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BREAKTHROUGH!
LOCAL REPORTS
Mother Trees and the Social Forest | Suzanne Simard (video)
Inside the political battle to preserve a sprawling national forest in California
Flame and Fortune: It’s trees vs. fire in an attempt to get ahead of California’s pending summer of smoke
California Wine Country Towns Are Banning New Gas Stations
Coverage in Chile about the new gas station ban.
This town is the first in America to ban new gas stations – is the tide turning?
Logging in disguise: How forest thinning is making wildfires worse
"The U.S. Forest Service clears
trees from public lands in the name of fire prevention, but it doesn’t
work. There are better strategies to protect communities, but don’t
expect to hear about them from the logging industry."
GMOs, GLYPHOSATE & TOXINS
Of Multiple Stressors, Pesticides Are the Most Harmful to Bees by Acting Synergistically to Increase Mortality
PIPELINES
Winona LaDuke Feels That President Biden Has Betrayed Native Americans
"What did we get from Joe? A pipeline shoved down our throats."
PLASTIC & POLLUTION
The Story of Microfibers (video)
https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-microfibers/
"Most of us wear synthetic fabrics like polyester every day. Our dress
shirts, yoga pants, fleeces, and even underwear are all increasingly
made of synthetic materials — plastic, in fact. But these synthetic
fabrics, from which 60% of all clothing on earth is made, have a big
hidden problem: when they’re washed, they release tiny plastic bits —
called microfibers — that flow down our drains, through water treatment
plants, and out into our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions."
GREEN NEW DEAL
The US city that has raised $100m to climate-proof its buildings
WAKE UP CALL
Ruralist Lament: More Fire, Less Ice
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/26/ruralist-lament-more-fire-less-ice/
"Focusing on an Ultra-bummer like a climate catastrophe and an evolving
climate regime very unfriendly to human beings is hard to think about.
So….. we don’t. The trends and the facts have been quite clear for years
(even to reclusive dirt-farmers) and it’s not encouraging."
Indigenous communities in danger of being erased from the map in Brazil
"After living on and fighting for their lands for centuries, the rights
of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil are endangered by a legal loophole
called Marco Temporal that could legalize theft of their lands."
The Clearcut Kings: the Forest Service’s Obsession With Supersized Clearcuts in the Northern Rockies
'Out of Control': Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Hits Highest Level in a Decade
"At this rate, we will not be able to keep global warming below 1.5ºC, a
target defined in the Paris agreement."
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report
"Group of scientists release draft IPCC report as they fear it will be watered down by governments."
Indigenous communities in danger of being erased from the map in Brazil
Industry reacts to landmark IPCC report findings
"Following the publication of the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Assessment Report, the industry, academia and campaigners
respond to its key findings."
IPCC report signals decisive moment for humanity: Urgent climate action needed
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
"UN Secretary General António Guterres said: "If we combine forces now,
we can avert climate catastrophe. But, as today's report makes clear,
there is no time for delay and no room for excuses. I count on
government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success."
THINK TANK & STRATEGY
DIRECT ACTIONS
The origin of the term "Tree hugger"
Cameroonians rally to demand EU stop deforestation for rubber
“Cameroonians rally today for a bold EU policy: rubber products linked
to deforestation must be kept out of the European market. Europeans
cannot vote with one hand for a Green New Deal and use the other one to
buy commodities or finance plantations that erase our forests and
displace our people,” said Nkolo Thade, a Baka indigenous leader."
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
"For two rural cooperatives in Hawai‘i and New Mexico, energy sovereignty
means taking actions toward decentralizing resources, increasing solar
power plus storage, and centering community and the land in the process."
ENDING ON A POSITIVE
In Wyoming, fences are coming down to make way for wildlife
"On a warm July morning, roughly two dozen volunteers gathered at a ranch outside Cody, Wyoming, carrying wire cutters, gloves, buckets, and bottles of water. The goal was to take down several miles of barbed wire."
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?
https://OccupySonomaCounty.org
https://OccupySonomaCounty.org/es (en español)
http://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.