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Bill McKibben: What Winning the Climate Change Battle Looks Like | Bioneers 2016

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"The most influential climate activist of our era, Bill McKibben, a founder of the extraordinarily effective 350.org grassroots campaign, describes the immense groundswell of global citizen engagement rising to challenge the "dirty" energy industry. Find out where we are scientifically and politically in the transformation to end our reliance on fossil fuels, while lighting the pathways toward a clean-energy future." Introduction by Clayton Thoma-Muller, 350.org Bill will be one of the keynote … Watch video

Great News on the Global Movement Toward Fossil Fuel Divestment

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"More than $5 trillion worth of investments are now pledged to be divested from fossil fuels. The analysis, issued Monday, details how nearly 700 institutions and nearly 60,000 individuals from across 76 nations have committed to divest their assets from the fossil fuel industry." ~ Amy Goodman, Democracy Now Reporting from a press conference in New York, Actor and Activist Mark Ruffalo said: "This is a twofold approach that you’re seeing unfold in front of you. It started with the students. … Watch video

Sweden To Become The World’s First Fossil Fuel-Free Nation In History

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"The Swedish government recently announced that their aim is to become one of the world’s first nations to end its dependence on fossil fuels. They will be investing an extra 4.5 billion kronor (US$546 million) into renewable energy and climate change action in their 2016 budget. "Not long ago, UBS, the world’s largest private bank, began urging its investors to join the clean, renewable energy movement. Their analysts are predicting that power plants in Europe might become completely extinct … Continue reading

Climate fight won’t wait for Paris: vive la résistance

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"In the third piece in the Guardian’s major series on climate change, Bill McKibben describes how relentless climate movements have shifted the advantage towards fossil fuel resistance for the first time in 25 years. But he argues triumph is not certain – we must not rest till the industry is forced to keep the carbon in the ground." Read the full story.... Image: red flood (2011), pigment, pencil and acrylic on canvas, 212 x 157cm Artist: Judy Watson Continue reading

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