Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Ecology and Pollution and Climate Change related links 051722

 

California once prohibited Native American fire practices. Now, it’s asking tribes to use them to help prevent wildfires

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/04/california-once-prohibited-native-american-fire-practices-now-its-asking-tribes-to-use-them-to-help-prevent-wildfires/

 

I Wrote an Essay About “Petromasculinity,” and Conservatives Freaked Out: The knee-jerk panic some conservative men feel over fossil fuels isn’t just tied to financial incentive. It’s an identity.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166048/fox-news-petromasculinity-fossil-fuels

 

CONGRESSIONAL WORKERS REVEAL CULTURE OF ABUSE ON CAPITOL HILL: Overworked and underpaid congressional workers are forming a union. Will their progressive employers stand by them?

https://perfectunion.us/congressional-workers-reveal-culture-of-abuse-on-capitol-hill/

 

This Is Vladimir Putin’s Inflation Number, Not Joe Biden’s: The stock market understands that the current spike in consumer prices is war-related. Why can’t Chris Cillizza?

https://newrepublic.com/article/166086/march-inflation-report-putin-not-biden-consumer-price-increase

 

Nationalizing Oil? It's About Saving the World - Apr 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq-U1AofYRM

 

We’re Failing to Prepare Our Children for the Climate Fight: Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166089/were-failing-prepare-children-climate-fight

 

NO WARMING, NO WAR: HOW MILITARISM FUELS THE CLIMATE CRISIS — AND VICE VERSA

https://ips-dc.org/climate-militarism-primer/?fbclid=IwAR12ydF_NnQ-vGwdckhqepWnmkf2r_jnXySKO9UY4xAIZzZv2T9qm2KjmYQ#

 

Bald eagles dying, egg prices rising: Bird flu spreads to more than 30 states: A highly contagious bird flu has driven up egg and poultry prices, but it does not pose a health threat to people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bird-flu-spreads-bald-eagles-high-egg-prices-rcna24590

 

A Purely Speculative List of Reasons Why Gina McCarthy Might Be Leaving the White House: Joe Biden’s climate adviser denies reports that she has resigned. But if she does decide to bounce, she’d have good reason.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166118/speculative-gina-mccarthy-resign

 

North Macedonia’s Go-Slow on Greener Energy is Costing Lives

https://icmglt.org/north-macedonias-go-slow-on-greener-energy-is-costing-lives/

 

S.Africans search for survivors in ruins of floods that killed nearly 400

https://icmglt.org/s-africans-search-for-survivors-in-ruins-of-floods-that-killed-nearly-400/

 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's truck inspection policy created a logjam at the border that resulted in $240 million of spoiled produce

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-truck-inspection-policy-creates-logjam-2022-4

 

Editor's Note: Doing What We Can

https://progressive.org/magazine/doing-what-we-can-lueders/

 

Comment: Global Crisis Demands Local Responses

https://progressive.org/magazine/global-crisis-demands-local-responses-rogers-wright/

 

Smoking Gun: Climate Change, By the Numbers

https://progressive.org/magazine/climate-change-by-the-numbers/

 

Finding Higher Ground: A road trip through the unlikely cradle of America’s Great Climate Migration.

https://progressive.org/magazine/finding-higher-ground-tempus/

 

Saving the Driftless Region from Itself: Old approaches could help lessen the impacts of our climate crisis.

https://progressive.org/magazine/saving-driftless-region-from-itself-hundt/

 

When Boomers Come Together: Our new organization, Third Act, is mobilizing the generation with the most political and economic influence to fight for a working climate and a working democracy.

https://progressive.org/magazine/when-boomers-come-together-mckibben/

 

Conservation Now: Protecting land and water is a bipartisan way to mitigate climate impacts.

https://progressive.org/magazine/conservation-now-ness/

 

Farmers on the Frontlines: A changing climate creates new challenges—and opportunities to make a difference.

https://progressive.org/magazine/farmers-on-the-frontlines-eisen/

 

Can the Ocean Save the Planet? The idea of ocean-based climate solutions is appealing, but the challenges are formidable.

https://progressive.org/magazine/can-the-ocean-save-the-planet-helvarg/

 

Indigenous Peoples Lead the Way: To solve the climate crisis, we must reject schemes that fail to address its underlying causes.

https://progressive.org/magazine/indigenous-peoples-lead-the-way-goldtooth/

 

Putting the Heat on Big Oil: Student divestment campaigns have made real gains in the fight to undermine the fossil fuel industry.

https://progressive.org/magazine/putting-the-heat-on-big-oil-cohen/

 

The Right Pushes Back: Conservative lobbyists are seeking to protect fossil fuel companies from divestment campaigns.

