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Linköping, Sweden, Oct 10 2010
Community members in Sweden planted a red oak to promote solutions to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org/Tim Sirén
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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.
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
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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Administrative Assistants from UNIC Tunis and UN agencies operating in Tunisia at a climate change briefing. The information discussed at the briefing will be used to develop a joint programme on climate change. (Photo credit: UNIC Tunis, 10 June 2009)
One year ago, a team of researchers from the University of Reading, in UK, and local partners in Tanzania, organised a number of participatory trainings for smallscale farmers on climate-services and information. The trainings were held in villages outside of Dodoma, Tanzania, which is a very arid and dry part of the country. The team recently re-visited two of the farmer groups, to see what they had learned during the 4-day training session, what they felt was useful and if anything happened after the trainings, eg. did they change crops or planting practices?
The trainings introduced the concept of climate change, rainfall variability, and presented the country’s historical rainfall data and forecasts. The trainings also showed farmers how to, based on crop, temperature and rainfall information, calculate risks and probabilities of crops failure, while identifying which crops could work well in their area. The trainings provided a list of suitable crops, but it was the farmers who in the end decided if and how they wanted to implement what they had learned, or not. This to ensure ownership and making sure any choice made is grounded in farmers’ own realities.
These photos are from the revisit session, held in October of this year in Makoja, Tanzania. Stay tuned on CCAFS blog to see if the farmers had made any changes to their farming practices or not. This participatory project is supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS): www.ccafs.cgiar.org/blog
Photo: Cecilia Schubert (CCAFS)
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.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a Climate Change Seminar with President for COP26 Alok Sharma during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Joshua Roberts
8 October 2021
Washington, DC, United States
Photo ref: _JR14560.ARW
A group calling themselves Climate Change Refugees gathered on 17th Avenue in Calgary, Alberta on December 8th, 2007 for the International Day of Action on Climate Change
Ethiopia can be divided into zones according to altitude and precipitation. Addis Ababa has an annual rainfall of 1 270 mm, and the amount might be somewhat higher for Entoto.
The precipitation together with the altitude range of 2 600 to 3 100, defines the site to the agro-climatic zone Moist Dega, the natural vegetation being Afro-montane forest-woodland, indicated by Juniperus, Hagenia and Podocarpus trees (Bekele-Tesemma 1993).
There are two rainy seasons per year, the small rains from March to May and the big rains from July to September. The highest rain intensity occurs in July and August (Demissew 1988).
The average temperature in Addis Ababa is 16.3°C, but with the temperature falling with an increasing altitude, the average temperature on the top of the park can be estimated to be about 12°C.
As the wind can also be strong, the climate can be quite harsh, especially during the rains and in the higher parts.
Water: It is essential that there is water available all year round. Most of the brooks dry out sometime during a year. There are, however, a few springs within the park area, providing water for all seasons.
Rain Season: There are two rainy seasons per year, the small rains from March to May and the big rains from July to September. The highest rainfall intensity occurs in July and August (Demissew 1988).
Adventure History
"Entoto's climate during the rainy season was moreover far from pleasant, for it suffered from many storms. A French traveller, Jules Borelli, states that it was a place of much lightning, thunder and fog, while his compatriot, Charles Michel remarked that, ''exposed to the wind, difficult of access, and without drinking water'' (Ibid, p.103).
(Håkan Blanck and Pia Englund, Entoto Natural Park 1995).
The photograph with the Waterfall
The outlet for the waterfall and its abyss is just some metres behind and opposite the camera view of the picture. However, this concealed rock vault is both a staggering cosy and mysteriously hidden place and people with sensitivity for heights should not climb into this mountain vault without being double secured with harnesses and other equipment.
These photos of water-filled streams and cascading waterfalls are all shot just above Bees' Cliff (14) at Entoto's southern highland plateau - from early October to the beginning of November.
It has at the time for all of these active water sports photographs passed about one to two months since the long rain season ended.
Despite the period passed from these photos opportunities and the previous rains are over a month, it is still a great asset of bath and fresh spring water flow on the higher ground of Entoto. But maybe for those some hilarious adventures, it would have been even more suitable if they had occurred a month earlier and thus offered an even more pleasant spontaneous bath activities.
