Daily Archives: January 6, 2022

2022-01-06: News Headlines

imperial.ac.uk (2022-01-06). Innovation Design Engineering students tackle '1.5 ∞C Cuisine' challenge. imperial.ac.uk Students from the Dyson School of Engineering experienced an innovative residential that fused design with food to help tackle the climate crisis.

CJ Polychroniou (2022-01-06). California's Cap-and-Trade System Proves Limits of Market-Based Climate Action. zcomm.org California is not making sufficient progress to meet the 2030 emissions goals. With current policies, it could take easily at least a couple more decades before the 2030 goals are met…

David Swanson (2022-01-06). There Will Be Many Acts of Kindness on the Way Down. warisacrime.org I live in a wealthy country, the U.S., and in a corner of it, a part of Virginia, not yet hit hard by fires or floods or tornados. In fact, until Sunday night, January 2nd, we'd had rather pleasant, almost summerlike weather most of the time since summer. Then, Monday morning, we got several inches …

_____ (2022-01-05). Occupy Biden Demonstrates How To Hold Politicians Accountable. popularresistance.org During the 2020 presidential campaigns, it was common for people who planned to vote for Joe Biden to say that they recognized he was a corporate-friendly candidate but that we just needed to elect him and then he could be pressured to act in the interests of the people. Well, unlike the marches after President Trump was elected, that mass pressure on Biden has not materialized. Now, a coalition of smaller climate justice groups (not the Big Greens) has just completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President's home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil f…

Gidimt'en Yintah Access (2022-01-05). Wet'suwet'en Water Protectors Evade RCMP as Police Mobilize For Raid. itsgoingdown.org Report on current situation on Wet'suwet'en territory from the Gidimt'en Camp, as RCMP troops again begin to mobilize for a raid. Two weeks after Wet'suwet'en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors executed a strategic retreat to avoid arrest and violence at the hands of dozens of…

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