The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Appalachia Needs Regeneration and New Energy Solutions, Not Christmas Nostalgia
A retired coal miner in eastern Kentucky recently sent me an early Christmas card warning. “Whatever you do,” he wrote, “I prefer dirty coal from Santa Claus instead of the annual drivel of ‘Christmas in Appalachia’ pity.”
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Texans Fear For Health and Safety As Keystone XL Pipeline Nears On-Switch
The Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil from Canada to American refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. Those in favor of it say it will increase access to oil from Canada, the leading supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Andy Gallacher reports.
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Chicago's Garbage Guru
Elise Zelechowski, executive director of the ReBuilding Exchange, on the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible is key to making it manageable.
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Could Crowd-Sourced Organic Seed Banks Save Our Agricultural Future?
Navdanya has become a network of seed keepers spread across 17 Indian states, providing crucial sanctuaries of biodiversity.
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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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Brazil's Terminator Seed Bill Threatens to Upend Global Agriculture Safety
In a move that could threaten the 13-year global moratorium on terminator seeds, Brazilian lawmakers are now attempting to push through legislation that defies a UN agreement dating back to the 2000 Convention on Biological Diversity.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Why Boulder Voted to Abandon Xcel Energy In Favor of City-Owned Power Utility
Moving utilities from corporate to public control puts energy, dollars and decisions into the hands of local communities. More than 1,000 municipal utilities already function in the U.S. serving 50 million customers, a population greater than Spain's.
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Meatless Mondays: How Norway's Army Is Eating Less Flesh to Fight Climate Change
Norwegian troops will eat only vegetarian meals on Mondays, cutting meat consumption by about 330,000 pounds per year in an effort to reduce the overwhelming amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by global livestock production.
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Activists Lock Down in Oklahoma to Highlight Tar Sands "Sacrifice Zones"
Two activists locked themselves inside a revolving door at the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City in protest of Devon’s involvement in tar sands extraction and fracking.
