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SAN FRANCISCO —The past year has seen an intensification of floods, wildfires, droughts, heatwaves and other results of global warming worldwide.
On August 6, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report sounding the alarm.
An article in the New York (...)
Years of education, protest, and lobbying seem to be finally having an effect on U.S. environmental policies, though not without constant Republican resistance and Democratic vacillation—and so far, neither fast enough or strong enough for the change we need. The oil and coal companies (...)
President Biden held a metting of some world leaders to discuss climate change in late April, to call for new commitments on carbon emissions.
Climate activist and leader Greta Thunberg sent out a video the day before the conference began, denouncing it as “bullshit.”
“At the Leaders Climate (...)
The colder air and winter storms that came down the central part of the United States were another example of extreme weather due to global warming.
This event also revealed that the basic infrastructure of the country is not up to effectively dealing with the effects of climate change now and (...)
Climate change and Republican policies combined in Texas last week to produce a disaster that left millions without power, without heat, and without water as temperatures fell below freezing and snow and ice covered the state, leaving at least 50 dead. The state’s rare severe cold is another (...)
Many celebrated the electoral defeat of Donald Trump, danced in the streets and cried with tears of joy. For those from the progressive movements, it was a hard-earned victory born out of their collective power and strong political will to confront white supremacy and fascism.
It was a time to (...)
“The fact that we’re finding hundreds of these birds dying, just kind of falling out of the sky is extremely alarming.”
A combination of factors—all related to the climate crisis—is believed to be behind one of the largest mass bird die-off events in recent memory in the Southwest, according to (...)
Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups.
None of this plastic will be turned into new (...)
When I got up the morning of the September 20 world-wide student climate strike, I turned on the TV news with my cup of coffee, and saw a huge, spirited and loud demonstration in Melbourne, Australia, held the previous day, which was September 20 there. I was both surprised and inspired.
Then (...)
Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, a small nation on a series of islands east and south of the Florida peninsula, as a category 5 storm with 185 miles- per-hour winds. It stalled there for two days as a category 4, utterly destroying over 13,000 homes.
Storm surges and heavy rains added to the (...)
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When it comes to heat, extreme weather, wildfires, and melting glaciers, the planet is now in what the media increasingly refers to as “record” territory, as climate change’s momentum outpaces predictions. In such a situation, in a country whose president and (...)
The Green New Deal (GND), drawn up by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey, is the most ambitious and comprehensive program to deal with climate change ever made by political representatives to Congress and the U.S. public. It calls for making dramatic changes within the next (...)
SFTP’s People’s Green New Deal campaign will run for a full year, through spring 2020. We will:
1. Hold high profile, public events that examine the overlapping social, political, and technical aspects of the Green New Deal.
2. Collect testimony, through audio and video recordings, interviews, (...)
THE GREEN NEW Deal resolution introduced into Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey is a manifesto that has changed the terms of the debate over the country’s future. Cutting through the Trump administration’s denials about who is responsible for the extreme (...)
Humankind has reached a moment of existential crisis. Human activity is causing disastrous climate disruption and Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, triggering critical losses of biodiversity. We are already locked in for global warming that will have catastrophic effects, and we are on a (...)
The following is based on a new discussion paper 18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make the Climate Mobilization Work (pdf) from the Labor Network for Sustainability .
The Green New Deal (GND) resolution [[https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/08/heres-the-full-text-of-congress-green-new-deal
A Call for Special Attention to Highly Impacted Communities Leading a Just Transition.
What is the Climate Justice Alliance?
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a growing alliance, currently linking 68 community organizations, movement networks, and support organizations throughout the (...)
The Indigenous Environmental Network applauds the Green New Deal resolution for its vision, intention, and scope. With this resolution, Representative Ocasio-Cortez (Resolution House of Representatives) and Senator Markey (Resolution US Senate) have begun a critical process to change the (...)
Phil Hearse writes on the combination of real estate capitalism and climate change which has unleashed murderous fires in California.
Things are getting serious. At least 31 dead and maybe 200 missing. Thousands of homes and businesses burned down. And three raging fires, one in the north of (...)
Initiative 1631 would put a carbon fee on big polluters, using the revenue to invest in clean energy and protections for workers in fossil-fuel industries.
In early May, dozens of environmental, labor, and tribal leaders in Washington State, as well as representatives from organizations (...)
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