Climate Groups Target JPMorgan Chase "Money Pipeline"
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-02-01
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area and climate activists in SF financial district demonstration…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830264.php
SF Treasure Island Radiation Charter School & SFLC & Hanging Nooses
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2020-02-01
WorkWeek looks at the radioactive contamination and cover-up of the dangers of SF Treasure Island. The City of San Francisco now wants to put a charter school on a contaminated closed school called the Treasure Island Elementary School. It also looks at the MLK day picket of the San Francisco Labor Council and the hanging noose incident at SF Recology and the firing of Teamster Daryl Washington.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/31/18830237.php
George Monbiot on the unholy trinity of ideologies trashing our planet
Brendan Montague | zcomm.org | 2020-02-01
Is another form of capitalism possible? And can new social movements like Extinction Rebellion escape the ideologies that pervade our lives?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/george-monbiot-on-the-unholy-trinity-of-ideologies-trashing-our-planet/
Latest UN plan to address catastrophic decline in biodiversity–more empty platitudes
wsws.org | 2020-02-01
Earth faces the sixth mass extinction of life on the planet, and all the capitalist system can provide is another toothless document.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/01/biod-f01.html
Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn
Neil Demause | zcomm.org | 2020-02-01
The newfound attention to climate came with a strange disjunction: being aware of this massive threat to humanity hasn't translated into much concerted action to stop it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/media-on-climate-crisis-dont-organize-mourn/
Breaking the ice: Hockey-loving new US ambassador visits Moscow game… and reveals his favorite player is RUSSIAN
rt.com | 2020-02-01
America's new ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, said ice hockey could help bring the two nations closer together as he visited a game in Moscow, also singing the praises of his favorite player, Russia's Alexander Ovechkin. | Sullivan took up his post earlier this year, and as an avid hockey fan wasted little time in arranging a visit to a game in the Russian capital. | The American diplomat was at the local derby between Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo on Saturday, where, suitably dressed in a Washington Capitals NHL jersey, he dropped the ceremonial first puck alongside Russian hockey legends Vyacheslav Fe…
rt.com/sport/479865-us-ambassador-sullivan-moscow-hockey/
Climate activists from Africa speak out about the marginalisation of African voices
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-01-31
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate and peers from other African nations have made an urgent appeal for the world to pay more attention to the continent that stands to suffer the most from climate breakdown despite contributing to it the least.The Fridays For Future movement and activist Greta Thunberg held a news conference with the activists in Sweden to spotlight the marginalisation of African voices."African activists are doing so much": Nakate
Media on Climate Crisis: Don't Organize, Mourn
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-01-31
While US media have indeed ramped up their coverage of the climate crisis, they continue to give short shrift to what are arguably the most important factors for determining our future: what specific human practices are responsible for the changing climate, why carbon emissions continue to rise, and what we can and should be doing about it.
fair.org/home/media-on-climate-crisis-dont-organize-mourn/
Australia Offers a Preview of the World to Come
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-31
Unless we remove the arsonists in power across the globe, we're headed for a climate catastrophe no less destructive than nuclear war.
truthdig.com/articles/australia-offers-a-preview-of-the-world-to-come/
Stopping climate change
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-31
We should "think outside the box" to arrive at solutions that eliminate climate change as best we can.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/31/stopping-climate-change/
Suriname's climate promise, for a sustainable future
news.un.org | 2020-01-31
Suriname has become the second nation globally to outline updated plans to fight climate change in the hope of ensuring that any future increase in the temperature of the planet does not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1056422
EPA Reapproves Glyphosate, Claims Pesticide Poses No Human Health Threat
Relying on confidential industry research, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a final interim decision today to reapprove glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto/Bayer's Roundup and the world's most heavily used pesticide. | The EPA's assessment contradicts a 2015 World Health Organization …
globalresearch.ca/epa-reapproves-glyphosate-claims-pesticide-poses-no-human-health-threat/5702397
Mexico Leads Greenhouse Tech Limiting Water Waste in Farming
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-31
Mexico has become a world leader in protected agriculture, using greenhouses and covering materials to grow tomatoes, peppers, and other crops and thereby combat ecosystem degradation. | RELATED: | FAO: Hunger Rises in Latin America, Affects 42.5 Million People | Ecosystem degradation and depletion from industrial agriculture – particularly evident in the northern part of Guanajuato. Fifty percent of that central Mexican state's overexploited 2,500 water wells – is a primary con…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Leads-Greenhouse-Tech-Limiting-Water-Waste-in-Farming-20200131-0009.html
Fridays for Future Movement Urges Greater Global Focus on Africa's Climate Champions
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-31
The Fridays for Future movement held a press conference Friday focused on the need for the world to better recognize the amazing climate activism taking place in Africa—a continent that is already enduring severe impacts of global heating in spite of its limited contributions to creating the crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11976505671.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/01/31/fridays-future-movement-urges-greater-global-focus-africas-climate-champions?cd-origin=rss
Union motion: Support real action on the climate
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate workers' rights & unionsIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Unionists active in the climate change movement have drafted the following model motion to help break the silence on the fact that the catastrophic bushfires are connected to climate change. | It also seeks to build support for the February 22 national day of action…
greenleft.org.au/content/union-motion-support-real-action-climate
Building a climate movement that can win
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Sue BoltonIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Australia is burning and unless we all step up, it will continue to burn. While firefighters and emergency personnel and thousands upon thousands of ordinary people have stepped in to fill the breach, in the cities we too can play our part. | I am one of the initiators of a broad-based clim…
greenleft.org.au/content/building-climate-movement-can-win
Answering the Coalition's climate trickery
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-31
Climate Andrea BuntingIssue 1251 AustraliaJanuary 31, 2020Following the recent bushfire crisis and the upsurge in climate concern, the federal Coalition wants to give the impression that it is acting on climate change. Andrea Bunting debunks 14 claims made by the Coalition government in an email sent to a constituent. | Claim 1: "We will be…
greenleft.org.au/content/answering-coalition-climate-trickery
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2020-01-30
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-refugees-borders/
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2020-01-30
What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?
thenation.com/article/environment/climate-refugees-borders/
How Australia could have already transitioned to 100% renewable energy
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-30
Climate Zane AlcornIssue 1251 Australia 100% renewable energyJanuary 30, 2020Released in 2010, The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan (ZCA2020)
Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-29
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to "the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/
Austria's Green-right alliance sells out migrants
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-29
climate justice immigration rights Jacob Andrewartha Margarita WindischIssue 1251 Austria Austrian Greens…
greenleft.org.au/content/austria-green-right-alliance-sells-out-migrants
FROM THE FIELD: Sourcing clean water in Ghana
news.un.org | 2020-01-28
Communities in northern Ghana are benefiting from the rehabilitation of water sources which is expected to boost livelihoods and build resilience against climate change, thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1056072
Dystopia in the land of Oz: A climate change story
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-28
climate emergency Hans BaerIssue 1251 Australia ecosocialism bushfiresJanuary 28, 2020Climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Ande…
greenleft.org.au/content/dystopia-land-oz-climate-change-story
Could the Climate Crisis Be "The Good News of Damnation"?
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-01-26
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to…
zcomm.org/zblogs/could-the-climate-crisis-be-the-good-news-of-damnation/