by Marvin Contreras Just off the Louisiana coast, in the bayous, an island is disappearing. The Isle de Jean Charles, the ancestral land of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, has nearly been engulfed by rising sea levels. The native band, which has lived for centuries on the Isle, are the first federally funded climate migrants in the United States. […]
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by Marvin Contreras In a major win for environmentalists and concerned residents alike, the city of Petaluma, California has enacted a ban on new gas stations which took effect on March 1, 2021, becoming the first city in the nation to do so. This action adds to the growing new movement to hasten the shift away from
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by Richard Rollins CLIMATE EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION TEAM SIERRA CLUB GRASSROOTS NETWORK YEAR-END REPORT 01/01/2020 – 12/31/2020 This was the first year for the Grassroots Network Climate Emergency Mobilization (CEM) Team. The following are excerpts from our formal report to the Grassroots Network Support Team. GOAL AND PROSPECTIVE OUTCOMES As a new team in 2020, establishing
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by Melissa Yu On Tuesday, November 10th, [2020] the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass the all-electric new buildings ordinance introduced by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and co-sponsored by Supervisors Dean Preston, Gordon Mar, Shamann Walton, and Matt Haney. San Francisco is the largest city in the state to pass an all-electric building
by Allyson Ulsh “If you’ve never heard about the amazing potential of regenerative agriculture and land use practices to naturally sequester a critical mass of CO2 in the soil and forests, you’re not alone. One of the best-kept secrets in the world today is that the solution to global warming and the climate crisis (as
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by Christine Carlton As we scramble to find creative solutions to address our warming atmosphere, be that through individual efforts, like switching to electric vehicles, or larger scale municipal programs such as shifts to clean energy, it can be easy to overlook what’s right in front of our noses. Or, in this case, under our
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by Randy MacDonald Last November 4th, Donald Trump gave formal notice of his intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Under that agreement’s rules, Trump’s notice triggered a year-long countdown before the US could actually leave the Accord. That countdown will end on the day after the 2020 General Election, when
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by Richard Rollins “The coronavirus pandemic and the slower-moving dangers of climate change parallel one another in important ways, and experts say the aggressive, if belated, response to the outbreak could hold lessons for those urging climate action. Both the pandemic and the climate crisis are problems of exponential growth against a limited capacity to
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by Rebecca Franke The impact of our destabilizing climate is often described through distant manifestations: melting ice sheets, warming permafrost, rising ocean acidity, and the like. But increasingly, we’re coming face-to-face with rapid changes in our communities. The Washington Post published an extended piece describing the impact of rising temperatures on southern California, centering on Santa
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by Rebecca Franke Often slipping by with too little notice, communities throughout the world are declaring climate emergencies. They recognize that waiting for national governments to take the lead isn’t sufficient. And coasting along with “someday, not now” nonchalance no longer cuts it. We’ve reached the point where “climate change” is not an accurate description
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