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<font size="+1"><i>January 10, 2018</i></font><br>
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[news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mudslide-santa-barbara-20180110-story.html">Deadly
flooding on Santa Barbara coast as fire turns to mud</a></b><br>
The predawn torrent of mud and debris carried away cars, swamped
living rooms, and yanked homes from their foundations. Boulders
crashed into homes, homes plunged into trees, and the muddy current
swept at least one child a half-mile from home.<br>
By day's end, Santa Barbara County authorities said the mudslides
had killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more.<br>
"It looked like a World War I battlefield," said Santa Barbara
County Sheriff Bill Brown...<br>
With roads blocked by thick, brown mud and fallen tree branches, the
Wilsons had no choice but to head to an emergency evacuation center
at a local church, where they waited for a National Guard escort to
a shelter at the local city college.<br>
On the cramped ride in the National Guard vehicle, many people had
difficulty talking about what they had seen. "My friend is missing
and I'm having a hard time when I think about it," Mimi Degruy said,
clinging to the leash of her two dogs as the vehicle bumped up and
down along the street.<br>
"But I appreciate how the community has come together," she said.
"I've lived in Montecito for 20 years and never expected this to
happen."...<br>
"Instead of a nice little rain to settle the dust, we have a flood.
It's just kind of ironic," he said, adding: "This was more
frightening than the fire."<br>
Rainfall swamped much of the Southland. Officials said that flooding
and debris had shut down the 101 Freeway in both directions for more
than 30 miles between Santa Barbara and Ventura, as well as sections
of Routes 33 and 150 in Ventura County...<br>
There are four seasons in California - drought, followed by fire,
followed by floods, followed by mudslides," he said. "That's the
normal sequence that we live with, unfortunately."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mudslide-santa-barbara-20180110-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mudslide-santa-barbara-20180110-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[StandUpToOil]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Port%20of%20Vancouver%20Votes%20to%20Cancel%20Oil%20Terminal%20Lease">Port
of Vancouver Votes to Cancel Oil Terminal Lease</a></b><br>
Today the Port of Vancouver Commission voted unanimously to end the
Tesoro Savage oil train terminal proposal in Vancouver, Washington.
Port of Vancouver Commissioner President Eric LaBrant issued the
motion to exercise a clause which cancels the lease for the terminal
effective March 31, 2018. The Commission took the vote in front of
an overflow crowd, with many audience members testifying in support
of the Port's decision to terminate the largest oil-by-rail terminal
proposal in North America.<br>
"Last November, the people of Vancouver spoke loud and clear by
electing Don Orange for Port Commissioner," said Shannon Murphy,
President Washington Conservation Voters. "Today's vote shows why
this community stood up for safe healthy neighborhoods and good
clean jobs, and won't sacrifice their future for the oil industry's
profits."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/StandUpToOil/status/950795147947646976">https://twitter.com/StandUpToOil/status/950795147947646976</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Voice of America] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/warming-oceans-threaten-marine-food-system-scientists-say/4200654.html">Scientists:
Warming Oceans Could Scupper Marine Food System</a></b><br>
ROME - Failure to rein in global temperature rises could cause the
marine food web to collapse, devastating the livelihoods of tens of
millions of people who rely on fisheries for food and income,
scientists have warned.<br>
Warming oceans restrict vital energy flows between different species
in the marine ecosystem, reducing the amount of food available for
bigger animals - mostly fish - at the top of the marine food web,
according to a study in the journal PLOS Biology published Tuesday.<br>
This could have "serious implications" for fish stocks, said Ivan
Nagelkerken, a professor of marine ecology at Australia's University
of Adelaide and one of the study's authors.<br>
Globally, about 56.5 million people were engaged in fisheries and
aquaculture in 2015, according to the latest data from the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<br>
In addition, almost a fifth of animal protein consumed by 3.2
billion people in 2015 comes from fish, FAO said...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/warming-oceans-threaten-marine-food-system-scientists-say/4200654.html">https://www.voanews.com/a/warming-oceans-threaten-marine-food-system-scientists-say/4200654.html</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Oceans]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/global-warming-pollution-supersize-the-oceans-oxygen-depleted-dead-zones/">Global
warming, pollution supersize the oceans' oxygen-depleted dead
zones</a></b><br>
Large areas of the world's oceans are rapidly losing oxygen as a
result of global warming and pollution, threatening marine
ecosystems and the hundreds of millions of people who depend on
them, according to a new study...<br>
The scientists expect deoxygenation to increase well beyond these
so-called dead zones as long as human-driven global warming
continues...<br>
Despite the grim outlook for the oceans, the researchers suggest
that cutting fossil fuel use and protecting vulnerable marine life
could tackle the problem...<br>
