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: President Joe Biden gives his "extraordinary partner" a green light to go
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Via GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands
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“For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.
“For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.


“I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can’t do—when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.”
“I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can’t do - when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.”





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Young 'Planet Citizen' @ Work

Stepping Up, Speaking Out, Leah Stokes Sets Out to Bring Science Forward


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VP Kamala Harris Campaign in the News as Young Volunteers Rush to Join a Newly Energized Campaign

President Joe Biden gives his "extraordinary partner" a green light to go

Via GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands


President Biden Steps Away from His 2024 Campaign

Posted on July 22, 2024 | By Strategic Demands Online



The withdrawal letter of the US president, delivered to the nation via social media, was not a shock given wide concerns about the President’s health condition


President Biden Endorses Kamala Harris

Strategic Demands Editor: Here we are together, how will we do? As the U.S. president steps away from his nomination and the U.S. vice president steps forward as candidate for president, there are those asking of the future of the Republic. Larger questions rise to the forefront. Is the ‘U.S. experiment’, democracy, a constitutional republic in danger? Claims are being made that democratic institutions are under assault. Examples are being given. Angst, anger, violence, an attempted assassination, chaos, foreign government influence, online dis/misformation, daily, hourly present challenges to the U.S. government and its policies. How will be the future of U.S. governance look after 2024?

These questions are real, the decisions about to be made in a national election weeks away will shape the future. The stark differences between the competing visions cannot be wished away or pushed into force without push back. ...


Some 28 days before the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, the President has passed a torch… It can be said now that, strategically, it’s a new race to election day …. cards have been shuffled, wild cards yet to be seen, odds have shifted, polls are changing, eyes are on swing states, swing districts. Deep pocket players are pushing in hoping for payoffs and average Americans, “small donors”, are dealing with online asks. Neighbors and families, preachers and preached to, businesses and every niche in America is being asked. This is time to decide where you stand.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, is election Day in the United States of America. The Tuesday following the first Monday in November, is weeks away.

The continuing story of a nation, the United States, an epic story, is about to become next chapter reality with consequences across lives and resounding far into the future.


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Biden Letter / July 21, 2024


“My Fellow Americans,

“Over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a Nation.

“Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. We’ve made historic investments in rebuilding our Nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. We’ve provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances. Passed the first gun safety law in 30 years.

Appointed the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. And passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today.

“I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. Together, we overcame a once in a century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We’ve protected and preserved our Democracy. And we’ve revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.

“I will speak to the Nation later this week in more detail about my decision.

“For now, let me express my deepest gratitude to all those who have worked so hard to see me reelected. I want to thank Vice President Kamala Harris for being an extraordinary partner in all this work. And let me express my heartfelt appreciation to the American people for the faith and trust you have placed in me.

“I believe today what I always have: that there is nothing America can’t do - when we do it together. We just have to remember we are the United States of America.”


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In Defense of Democracy and Freedom


 

The Debate Continues, Turbulence in Politics Is the Word of the Day

* https://strategicdemands.com/democracy-challenged/


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Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America (2023) by Heather Cox Richardson

At a time when the very foundations of democracy seem under threat, the lessons of the past offer a roadmap for navigating a moment of political crisis. In Democracy Awakening, acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the tumultuous journey of American democracy

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717588/democracy-awakening-by-heather-cox-richardson/


 


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News of Loss of Political Rights and Civil Liberties


Global freedom declined for a 17th consecutive year in 2022 as 35 countries suffered deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, according to a new report released today by Freedom House. A total of 34 countries made improvements during the year, however, meaning the gap between the numbers of countries that improved and declined was the narrowest it has ever been since the negative pattern began. The report suggests that the struggle for democracy may be approaching a turning point, and offers recommendations on how democratic governments and societies should work together to roll back authoritarian gains.

The new report—Freedom in the World 2023: Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy—is the 50th edition of Freedom House’s annual global assessment of political rights and civil liberties.


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In the U.S. and Worldwide


Each of us can make a positive difference


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Planet Citizens
Earth Is in Your Hands 🌎
"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"


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December 2023


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A Dubai Climate Summit Surprise

With Multiple Caveats


CNBC

The latest proposal published by the UAE early on Wednesday. Dec. 13, calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.”


Economist

The COP28 deal might be historic, but there are many caveats...'


Reuters

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual end of the oil age.

The deal struck in Dubai after two weeks of hard-fought negotiations was meant to send a powerful message to investors and policy-makers that the world is united in its desire to break with fossil fuels, something scientists say is the last best hope to stave off climate catastrophe.

