Spread the Word, Bill Mckibben and the 350 Movement

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Carbon Emissions Killing the Clownfish

NEMO may never find his way home, with new research revealing that human carbon emissions are having devastating effects on the ecology of clownfish. Read more …

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Increasing Acidity Threatens Ocean’s Web-of-Life

Leading scientists from all over the world call for immediate action to stop ocean acidification. The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But this benefit has a catch: as the gas dissolves, it makes seawater more acidic. Now an international panel of marine scientists says this acidity is accelerating so fast it threatens the survival of coral reefs, shellfish and the marine food web generally. read more…

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A Polar Whale’s Appeal

Help prevent the extinction of another species. Please listen to the message in this Green Peace video.

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Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S. Geological Survey-led (USGS) study published in Science on January 23.

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The Living Planet Aquarium Presents an Evening With Dr. Sylvia Earle

The Living Planet Aquarium presents an evening with Dr. Sylvia Earle.

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Arctic Ice Melt and The Tipping Point

US researchers claim to have found evidence that accelerated melting has crossed a “tipping point” from which there is no going back.

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An Open Letter from Bill McKibben and Wendell Berry

Listen to Bill Mckibben discussing literature, climate change and the 350 Movement.
Dear Friends,
There are moments in a nation’s—and a planet’s—history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction. We think such a time has [...]

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Frontline – Heat

COMING SOON October 21, 2008 on PBS stations & online

For years, big business–from oil and coal companies to electric utilities to car manufacturers–has resisted change to environmental policy and stifled the debate over climate change in America and around the globe. Now, facing rising pressure from governments, green groups and investors [...]

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Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide and Methane, Rise Sharply in 2007

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Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide and Methane, Rise Sharply in 2007
Science Daily
Thursday 24 April 2008
Last year alone global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver
of global climate change, increased by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons. Additionally
methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or [...]

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Listen to Bill Mckibben Discussing Literature, Climate Change and the 350 Movement.

In this recording scholar, author and activist Bill McKibben discusses literature, political organizing, environmental writing and activism, the art of anthologizing, Thoreau, Muir and Stegner, the wild, climate change, and the significance of 350.
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Part one: Introduction
Part two: Bill’s Remarks
Part three: Questions & Answers

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Amy Irvine’s Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

Know what Terry Tempest Williams, Robert Redford, Nora Gallagher, Gary Ferguson and others are saying about Amy Irvine? Read below and find out.

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