In response to lies and hate, let me make some things clear about my climate strike
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-02-13
If everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to–then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/02/13/in-response-to-lies-and-hate-let-me-make-some-things-clear-about-my-climate-strike/

Red China goes green: a broad look at Sino-environmentalism
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-02-13
Most people see China as anything but environmentalist, having for some time been one of the most polluted countries on earth. Images in the media are often heart-wrenching, children wearing pollution masks while their parents go through the day more or less helpless to protect them, all while the Chinese government continues to push mass-industrialization […] | The post Red China goes green: a broad look at Sino-environmentalism appeared first on United World International.
uwidata.com/2156-red-china-goes-green-a-broad-look-at-sino-environmentalism/

The End of Ice: Dahr Jamail on Climate Disruption from the Melting Himalayas to Insect Extinction
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-12
A new report finds at least a third of the Himalayan ice cap will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, even if the world's most ambitious environmental reforms are implemented. The report, released by the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment earlier this month, is the culmination of half a decade's work by over 200 scientists, with an additional 125 experts peer reviewing their work. It warns rising temperatures in the Himalayas could lead to mass population displacement, as well as catastrophic food and water insecurity. The glaciers are a vital water source for the 250 million people who live in the…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/12/the_end_of_ice_dahr_jamail

Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-02-12
New report predicts the impact of climate change on Nepal's mountains may be much worse than we thought. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/02/12/terrifying-assessment-of-a-himalayan-melting/

New York Like Arkansas? Bay Area Like L.A.? Warming May Make It Feel So
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-02-12
The 540 cities included in a new study on average move 528 miles to the south climate-wise by 2080, if carbon emissions keep soaring. | The post New York Like Arkansas? Bay Area Like L.A.? Warming May Make It Feel So appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/new-york-like-arkansas-bay-area-like-l-a-warming-may-make-it-feel-so/

Boat Made of Recycled Flip-Flops Ends Anti-Pollution Campaign
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-12
The majestic sailboat, Flipflopi, weighs anchor in Mtwapa beach, becoming the world's first traditional "dhow" made completely of recycled plastic and flip flops to finish a 500 km journey. | RELATED: | Study: Climate Change Will Alter Ocean Color By 2100 | Made with 10,000 tonnes of plastic and 30,000 flip-flops, the 9-metre-long dhow arrived at the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after sailing south along East Africa's coast to raise awareness of the threat plastics pose to the oceans, ch…
telesurenglish.net/news/Boat-Made-of-Recycled-Flip-Flops-Ends-Anti-Pollution-Campaign-20190212-0024.html

Youth Movements Changing Tactics in the Face of Climate Crisis
Anny Martinez | commondreams.org | 2019-02-12
Sunrise is part of the broad movement building the power of youth to urge the country to take climate change seriously while reclaiming democracy. (Photo: Sunrise Movement) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-02-12_at_3.40.57_pm.png…
commondreams.org/views/2019/02/12/youth-movements-changing-tactics-face-climate-crisis?cd-origin=rss

Adopt an Olive Tree – And Breathe New Life Into Spanish Village
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-02-12
"They're over 500 years old," says Sira Plana proudly as she points to Oliete's olive groves, many of which are thriving now thanks to an adoption scheme that has prevented this northeastern Spanish village from dying out. | RELATED: | Fears for Amazon and Indigenous Peoples with Bolsonaro's Win | For an annual fee of US$57, some 2,500 sponsors receive photos of their olive tree by mobile phone, along with two litres (half a gallon) of olive oil annually. | As well as the satisfa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Adopt-an-Olive-Tree—And-Breathe-New-Life-Into-Spanish-Village-20190212-0031.html

New Rules Would Discourage Colleges From Investigating Rape Accusations
Sara Darehshori | thenation.com | 2019-02-12
New Rules Would Discourage Colleges From Investigating Rape Accusations…
thenation.com/article/campus-protections-sexual-assault-title-ix/

Unions join students' call to strike for real climate action
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-12
School students are calling on universities, unions, faith groups and others to join their next strike for climate on March 15. | They are leading the debate on climate change by organising large gatherings of students, across the nation, to demand governments stop perpetuating catastrophic climate change. | They have the high moral ground: they are not responsible for the climate disasters that are unfolding, disproportionately hurting the poor. But, they will have to pick up the pieces after bad policy wrecks global havoc on communities, ecosystems and the climate. | Embarrassingly for the prime minister, it is…
greenleft.org.au/content/unions-join-students-call-strike-our-climate

A Green New Deal is the first step toward an eco-revolution
Vaios Triantafyllou | mronline.org | 2019-02-11
In this interview, Foster discusses why a Green New Deal is just an entry point to an ecological revolution, and why any economic-social system that hopes to address the climate crisis must transcend capitalism. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/02/11/a-green-new-deal-is-the-first-step-toward-an-eco-revolution/

The Problem of International Law
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-02-11
Modern institutions that hold back the rise of barbarism are being weakened, writes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson To the Point Analysis.com Several recent events suggest that global warming is not the only thing threatening our future. As if they are… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2019/02/11/the-problem-of-international-law/

North Dakota Seeks to Restrict Access to Public Records After Standing Rock Reporting Exposed Law Enforcement Abuses
Will Parrish | theintercept.com | 2019-02-11
A new bill would prevent the release of records related to security operations involving "critical infrastructure," which includes fossil fuel pipelines. | The post North Dakota Seeks to Restrict Access to Public Records After Standing Rock Reporting Exposed Law Enforcement Abuses appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2019/02/11/north-dakota-public-records-pipeline-protest/