Over the past 50 years, zones in the open ocean with zero oxygen
have more than quadrupled, or increased by over 4.5 million square
kilometers (1.7 million square miles) - an area roughly the size of
the European Union - according to the study published Jan. 2 in the
journal Science.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/global-warming-pollution-supersize-the-oceans-oxygen-depleted-dead-zones/">https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/global-warming-pollution-supersize-the-oceans-oxygen-depleted-dead-zones/</a></font><br>
--<br>
[Science Review]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240">Declining
oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters</a></b><br>
<b>Beneath the waves, oxygen disappears</b><br>
As plastic waste pollutes the oceans and fish stocks decline, unseen
below the surface another problem grows: deoxygenation. Breitburg et
al. review the evidence for the downward trajectory of oxygen levels
in increasing areas of the open ocean and coastal waters. Rising
nutrient loads coupled with climate change - each resulting from
human activities - are changing ocean biogeochemistry and increasing
oxygen consumption. This results in destabilization of sediments and
fundamental shifts in the availability of key nutrients. In the
short term, some compensatory effects may result in improvements in
local fisheries, such as in cases where stocks are squeezed between
the surface and elevated oxygen minimum zones. In the longer term,
these conditions are unsustainable and may result in ecosystem
collapses, which ultimately will cause societal and economic harm.<br>
<b>BACKGROUND</b><br>
Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have
been declining since at least the middle of the 20th century. This
oxygen loss, or deoxygenation, is one of the most important changes
occurring in an ocean increasingly modified by human activities that
have raised temperatures, CO2 levels, and nutrient inputs and have
altered the abundances and distributions of marine species. Oxygen
is fundamental to biological and biogeochemical processes in the
ocean. Its decline can cause major changes in ocean productivity,
biodiversity, and biogeochemical cycles. Analyses of direct
measurements at sites around the world indicate that oxygen-minimum
zones in the open ocean have expanded by several million square
kilometers and that hundreds of coastal sites now have oxygen
concentrations low enough to limit the distribution and abundance of
animal populations and alter the cycling of important nutrients...<br>
Expansion of low-oxygen zones can increase production of N2O, a
potent greenhouse gas; reduce eukaryote biodiversity; alter the
structure of food webs; and negatively affect food security and
livelihoods. Both acidification and increasing temperature are
mechanistically linked with the process of deoxygenation and combine
with low-oxygen conditions to affect biogeochemical, physiological,
and ecological processes. However, an important paradox to consider
in predicting large-scale effects of future deoxygenation is that
high levels of productivity in nutrient-enriched coastal systems and
upwelling areas associated with oxygen-minimum zones also support
some of the world's most prolific fisheries.<b><br>
</b><b>O</b><b>UTLOOK</b><br>
... Reducing the impacts of other stressors may provide some
protection to species negatively affected by low-oxygen conditions.
Ultimately, though, limiting deoxygenation and its negative effects
will necessitate a substantial global decrease in greenhouse gas
emissions, as well as reductions in nutrient discharges to coastal
waters.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Koch]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16862674/american-museum-natural-history-climate-change-sing-misinformation-david-koch-dinosaur-wing">The
climate change misinformation at a top museum is not a
conservative conspiracy</a></b><br>
A sign at the American Museum of Natural History has outdated
information about climate change<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16862674/american-museum-natural-history-climate-change-sing-misinformation-david-koch-dinosaur-wing">https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16862674/american-museum-natural-history-climate-change-sing-misinformation-david-koch-dinosaur-wing</a></font><br>
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<br>
[not funny in Louisville, KY]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/watchdog-earth/2018/01/08/seven-reasons-why-trump-bevin-wrong-joke-climate-change/1012503001/">Watchdog
Earth: Trump's and Bevin's tweets aside, 7 reasons climate change
isn't funny</a><br>
Here are seven reasons climate change isn't a joke:
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<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Global and national
security.<span> </span></strong>The U.S. military sees climate
change as a threat-multiplier that could destabilize populations
and lead to war, while putting American assets such as military
bases along low-lying coastal areas at risk from sea-level
rise. President Trump himself<span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2810/text#toc-H3E4B68F308984585A5207D89C04905A3"
style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px none;">signed a
military defense bill</a> in December that describes climate
change as an urgent threat to American security and details
the challenges climate change poses to U.S. military
operations worldwide.</font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">More frequent and intense
storms.</strong><span> </span>Heavy rain is increasing in
intensity and frequency across the United States and globally
and is expected to continue to increase, according to the U.S.
Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report,<span> </span><font
color="#000000"><a
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/executive-summary/"
style="text-decoration: none;">issued last year</a><span> </span>by
President Trump's own scientists. Warmer air holds more
moisture and extra heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have
the impact of putting weather on steroids. How cities are
constructed plays a big role in flooding, but scientists have
calculated global warming made it at least three times more
likely that Hurricane Harvey would stall over Houston and
flood it,<span> </span><a
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-12-harvey-deluge.html#jCp"
style="text-decoration: none;">according to the Associated
Press</a>. Even in flood-prone Louisville, we're seeing<span> </span><a
href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2016/10/29/climate-change-threatens-sewage-cleanup-plans/89903834/"
style="text-decoration: none;">more frequent, larger storms</a><span> </span>that
are threatening low areas of the city, prompting calls to
spend billions on shoring up aging sewer and flood protection
systems. </font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Coastal area flooding.</strong><span> </span>Sea
level<span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/12/"
style="text-decoration: none;">has risen about 8 inches</a><span> </span>since
1900, about half of that since 1993, making storm surges more
dangerous. It's expected to rise 1 to 4 feet more by 2100.
The Trump administration could not rule out a seal level 8
feet higher by end of the century. Major cities like Miami,
New York, Boston and New Orleans are at risk.</font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Heat.</strong> Heatwaves<span> </span><font
color="#000000"><a
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/"
style="text-decoration: none;">have become more frequent</a><span> </span>in
the U.S. since the 1960s, putting crops in jeopardy and people
in cities at risk of heat-related deaths. People with heart,
lung and other ailments can suffer severely during heat waves.
Cities where temperatures can fluctuate greatly and where
residents may not be used to extreme heat – including
Louisville – have been seen the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nrdc.org/media/2017/171024"
style="text-decoration: none;">highest projections</a><span> </span>for
heat-related mortality in the decades ahead.</font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Human health.</strong><span> </span>Weather
and climate affect the survival, distribution and behavior of
mosquitoes, ticks and rodents that carry diseases, and some
tropical diseases<span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
href="http://grist.org/briefly/tropical-diseases-are-moving-north-and-the-poor-are-the-ones-getting-sick/"
style="text-decoration: none;">are spreading north</a><span> </span>as
the climate warms. Other illnesses, such as asthma and other
lung ailments<span> </span><a
href="https://health2016.globalchange.gov/climate-change-and-human-health"
style="text-decoration: none;">can be made worse</a><span> </span>by
air pollution or increased pollen associated with climate
change and added heat can wear on people with COPD or
diabetes.</font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ocean acidification and
heat.</strong><span> </span>Coral reefs are undersea nurseries
and home to at least<span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/coasts/coral_reefs/"
style="text-decoration: none;">a quarter</a><span> </span>of
all marine life on the planet. Yet they are<span> </span><a
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/climate-change-july-dec12-acidification_12-05"
style="text-decoration: none;">under serious threat from
both</a>, risking ocean health and, frankly, some popular
seafood menu items.</font></li>
<li><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Regional economic security.</strong><span> </span>The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<span> </span><font color="#000000"><a
href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2017/11/30/ohio-river-valley-climate-change-report/831135001/"
style="text-decoration: none;">recently made public</a><span> </span>a
new study that finds climate change is will push the Ohio
River and its tributaries into uncharted waters, setting off
economic and environmental crises like never before across a
13-state region, including Kentucky and Indiana.</font></li>
</ol>
One explanation may be the political divide. A Gallup Poll<span> </span><font
color="#000000"><a
href="http://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/211682/public-opinion-trump-decision-paris-agreement.aspx?g_source=CATEGORY_CLIMATE_CHANGE&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles"
style="text-decoration: none;">last summer</a><span> </span>found
that nationally only 18 percent of Republicans worry "a great deal
about climate change," compared to 66 percent of Democrats.
