Sisi’s Egypt is making a big show of solar panels and biodegradable straws ahead of next month’s climate summit – but in reality the regime imprisons activists and bans research. The climate movement should not play along No one knows what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd... Continue Reading →
Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis. MANY PEOPLE HERE think they are safe from climate change, the journalist from a German newspaper explained to me. They don’t see it as an immediate threat, like Covid-19. They see the Greens as scolds who... Continue Reading →
STUCK IN THE SMOKE AS BILLIONAIRES BLAST OFF
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
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 →
The Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal
At the Sanders Institute Gathering, we brought together some of the leading progressive minds on this issue to talk about how we solve this climate crisis. Sanders Institute founding fellow Bill McKibben, author Naomi Klein, activist Matt Nelson, Sanders Institute fellow and economist Stephanie Kelton, and physician and activist Abdul El-Sayed spoke about climate change... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 