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What if we stopped pretending?
A growing number of us believe we have done so much damage to Mother Earth that recovery of life as we know it is no longer possible. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the evolving environmental chaos. Except when … Continue reading
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What is your truth when it comes to the edge?
When you and your community can create its own shine there’s nothing beyond reach. Diop Adisa Hurricane Dorian’s devastation in the Bahamas is a visual testament to warnings of increasingly powerful storms as a result of warmer water and air … Continue reading
Floods Need Planned Retreat
Besides the utter devastation of the Bahamas, today we are seeing tragic images of U.S Atlantic coastal flooding from Hurricane Dorian. Flooding that will only become worse as water and air temperatures continue rise from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. In … Continue reading
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Dorian’s Environmental Catastrophe and You
We are just receiving images from the horrific devastation of the Bahamas. A recent news segment showed a reporter in a wind tunnel at different wind speeds. That was a very graphic and useful thing to see. But they wouldn’t … Continue reading
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You’re Invited: Global Climate Strike
Iowa Climate Strike Start: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00 AMLocation:Iowa State Capitol 007 E Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50023Host Contact Info: lydia.pesek@icloud.comRSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/iowa-climate-strike We feel a lot of adults haven’t quite understood that we young people won’t hold off … Continue reading
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Risking arrest for our future
Many states are criminalizing acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, clearly violating First Amendment rights. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; … Continue reading
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Helplessly Hoping?
Watching the slow motion disaster of Hurricane Dorian, I am reminded of feeling similarly helpless as I watched Hurricane Katrina devastate New Orleans in 2005. Unfortunately Dorian seems to validate the assertion that we will see more powerful storms due … Continue reading
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Ethical Transportation
I am tremendously pleased by 16 year old Greta Thunberg’s decision to travel to the United States via a zero carbon sailboat instead of taking an airplane from Sweden. “This is a fight across borders.” Asked what she would miss … Continue reading
NNA and Green New Deal
One of the main reasons I wanted to attend the National Network Assembly (NNA) was to see what other organizers might be doing about the climate emergency, the Sunrise Movement, and an Indigenous Led Green New Deal (GND). As I … Continue reading
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