Another<span> </span><a
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2016/?est=worried&type=value&geo=state&id=18"
style="text-decoration: none;">poll out of Yale University</a><span> </span>estimated
that slightly less than 50 percent of Kentuckians were worried
about climate change in 2016.<br>
It's just easier to joke about something not seen as a threat,
even as scientists keep raising the red flags.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/watchdog-earth/2018/01/08/seven-reasons-why-trump-bevin-wrong-joke-climate-change/1012503001/">https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/watchdog-earth/2018/01/08/seven-reasons-why-trump-bevin-wrong-joke-climate-change/1012503001/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[unstable climate]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/perfect-storm-extreme-winter-weather-bitter-cold-and-climate-change">A
'PERFECT STORM': EXTREME WINTER WEATHER, BITTER COLD, AND
CLIMATE CHANGE</a></b><br>
World-renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains why the
bitter cold and snowy conditions gripping the US are "an example of
precisely the sort of extreme winter weather we expect because of
climate change."<br>
The US East Coast is experiencing an "old-fashioned" winter, with
plenty of cold weather and some heavy snowfall in certain places.
Listening to climate contrarians like President Donald Trump, you
might think this constitutes the death knell for concern over
human-caused climate change.<br>
Yet, what we were witnessing play out is in fact very much
consistent with our expectations of the response of weather dynamics
to human-caused climate change...<br>
Indeed, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00418.1">climate
model simulations</a> indicate that we can expect more intense
nor'easters as human-caused climate change continues to warm the
oceans...<br>
So, to the climate change doubters and deniers out there, the
unusual weather we're seeing this winter is in no way evidence
against climate change. It is an example of precisely the sort of
extreme winter weather we expect because of climate change...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/perfect-storm-extreme-winter-weather-bitter-cold-and-climate-change">https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/perfect-storm-extreme-winter-weather-bitter-cold-and-climate-change</a></font><br>
-<br>
[American Meteorological Society]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00418.1">Changes
in U.S. East Coast Cyclone Dynamics with Climate Change</a><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Abstract</b><br>
Previous studies investigating the impacts of climate change on
extratropical cyclones have primarily focused on changes in the
frequency, intensity, and distribution of these events. Fewer
studies have directly investigated changes in the storm-scale
dynamics of individual cyclones. Precipitation associated with
these events is projected to increase with warming owing to
increased atmospheric water vapor content. This presents the
potential for enhancement of cyclone intensity through increased
lower-tropospheric diabatic potential vorticity generation. This
hypothesis is tested using the Weather Research and Forecasting
Model to simulate individual wintertime extratropical cyclone
events along the United States East Coast in present-day and
future thermodynamic environments. Thermodynamic changes derived
from an ensemble of GCMs for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
(AR4) A2 emissions scenario are applied to analyzed initial and
lateral boundary conditions of observed strongly developing
cyclone events, holding relative humidity constant. The perturbed
boundary conditions are then used to drive future simulations of
these strongly developing events. Present-to-future changes in the
storm-scale dynamics are assessed using Earth-relative and
storm-relative compositing. Precipitation increases at a rate
slightly less than that dictated by the Clausius–Clapeyron
relation with warming. Increases in cyclone intensity are seen in
the form of minimum sea level pressure decreases and a
strengthened 10-m wind field. Amplification of the low-level jet
occurs because of the enhancement of latent heating.
Storm-relative potential vorticity diagnostics indicate a
strengthening of diabatic potential vorticity near the cyclone
center, thus supporting the hypothesis that enhanced latent heat
release is responsible for this regional increase in future
cyclone intensity.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00418.1">http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00418.1</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Speaking Notes #2]<b><br>
</b><b>OXFORD CHANGE AGENCY EVENT - REPORT</b><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report">Agency
in individual and collective change</a></b><br>
Climate Psychology Alliance with Living Witness<br>
Written by Laurie Michaelis<br>
A day for psychological and social practitioners to share our
experiences of enabling positive<br>
responses to climate change. We'll explore how our different
approaches connect and complement<br>
each other, hoping to form a stronger community of practitioners.<br>
<b>Mindfulness and nature connection, Nadine Andrews</b><br>
(speaking notes)<br>
My practice and understanding is informed by systems thinking,
Taoist philosophy, social,<br>
transpersonal and ecopsychology, ecolinguistics, mindfulness
research.<br>
A root cause of ecological crisis is the belief of humans as
separate from and superior to nature<br>
(external nonhuman world and our inner psyche).<br>
<b>Self-regulation</b><br>
This separation has led to disorder in our relationship with nature.
