Tag: climate change
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Nelson Mandela: It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done
By Lushendrie Naidu The last great leader of the twentieth century—and an inspiration for this new millennium—died here in South Africa yesterday. Nelson Mandela inspired all of us with his courage, his unyielding resistance and his grace. Inspired by Mandela’s vision, climate activists from around the world helped make this video last June during the Global…
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230,000+ Americans Tell Google to Quit Funding ALEC
Today, 230,000 members and supporters of the Sierra Club, Forecast the Facts, SumOfUs, RootsAction and the Center for Media and Democracy urged Google to end its alliance with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This week represents the first time ALEC’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. has Google as a corporate…
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Nelson Mandela, Champion of Sustainable Development, Dies at 95
Nelson Mandela, widely regarded as the father of the struggle for equality in South Africa and across the continent, died yesterday, Dec. 5, 2013 at the age of 95. [caption id="attachment_314459" align="alignnone" width="500"] Mandella became South Africa’s first black president after spending 27 years in prison for his activism against the country’s former apartheid government.…
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Carbon Polluting Companies Prepare for Emissions Tax
[caption id="attachment_314414" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The writing is on the wall—and the financial books—for some of the nation’s largest companies and carbon polluters. Environmental data firm CDP’s latest report shows that at least 29 companies anticipate the government forcing them to pay for carbon pollution. That list includes Walmart and Duke Energy.…
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Climate Change Amplifies Groundwater Depletion, Threatening Food Supply
By Brett Walton A National Research Council report argues that groundwater use today is leaving society poorly prepared for potential rapid climate changes in the future. [caption id="attachment_314344" align="alignnone" width="618"] Groundwater footprints of aquifers are important for food production. At the bottom of the figure, the groundwater footprints (in gray) of six aquifers (in red,…