Beyond Paris, Climate Movement Plans Global Swarm for Future of Humanity | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Beyond Paris, Climate Movement Plans Global Swarm for Future of Humanity

Climate activists are also gearing up for a mobilization on Saturday in Paris—in defiance of a protest ban—at the end of the climate talks.

"Negotiators are avoiding making the real commitments that are required to meet their stated goals of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius," organizers write. "On December 12, we will honor the victims of climate change with beautiful things to see and build, and make plans with the global movement that has gathered in Paris for the coming years. We will lay down red lines of climate safety that must not be crossed, and collectively pledge to act so that they are not."

"This will be our demonstration of hope, power and strength that we will hold as we bring the fight back to the fossil fuel industry in 2016," the statement continues.

Author and activist Naomi Klein spoke Monday in Paris of the need for the Dec. 12 action, and said that people must recognize the urgency of climate crisis and must also say "yes to the world we want."

"We have run out of time. This is our historical moment.

"Let us not disappoint. The stakes are simply too high.

"Now is not the time for small steps.

"Now is the time for boldness," Klein said.

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ | Dr. Joseph Mercola

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ | Dr. Joseph Mercola:

recently-published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live
in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.

In a 32-page report that can be downloaded free of charge from Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers said:

A
recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006)
concluded that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in
drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is
warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals,
including effects on learning and memory ...

To summarize the
available literature, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis
of published studies on increased fluoride exposure in drinking water
and neurodevelopmental delays. We specifically targeted studies carried
out in rural China that have not been widely disseminated, thus
complementing the studies that have been included in previous reviews
and risk assessment reports ...

Findings from our meta-analyses
of 27 studies published over 22 years suggest an inverse association
between high fluoride exposure and children's intelligence ... The
results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant that
affects brain development at exposures much below those that can cause
toxicity in adults ...

Serum-fluoride concentrations associated
with high intakes from drinking-water may exceed 1 mg/L, or 50 Smol/L,
thus more than 1000-times the levels of some other neurotoxicants that
cause neurodevelopmental damage. Supporting the plausibility of our
findings, rats exposed to 1 ppm (50 Smol/L) of water-fluoride for one
year showed morphological alterations in the brain and increased levels
of aluminum in brain tissue compared with controls ...

In
conclusion, our results support the possibility of adverse effects of
fluoride exposures on children's neurodevelopment. Future research
should formally evaluate dose-response relations based on
individual-level measures of exposure over time, including more precise
prenatal exposure assessment and more extensive standardized measures of
neurobehavioral performance, in addition to improving assessment and
control of potential confounders.

New Slow City: Is this the future of Big Apple living? | GreenBiz

New Slow City: Is this the future of Big Apple living? | GreenBiz: This is an excerpt from the book New Slow City.

Burned-out after years of doing development and conservation work around the world, William Powers decided to see if the increasingly popular "slowliving" approach was possible in one of the most frantic, most overworked, most expensive cities in the world: New York City.

Just one year after spending a season seeking a sustainable lifestyle in a tiny 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, Powers and his wife chucked 80 percent of their stuff, left their spacious Queens townhouse and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro apartment” in Greenwich Village. Committing to a 20-hour workweek, Powers explored the viability of Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries. Along the way, he met New Yorkers also attempting to resist the culture of "Total Work."

On a routine impromptu afternoon, I dip into a sustainable cities panel at Columbia University. Architects and landscape planners imagine aloud a New York that combines the texture of the past with green technology and “permaculture” (a contraction of both permanent agriculture and permanent culture), so that Manhattan’s concrete boundaries are replaced by wetlands and beaches for bird watching, riverside strolls, and sunbathing.

Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!

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YEAY!!! Suit in Los Angeles County

Monshit sued in Los Angeles County Examiner.com:

Today a class action lawsuit (Case No: BC 578 942) was filed in Los Angeles County, California against the Monsanto corporation. The suit alleges that Monsanto is guilty of false advertising by claiming that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, targets an enzyme only found in plants and not in humans or animals.

