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Category Archives: Green New Deal
Iowa Youth Climate Strike May 3, 2019
I apologize for the late notice about tomorrow’s Iowa Youth Climate Strike, which will happen on the west side of the Iowa Capitol building on May 3rd from 10 am – 1 pm. Thanks to Roger Routh for producing the … Continue reading
Pine Ridge and Puerto Rico
The video below from the Lakota People’s Law Project shows the disastrous effects of the Midwest flooding continue. The message from Julian Bear Runner, Oglala Sioux President, mentions the U.S. Congress went into recess without providing funding to help the … Continue reading
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Next Steps for Sunrise Movement / Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
The Iowa CCI / Sunrise Green New Deal Tour Stop in Des Moines was on April 24, 2019. An estimated 450 people attended. Following are suggested next steps from Iowa CCI: Call/Email your US Congresspeople and tell them to support … Continue reading
Sunrise Movement vs Extinction Rebellion
Earth Day, 2019 I’m not sure how most people think about Earth Day this year. The recent climate catastrophes, including the massive, intense fires in California, the series of severe storms across the country, melting of huge amounts of ice … Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion coming to the U.S.
As I was working on today’s blog post, I got a message from my friend Ed Fallon, that he will be discussing the Extinction Rebellion (XR) on his radio program, the Fallon Forum, today. You can listen to the program … Continue reading
Building and Sustaining a Vibrant Community
Last night I attended the forum, “Building and Sustaining a Vibrant Community” held at Hubbell Hall in the Kent Campus Center of Simpson College here in Indianola, Iowa. Indianola mayor Kelly Shaw introduced the panelists, Fairfield mayor Ed Malloy, Kari … Continue reading
Green New Deal addresses peace and justice
In the years during and after wars, including WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict and Vietnam War, Friends were concerned and involved in work for peace. But more recently with the nebulous war on terror, with military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, … Continue reading
It is worse, much worse, than you think
A number of books have been published recently, each speaking about environmental catastrophe with greater urgency and depth. I’ve just begun to read The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells. It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of … Continue reading
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No Overground Railroad
Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing climate disaster in the Midwest. This has shown my idea of an overground railroad is not going to work. Some time ago I began to think of the possibility of an “overground railroad” to … Continue reading
Midwest Climate Disaster
Although I’ve been studying climate science most of my life, one of the scariest things about climate change are the unexpected problems that continue to appear. I was surprised by polar vortexes, which seem to becoming an annual occurrence. I … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 