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Day 119
Another weekend, another protest. Folks aren't slowing down. Even in a downpour.
More images of Iowa protests can be seen in this album.
First day of the Business & Climate Summit – the second annual gathering of leading global businesses and politicians dedicated to climate action.
May 1, 2017. Vancouver, BC
John Horgan will restore BC as a climate action leader with a plan that focuses on reducing climate changing emissions, not letting them increase like Christy Clark has.
“We can’t afford four more years of climate inaction from Christy Clark and the BC Liberals. The stakes are too high in this election,” said BC NDP leader John Horgan. “We have to come together to make sure we have a government that will take real action on climate change.”
Horgan held a town hall meeting with several members of the Climate Leadership Team who Christy Clark tasked with renewing BC’s climate action. Clark chose to reject the team’s recommendations despite their careful consideration of the impacts on people, the economy, industry and the environment.
A woman collects firewood in the Sundarbans forest area, Bangladesh on April 25, 2021. People living in the Sundarbans region suffer from a water shortage in the dry season as a result of increasing salinity in the groundwater, and of the river Satkhira, caused by rising sea levels.
IMF Photo/K M Asad
25 April 2021
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
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Visit to Kenya in May 2014. Visited CCAFS climate-smart farms, farmers in Western Kenya, and markets. Feel free to use with accreditation: Photo: C.Schubert
28 September 2016 - Opening of the ENV 2016: Climate Change, Transition towards a circular economy meeting.
OECD, Paris, France.
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Thousands of campaigning youths gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to call for a green economy, a safe sustainable future and binding climate legislation from the United States government. Washington, D.C, USA.
Photo: © Robert Van Waarden / WWF-Canon
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Premier Christy Clark today introduced the team providing government with expert advice and recommendations as British Columbia begins developing a new climate action plan that will build on its climate successes.
Learn more: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2015/05/bc-names-climate-leadershi...
A few months ago we did a small project for ClimateCounts, an organization which tracks climate “performance” of a variety of well-known companies. Wood Turner, who directs ClimateCounts, gave us a lot of freedom to do a design which expresses some of the rich data they track.
The design, above, displays company size (by market capitalization) as relative “tread” size; that is, General Electric and Google are large companies. Color (green,yellow,red) corresponds to climate performance, as does the size of the typeface. Therefore Starbucks, which is a relatively small company, is shown in large text size and with a green colored tread. We did 2 shirts each in 2 color schemes.
The intention is not for users to derive hard numbers from this, but the meaning behind the shirt makes for a good talking point and is a quick way to look up climate performance without looking like a dense table of data. We also wanted to make a shirt which people would want to wear. We’re getting a pile of these on top of our fee so we can strut around wearing our own design.
J30 Climate protest - assembled on Freedom Plaza, then five different climate actions went in front of five entrances to the White House grounds.
Police say ~ 80,000 -- but I think a lot more. Non stop streaming from Cambie and 12th all the way to VPL.
Vancouver, Sep 27, 2019.
April 21, 2017 - WASHINGTON DC - World Bank / IMF 2017 Spring Meetings. Unlocking Financing for Climate Action
JIM YONG KIM, President, World Bank Group; AL GORE, Former Vice President of the United States, Chairman, The Climate Reality Project; CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, Mission 2020 Convenor; JEFFREY SKOLL, Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, Capricorn Investment Group, and Skoll Global Threats Fund; MAGDALENA ANDERSSON, Finance Minister, Sweden; ERIK SOLHEIM, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme; Moderator: GHIDA FAKHRY, International Broadcast Journalist. Photo: Grant Ellis / World Bank
Marcilene Silva dos Santos, 40, is seen in the small wooden house where they live in Igarapé do São Vicente, which ends in Rio Negro, in the center of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on 21 April 2021. The depth in the place, reaches 8 meters, offering risks to the residents and the structure of the house. Marcilene works as a volunteer in hospitals: she incorporates the clown Jujubinha, and brings milk, diapers and joy to children who are hospitalized. With the Covid-19 pandemic, and the flood, her job became complicated, leading to even greater financial difficulties. Marcilene has three daughters living with her - one is pregnant. She reveals that since the flood began, she has had difficulty sleeping. "One day we found a 2.5-meter alligator inside the house," she says. The state of Amazonas is experiencing a period of rain and river flooding. The rivers usually flood from November to June, and this event can be changed due to factors such as the "repiquete" (when the river shows signs that it will stop filling, but suddenly starts to flood quickly) and climatic phenomena such as La Ninã and El Niño, which can interrupt or intensify the rains.