Monsanto makes this claim to support the contention that glyphosate is harmless to humans.

Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup

Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup: Humans need a pesticides-free future. We need to appeal to all politicians all over the world to ban permanently and without exception all pesticides. Glyphosate represents all pesticides. Our message and policies should be telling agribusiness companies enough is enough: no more death rain!



Pesticides are chemical weapons. They were brought to market under
the cover of questionable and often fraudulent science and regulation.
They are maintained in farming under the false pretense of feeding the
world. They are danger itself; they are biocides. They are simply the
money lubricants of giant agriculture. They serve no public purpose. We
don’t need them.


Benachour et al. (2007) Time-and dose-dependent effects of roundup on human embryonic and placental cells. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 53, 126–133.

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Herman SG and Bulger JB (1979), “Effects of a Forest Application of DDT on Nontarget Organisms,” Wildlife Monographs, No 69: 49.

Hobbelink, H “Hungry for Land” Grain, May 2014.

Huber, DM “The effects of glyphosate (Roundup) on soils, crops and
consumers” (Presentation to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on
Agroecology, House of Commons, UK, 1 November 2011).

Paganelli A. et al. (2010) Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Produce Teratogenic Effects on Vertebrates by Impairing Retinoic Acid Signaling. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 23: 1586-1595.

Richard S, Moslemi S, Sipahutar H, Benachour N and Seralini G-E (2005) Differential Effects of Glyphosate and Roundup on Human Placental Cells and Aromatase. Environmental Health Perspectives 113: 716-720.

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Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., is a former EPA analyst. He is the
author of hundreds of articles and several books, including “Poison
Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” (with McKay
Jenkins, Bloomsbury Press, 2014).

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use To Change The World | The Mind Unleashed

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use To Change The World | The Mind Unleashed: The Economics of Happiness (2011) ($5)
65 min · Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and…
Money & Life (2013)

Money & Life (2013)
86 min · Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous…

Originally featured on Films For Action

Documentaries have an incredible power to
raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both
at the personal and global levels.

Over the last 8 years, we’ve watched hundreds of social change documentaries and cataloged the best of them on the site. There’s now so many that
we realized we needed to filter this down even further. So what follows
is our list of the very best 100 – hand-picked for their quality,
insight and potential to inspire positive change.

All of the films have been selected because
they are either free to watch online, or can be rented online. There are
several films we would have loved to add to this list, but they
currently don’t have an accessible way to view them. As that changes,
we’ll be updating this list over time. Enjoy!

11 Mindful Tips: How to do Summer fully even if you’re Busy. | elephant journal

11 Mindful Tips: How to do Summer fully even if you’re Busy. | elephant journal: 11 Tips: How to do Summer Right.

Remember when we were children? Summer was endless, fun, full of possibility? Is it now just hot, busy, full of work with occasional parties or trips, and it all goes by too fast? Then this is for you.

When I was a boy, summer was all about…sun. The pool. Friends. Parties. Bicycling. Comic books. Counting change to buy a pack of baseball cards or play video games. No, I didn’t grow up in the 1950s. I grew up as a child, unrushed into adulthood.



Now, my summer starts in June and ends, seemingly, a week later. It’s
busy, hot, fast, indoors is freezing with AC, there’s some fun parties
and a few swims, and then suddenly the chill of Autumn hits and the
college kids are back and it’s over and I have to wait another year for
another summer and the chance that I’ll do it right.




So, this summer, I’ll take 40 years of tips and share those with you, if
only to remind myself to Carpe Diem the hell out of this summer.


1. Don’t drive.
If you have to drive, drive less. Get on a bus, bike to work (you can
put your bike on a bus, usually), walk if you can—try to move yourself
when you move. Take the stairs, instead of the elevator. Park a block or
two away from wherever you’re going. Do anything you can to get
yourself outside, with nothing over your head (no car roof) but the sky
and trees and sunshine.