** CAUTION
Although this remarkable rock vault and bath is the most entertaining of wild places, it is nevertheless a directly fatal place during rainy seasons, without any possibility of a positive outcome.
28 September 2016 - Opening of the ENV 2016: Climate Change, Transition towards a circular economy meeting.
OECD, Paris, France.
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
Warmer climate, more water all around. This house is now permanently under water at Lake Sebu in the Philippines.
17th April 2016 …Fegino- Genoa -Italy…
At 7:30 p.m. approximately, a pipe of a pipeline owned bythe company
Iplom broke and 600,000 gallons of oil were poured into the streams of
the area, Pianego Stream, Fegino Stream, and Polcevera Stream to finally
head to the sea. A huge ecological and environmental disaster. The pipes
of this company are buried in the ground for km, from the Petroleum Port
of Genoa Multedo, to the refinery located in Busalla, and partly buried
inside the bed of these two streams, for over 50 years, without any
protection in the event of breakage. The Fegino Deposit is served by the
pipes buried in the river bed. For many years the citizens have
denounced the difficult cohabitation with the deposit located a few
meters away from houses and schools. The annoying miasmas exhaled during
handling operations of crude oil and its derivatives stored here have
been repeatedly reported to the authorities. They limit the lives of the
residents, but they are not considered to be harmful to health because
emission limits do not exceed the threshold of concern, even if the
quality of life of the citizens is significantly threatened. The
disaster is now under investigation, but what is certain is that it has
jeopardized environment and ecosystem of the streams and the lives of
people living here.
Fegino is part of a suburban area of Genoa, the Valpolcevera, which,
since the second half of the 19^th Century, has seen the birth of
several industries. Over time, oil, steel, mechanical industries have
established their headquarters here, fact that has altered environment
and landscape and threatened the health of residents of this valley. The
disposal of many industries could have been an opportunity for a revival
of this area, still battered by the logic of the great rail lines and
highways that, moreover, have no meaningful data to support them as far
as costs and benefits are concerned.
It is time to seek an environmentally friendly conversion of these oil
companies who are too often a source of concern and environmental
disasters and threats to the health of citizens because we should
finally think about the future of our planet.
This is way we strongly committed to join the "Breackfree" initiative,
meeting up on Saturday, May 14, 2016, together with other associations
and committees, when we will surround the Iplom Fegino Deposit with a
red ribbon in order to highlight the danger and to underline the need
for health, environment and safe and healthy workplace to go hand in hand.
The panel of energy and climate experts dove deeper on what Congress can do in the near-term to shift the U.S. electricity system toward cleaner sources of power.
Panelists
* Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
* Mary Anne Hitt, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
* Dan Lashof, Director, World Resources Institute U.S.
* Karen Palmer, Senior Fellow and Director, Future of Power Initiative, Resources for the Future
* Amy Harder, Reporter, Axios (moderator)
Climate change has reemerged as a top priority on Capitol Hill — and the conversation has matured from whether to take action to how.
Learn more at www.wri.org/events/2019/04/reenergizing-climate-action-ca...
A general view of the Valenzuela Solar Farm in Valenzuela City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on April 30, 2021. 32,000 solar panels are installed on the 11-hectare area.
IMF Photo/Lisa Marie David
30 April 2021
Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines
Photo ref: 20210430_SolarEnergy_05.jpg
Home of the Seattle Kraken
National Hockey League, NHL
"Climate Pledge Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located north of Downtown Seattle in the 74-acre (30 ha) entertainment complex known as Seattle Center, the site of the 1962 World's Fair, for which it was originally developed. After opening in 1962, it was subsequently bought and converted by the city of Seattle for entertainment purposes. From 2018 to 2021, the arena underwent a $1.15 billion redevelopment; the renovation preserved the original exterior and roof, which was declared a Seattle Landmark in 2017 and was listed on the Washington Heritage Register as well as the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. The renovated venue has a capacity of 17,151 for ice hockey and 18,300 for basketball.
The arena is currently the home to the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the Seattle University Redhawks men's basketball team, and the Rat City Roller Derby league of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association." - Wikipedia
28 September 2016 - Opening of the ENV 2016: Climate Change, Transition towards a circular economy meeting.
OECD, Paris, France.
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
A video of this event will be available shortly at www.policyexchange.org.uk/modevents/item/a-new-conversati...