We already knew it wasn't just Richmond. Now Amazon Watch has announced the release of a major new report, Chevron’s Global Destruction: Ecocide, Genocide, and Corruption. The report's author, Nan M. Greer, Ph.D., documents how Chevron, the world’s … [Read more...]
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Is Your Money Funding the Climate Crisis? October 24
Move your Money and help save the planet! Join 350 Contra Costa and Sustainable Contra Costa to hear a panel of experts explaining how your investments, credit cards, or bank may be financing the climate crisis. State pension funds and universities … [Read more...]
Break Free From Plastic: Act Against Extraction, October 26
Join the Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement in a national event to demonstrate the urgent need to address the crisis of environmental racism, the destruction of natural resources, and the climate crisis. Frontline groups and allied … [Read more...]
Learning About a Just Transition, October 28
Learn about the growing labor movement for a just transition away from fossil fuels, in a webinar cosponsored by the Climate Center and the Labor Network for Sustainability. Hear from: The co-authors of Workers and Communities in Transition, a … [Read more...]
March for Stolen Lives/Stolen Futures, October 22
Friday -- a national day of action against police brutality AND international climate strike day -- join Youth vs Apocalypse, Fossil Free California, Last Chance Alliance, and others to call for real climate justice in the lead-up to COP26 climate … [Read more...]
BlackRock, Banks, and Biden: Defund Fossil Fuels, October 29
As we approach the global climate talks in Glasgow, join a global day of action against the biggest funders of climate chaos to demand that banks and finance companies like BlackRock stop funding fossil fuels. The Youth Climate Finance Alliance … [Read more...]
Air Watch Bay Area
Digital Platform for Reporting and Investigating Oil Refinery Pollution Staying informed about what’s in the air is a priority for Bay Area residents living near the region’s five oil refineries. As we mark the five-year anniversary of the … [Read more...]
For Discussion: System Change and Just Transition
The term “Just Transition” is becoming increasingly prevalent in discussions involving workers, climate change, and post carbon energy economics. The recent response by the United Steel Workers to 350.0rg's "Break Free" call to keep fossil … [Read more...]
Lies, Damned Lies, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Our fight against extreme fossil fuels and the threat of Canadian tar sands flooding into Bay Area refineries has been a long uphill battle, with much of it centered in the airless hearing rooms of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District … [Read more...]
Passion and Persistence: Making Gains at BAAQMD, Dec. 16, 2015
At the 11/30 hearing, Air District staff committed to a full workup of the Community-Worker Proposal, including a CEQA Analysis, which would enable the Board to consider it and vote for its adoption—if we can persuade them to do so—within the 1st … [Read more...]
What is Climate Justice
Climate Justice is a global movement to redress the material inequities created by climate change. A form of environmental justice, climate justice demands the fair treatment of all people and freedom from discrimination, and requires the creation of … [Read more...]