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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 00:00

Beyond Paris: Finding the Courage to Face the Climate Emergency

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The Democratic platform now contains language that brings shape to the enormity of the climate crisis. But it's still not enough.

Last weekend in Orlando the platform committee of the Democratic Party added language into their platform acknowledging the official position of the Democratic Party to be that we are in a global climate emergency.   Further, the platform  acknowledges the scale of the threat to be so large that it will require a leadership response from our country on the scale of our national mobilization to confront the threat of fascism during WWII.  The platform language I offered through an amendment entitled, Global Climate Leadership, explicitly acknowledges that anything short of that will bring catastrophic consequences to civilization:

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Sunday, 26 June 2016 00:00

Missouri to Generate Power By Covering Highway With Crowdfunded Solar Roadways

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Missouri to Generate Power By Covering Highway With Crowdfunded Solar Roadways
Missouri’s Department of Transportation is planning an innovative reworking of historic Route 66 — an undetermined section of ‘America’s Highway’ will be covered in solar panels from Idaho startup, Solar Roadways.
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Saturday, 23 April 2016 00:00

Earth Day Marks One-Year Anniversary of POPLA Bill, Which Would Ban Fracking on All Public Lands

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Earth Day Marks One-Year Anniversary of POPLA Bill, Which Would Ban Fracking on All Public Lands

Today, Earth Day, marks the first anniversary of the Protect Our Public Lands Act (POPLA), federal legislation introduced by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) that would ban fracking on all public lands. In the past year the bill has gained strong momentum, picking up 37 House cosponsors.

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Wednesday, 20 April 2016 00:00

ExxonMobil, Rockefellers face off in climate battle

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ExxonMobil, Rockefellers face off in climate battle

US energy giant ExxonMobil is facing an onslaught from environmentalists and some shareholders alleging it hid what it knew about the effects of fossil fuels on climate change.

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Tuesday, 22 March 2016 00:00

Spare Me Your Coal Requiems: Time For A Reckoning With Peabody And Coal Industry

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Spare Me Your Coal Requiems: Time For A Reckoning With Peabody And Coal Industry

As Peabody Energy teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, edging toward a Chapter II reorganization that will most likely allow it to walk away from massive reclamation and mine worker commitments, a flurry of poetic musings and giddy celebrations over of the death of Big Coal has begun to flow.

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Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:00

Why You Should Get Excited About 2016: It’s A Leap Year For Climate Justice

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Why You Should Get Excited About 2016: It’s A Leap Year For Climate Justice

We are fast approaching February 29th, the beginning of the 2016 Leap Year. Every four years we add a day to our calendars to bring them into sync with the earth’s revolution around the sun—because it’s easier to change our human systems than to change the laws of nature.

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Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:00

Climate change could devastate Africa. It’s already hurting this Kenyan town.

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Ekai Lopeyak walks home carrying the body of one of his family’s goats, which he found dead outside the town of Kalokol on the western shore of Lake Turkana in November. Traditional pastoralists have turned to fishing in ever greater numbers in recent years as drought has decimated their herds of livestock.

KALOKOL, Kenya — The lake that Philip Tioko relies on for survival is a fine turquoise strip that seems to recede farther into the distance each day. His fishing village once hugged the shore, but now it is 800 feet away, and everything — food, water and employment — is drying up.

Tioko, 46, remembers when fish were abundant in Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, and there was enough rain for his livestock. “I used to have so many animals. The lake used to be full — life was good,” he said.

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Thursday, 28 January 2016 00:00

Climate Justice Advocates Say COP21 Mobilization in Paris More Important Than Ever

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"It's an important moment to think about the climate, environment, and also peace, and how we bring real solutions," said Michael Leon Guerrero, national coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance.

'We can think of few better responses to violence and terror than this movement's push for peace and hope.'

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Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:00

U.S. Mayors Say LED Lighting, Energy Efficient Buildings And Solar Energy Technologies Are Reshaping America’s Cities

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GE energy efficient LED lighting.

The nation’s mayors released a new survey report showing how cities are deploying solar electricity systems, LED lighting and low-energy buildings to meet their energy and climate goals.

Released at the Conference’s 84th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., the findings show mayors overwhelmingly identified these three technologies to be the “most promising” technologies for curbing climate emissions and reducing energy use in their cities.

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Friday, 22 January 2016 00:00

Global Warming's Inconvenient Electoral Math

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Mark Wilson

Four years ago, the author and climate activist Bill McKibben published a seminal article in Rolling Stone called "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," laying out the stark cold numerical case for a carbon tax. To avoid a catastrophic 2 degrees' Celsius increase in global temperatures, he argued that humanity could only burn through another 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide -- a small fraction of the 2,795 gigatons of carbon that were then in fossil fuel producers' proven coal, oil, and gas reserves.

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