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"Can Dirt Save the Earth?" by Velasquez-Manoff, 4-18-18

www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/dirt-save-earth-carbon-farming-climate-change.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

The editorial says we should set goals to stop the use of single use plastic. The EU is working on reducing plastic waste and considering a tax on plastic.California has banned single use plastic grocery bags. 100 cities have banned polystyrene food takeout boxes. Britain's PM proppsed phasing out plastic waste by 2042.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-plastic-plan-20180220-story.html

http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/03/running-out-of-bugs/

Because they often leak, are situated on top of lower income and minority populations, and harm both people and wildlife with their toxins when they leak. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Center for Constitutional Rights are organizing against the pipeline. This is the other end of the Dakota Access pipeline.

#NoBayouBridge

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/13/critics_of_bayou_bridge_pipeline_in

http://www.labucketbrigade.org/

https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/ccr-news/north-dakota-puerto-rico-controversial-security-firm-profits-oil-protests

Young people and future generations can continue their lawsuit versus the US government policies favoring oil, coal, and gas companies and contributing to global warming.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teens-lawsuit-battling-climate-change-wins-victory-over-justice-department_us_5aa20a12e4b01b9b0a39c53c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

Lee Fang of the Intercept will speak. He studies the Koch brothers's use of money in politics, the alt-right, white supremacists, white nationalists, and the far right. Others will speak about how the journalism and race interact, abut labor trafficking, about creating a space for alternative voices. .... https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/coveringraceconference

http://www.cvent.com/events/rights-wrongs-and-responsibilities-covering-race-in-today-s-america/agenda-b219665af4654ec1b2f55930cd175843.aspx