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-right-pushes-back-banks/

 

Creating the Future We Deserve: My generation has set out to solve the climate crisis because we know things can’t go on as they are.

https://progressive.org/magazine/creating-the-future-we-deserve-barrett/

 

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden’s stalled climate agenda - Apr 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-lQFl5OEo

 

Taking It to the States: Governors are at the forefront of the battle to address climate change.

https://progressive.org/magazine/taking-it-to-states-johnson/

 

First Person Singular: When the Floods Came: Two decades ago, El Niño destroyed my childhood home in Ecuador. It was a sign of things to come.

https://progressive.org/magazine/when-the-floods-came-flores/

 

Learning to Listen: How a university project to document Milwaukee neighborhood stories has created a ‘network of hope.’

https://progressive.org/magazine/learning-to-listen-haynes/

 

Hope in a Time of Darkness: An interview with author Rebecca Solnit.

https://progressive.org/magazine/hope-in-a-time-of-darkness-nichols/

 

More Than Just ‘Carry On’: Surviving the loss of normalcy requires new approaches.

https://progressive.org/magazine/more-than-just-carry-on-kayyem/

 

Think Globally. Act Now.

https://progressive.org/magazine/think-globally-act-now-stockwell/

 

Edge of Sports: Why the Sports World Cares About Ukraine

https://progressive.org/magazine/why-sports-world-cares-about-ukraine-zirin/

 

Vox Populist: Protecting the Rights of Nature

https://progressive.org/magazine/protecting-rights-of-nature-hightower/

 

"Truth Has Nothing to Do With Who Wins the Argument" | The Power of Big Oil | FRONTLINE - Apr 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsBXcHIaEKM

 

Microplastics have officially been found in our bodies. Here’s what that means for human health.

The long term impacts are still unknown.

https://www.popsci.com/environment/microplastic-human-health/

 

Remember When Earth Day Used to Be Cool?  It’s been disgustingly co-opted by the likes of ExxonMobil. But it belongs to an environmental movement that fused both radical and mainstream America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166162/remember-earth-day-used-cool

 

Twenty-Five Hundred Gallons of Water Per Bushel of Irrigated Corn is ‘Too Much’

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Guebert.html

 

Earth Day: Short Time To Change

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Lingo.html

 

Cut Out the Middlemen & Get Your Energy Straight from the Sun: In fact, all of the fossil fuel energy sources we use originated with light radiated from our sun

https://hartmannreport.com/p/cut-out-the-middlemen-and-get-your?s=r

 

Honoring the Earth, Acknowledging the People

https://www.populist.com/28.08.Cintli.html

 

Spring Storms Are Hard on Trees; Here's How To Take Care of Them

https://www.creators.com/read/bonnie-jean-feldkamp/04/22/spring-storms-are-hard-on-trees-heres-how-to-take-care-of-them

 

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD – Bridging Science and Spirit 

https://www.brucelipton.com

 

Has the Fossil Fuel Era Ended? (w/ Dr. Michael Mann) - Apr 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ridp8Bep4

 

DR. J.J. HURTAK AND DR. DESIREE HURTAK, Social Scientists and Explorers of the Future

https://hurtak.com/

 

Kurt Johnson - The Climate Center

https://theclimatecenter.org/portfolio-item/johnson-kurt

 

Elisabet Sahtouris Evolution Biologist & Futurist

750 Amana Street, Suite 1808

Honolulu, HI 96814 USA

http://www.sahtouris.com/#1_0,0,

 

EARTH DAY EVENT: CELEBRATING OUR PLANET, HEALING OUR HEART

https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/earth-day-event-celebrating-our-planet-healing-our-heart/

 

Vocalist. Composer. Sonic Ethereal Guide.

https://www.kristinhoffmann.com/

 

Climate action, as patriotism: Three distinguished military veterans make the case for climate action to better assure national security, help ensure freedom and democracy, and best serve those serving in uniform.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/04/climate-action-as-patriotism/

 

On Earth Day: Is the War in Ukraine an Environmental Disaster? | Amanpour and Company - Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vgo4ImsSU

 

BE A VOICE FOR WILDLIFE: Prevent extinction. Protect habitat. Defend nature.

https://defenders.org/

 

Activists Call For Day of Action Against Climate Change Featuring Betamia Coronel - Apr 22, 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OHNuYHpoGM

 

Wildfires in the Southwest grow, claim more homes: Firefighters were assigned to more than a dozen large fires across the US

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/22/wildfires-in-the-southwest-grow-claim-more-homes/

 

How recent rains affected California’s drought and wildfire season: Some good news on fire risk, but reservoirs didn’t see much new water

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/23/how-recent-rains-affected-californias-drought-and-wildfire-season/

