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send a letter "ban logging of mature and old-growth trees" "end fracking on public lands and stop offshore drilling, and directing his agencies to reject all new fossil fuel infrastructure." link
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UCS article The last paragraph explains how switching to electric cars is the answer.
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Autumn is here! Good News: Local people in Namibia organized and stopped a dam from flooding their ancestral lands. Forests: Good News. Land protected as parks and reserves has increased four fold . And countries have pledged to protect...
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link "social welfare programs — like public healthcare and childcare and parental leave, or even something like a Universal Basic Income"
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link , Natural Gas cos. Lie and create fake social media posts to scare citizens to delay stopping the burning of natural gas for heating buildings
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Autumn is coming! Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism : Good News!“Each of us must experience one of two pains- the pain of discipline or the pain of...
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link Biden and the USFS protect the immense 16 million Alaska forest "one of the world's largest intact temperate forests, the Tongass National Forest stores more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon and sequesters an additional 10 million metric...
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Summer is here! Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism : Good News!The first wolf pack in 80 years – 6 wolf pups are now living in CO with their...
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link to jeff biggers salon article support coal river mountain watch
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“Join us as we take a big-picture view of how humans, largely by burning fossil fuels, have drastically altered the global climate system and living conditions on Earth. We will also explore how humans, from grassroots activists to national and...
Under a White Sky:the Nature of the Future interview Elizabeth Kolbert in her new book visits cases where humans have "shot themselves in the foot" and examines whether attempts, such as geoengineering to block the sun and cool the planet,...
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Examples and stories of building local movements for renewable society, carbon neutral, with local food, tree planting, and economy. New stories. Cost Rica did massive tree planting:"Now on track to become a carbon-neutral country, Costa Rica has restored 60% of...
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Electric Utility Corruption they are paying $200 million fines for bribery etc. The 8-3-20 NYT editorial, “When Utility Money Talks”, illustrates the corrupt side of electric utilities.“citizens are getting a clearer picture of what they are up against. They are...
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Article "the slow work of listening to and learning from one another; of building relationships and a shared vision of a new world. The number of people truly benefiting from the existing system is quite small, so it can undoubtedly...
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Bill McKibben on climate change and environmental justice. Lower income people get asthma and lung disease from the pollution from oil and gas; they also suffer the most from storms, floods, droughts. Young people leading. Britain's largest pension fund is divesting...
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Big Oil's paid lobbyists are countering the campaigns to fight climate change. This is because they gain so much power and money thru their existing business model-sort of a bigger is better trend towards oligopoly and monopoly. This started with...
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/27/multiple-crises-signal-need-change-course
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Here is one interview. The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists. The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea...
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The more utilities spend on large projects, the more they get. In Colorado, Xcel energy has opposed renewable energy goals, more efficient street lights, a local Boulder city municipal electric utility, etc. over the years. Utility companies want to install centralized...
