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Kert Davies: Greedy Lying Bastards: The Movie Exxon and the Koch Brothers Hope You Don'... - 0 views

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      Just got back from watching this with Kloman (at Liberty Tree Loews...)  The more who see it, the better.
  • Greedy Lying Bastards: The Movie Exxon and the Koch Brothers Hope You Don't See (VIDEO)
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America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II | James Gustave Speth | Orion Magazine - 1 views

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    Gus Speth's hopeful vision
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Crisis And Opportunity In The Environmental Century: Inspiring A Generation To Greatnes... - 0 views

  • Crisis And Opportunity In The Environmental Century: Inspiring A Generation To Greatness In The Classroom By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 30, 2012 at 9:11 am by Stephen Mulkey, via Climate Access As an ecologist, I know that we have precious little time to prepare a generation to respond to the ecological crisis of our planet in peril. As the president of Unity College, I am alarmed by how little progress has been made in focusing higher learning on what is undoubtedly the most important challenge facing humankind. Given the overwhelming scientific evidence of imminent climate disruption, failure to make climate literacy a requisite part of any undergraduate curriculum is inexcusable. Recent papers in the journal Nature show that we have transgressed the boundaries of a safe operating space for humanity with respect to several key environmental factors. Chief among these is climate change, which amplifies the effects of all other critical factors such as freshwater depletion, nitrogen pollution, biodiversity loss, ozone depletion, and changes in land use. There is now mounting evidence that sometime during this century we will reach a state shift in the planet’s ability to support us. Climate change will affect every facet of the academy and change the practice of essentially all fields of study.
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    HOPE and HIGH SCHOOL.
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Climate change: Doha conference next week is last chance for action | Avaaz - 0 views

  • Climate change Crunch time for the climate by Avaaz Team - posted 25 November 2012 12:18 Tweet Youth speaks to power about the climate crisis (Liam Moriarty) You didn't have to go far to find extreme weather this year. North America experienced both brutal drought and a record-setting storm. Extreme weather in Africa, southeast Asia and Europe also caused widespread damage and cost many lives. In fact, as New York state governor Andrew Cuomo noted, extreme weather seems to be the "new normal".With delegates from around the world converging on Doha, Qatar, this week for the 18th UN conference on climate change (COP18), the need for real progress on global warming has never been more urgent. And while there are many obstacles to progress on this crucial problem, there are hopeful signs as well.
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Climate Justice Advocates Slam Doha's Emerging 'Sham of a Deal' | Common Dreams - 0 views

  • Climate Justice Advocates Slam Doha's Emerging 'Sham of a Deal' 'Sluggish' climate talks missing essential ingredient—Urgency—as COP18 climate summit in Doha nears end - Jon Queally, staff writer With terms like "sluggish" "tough-going" and "extremely sour" used to describe the tone and progress of the UN climate talks in Doha on Friday, the hope for an agreement that could actually meet the ever-escalating challenges of global warming caused by human pollution was seemingly at an all-time low. On what was scheduled to be the conference's final day, campaigners say the climate agreement being generated in Doha is "an empty shell" and "an insult to our futures." Climate campaigners and civil society groups are convinced that the commitments being exchanged among the international delegates are not nearly enough, exposing the ongoing futility of trying to get rich nations to take responsibility for their outsized carbon footprints or increase their meager financial commitments to developing nations.
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ScienceDirect.com - Journal of Power Sources - Cost-minimized combinations of wind powe... - 0 views

  • Cost-minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical storage, powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time
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Michael Brune: Bicoastal Clean-Energy Leadership - 0 views

  • HuffPost Social Reading Some error occurred Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading Enable Social Reading i Settings Read Share Settings Share everything I read Share only things safe for work Dont share what I'm reading Read Share History Learn More Michael Brune Executive Director, The Sierra Club GET UPDATES FROM Michael Brune Like 137 Bicoastal Clean-Energy Leadership Posted: 12/10/2012 12:20 pm
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Bill McKibben: Planetary Emergency - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics - 0 views

  • Bill McKibben: Planetary Emergency December 20, 2012 One of the world’s leading climate activists on the science of dangerous weather, the imperative to organize, and how to get out of bed in the morning on a planet in peril. Images courtesy of 350.org
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Middlebury to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment | The Nation - 0 views

  • Middlebury to Consider Fossil Fuel Divestment Bronwyn Oatley and Kelsey Collins on December 20, 2012 - 3:46 PM ET In the wake of a high-profile student protest and amid a growing university movement to combat climate change, Middlebury College announced in early December that it would initiate steps to address the feasibility of divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.
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While Germany Is Headed for 80% Renewable Energy, We're Getting Left in the Dust | Alte... - 0 views

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      Germany is the hopeful model McKibben points toward when citing the economic opportunity connected to renewable energy production and use.
  • While Germany Is Headed for 80% Renewable Energy, We're Getting Left in the Dust
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Climate Patriotism: Sierra Club Endorses Civil Disobedience For First Time In Its Histo... - 0 views

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      Keystone XL Pipeline action in Washington, DC, 2/17/13.  Tar Sands Action, Portland , ME, 1/26/13.
  • For civil disobedience to be justified, something must be so wrong that it compels the strongest defensible protest. Such a protest, if rendered thoughtfully and peacefully, is in fact a profound act of patriotism…. For us, [the wrong] is the possibility that the United States might surrender any hope of stabilizing our planet’s climate.
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