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BREAKTHROUGH!
The United States Consumed Record Amount Of Renewable Energy In 2019
Wind, Solar Are Cheapest Power Source In Most Places, BNEF Says
New York Will Finally Enforce Its Plastic Bag Ban
LOCAL REPORTS
California Town Tests New Model for Microgrids
Not Just Fracking: Cut All Oil Drilling in California, Says Key Lawmaker
Sonoma County grape growers expect wildfire smoke damage to cost at least $152 million
Top Solar Power States Per Capita — CleanTechnica Report
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
France Clamps Down on Use of Weedkiller Glyphosate in Farming
FOSSIL FUELS
Uganda's quest for sustainable energy poses fresh environmental threats
With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil
Idled Venezuelan floating oil facility under repairs amid environmental concerns
PIPELINES
Indigenous Women to Financial CEOs: Stop Abetting 'Climate-Wrecking' Tar Sands Industry
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
Air Pollution Responsible for Over 6.6 Million Deaths Worldwide in 2020, Study Finds
London the worst city in Europe for health costs from air pollution
Bottle-Fed Babies May Consume Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
The Double Jeopardy of Environmental Racism
WAKE UP CALL
Sea-Level Rise Takes Business Toll in North Carolina's Outer Banks
Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost
The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Become an Inferno
"This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil, one
of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires
worsened by climate change.... Naturally occurring fire plays a role in the Pantanal, in addition to
the burning by ranchers. The flames are usually contained by the
landscape’s mosaic of water. But this year’s drought sucked these
natural barriers dry. The fires are far worse than any since satellite
records began."
Why the UK needs a diverse leadership team for COP26
"The UK government announced the team of politicians and negotiators who
will host the UN COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow next year – and
they are all men."
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
Taking a Regional Approach to Electric Vehicle Readiness
The Map Is Not the Territory: New Routes to a 1.5°C Future
Sen. Merkley Introduces Bills to Stop Banks From Funding Fossil Fuels
Celebrity Endorsement of Environmental Causes: Does It Work?
This Is How the Government Can Ramp Up Climate Tech Investment
DIRECT ACTIONS
Quote from Greta Thunberg:
"As long as a dead tree is more valuable to us than a living tree and as long as the destruction of nature is worth more than nature itself we won’t be able to solve the climate and ecological emergency."
I Am Greta review — the activist unpacked: vulnerable and jaw-droppingly brave
Film review
3 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed Youth Activism
Anti-fracking activists again break into W’Burg pipeline construction site
"We’re shutting down the pipeline, I don’t want people in my
neighborhood Brownsville to suffer from cancer,” said Gabriel Jamison,
of the group Brownsville Residents Green Committee, from below ground on
Oct. 16. “I’m sacrificing myself so National Grid don’t have to build
this fracked gas pipeline through none of our neighborhoods — I’m not
with it.”
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Santa Barbara Schools Get Solar-Battery Backup, Saving Money at the Same Time
The Low-Carbon Jet Fuel Market Is Cleared for Take-Off
Promise or Peril? Importing Hydropower to Fuel the Clean Energy Transition
Kill Your Gas Stove
"It’s bad for you, and the environment. If you can afford to avoid it, you probably should."
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
How farmers in Thailand are using armies of 10,000 ducks to keep rice paddies pest-free
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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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.