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber called the deal "historic" but added that its true success would be in its implementation.

"We are what we do, not what we say," he told the crowded plenary at the summit. "We must take the steps necessary to turn this agreement into tangible actions."

Several countries cheered the deal for accomplishing something that until now eluded decades of climate talks.

"It is the first time that the world unites around such a clear text on the need to transition away from fossil fuels," Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide said.

More than 100 countries had lobbied hard for strong language in the COP28 agreement to "phase out" oil, gas and coal use, but came up against powerful opposition from the Saudi Arabia-led oil producer group OPEC, which said the world can cut emissions without shunning specific fuels.

That battle pushed the summit a full day into overtime on Wednesday, and had some observers worried the negotiations would end at an impasse...


Financial Times

COP28 is better than feared, but less than needed

Call to move away from fossil fuels lacks deadlines to phase them out...


NY Times

Two Words That Could Change the World

An unlikely breakthrough on fossil fuels at COP28


They are just two little words. They appear on just one page of an 11,000 word document.

But the inclusion of the phrase “fossil fuels” in the final agreement from COP28 marks a potentially trajectory-altering moment in the fight against climate change. The global pact calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.”

For almost 30 years, negotiators representing nations from around the world had struggled and failed to reach an obvious consensus: that the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas should be wound down to avoid further catastrophic global warming.

But overnight, representatives from more than 170 countries arrived at a surprising deal, in Dubai of all places.

The text is not as clear as many leaders, activists and scientists had hoped. It includes caveats and wiggle room, and is nonbinding. Nevertheless, the inclusion of explicit language calling for a move away from coal, oil and gas is being hailed as a major breakthrough...


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The US delegation that officially traveled to Dubai included a number of Republicans. Their points of view were expressed in a wide-ranging E&E article ... Many House Republicans — who said repeatedly they were only going to COP28 to tout U.S. leadership on domestic emissions reductions, not explore how their country can join the international fight against climate change more broadly — used face time with Kerry to, among other things, blast proposed EPA regulations to crack down on tailpipe emissions and incentivize a switch to electric vehicles. In interviews with reporters, other GOP members derided the Biden administration’s “rush to green” agenda...


John Kerry, US special representative on the climate acknowledged the difficulty of negotiations:

“I think everybody here should be pleased that in a world of Ukraine and the Middle East war and all the other challenges of a planet that is foundering, this is a moment where multilateralism has actually come together and people have taken individual interests and attempted to define the common good. That is hard. That is the hardest thing in diplomacy, the hardest thing in politics.”


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December 12


Carbon Brief reports as the COP28 draws to a close...

- "Rule 16" looms... (postponements, no action, roll overs to COP29)


Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit


COP28 climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Negotiation are the core legal process at the summit

The nations deal-making process is difficult to observe... and as the international climate conference comes to a conclusion remember there are promises that need now to become on-the-ground / in-the-air realities...


Carbon Brief:

"The (climate conferences) process often fades into the background, hidden from sight in closed-door negotiating rooms and late-night sessions, where diplomats – and then ministers – hash out their disagreements.

"However, COP28 will culminate in a set of legal decisions, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its associated Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement.

"This set of legal texts lies at the heart of COP28 – and every other UN climate summit.


GreenPolicy360: Focus on the agreements, pledges/promises, results and .... keeping in mind that each nation subsequently has to return to their individual country to turn their climate summit agreements, pledges/promises into *Results



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Climate Problems, Climate Solutions


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Generation Green

Our Generational Challenge


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Visit

GreenLinks for Green Networking

GreenPolicy360 | PlanetCitizen eOS , Your eco Operating System Planet Citizens


Visit the Beginnings of Earth System Science Missions

Along with Planet Citizen, US Representative George E. Brown:
Envisioning, Legislating, Managing a First Generation of US/NASA, Earth Science & Environmental Protection, Programs, Research, and Whole Earth Imaging
A Chronicle of the First Three Decades of Environmental Action, Policies/Laws/Regulation / Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists @Work


George E. Brown Jr


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Measuring, Monitoring, Managing Earth's Dynamic/Changing Systems
Earth Imaging, Earth Science Research from Space, Data for Today & the Future


🌎 “To understand and protect our home planet" (from the original Mission Statement of NASA]





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The First 'Earth Day', a Story of Beginnings


Steven Schmidt: Thinking back to beginnings and to Hannah Arendt... she was preeminently the theorist of beginnings. All her books are tales of the unexpected (whether concerned with the novel horrors of totalitarianism or the new dawn of revolution), and reflections on the human capacity to start something new pervade her thinking. #Human Condition

Hannah Arendt was teaching in the Grad Faculty of the New School in NYC when I was fortunate to be there. Her work, ideas, have stayed w me throughout my life, and inspired ... Memorably, she was writing the first page of her last book in the Life of the Mind trilogy when she passed away....

