California once prohibited Native American fire
practices. Now, it’s 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?
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
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
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD – Bridging
Science and Spirit
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
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.
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
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
US Military Drops Appeal of Hawaii Order to Drain Fuel
Tanks
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
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
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?
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
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.
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.
Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our
Climate Crisis? Or just another Big Oil
boondoggle?
To Save the Corn Belt, Plant Trees: Agroforestry is soil
friendly and could ultimately be more profitable for farmers.
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
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’.
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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