IMF Photo/Raphael Alves
21 April 2021
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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More than 300,000 march in solidarity for Climate accountability, at the People's Climate March on September 21, 2014.
Photo By: Robert van Waarden
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Mr. Labbane Iyadh, president of Changement Climatique et Développement Durable, speaks to UN staff during a briefing about climate change and how to deal with its effects. The briefing was held in Tunis on 10 June 2009. (Photo credit: UNIC Tunis, 10 June 2009).
Hi 350.org!
Here is 1 of 5 photos from our exhibition Climate Change: stories for social justice now on view at Wash U. (Rachel, I have to write a paper ASAP, please 'reply all' with individual descriptions for the photos if possible.)
Description (1 sentence description of event and what is happening in the photo):
Photo credit: Caitlin Lee
Here are the texts from the panels (intro and about included) photographed if 350 or Rachel need them:
Climate Change: stories for social justice
The words ‘climate change’ elicit various reactions along a spectrum between apathetic dismissal and apocalyptic fear. Yet it is not often enough that thoughts of social justice arise in connection with environmental issues.
The fact is that climate change is not merely a matter of endangered species or disappearing habitats – it is an issue of human rights.
Rising temperatures are not all we must worry about. Excessive consumption of fossil fuels tampers with the natural processes of solar radiation, surface temperatures, hydrologic cycles, and atmospheric and oceanic circulation. These disrupted systems in turn affect humankind’s ability to meet needs for food, water, air, and shelter. Some are losing their health. Some are losing their homes. Some are losing their lives.
We invite you to learn about some of the many communities for whom climate change is not an impending doomsday, but an immediate threat and everyday danger. These tales of struggle show persistence and hope analogous to the divestment campaigns currently spreading like wildfire across American campuses.
And so, in considering this glimpse at worldwide fights against climate change, where does the Washington University community stand? Will we continue to intentionally invest our endowment in fossil fuel industries that are the root of the problem? Or will we choose to aim our actions beyond reusing water bottles and changing light bulbs to make a change that will count at a global scale?
Divest from injustice. Divest from disaster. Divest from fossil fuels.
Tar Sands Extraction [Northern Alberta, Canada]
Matt Callahan, Katie Olson & Rachel Goldstein
Northern Alberta, Canada, is home to a large deposit of heavy crude oil. Until recently, the Canadian tar sands were considered economically unrecoverable due to difficulty of extraction and the intense refining process for heavy crude oil. However, since the development of new oil production technology, exploitation of the tar sands has been rapidly increasing. Unfortunately, accessing bitumen-heavy crude oil involves large-scale open pit mining. This extraction technique is extremely dirty: spills often lead to serious human health impacts, water contamination, and ecological degradation. The open-pit mining process wreaks havoc on the boreal forest ecosystem and the livelihoods of many First Nation tribes living in the area.
In response to this exploitation, an alliance of First Nations leaders has formed to fight back against tar sands development, and more recently, the Keystone XL Pipeline. Although federal agencies claim that development of the tar sands will provide economic benefits for First Nations tribes, many leaders feel that to exploit the tar sands is to destroy the very culture of so many native communities. As George Poitras of the Mikisew Cree First Nation explains, “If we don’t have land and we don’t have anywhere to carry out our traditional lifestyles, we lose who we are as a people. So, if there’s no land, then its equivalent in our estimation to genocide of a people.”