Gutting Payday Loan Rules Will Harm Vulnerable Families
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-02-11
Gutting payday loan rules will harm vulnerable families | © Seth Anderson/Flickr | Proposed plans to get rid of rules designed to protect largely low-income consumers from abusive high-interest loans risk the well-being of some of America's most vulnerable households. | The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced the proposal to rescind rules that would have meant payday and auto-title lenders had to make sure that customers could repay loans under the terms of the contract. Loans not…
hrw.org/news/2019/02/11/gutting-payday-loan-rules-will-harm-vulnerable-families

Australia Court Rules it is the 'Wrong Time' for Coal
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-02-10
A coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, September 11, 2012. | © AP Photo/Rob Griffith | An Australia court has rejected an appeal to grant permission to develop a new coal mine because it will contribute to global warming, the latest in a series of court rulings grounded in concerns over climate change. | It is the "wrong time" for coal, the Environmental and Land Court of New South Wales concluded, "because the GHG [Greenhouse Gas] emissi…
hrw.org/news/2019/02/10/australia-court-rules-it-wrong-time-coal

A conversation about Climate Change with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn — The Baltimore Podcast Show
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-02-09
Eze Jackson and Tracey Beale talk with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn about their work reporting on climate change and the urgency for us to act now | The post A conversation about Climate Change with Dharna Noor and Steve Horn — The Baltimore Podcast Show. appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/a-conversation-about-climate-change-with-dharna-noor-and-steve-horn-the-baltimore-podcast-show

Ocasio-Cortez & Markey Unveil Sweeping "Green New Deal" to Radically Shift U.S. Off Fossil Fuels
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-02-08
After months of anticipation, Democratic New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for the Green New Deal Thursday, presenting a sweeping plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, make major investments in public transit and federal jobs, fully transition the U.S. electricity off fossil fuels and codify indigenous peoples' rights to prior consent and approval for decisions that affect them. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to mock the proposal on Wednesday, referring to it as a "green dream, or whatever they call i…
www.democracynow.org/2019/2/8/ocasio_cortez_markey_unveil_sweeping_green

SPLC statement on removal of provisions that protect consumers from predatory lenders
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-02-08
We are deeply disappointed in a decision this week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to rescind rules that would have protected consumers from predatory lenders.
splcenter.org/news/2019/02/08/splc-statement-removal-provisions-protect-consumers-predatory-lenders

The UN climate conference: where ambition goes to die
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-08
This is an eyewitness account of the UN Climate Conference COP24, held in Katowice, Poland, in December last year from the perspective of one of the 30,000 participants. All attempts will be taken to avoid acronyms of climate terms, or at least explain them, and I will outline the 'insider information' that I got from my first COP. | As a political advisor in the European Parliament, I am used to working on EU-level climate and energy legislation, but now I found myself with an access badge to a global conference on the even messier stage of climate politics, the international level. A cup of tea with a curious f…
greenleft.org.au/content/un-climate-conference-where-ambition-goes-die

Five new books for ecosocialists — February edition
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-08
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at five new releases for an ecosocialist bookshelf. Inclusion doesn't necessarily imply agreement with a book's contents. | *** | End Of The Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest and Strangest Animals | Written by Ross DE MacPhee & illustrated by Peter Schouten | WW Norton, 2019 | Until a few thousand years ago, gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and 2000-pound crocodiles lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. Many scientists blame human overhunting…
greenleft.org.au/content/five-new-books-ecosocialists-february-edition

The Green New Deal Must Take on the Fossil Fuel Industry
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-02-08
Greenpeace's Janet Redman says the Green New Deal proposal from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey is a step towards unprecedented climate action, but that it must mandate a phase-out of oil, gas, and coal | The post The Green New Deal Must Take on the Fossil Fuel Industry appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/the-green-new-deal-must-take-on-the-fossil-fuel-industry

Anti-LGBT Groups Launch Movement Against Federal Equality Act
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-02-07
Anti-LGBT hate group leaders and activists recently launched a new project, the #Gone2Far movement (GTFM), to oppose H.R. 2282, the federal Equality Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for the categories of a person's sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/08/anti-lgbt-groups-launch-movement-against-federal-equality-act

Climate Justice Advocates Testify At House Committee Hearing
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-02-07
In their first hearing since Democrats claimed Congress, the House Natural Resources Committee heard from climate advocates. We sat down with one witness, Climate Justice Alliance's Elizabeth Yeampierre | The post Climate Justice Advocates Testify At House Committee Hearing appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/climate-justice-advocates-testify-at-house-committee-hearing

Student climate strike: 'It's our future'
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-02-07
After the successful School Strike 4 Climate Action last November 30, where more than 15,000 students walked out of school, organisers have called another strike for March 15 as part of a Global Day of Action — and they are asking others to join in. | Richard Lane and Maureen Murphy spoke to Year 9 student Lilly Murphy, who has been involved in the School Strike 4 Climate Action, about the climate strike movement. | *** | How did you get involved with the Student Strike 4 Climate Action? | A few of my school friends knew about it due to social media. There were also a few signs around school. | One of them…
greenleft.org.au/content/student-climate-strike-its-our-future

Birds of Passage Depicts the Devastation of Drug Trafficking for South America's Indigenous People
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2019-02-05
Blame it on the Peace Corps.
progressive.org/dispatches/birds-of-passage-rampell-190205/

Climate Jobs for All
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2019-02-01
Building Block for the Green New Deal…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/climate-jobs-for-all/