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Friday, May 31, 2019

Bioneers with Paul Hawkin, Dream of a Hundred Year Plan

This is a wonderful and well produces video.  Unabashed in dreaming of a new society. The ideas and content delivered in this 3:26 min piece are revolutionary and yet everyone would want this future.


Saturday, May 11, 2019

'Beautiful Trouble' Grows With Friday Climate Strikes on Multiple Continents

Youth is rising up -- We are so luck that they are.

The momentum for the weekly climate strikes shows no sign of abating as young people in hundreds of communities across the globe are hitting the streets on Friday to make a stand against the environmental crisis.
"We can make a difference," said Matilda Lane-Rose, one of the protesters in Perth, Australia.
The Fridays for Future website has 725 strikes mapped out for the day. They cover the Americas from Canada to Chile; Europe from Norway to Italy; Africa from Mauritania to South Africa; Asia from South Korea to India in Asia; and multiple marches in Australia and New Zealand.

As Capitalism Fails, We Need a Roadmap to Survive Climate Change

This article is very clear incisive in it's economic and geopolitical thinking. Paavo Järvensivu, co-author of recent UN report is founder and researcher at an independent, multidisciplinary research unit, launched in Helsinki in 2015. Like the IPCC report the frame is current economic models that assumes capitalism for good or ill so my interest in this work is qualified by my bias against capitalism in general.  However my revolution is less likely to happen than these scenarios so it is wise to understand them.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Green New Deal Town Hall

Wednesday, May 15, 2019  6:00-8:30 PM
This is a must go event.  Go to this -- Find your Passion, Find your Team, Find your Power!



Friday, May 3, 2019

How to Build the Zero-Carbon Economy

Winona LaDuke, In These Times, April 22, 2019, posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

This short read contains 6 problems and 6 great thinkers that have answers.  Read this and then track down the think tanks and get an education

None of the 2020 Frontrunners Go Far Enough on Climate

Dahr Jamail, Truthout, April 28, 2019, Originally Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler and revised 5/2/19

Here is an article by Dahr Jamail on prospective candidate's climate platforms that concludes that "If you read the 2020 Democratic candidates’ platforms in a vacuum, they may sound compelling. However, if we keep in mind the true magnitude of this crisis, they are nowhere near adequate."