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Schools in the age of Covid-19
— Fareed Zacaria | GPS
When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?
— The New Yorker
PBS News Hour
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Opinion
These videos are about our energy situation and a research report “Rethinking Energy 2020-2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning” that was published on October 27th, 2020 and is available for download free of charge from the RethinkX website.
#CleanDisruption and the Collapse of the Oil, Coal & ICEV Industries
Apr. 22, 2020
Rethinking Energy 2020-2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning | Nov. 16, 2020
The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble
Mar. 11, 2021
Stopping climate change is ultimate moon shot
— The Columbian
By Froma Harrop
Published: March 14, 2021
Letter supports breaching dams
Jefferson County Commissioners encourage implementation of controversial proposal.
— Peninsula Daily News
Solutions
What Happens When Solar Power Gets Much, Much Cheaper?
The Department of Energy is aiming to cut the price of utility-scale solar by more than half by 2030.
— Inside Climate News
Regional Actions
Let the Senate know that you agree that #CleanFuelsNow is important to you!
Help us raise $10,000 for wet’suwet’en Legal Defense.
Tell Senator Van de Wege to be a Climate Champ
Washington can’t wait!
— Washington Environmental Council
Tacoma Liquid Natural Gas facility was built without a permit.
Anyone can be a community scientist!
Community members like you are driving research about the health of our forests.
Join the Climate Emergency Movement
National Actions
Tell Secretary Yellen to support a just and green recovery — hours left!
— AVAAZ – The World in Action
USPS – Electrify the fleet! — MoveOn
Tell Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé to stop fueling the climate crisis
— Greenpeace
We need bold investments in our country
Fundraiser for the Frontlines #StopLine3!
Even as Derek Chauvin’s murder trail takes place in Minneapolis, just a few hundred miles north, Enbridge is paying armed police to surveil, intimidate and arrest nonviolent Indigenous water protectors.
Veto the International Trade Commission’s decision that threatens U.S. production of electric vehicle batteries
— Climate Hawks Vote
It’s Time to Break Free From Plastics
Tell the Biden Administration to Protect the Endangered Species Act — NRDC
Tell Ferrero to quit being the bad (Easter) egg!
— Rainforest Action Network
“While BlackRock makes pledges to ask portfolio companies to cut emissions in the future, our forests are being razed, our land is being stolen, and our people are being killed, today.”
Frontlines to D.C. #ShutdownDAPL & #StopLine3
Local/Regional News
National/International News
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
— Nature Climate Change
Here’s how Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan addresses climate change
— CNBC
Urging clean energy and justice for tribal nations — GreenBiz
National Newsletters
A daily newsletter by Grist
April 2 — Google Maps is nudging drivers to lower their carbon footprints
April 5 — Cities have nurtured a bicycling boom during the pandemic
April 6 — A group of airlines is pledging to go net-zero
April 7 — A federal court tossed a Trump rule that prohibited regulating major emitters
April 8 — Canadian river is now a legal person
Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Donate to The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Impact Campaign
— Regeneration International
What if the people seized the means of climate production?
“A limpid synthesis of elegy and urgency. Unflinching about what looms for the world, Holly Buck outlines radical, transformative demands and agendas for a least-bad way forward, in the service of better ways thereafter.”
— China Miéville
A Visual Guide to Human Emotion
Don’t disregard this paragraph below just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it.
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Amzanig huh?
I wonder if we really need our spell checkers?
Want to see more? Who Knew?
A note to my Yarns from the Farm Readers—I’ve started another series for our local newspaper on biodiversity…”
Cheers, Nan
View the Biodiversity Series
View A Climate Basics Series
“Aldo Leopold argued eloquently for the idea of human obligation to maintain the health of the land through what he called a conservation land ethic—the concept that land is to be loved and respected.”
Olympic Climate Action 