For a system to self-regulate it<br>
needs to follow a cycle of attending to feedback signals,
interpreting those signals accurately, and then<br>
responding in an appropriate way. If there is a disconnection
somewhere in these processes then the<br>
system can't self-regulate.<br>
- Practices for developing our capacity and sensitivity to noticing
& interpreting cues, to become<br>
more attuned to weak signals – developing sensory acuity and ability
to attend to internalexternal<br>
experience, to our ongoing embodied interactions with the world<br>
<b>Shift from subject-object to subject-subject</b><br>
The idea of human separation and superiority is associated with a
subject-object framing of the<br>
natural world. Our disconnection both promotes and is strengthened
by this frame, which manifests as<br>
a perception of nature as a resource to be controlled and exploited
for our own ends, and that denies<br>
the living world of its own intents and purposes, and as having
intrinsic value.<br>
An example: we say phrases like 'being in nature' – this positions
the natural world as an object, a<br>
container that we can be inside or outside. The implication is that
our default position is outside the<br>
container. Objects have boundaries that separate them from other
objects, and so in using this phrase<br>
we are setting up the possibility for separation, which is precisely
what we seek to overcome by 'being<br>
in nature'.<br>
- Practices for cultivating a subject-subject frame, for engaging
with our kin in the community of<br>
life with humility & gratitude, with enhanced awareness of
interconnectedness &<br>
interdependence, and with an attitude of openness and receptivity to
receiving insights, and<br>
that is non ego-driven<br>
<b>Agency and virtue ethic</b><br>
From Taoist perspective, what is good is unknowable. We cant know
for sure how our actions will play<br>
out in every aspect, and whether all consequences will ultimately be
positive or negative. We are<br>
simultaneously in control and not in control. So we take a virtue
ethic approach that seeks to cultivate<br>
an ecological consciousness in the way I have described. We ask
ourselves:<br>
- What would a person with this ecological consciousness do in a
situation like this?<br>
- What actions fit with the natural pattern of the universe? (A
river flowing through the<br>
countryside finds its own natural course)<br>
These practices are a discipline. We have to keep exercising these
mind-body muscles to overcome the<br>
powerful social primes that we are continuously being exposed to and
potentially influenced by.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:nadine@cultureprobe.co.uk">nadine@cultureprobe.co.uk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cultureprobe.co.uk">http://cultureprobe.co.uk</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report</a><br>
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[video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhFLUIj8E0">A Decade of
Storytelling</a></b><br>
storyofstuffproject <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhFLUIj8E0">video</a><br>
Published on Jan 9, 2018<br>
Ten years ago we released our first movie, The Story of Stuff. Since
then we've produced 9 animated movies, 3 short documentaries, grown
a million plus person Community, won some important victories, and
we are just getting started!<br>
What's your favorite Story of Stuff video?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhFLUIj8E0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhFLUIj8E0</a></font><br>
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Day in Climate History January 10, 2017</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
In his final address as President, Barack Obama declares:<br>
“Take the challenge of climate change. In just eight years, we’ve<br>
halved our dependence on foreign oil, doubled our renewable energy,<br>
and led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this<br>
planet. But without bolder action, our children won’t have time to<br>
debate the existence of climate change; they’ll be busy dealing with<br>
its effects: environmental disasters, economic disruptions, and
waves<br>
of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.<br>
“Now, we can and should argue about the best approach to the
problem.<br>
But to simply deny the problem not only betrays future generations;
it<br>
betrays the essential spirit of innovation and practical<br>
problem-solving that guided our Founders.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-obama-farewell-speech-transcript-20170110-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-obama-farewell-speech-transcript-20170110-story.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/siyBp8Csugk">https://youtu.be/siyBp8Csugk</a><br>
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