* https://press.uchicago.edu/dam/ucp/books/pdf/course_intro/978-0-226-58660-1-introduction.pdf


Celebrating Earth Day | 2023

"Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day"
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day


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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


SJS/GreenPolicy360: Sparked by young activists, the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 presented beginnings of a wave, a powerful expression of green ideals and ideas emerging in a serious and historic event. Today Earth Day continues on as a movement and a political cause. Now we are a diverse mix across the globe with many nationalities, voices, faiths, religions, colors and ages. We witness the young out in front with energy. We continue on year after year, decade after decade. Across our home planet, we are #PlanetCitizens. We are a work-in-progress.


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ThirdAct.org at the 2023 Bioneers Conference


Re: Truth-Telling

“Almost no single revelation will cause significant change by itself,” Ellsberg said in a recent Washington Post video, explaining how the truth needs allies in persistence. “But in combination with other information—other truth-telling—courage is contagious.” -- Daniel Ellsberg


How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time

The whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers was undaunted by the challenge of finding out what the oil industry knew about carbon emissions and global warming


Eco-ethics

Strategic Demands


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"In Memory of a Man Named Daniel"


Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Founder: In each of our lives we must make choices, daily life choices, easy choices. Then there are the times of hard, difficult, far-reaching choices, monumental, even frightening moments when we make conscious, and conscientious, choices we sense will continue far beyond our day-to-day reality.

These can be ethical challenges that will profoundly change our life and the lives of others -- and we sense there will be no turning back.

Such a moment came in the life of Daniel Ellsberg one dark night as waves crashed on the beach outside his Malibu home.

I remember that night Dan Ellsberg was making a life-changing decision and write about his action and resolve here. In later decades, as a type of planet citizen, Dan would go on to inspire other brave souls to speak up and do the right thing.

Planet citizens in action carry on...


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Interreligious Dialogue

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Time to Care for Our Home


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October 2022

Time for Planet Citizen Action and a "CEOS", a Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

GreenPolicy360 welcomes the arrival of a global science mission, a "Global Stocktake", a collection of earth science data to be made available to the community of nations, to planet citizen activists and scientists, educational institutions, non-profits, NGOs, young and old to become tools for legal enforcement of national climate plans & pledges


September 2022


GreenPolicy360's Campaign to 'Turn National Climate Promises & Pledges into Reality'

Our Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative continues as the next Global Climate Conference approaches, November's Conference of the Parties (COP27)
Drawing from the database of Earth Science resulting from decades of space-based missions designed to provide us with actionable 'Earth-system and Climate-related data'
Measuring and Monitoring to better manage Earth's Living, Dynamic and Changing Systems, Local, National and Global


Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges

GreenPolicy360: Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative

Pressuring Nations to Step Up, Cooperate, and Act Now

Environmental Laws, Regs, Rules... Lawsuits & Legal Actions


Glasgow (2021) & Paris (2015) Summits: Int'l Climate Plan Pledges & Promises (INDCs-NDCs)


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"Earth Observing System": Decades of Earth Science/Climate Science Data Accessible for Planet Citizen Action


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August 2022


Steven J Schmidt - GreenPolicy360 / SJS: The thing is the future doesn't vote. Future generations don't influence, ante up dollars or deal out megadollars to politicos... the #PoliticoPay and #MoneyinPolitics game is a U.S. high stakes game played today. Quid pro quo, it is a pay-to-play politics as Richard Jacobs accurately describes in his book, a 'Democracy of Dollars'.

Fact is, future generations will face the results of today's Money in Politics barter.

And yes, of course we have options, choices that can change the future.


Remembering Hannah Arendt writing of contemplation --- leading and guiding essential action...

'Vita Contemplativa' & 'Vita Activa'


Seventh Generation

Generation Green
Generation-to-Generation


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‘Climate Advocates Say It’s Not Too Late

March 2022 / NYT


A growing chorus of young people is focusing on climate solutions. “‘It’s too late’ means ‘I don’t have to do anything, and the responsibility is off me.’”

Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul.

She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy...

“People are almost tired of hearing how bad it is; the narrative needs to move onto solutions,” said Ms. Wood, 25, a sustainability scientist who communicates much of her climate messaging on TikTok, the most popular social media platform among young Americans. “The science says things are bad. But it’s only going to get worse the longer it takes to act.”