 

Big Oil Buys Votes Against Climate Change Emergency - Apr 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQfbuEgMKo

 

Tackling Interconnected Child Care and Climate Crises: This Earth Day, we don’t have to look too far to find examples of public policy investments in our future.

https://www.laprogressive.com/social-justice/climate-crises

 

Red Hill: The Fight for Clean Water in Hawai’i

https://thehumanist.com/commentary/red-hill-the-fight-for-clean-water-in-hawaii

 

How Biden Can Help the Climate on Earth Day—Without Congress: Joe Manchin isn’t the final word on policy in this country. The president still has a lot of power.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166171/biden-earth-day-joe-manchin

 

READ BY CHAPTER.  Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. “A plethora of insights about nature and ourselves, revealed by one man’s journey as he comes to terms with human exploitation of our planet.”  DR. JAMES HANSEN, climate scientist, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

https://peterkalmus.net/books/read-by-chapter-being-the-change/

 

Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution - 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw_znkeulkA

 

Grief for our Battered World is a Superpower for 2021 | Extinction Rebellion UK - Jan 6, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_sR8kYLKA

 

We need to talk about the latest IPCC report | with Peter Kalmus & Ella Gilbert - Mar 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ6tzLL0J3M

 

Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise - Streamed live on Apr 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzwCdsQ2Rjo

 

Climate Emergency! | Marianne Williamson in conversation with climate Scientist Peter Kalmus - Premiered Apr 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9wygxKexQ

 

Pentagon Marks Earth Day 2022 with Push for Funding to Combat Climate Change

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/22/pentagon-marks-earth-day-2022-push-funding-combat-climate-change.html

 

US Military Drops Appeal of Hawaii Order to Drain Fuel Tanks

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/24/us-military-drops-appeal-of-hawaii-order-drain-fuel-tanks.html

 

The Color of Water: In one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, residents of the California’s colonias still don’t have access to clean running water.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-color-of-water-colonias/

 

How Military Jet Fuel Leaked Into Hawaii's Drinking Water - Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDsana5wvQ

 

The Sustainability Imperative: Cleaner, Sustainable Energy of Tomorrow - Started streaming Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zT96TcC-MM

 

The Sustainability Imperative: Trash Talk: Conversations on Consumption, Waste and Recycling - Apr 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijr4IAvDzto

 

The Sustainability Imperative: The New Greenprint: Public & Private Sector Sustainability Goals - Started streaming Apr 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzqUrUGzUU

 

The Sustainability Imperative: Making a Difference: Sustainability Thought Leaders & Innovators - Started streaming Apr 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYmHwYLhwgw

 

“To Life: How Israeli Volunteers Are Changing the World” Featuring Innovation: Africa (2016) - Aug 12, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUEeUBTCNPE

 

Changing a Continent | Calev Myers Interviews Innovation Africa - Nov 12, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrffbe5Gyrk

 

What to expect from this year's 'hotter and drier than normal' summer

https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1013096/what-to-expect-for-the-summer-heat-fire-and-drought-seasons

 

Is Joe Manchin Worth Compromising With Anymore?  Clean energy tax credits won’t help the climate if they come with more funding for fossil fuels.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166252/joe-manchin-compromise-climate

 

'Huge firefight' to defend New Mexico villages, city from blaze

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/residents-new-mexico-town-prepare-evacuate-amid-wildfire-2022-05-01/

 

Researchers demonstrate new link between greenhouse gases and sea level rise

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-link-greenhouse-gases-sea.html

 

The Power of Big Oil, Part Three: Delay (full documentary) | FRONTLINE - May 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8UOJqs5F9Q

 

The Rise of the No-Compromise Climate Candidate: From New York to Texas, a new crop of candidates rejecting fossil fuel donations are calling for legislative action.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166321/shrestha-cisneros-climate-candidate

 

When political reporters get training on science issues, they improve the sourcing in their science-related stories months later.  They quote more scientists and cite more peer-reviewed studies, a new study finds. So maybe don’t cut your newsroom’s training budget to the bone?

