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Thinking Globally, Take Action Locally
Words: Local Futures, Mobilized News Production: Mobilized News How to Start a Buy Local Campaign Building “Buy Local” Campaigns that Shift Culture and Spending.
Year: 2024
COMMUNITIES
How to create or join a community shared resources network
Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive Local Sharing with your neighbors
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How to start a food cooperative
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Global Village at the Ground Up Music Festival
Global Village heads back to Miami Beach for another program in our festival series featuring concert performances from the innovative and eclectic Ground Up Music Festival. This time it’s the nine-member world music ensemble Bokante. The ensemble brings together musicians […]
Activism
Veterans for Peace: Remembering Artist and Activist Tom Lewis
Veterans for Peace:VFP member Paul Gingrich shares his memories of Tom Lewis – artist, peace activist and one of the Catonsville 9 and his efforts since 2008 to produce a documentary on Tom Lewis Veterans for Peace Member Paul […]
Activism
Puppets Teaching Kids About Climate Change
Puppets teach Minnesota kids about climate change One puppet show tells the story of a wasteful king and how he learns to live more sustainably. Dawn Pape Climate Connections is a 90-second program that moves climate change away from debate […]
Activism
Understanding: LGBT+ at Risk from the Climate Crisis
Why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldn’t ignore silly arguments denying climate change. XR Radio uploads a half hour spot climate-related show with […]
ENERGY
Union of Concerned Scientists: Look for the Helpers (2)
This Is Science with Jess Phoenix Look For The Helpers Union of Concerned Scientists Presents: In the second part of this special Clean Transportation mini-series Jess visits the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project to talk with co-founder and co-director Ms. […]
FTS PUBLIC AND PLANETARY HEALTH
How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth
How Climate Change is Impacting World Forest Growth The Best in Climate News, Technology and Practices from Experts in the Field We know that deforestation, commercial farming, urban sprawl and other forms of defoliation contribute to climate change. But what […]
ENERGY
Project spreads the word about tax incentives for electric cars
Federal tax credits can make it cheaper to buy an electric car, but many low-income people aren’t aware of the incentives. Climate Connections is a 90-second module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting […]
FTS Circularity
The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining
Daniel Kammen: The Perils of Deep-Sea Mining Most of us have never been there but according to a quick Google search, some of the things you might see at the bottom of the ocean include sea spiders, tube worms, […]
Activism
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. KalaLea, producer and host of the podcast Blindspot: Tulsa Burning. She […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network: Monopolies and Market Power
When dominant multinationals get to run the world, it’s not a happy place. Or a very secure one. For a long time governments have failed to take the threat from monopolies and the corporate concentration of power seriously, and deal […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network: Spoiled Pets, Private Jets
In this episode Naomi Fowler looks at how the very wealthy shape the world, why the rest of us really, really can’t afford them. And, how it never ends just with the pet mansions and the cashmere-lined private jets, as the fascinating […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network: Who Owns the Climate Crisis?
We’re experiencing the hottest global temperatures ever recorded. For millions of us, the climate crisis is already hitting hard. And we need to know, we must know – WHO are the beneficial owners of the climate crisis? It’s surprisingly difficult to find […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network: That War on Drugs
“The toughest laws created the toughest criminals. The only thing we’re doing is increasing the violence. And at this point, where we are now, only the most violent will survive. We have to ask about political will here. What are […]
Activism
Activism
The Global Gag Rule is making a comeback?
Republicans in Congress are refusing to re-authorize AIDS funding abroad unless the global gag rule is incorporated into the legislation. Program goes into the origin and effects of this rule, which was at its highest peak during the Trump presidency. […]
PUBLIC HEALTH
Is Wireless tech making you sick?
Green Street News: Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick? with Ruth Moss and Dr. Kent Chamberlin This week on Green Street News, Patti and Doug talk about sensitivity to wireless radiation with Ruth Moss and Dr. Kent Chamberlin, organizers of the […]
Activism
Ecojustice: Restoring Landscape
Restoring the Landscape: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam removal in U.S. history has entered a critical phase, with the lowering of dammed reservoirs […]
Science
Scientists taking responsibility for good and bad applications
When does a scientist become a “Good German” and work for the Nazis?
Activism
Mining: Documenting the Undocumented
A warming world is pushing us off the snow cliff. Snow drought is increasing. Dry fire-filled summers with low rivers and crop loss surely follow. We talk with Lead Author Alexander Gottlieb from Dartmouth. Satellites don’t lie. Australian mining expert […]
Activism
Why fertilizer from sewage is a bad idea
New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really, really bad idea that will contaminate that farmland forever. […]
Activism
Ecojustice: How to Embrace our Wild Predatory Relatives
In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call “predators,” helicopter gunners shooting wolves to protect caribou herds in Alaska, or taking them out in Idaho to benefit elk — but really to benefit the […]
Activism
Students Reported; the World Listened
A civil liberties minute from the ACLU