weaken California’s climate change carbon market, federal judge rules
Highway 101 bike bridge, small cell rules go before City Council
SMART seeks support for low-income discount program in ticket price review
Sonoma County airport expects to finish expanded passenger gate area in August
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County collect more than $240 million in PG&E settlement for 2017 fires
Water Quality Agency Fines Phillips 66 Refinery, Again, for Polluting Bay
BAYER/MONSANTO
Bayer Investors Investigate Company’s Directors for Possible Securities Fraud over Roundup Cancer Cases
FOSSIL FUELS
'Tired of being the canary in the mine': pressure grows to push oil and gas wells away from homes
Covid-19: G20 countries bet on fossil fuels for economic recovery
California Resources Corp., leading oil and gas producer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
We’re set to add a billion tons of plastic to Earth in the next 20 years
"Unless drastic action is taken a billion more tons of plastic could
cover the planet by 2040 – with immediate action, we’ll still add 710
million metric tons of plastic."
WAKE UP CALL
Cogs in the climate machine
"A short course in planetary time, for planetary survival."
Cogs in the climate machine
Environmental Impacts of Dams
Revealed: oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities
"Investigation portrays fossil fuel industry as common enemy in struggle for racial and environmental justice in America."
Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests
The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance
First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica
Climate Change Tracker: Breaching the heat barrier
Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change
A Plunge in Mass Transit Ridership Deals a Huge Blow to Climate Change Mitigation
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Why we need to declare a global climate emergency now
How climate change misinformation spreads online
"The misinformation network begins with funding supplied by corporate and philanthropic actors with a vested interest in climate change – particularly in fossil fuels."
DIRECT ACTIONS
Stories From the Youth Climate Movement in the Global South
Eco-activists fall 20 feet and suffer injuries after rope cut
"Anti-HS2 protesters fell 20 feet and were injured after contractors cut rope."
Three Extinction Rebellion activists held after Thames rig protest
Protesters board Silvertown Tunnel drilling rig this morning
Louisiana Activists Face 15 Years for “Terrorizing” Oil Lobbyist with Box of Plastic Pollution (video)
"Two environmental activists with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade face up to
15 years in prison for leaving a box of plastic pellets, found on the
Texas coast, at the home of an oil and gas lobbyist in December.
Advocates say the “terrorizing” felony charges reflect longtime attempts
to criminalize environmental activists in Louisiana and come amid a
campaign to block Formosa Plastics from building a new plant in St.
James Parish, an area known as Cancer Alley."
The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest
Greta Thunberg says EU recovery plan fails to tackle climate crisis
John Lewis And His Environmental Legacy
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
How Regenerative Agriculture Can Make Your Food Greener
"Regardless of regenerative agriculture’s
potential to make livestock carbon neutral, the scientific community
still has high hopes for its carbon sequestration abilities in the fight
against climate change. In the future, humanity will likely need to
significantly reduce the amount of livestock that is raised and consumed
in order to keep global warming at bay. Until then, however,
regenerative agriculture is an innovative way to make global food
production greener."
UK plans to boost cycling and walking under threat, say campaigners
Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries
"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use."
Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
Baby turtles thrive on tourist-free Thai beaches and bright orange baby monkeys 'living happily' in parks
"Before the pandemic, Koh Samui was one of the top holiday
destinations in Thailand, with visitors flocking to the island's
stunning beaches, but the outbreak closed borders and turtles have been
taking the place of tourists on the peaceful sands."
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
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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.
