Class Consciousness
Can’t Combine
View: We must understand relationship between economy and ecology
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-evoke/view-we-must-understand-relationship-between-economy-and-ecology/articleshow/81876857.cms
Changing our ways? Behaviour change and the climate crisisThe report of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change.
This is particularly true of discussions about how best to scale behaviour change. Government policy, economic incentives and broader cultural change all have a role to play. But can they achieve the scale of change over short-term time frames within which ‘transformative action’ needs to take place to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement?
https://www.rapidtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cambridge-Sustainability-Commission-on-Scaling-behaviour-change-report.pdf
Regenerative agriculture is ‘proper farming’
“Big Words and Little Action”: Greta Thunberg’s Passionate Letter on Why We Must Do More to Tackle the Climate Crisis
https://www.vogue.com/article/greta-thunberg-letter-climate-change-earth-day
‘We need to move to capitalism of true value … You will see all capital will flow towards sustainability’
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/cash-flow/we-need-to-move-to-capitalism-of-true-value-you-will-see-all-capital-will-flow-towards-sustainability/
Optimism Over Despair: Noam Chomsky On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6694/t/17304/shop/item.jsp
New Wind and Solar up 50% globally in 2020, as China beats US by over 4 to 1
https://www.juancole.com/2021/04/solar-globally-beats.html
The new buzzword in fashion
‘Regenerative’ and ‘regenerated’ are replacing ‘sustainable’ as the marketing words du jour. But can they stay meaningful?
https://www.ft.com/content/71b58bba-e95a-4e0e-85c0-c75717bdfdbc
The World’s Largest Tidal Power Device Will Soon Begin Testing Off Scotland
Why Are Farmers Embracing Regenerative Grazing?
https://sentientmedia.org/why-are-farmers-embracing-regenerative-grazing/
Rio Grande Salinity Drives Innovation, Change In Agriculture
https://today.tamu.edu/2021/04/20/rio-grande-salinity-drives-innovation-change-in-agriculture/
Legumes research gets flexitarian pulses racing with farming guidance
Plant more bean-like crops in Europe and consider ‘healthy diet transition’ to beat climate crisis, say scientists
Oxford University receives £11m from fossil fuel firms, report finds
Figures from oil, gas and petrochemical companies does not include £100m from Ineos in 2021
Why Climate Change is Driving Some to Skip Having Kids
https://news.arizona.edu/story/why-climate-change-driving-some-skip-having-kids
Not Wasting Food to Save the World
Cutting food waste in our own homes can have a positive impact on both climate change and world hunger.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/23/not-wasting-food-save-world
The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts Evidence and Proof
Definitive answers to the big questions.
Food industry salivates over lucrative new type of organic food
Regenerative farming is fast becoming the higher standard for consumers seeking to protect their health and the planet.
Points of No Return
As the world warms these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?
Climate Crisis Has Shifted the Earth’s Axis, Study Shows
Massive melting of glaciers has tilted the planet’s rotation showing the impact of human activities
Climate Change Could Cut World Economy by $23T in 2050 Insurance Giant Warns
Poor nations would be particularly hard hit but few would escape Swiss Re said. The findings could influence how the industry prices insurance and invests its mammoth portfolios.
Biden Wants to Slash Emissions. Success Would Mean a Very Different America.
Hitting the targets could require a rapid shift to electric vehicles, the expansion of forests nationwide, development of complex new carbon-capture technology and many other changes researchers said.
Psychedelics Are Transforming the Way We Understand Depression and its Treatment
Psychiatry has long failed to explain depression. Our research into psilocybin suggests a new approach could offer answers04-
New Study Finds Undisclosed Ingredients in Roundup Lethal to Bumblebees
Researchers found that one of the herbicide formulations killed 96% of bees within 24 hours.
Microplastics affect global nutrient cycle and oxygen levels in the ocean
Social media and science combine to show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
It’s time for a green social contract
The green transformation will have far-reaching socio-economic implications.
Action is needed to ensure domestic and international social equity and fairness.
https://www.bruegel.org/2021/04/its-time-for-a-green-social-contract/
Investing In Nature Is Essential to Our Shared Future
Canadian women leaders send an open letter to the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/13/investing-nature-essential-our-shared-future
Wells Fargo: Defund Line 3 (video of Wells Fargo HQ SF blockade April 9, 2021)
https://vimeo.com/535616507
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urge cooperation at Climate Summit to stop fossil fuel expansion
https://fossilfueltreaty.org/nobel-letter
Op-ed: In A Time of Urgency and Hope, How Do We Move The Planet Forward?
Citizens across the country are questioning, and sometimes fighting, chloramines in drinking water
Hannibal, Missouri, and Poughkeepsie, New York, are among the cities that have dropped the controversial chemical in favor of new water treatment systems
CITIZENS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE QUESTIONING, AND SOMETIMES FIGHTING, CHLORAMINES IN DRINKING WATER
CITIZENS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE QUESTIONING, AND SOMETIMES FIGHTING, CHLORAMINES IN DRINKING WATER
CHLORAMINES IN DRINKING WATER
You reap what you sow
Weeds are destroying crops globally – but the real problem is Big Agriculture.
That we live on a hugely degraded, biologically impoverished planet, in which natural ecosystems are battered, abused, barely clinging on, is now emerging into public consciousness. But the corresponding rise of the superweed, and increasing vulnerability of our crop species, has yet to so register.
https://theecologist.org/2021/apr/14/you-reap-what-you-sow
Proxy Voting Guide
In the climate fight, Lee Raymond is the ultimate Bond villain. As the CEO of ExxonMobil,
he was the chief architect of a decades-long disinformation campaign to discredit climate science
and brainwash Americans into questioning the reality of climate change
Majority Action urges investors to vote against these directors at companies
failing to implement plans consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5ºC.
https://www.proxyvoting.majorityaction.us/proxy-voting-guide
Greening Earth and creating Jobs, Biden to slash Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Extend Wind, Solar Credits.
https://www.juancole.com/2021/04/greening-creating-subsidies.htmlCOVERING CLIMATE NOW STATEMENT ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Journalism should reflect what the science says: the climate emergency is here.
https://coveringclimatenow.org/the-press-and-the-climate-emergency/
Who’s Minding the Store?
5th annual report card on retailer actions to eliminate toxic chemicals
https://retailerreportcard.com/