The Sun and the Wind are Free Where do we stand at this inflection point in history? There is a growing sense that we are paying a terrible price for the fossil fuel civilization that we built and exulted in for more than two centuries and that is now taking us into a series of... Continue Reading →
In a rational world, the burning of Australia would be a historical turning point. After all, it’s exactly the kind of catastrophe climate scientists long warned us to expect if we didn’t take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, a 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that global warming would cause... Continue Reading →
Australia Shows Us the Road to Hell
GREEN NEW DEAL The Green New Deal is a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society to 100% clean and renewable energy by 2030, a guaranteed living-wage job for anyone who needs one, and a just transition for both workers and frontline communities. Highly encouraged to visit source... (Sunrise Movement)
Sunrise Movement – Green New Deal
Environmental rights and a green new deal are complementary. The environmental rights movement could strengthen a uniquely Canadian version of the deal and help make it as profound a transformation and source of national pride as universal health care. The upcoming federal election provides an opportunity for us to ask candidates and parties where they... Continue Reading →
New deal for jobs, justice, health, environment
“Children’s bodies and immune systems are still developing, leaving them more susceptible to disease and environmental pollutants,” said Lancet Countdown executive director Nick Watts. “The damage done in early childhood lasts a lifetime. Without immediate action from all countries climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.” You’d think we’d do everything... Continue Reading →
Failure to address climate crisis puts children at risk
To appreciate the power of the Green New Deal—the mobilization effort for clean energy and jobs that burst into the national conversation last year—look at how forcefully the opponents of climate action moved to quash it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky arranged a byzantine floor vote aimed at killing the concept soon after the non-binding... Continue Reading →
Where Is the Green New Deal Headed in 2020?
Green New Deal Article Excerpt […] It begins with the galloping momentum calling on the Democratic Party to use its majority in the House to create the Select Committee for a Green New Deal, a plan advanced by Ocasio-Cortez and now backed by more than representatives. The draft text calls for the committee, which would... Continue Reading →
excerpt from: The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
The Case for the Green New Deal’ Forward Excerpt
‘The Case for the Green New Deal’ Forward Excerpt: We can afford what we can do. This is the theme of the book in your hands. There are limits to what we can do – notably ecological limits, but thanks to the public good that is the monetary system, we can, within human and ecological... Continue Reading →
We are facing a global emergency. Our scientists tell us that human-induced climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels has taken the human race and our fellow species into the sixth mass extinction event of life on Earth. Yet few people alive today are even aware of this emerging reality. The intergovernmental... Continue Reading →
Excerpt from Introduction section of the book The Green New Deal by Jeremy Rifkin
The Green New Deal (GND) is a proposed package of United States legislation that aims to address climate change and economic inequality.[1][2][3][4] The name refers to the New Deal, a set of social and economic reforms and public works projects undertaken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.[5] The Green New Deal combines Roosevelt's economic approach with modern ideas such as renewable energy and resource efficiency.[6][7] In the 116th United States Congress, it is... Continue Reading →
Green New Deal (wiki)
Quote from ‘A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal’
The Green New Deal burst onto the political stage when organizers held a sit-in in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) last fall. She dismissed the idea as a "Green Dream, or whatever," but organizers were unfazed. They shot back that the Green New Deal was indeed a dream, a badly needed one... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 