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Project Permit simplifies solar permitting process
The public can search the Project Permit interactive solar permitting map to see where their city or county falls in terms of the solar permit process, and if their local area comes up short on the scorecard, they can take action to help improve it Read More
Linda's extraordinary collection on Facebook
Linda has worked hard to accumulate this collection and I believe you will agree, it looks very Healthy ! View More
A new approach to clean energy harvesting
Millions of years of evolution has resulted in plants being the most efficient harvesters of solar energy on the planet. Much research is underway into ways to artificially mimic photosynthesis. Read More
A recent mesage from McKibben
Dear friends,
Once a year or so, I write a piece that I really want people to read.
Last year it was an article called "The Terrifying New Math of Global Warming," which helped fuel the divestment campaign that is now blanketing the country and even spreading overseas. Now I have a new long piece, also in Rolling Stone, called "The Fossil Fuel Resistance" that I was hoping you would read.
Here's a quick summary from the article:
After decades of scant organized response to climate change, a truly powerful movement is quickly emerging, around the country and around the world. It has no great charismatic leader, and no central organization; it battles on a thousand fronts, many of them very local and small. But taken together, it’s now big enough to matter, and it’s growing fast.
So you could call it by many names. But for me it’s the Fossil Fuel Resistance.
I hope you'll spread it around, because I think it will help people understand a few things about the climate movement.
First, it shows that we're in a much bigger struggle than the fight against Keystone, crucial as that is. Across the country and around the world people are taking on the fossil fuel industry in remarkable ways that are starting to add up.
Second, it's shows that we’re becoming a much broader movement tactically and organizationally than we're used to thinking about.
The old-line environmental groups are playing their part, but powerful leadership is coming from all kinds of communities. There are a bunch of profiles that accompany the piece, and they focus on heroes from Indigenous nations, environmental justice organizations, and the clean tech industry, each of people doing amazing work.
What I hoped to do with this article is move past restating the problem, which I think most people understand, and show how we are working together towards solutions.
Those solutions take many forms, and I hope you'll read about them and share the article around so that we can start to bring more people into this resistance movement.
It's not all good news, of course. We're still losing this fight, as the temperature rises. But I want everyone to know that it is going to be a real fight. This piece, I hope will help spread the word, and build our movement even bigger. Click here to read and share: 350.org/Resistance
We can't outspend the fossil fuel barons, but we can out organize them, if we get to work.
Bill McKibben
Once a year or so, I write a piece that I really want people to read.
Last year it was an article called "The Terrifying New Math of Global Warming," which helped fuel the divestment campaign that is now blanketing the country and even spreading overseas. Now I have a new long piece, also in Rolling Stone, called "The Fossil Fuel Resistance" that I was hoping you would read.
Here's a quick summary from the article:
After decades of scant organized response to climate change, a truly powerful movement is quickly emerging, around the country and around the world. It has no great charismatic leader, and no central organization; it battles on a thousand fronts, many of them very local and small. But taken together, it’s now big enough to matter, and it’s growing fast.
So you could call it by many names. But for me it’s the Fossil Fuel Resistance.
I hope you'll spread it around, because I think it will help people understand a few things about the climate movement.
First, it shows that we're in a much bigger struggle than the fight against Keystone, crucial as that is. Across the country and around the world people are taking on the fossil fuel industry in remarkable ways that are starting to add up.
Second, it's shows that we’re becoming a much broader movement tactically and organizationally than we're used to thinking about.
The old-line environmental groups are playing their part, but powerful leadership is coming from all kinds of communities. There are a bunch of profiles that accompany the piece, and they focus on heroes from Indigenous nations, environmental justice organizations, and the clean tech industry, each of people doing amazing work.
What I hoped to do with this article is move past restating the problem, which I think most people understand, and show how we are working together towards solutions.
Those solutions take many forms, and I hope you'll read about them and share the article around so that we can start to bring more people into this resistance movement.
It's not all good news, of course. We're still losing this fight, as the temperature rises. But I want everyone to know that it is going to be a real fight. This piece, I hope will help spread the word, and build our movement even bigger. Click here to read and share: 350.org/Resistance
We can't outspend the fossil fuel barons, but we can out organize them, if we get to work.
Bill McKibben
Three years after BP oil spill, USF research finds massive die-off
The oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster three years ago killed off millions of amoeba-like creatures that form the basis of the gulf's aquatic food chain, according to scientists at the University of South Florida.Read More
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