Tag Archives: renewable energy
DN! Bill McKibben on Dire IPCC Climate Report: How Oil and Gas Are Fueling Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
With the information in the latest UN report, McKibben makes an impassioned plea for immediate action to address the climate crisis.
The Middle East Will Soon Be Under Water: A Talk with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
Arguing against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, they show how this bogus concern encourages climate denialism.
Regime Change and Climate Change: Connecting the Dots
Particular focus on the continuing threats of the U.S. imperialist regime change agenda regarding Venezuela and Iran, with a major objective of seizing control of the biggest (Venezuela) and 4th biggest (Iran) oil reserves in the world. If this imperialist goal is realized, militarized fossil capital will surely extract this oil thereby leading the world […]
11,000 Scientists Declare a Climate Emergency, Ecowatch
The letter was written by dozens of scientists and endorsed by thousands more from 153 countries. It differs from past scientific communications about the climate crisis in that it does not speak in uncertainties and it lays out actual policy recommendations,
The Battle for Paradise: Naomi Klein reports from Puerto Rico
PUERTO RICANS AND ULTRARICH “PUERTOPIANS” ARE LOCKED IN A PITCHED STRUGGLE OVER HOW TO REMAKE THE ISLAND
William Hawes | We Are on Our Own Now
There are now eight people (six are Americans) with more wealth than half the world’s population.
Hunter Cutting | The Road Ahead in Saving the Climate
The fight to save the climate has to be knit into the progressive fight for the soul of country.
Lisa Graves: More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
… for two decades through to this day, ALEC has been at the forefront of peddling climate change denial to state policymakers. Its legislative agenda is replete with an array of bills to block almost every effort by the Environmental Protection Agency or other governmental bodies to respond to the climate changes underway. By Lisa Graves, […]
▶ Please join us at the Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace over Profit, Sept. 19-21!
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▶ Winona LaDuke – Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life – TEDxTC
Also recommended: Yes! Magazine: How to Eat Like Our Lives Depend On It Published on Mar 4, 2012 Winona is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works […]
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