Schools are where we build the future. Yet, they are powered by fossil fuels, which pollute the air students breathe and contribute to climate change. Converting our schools to 100% clean energy will not only help address the climate crisis, it will also improve student health, student performance, and access to clean energy education. Learn how you can join the fight:
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On October 21 and 22, our campaign to restore the Snake River celebrated two major milestones. These two announcements provide a unique opportunity to forge a comprehensive solution to restore the Snake River, its salmon, and meet treaty right responsibilities. Here's how we can keep the momentum going:
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Congress must act to save our
democracy, our economy and our planet
By Robin Everett, Senior Organizing Manager for Sierra Club and Larry Brown, President Washington AFL-CIO, both are Co-Chairs for the WA Blue Green Alliance • 512 words / 4 min
Now, more than ever, we need Congressional Democrats to move boldly to save our country, our communities, and our climate. We have the opportunity to pass a robust climate infrastructure plan and also secure democracy reforms by passing the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Our lives and livelihoods, our climate, and our democracy depend on Congress fulfilling its duty:
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Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 17, 2021 9 AM Pacific
Day 2: Thursday, Nov 18, 2021 9 AM Pacific
Register for our free, 8th yearly conference on the Columbia River Treaty, youth and climate change, and connections between river health and community health.
Justice, autonomy, and stewardship topics will include: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Residential Schools, and Indigenous-led efforts in Canada and USA to restore salmon to the Upper Columbia River.
OREM is a citizen-supported effort for truth and reconciliation focusing on the Columbia River, salmon, and Indigenous people - facilitated by the Ethics & Treaty Project, supported by Sierra Club. For more: RIVERETHICS.org |
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The climate crisis is here, and if you feel climate anxiety, that's a totally normal response. It's easy to feel overwhelmed or numb when you start thinking about the bigger picture, but it's important to let yourself feel all those emotions, says ecotherapist Phoenix Smith.
In this episode, Smith talks about tools to acknowledge and use these feelings for the decades to come. |
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Through physically disrupting construction and legally challenging projects, Indigenous resistance has directly stopped projects expected to produce 780 million metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and is actively fighting projects that would dump more than 800 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.
NPR: Meet Alexis Nikole Nelson, The Wildly Popular 'Black Forager'
"Known on social media as ""Black Forager"", Nelson has drawn in more than 2 million followers.
But for Nelson, foraging goes beyond rummaging around in other peoples' shrubbery. It's a way to connect with African American and Indigenous food traditions that many people were discouraged — or actively prevented — from accessing."
"There is a Hopi word, natwani, which he said holds deep significance. It has two overlapping meanings: the crops a family cultivates, and practices related to the renewal of life, such as planting.
“That's our life right there is our farming. You know, natwani, our growth, we have to continue feeding. That's our source of food,” he said. “As far as planting, that’s always going to be part of Hopi life. That I’ll never give up.”"
The climbing group's goal of inspiring their community is illustrated in the name Full Circle Everest. As its website explains, the first American group reached the top of Everest in 1963, the same year that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech. Reaching the top would be a full circle moment for them, and it's one that they hope will inspire other Black folks to reach their goals, whatever they may be.
But the pandemic hasn’t just been a science story... To understand why the United States has fared so badly against COVID-19, despite its enormous wealth and biomedical savvy, one must understand not just matters of virology but also the nation’s history of racism and genocide, its carceral state, its nursing homes, its historical attitudes toward medicine and health, its national idiosyncrasies, the algorithms that govern social media, and the grossly deficient character of its 45th president.
NPR: We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change
"After 12 minutes, the monitor starts to spike, showing NO2 levels of 168 ppb. ""So now we have exceeded the [WHO] hourly guideline of 106 ppb by about 50%,"" says Kephart. ""If you have kids or any sort of lung condition, this is at a level where, in the literature — in the science — we have seen people start to have these changes in their lungs that could give them worse symptoms or could worsen their disease.""
After half an hour, the air monitor shows 207 ppb — nearly twice the WHO guideline."
Crosscut: How can Seattle build climate resilience? Look to its schools
Installing those systems would create good green jobs, in addition to bolstering renewable energy production and building community resilience in neighborhoods throughout the city. And those jobs could go to former students. The Seattle Public Schools has a community workforce agreement ensuring that building trades jobs involving the district will prioritize students and their families.
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