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THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE

31 Oct 2016
THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES: A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE 24 October - 13 November 2016 from Resilience.org : Introducing … The Nearly Carbon-Free Academic Conference: The World in 2050 by John Foran…
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Good riddance to disposable plastic bags in CA

24 Sep 20141 Oct 2014
The Cabrillo Sustainability Council worked to eliminate plastic bags in 2011. Now a California statewide ban looks likely, having passed in the state legislature, though we're still waiting for Gov.…
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California’s Climate Crisis and Carnivory

31 Aug 201431 Aug 2014
So by now you must have seen the headlines.  California is in the grips of a devastating drought: And this has some noticeable consequences: What's to be done about it?  Well,…
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The Population Problem

5 Nov 2013
  Long-time population maven Paul Ehrlich just published a post called Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization  on the blog for the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB). "Food…
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A Beautiful Action

9 Aug 2013
I spent last Saturday in Richmond, California with a couple thousand amazing people, including Bill McKibben, who had this to say: ... daily life was interrupted dramatically one year ago today…
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Indigenous Energy Idle No More

7 Apr 201316 Jul 2013
Indigenous voices are being raised.  The amazing story of Idle No More, and their resistance to the exploitation of the Alberta Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline, is a…

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