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/05/when-political-reporters-get-training-on-science-issues-they-improve-the-sourcing-in-their-science-related-stories-months-later/

 

Federal Law Allows Logging, Farming and Mining to Threaten America's Ecosystems: No version of “Waters of the US” (WOTUS), part of the Clean Water Act, adequately protects the nation’s natural areas.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Davis.html

 

Interview With Mother Earth

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Lingo.html

 

Letters: No Compromising with Planet Abusers; Military Spending vs. Climate Change; Biden Protected Us From Destitution; Right Wing Dilemma; The Bible Can Be Rough, But It’s Realistic; Putin’s Holy War.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Letters.html

 

A Sustainable World Must Cross Party Lines

https://www.populist.com/28.09.McMillen.html

 

First Steps in Ag Climate Fight are Honesty and Courage, Not Offsets and Credits

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Guebert.html

 

It’s Time to Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry: Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it’s about saving the world…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/its-time-to-nationalize-the-fossil?s=r

 

Sandstorm suspends flights, many Iraqis struggle to breathe: Hundreds of Iraqis have rushed to hospitals with breathing problems and the Baghdad airport suspended flights for several hours as a sandstorm blanketed the country, the fifth within a month

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sandstorm-suspends-flights-iraqis-struggle-breathe-84517858?cid=social_twitter_abcn

 

Pushing Back on ‘Soft Climate Denial’: The Biden administration claims to “believe the science” on climate, but its actions need to catch up with its words.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Sen.html

 

Maine’s Struggle for Public Power

https://www.populist.com/28.09.OLeary.html

 

'The Power of Big Oil' Exposes Corporate Climate Change Deniers and Doubters: A new PBS docuseries explores the campaign of lies that's blocked efforts to protect the planet.

https://www.populist.com/28.09.Rampell.html

 

Nine Years to Replace Underground Jet Fuel Tanks: It's Taking Nine Years to Replace Underground Jet Fuel Tanks in Washington State—Red Hill Can't Wait That Long

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/replace-jet-fuel-tanks

 

One businessman owns 200,000 acres in Scotland.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/05/headway/scotland-peatlands-climate-change.html

 

‘Burning Down a Way of Life’: Wildfire Rips Through a Hispanic Bastion.  One of the largest wildfires in New Mexico’s history is raging through a region where the culture stretches back longer than the United States has existed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/new-mexico-wildfires.html

 

Biden to crack down on polluters in poor, minority areas:  'Communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change,' Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

https://americanindependent.com/joe-biden-white-house-pollution-environment-justice-protection-garland-regan/ 

 

Rich Countries Should Give Poor Countries Money out of Sheer Self-Interest: Climate justice is moral. But it’s also practical.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166375/rich-countries-give-poor-countries-money-sheer-self-interest

 

There’s No Good Reason for the United States to Stay out of the International Criminal Court: The war in Ukraine has rivetingly demonstrated how joining the body is in our national interest.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166300/international-criminal-court-ukraine-russia

 

How sunken WWII wreckage is poisoning the Baltic Sea | Focus on Europe - May 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EVTeMQF_s

 

Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them?  Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/trees-forests-assisted-migration-fire-climate-joshua-redwoods-sequoia/

 

Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis?  Or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/sucking-carbon-engineering-global-thermostat-co2-direct-air-capture-climeworks-solution-climate-crisis-big-oil-boondoggle-ipcc/

 

To Save the Corn Belt, Plant Trees: Agroforestry is soil friendly and could ultimately be more profitable for farmers.

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/10/corn-belt-agroforestry-trees-erosion-carbon-sequestration-walnuts-acorns/

 

An Iowa Powerbroker Plans to Make a Windfall From Piping Ethanol Emissions: Landowners and environmentalists are joining together to oppose the “Midwest Carbon Express.”

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/05/midwest-carbon-express-summit-bruce-rastetter/

 

The Climate Movement in Its Own Way: A straightforward “price on carbon” was once thought appealing to left and right alike. It is now abjured by both.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/carbon-taxes/

 

Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want: Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/angela-garbes-essential-labor/

 

South Africa’s Climate Change Struggles Offer a Grim View of Our Future: In a warming world, failing to invest in infrastructure will be deadly.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166416/durban-floods-climate-change-infrastructure

 

Horn of Africa drought: Late rains in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are inflaming hunger, warns WFP.  The World Food Programme urgently needs US$437 million to respond and save lives in the region over the next six months

https://www.wfp.org/stories/horn-africa-drought-late-rains-ethiopia-kenya-and-somalia-are-inflaming-hunger-warns-wfp

 

Mapping heat flow beneath Greenland highlights geothermal 'freak zone'

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-beneath-greenland-highlights-geothermal-freak.html

 

India and Pakistan Are Baking, and Every Powerful Institution Is to Blame: Indians know they can’t rely on elites to save them from catastrophe. That’s exactly what could make a climate movement there so powerful.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/india-pakistan-heat-wave-climate-change-bjp-ipcc

 

US wildfire dangers seen spreading east as climate risks grow: American states face an increasing risk of forest blazes, posing danger to more than 30 million properties ‘no matter where you live’.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/16/u-s-wildfire-dangers-seen-spreading-east-as-climate-risks-grow

 

With Planet Warming, We Are Sacrificing Lives for Profits. Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.

https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/sacrificing-lives-for-profits

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