Coal Power Plant [Labadie, Missouri]
Georgia McCandlish, Anya Liao & Dan Cohn
Just 40 minutes southwest of St. Louis, the small town of Labadie thrums with a strong sense of community. Families have lived here for generations and warmly welcome newcomers to art shows, concerts and cook-off festivals. The summertime Labadie Picnic features rivertown musicians, while autumn’s Plow Day shows off antique farm equipment. Just about everyone gathers at the Labadie Market Deli to eat and socialize.
In 1970 Ameren Missouri opened an enormous coal-fired power plant on floodplain land of the Missouri River - just five minutes from downtown Labadie. Now, 200 train cars of coal rumble through town each day while smoke stacks cloud the sky. Burning coal for electricity leaves behind toxic ash, which Ameren dumps directly into an unlined disposal pond in the floodplains. Due to lack of infrastructure and oversight, this pond has leaked 328 million gallons of pollution into surrounding water and soil. High levels of heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, selenium, and chromium thus enter Labadie residents’ drinking water. Furthermore, this plant is the fourth highest carbon dioxide emitter in the country, contributing greatly to greenhouse gas emissions and rising global temperatures.
When a local women’s book club heard about Ameren’s 2009 plan to build a second coal ash landfill in the floodplain, they had had enough. They formed Labadie Environmental Organization, or LEO, and educated themselves and the rest of their community about the health hazards of coal ash. Their battle has led them from the Council of Commissioners of Franklin County, to the state capitol in Jefferson City, to Washington, D.C. Ameren’s electricity runs the city of St. Louis, and 85% of Missouri’s energy comes from coal. Our neighbors in Labadie have begun this battle and will not stop. LEO’s fight is our fight - we all have a stake in the use of coal, and we all have an opportunity to take action.
About the Project
Project Managers | Caitlin Lee, Sophi Veltrop
Designers | Jacob Beebe, Caitlin Lee, Jamie Niekamp
Artists | Kelsey Brod, Matt Callahan, Esther Hamburger, Andrew Kay, Caitlin Lee, Anya Liao, Georgia McCandlish, Michelle Nahmad, Katie Olson, Andrew Pandji, Carmi Salzberg, Maddie Wells, Nancy Yang, Nicole Yen
Authors | Kelsey Brod, Dan Cohn, Harris Engelmann, Steve Fuller, Rachel Goldstein, Trevor Leuzinger, Mara Nelson, Bree Swenson, Sophi Veltrop
Green Action’s Fossil Free Wash U Campaign Green Action is WUSTL’s environmental justice student group, which seeks to promote climate action from the local to global scale. The Fossil Free Wash U campaign promotes divestment as a means of committing Washington University to a sustainable portfolio and calls on our campus to take action that has a global impact. Divestment runs on the principle that it is morally wrong to profit from wrecking the climate, and involves pulling endowment investments out of fossil fuel industries.This process will not affect scholarships or financial aid, and many reports have indicated that divestment will not cause institutions to profit less than expected on their investments.
Material Monster is a material reuse and research initiative based in the Sam Fox School community. The group facilitates the free exchange of reusable materials for creative endeavors. In line with our philosophy of minimizing waste to reduce our project’s impact on the planet, we have recycled lumber from ThurtenE Carnival’s facades and borrowed sliding glass doors from Refab St. Louis.
Refab St. Louis promotes the collective and creative re-use of our built environment by deconstructing buildings otherwise slated for demolition, retraining community members for careers in green industry, and refabricating building materials.
We would also like to thank the Student Sustainability Fund and the Social Justice Center for their invaluable help in the creation of this installation.
To learn more, visit gofossilfree.org, or contact Material Monster and Fossil Free through their Facebook pages.