Some climate advocates refer to the stance taken by Ms. Wood and her allies as “OK Doomer,” a riff on “OK Boomer,” the Gen Z rebuttal to condescension from older folks.

If awareness about the climate crisis has never been greater, so, too, has been a mounting sense of dread about its unfolding effects, particularly among the young. Two-thirds of Americans thought the government was doing too little to fight climate change, according to a 2020 Pew study, while a survey last year of 10,000 teens and young adults in 10 countries found that three quarters were frightened of the future.


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Bookmark the Climate Headlines, Follow the Environmental Writers

Society of Environmental Journalists - http://www.sej.org/headlines/list

"We tell the world's most important stories"


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The Commons


"Pledge for Nature" at the UN Biodiversity Summit

Leaders from 64 countries sign the Pledge For Nature to take action.


The Call to Action include measures to:

Slow down deforestation; eliminate unregulated and unsustainable fishing practices; and stop plastic being dumped into the ocean by 2050.

Conserve land; eliminate subsidies that harm the environment; transition to sustainable food production.


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"Thin Blue", Protecting 'The Commons', Enabling Life on Earth


"Tiny Blue Green", Oxygen in the Atmosphere, Food Source of the Seas


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GreenPolicy360's Environmental Studies Online


Visit Planet Citizens




 

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🌎 Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement
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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth

GreenPolicy360 Page Highlights


"The Earth is my patient, and like any good medical doctor, I am compelled to advocate for her... Today, I see myself as a doctor advocating for... my patient, the Earth."


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Listen carefully to the trees... watch closely...

“When we have learned how to listen to trees,

then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts

achieve an incomparable joy.” -- Hermann Hesse

 

Planet Citizens


Strategies of Resilience & Survival


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Dealing with the 'Heat Island Effect'

Via #GoogleEarth


Earth Science to Protect a Sustainable Earth


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Green Stories of the Day


Green New Deal


New Definitions of National Security


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Personal action... Direct action...
Planet Citizens, Positive Change


Green Network, GreenLinks action
Going Green, #GreenNetworking
GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360

 

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Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Activism


"Have hope, Act to Make a Positive Difference"


Shifting from a Scientist to Activist


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Eco-ethics


Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
Planet Citizen Action, Environmental protection. Quality of Life


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Planet Citizens / Scientists, Preserving & Protecting the Home Planet Earth


GreenPolicy360 and StrategicDemands:

Earth Science Vital Signs


Eco Definition via Merriam-Webster Dictionary

For the now-ubiquitous prefix eco-, we can thank the great German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who in 1866 coined the term oekologie from the Greek oikos, meaning “home, place to live.” Haeckel was thinking primarily of the “homes” of animals, but by the time the word translated into English in 1875 (initially spelled “oecology”), its meaning had broadened to embrace plant habitats as well. The related term ecosystem was proposed by the British botanist Arthur Tansley, 60 years after one of his own professors first translated Haeckel’s oekologie. It may have been ecosystem, which treats eco- as a prefix to a standard English word, that gave English speakers permission to do the same in coining a host of other terms...


Eco-ethics @GreenPolicy360


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Earth Right Now / EarthPOV / Earth Observations


Ethics and Climate Change

Climate Action: Our Ethical Responsibility


Nonviolent Action in Practice

198 Ways to Act, Count 'em


File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf


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Global Climate Strike, Student Action

Students Worldwide Striking to Demand Climate Action Change


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Kids in 123 countries strike to protect the climate

“This movement had to happen, we didn’t have a choice.”


Via Vox

An estimated 1.4 million young people in 123 countries skipped school Friday to demand stronger climate policies in what may be one of the largest environmental protests in history.


Going Global: Student #ClimateStrike


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Student Climate Strike-March 15, 2019


#ClimateChange

#ClimateEmergency
#GlobalWarming


#ActOnClimate

#SchoolsStrike4Climate
#GretaThunberg


#YouthForClimate

#FridaysForFuture
#GlobalStrikeforFuture


#Klimaatstaking

#ClimateJustice
#SchoolStrike4Climate


Radical action needed to confront climate change by George Monbiot @TheGuardian


GTN GreenLinks Trending News
Green Stories of the Day
Climate News


Green New Deal


Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
Citizen Science


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Planet API
Virtual Earth


Bioneers
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Think Like Rebecca, Creating Positive Change


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It's Your Time to Be Out in Front

Change Is All Around


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Step Up, Get with the Action, Planet Citizen Action

Make a Difference, Be a Change Maker


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