A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-04-25
On Labor, Climate, and the Long Way Forward…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/

UN Chief Says There's a Bigger Threat than Coronavirus
Ryan Heath | zcomm.org | 2020-04-25
In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies and climate change…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/un-chief-says-theres-a-bigger-threat-than-coronavirus/

How to use Social Media to Drive Environmental Change: Climate Change
Ecology Center in Berkeley | indybay.org | 2020-04-25
Online via Livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/24/18832609.php

This Appalachian Collective Has Launched Its Own "Green Stimulus"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-25
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. | On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres urged world leaders to ensure economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include measures that tackle what he called the…
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This Appalachian Collective Has Launched Its Own "Green Stimulus"
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-25
This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. | On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres urged world leaders to ensure economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include measures that tackle what he called the…
truthout.org/articles/this-appalachian-collective-has-launched-its-own-green-stimulus/

Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don't Talk About (Climate One)
Climate One | indybay.org | 2020-04-25
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/24/18832614.php

Building on the Bernie Movement in Coronavirus Time
Robert l. Borosage | zcomm.org | 2020-04-25
Sanders won't let the people who power the movement he started waste their votes…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/building-on-the-bernie-movement-in-coronavirus-time/

Why the Democratic Party Must Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jeffrey C. Isaac | commondreams.org | 2020-04-24
AOC symbolizes integrity, the courage of her political convictions, and the kind of passionate egalitarianism that the Democratic party must nourish if it is to have a future. (Photo: Senate Democrats/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/10th-debate-climate-aoc.jpg …
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World Penguin Day: penguins are helping to map Antarctic regions in greatest need of protection
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-24
In a rapidly changing climate, penguins have helped scientists map areas of the Antarctic in greatest need of protection from the threat of over-exploitation. A cohort of scientists compiled tracking data from five different species of penguin, and 12 other marine predators, to find the regions most densely populated with prey.To mark World Penguin Day on Saturday 25 April, the scientists involved are highlighting their role in the new research and its importance to conservation efforts. Tracking data from adelie, emperor, king, royal and macaroni penguin species was used, as well as data from two species of petr…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/04/24/world-penguin-day-penguins-are-helping-to-map-antarctic-regions-in-greatest-need-of-protection/

Disinfectant Manufacturers Warn Consumers Not to Heed Trump's "Injection" Remark
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-24
President Donald Trump on Thursday made alarming comments about the possibility of using disinfectants in order to treat the coronavirus that were immediately dismissed by both medical professionals and the companies that create such products. | During a White House press briefing, William N. Bryan, head of the Department of Homeland Security's science and technology division, said that he had seen evidence that the disease doesn't live as long in tropical climates and humid temperatures.
truthout.org/articles/disinfectant-manufacturers-warn-consumers-not-to-heed-trumps-injection-remark/

Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Climate Solution or a Pyramid Scheme?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-24
To a growing portion of the public, this is the existential question of our time: How do we significantly slash greenhouse gas emissions before it's too late? | Solar? Wind? Nuclear? Reforestation? How about carbon capture and storage (CCS), what is in essence the process of separating carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, or from gases produced in electricity generation and industrial processes, then injecting the captured CO2 into geological rock formations typically located several kilometers undergr…
truthout.org/articles/is-carbon-capture-and-storage-a-climate-solution-or-a-pyramid-scheme/

Trump, coronavirus, and climate change: using a pandemic to gut the EPA
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-24
Under the guise of protecting workers and the public from the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two weeks ago that it will not issue fines against companies that violate certain water, air, and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.
mronline.org/2020/04/24/trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-coronavirus-and-climate-change-using-a-pandemic-to-gut-the-epa

Now is the Perfect Time to Fight Climate Change
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid to that sector of our economy whose existence had heretofore represented humanity's greatest threat: the fossil fuel industry. But now may be the best time to pay heed. Oil and gas prices recently fell so low that they bizarrely…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/now-is-the-perfect-time-to-fight-climate-change/

Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics
Annie Leonard | thenation.com | 2020-04-23
Want to Slow the Climate Crisis? Don't Use Single-Use Plastics.
thenation.com/article/environment/plastic-recycling-climate-change/

Greta Thunberg: Climate Activists Have Not Lost Hope Amid Pandemic. We're Changing How We Organize
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder,'" says Thunberg. "I feel like many people have not lost their sense of hope. We have just changed the way we do things. W…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/greta_thunberg_earth_day_2020

Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/angela_valenzuela_chile

Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-22
Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/22/angela_valenzuela_chile

Zooming Newport's Climate Awareness Earth Day 2020
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-22
Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day brought out 20 million Americans across the land

Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won't halt climate change – UN weather agency chief
news.un.org | 2020-04-22
An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only "short-term good news", the head of the UN weather agency said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062332

Guterres vows support for island States in twin fight against COVID-19, climate crisis
news.un.org | 2020-04-21
In an era of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres is pledging the UN's continued support to small island States

First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/first-u-s-union-authorized-climate-strike/

Civil Disobedience in the Time of Climate Crisis
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
What we–citizens, corporations, courts and government–do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/civil-disobedience-in-the-time-of-climate-crisis/