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| Amazon Watch invites you to join us and other indigenous activists and leaders for a life-changing sustainability and social change event.
The National Bioneers Conference is the original whole-systems forum of innovation and collaboration for social, cultural and environmental resilience. BioCon speakers have included Bill McKibben, Jane Goodall, Marina Silva, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Gloria Steinem and Paul Hawken, among many other luminaries. The conference also prides itself on introducing audiences to some of the most innovative voices yet to be discovered. This year, visionaries and change-makers – including Danny Glover, Tom Goldtooth, Annie Leonard and our very own Atossa Soltani – will propose, debate and initiate solutions to global bio-cultural and socio-ecological issues. BioCon talks and activities reflect the event’s theme of Turning Vision Into Action. It opens with Nalini Nadkarni, known as the “Queen of the Forest Canopy” for her extensive scientific studies of unique rainforest biology across four continents. Nalini will share what complex rainforest biodiversity can teach us about human dynamics. Atossa and I will join amazing women leaders and friends including Anna Lappé, Lynn Twist and Osprey Orielle Lake in panels at the conference entitled, Women as Democracy Builders and Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions. We are also honored to once again help facilitate the participation of indigenous partners from the Amazon who will share a Call from the Amazon and join indigenous allies in discussions in the acclaimed Bioneers Indigenous Forum, which features exciting workshops and discussions on major issues, struggles, and successes in Indian Country and in indigenous communities globally. Now in its 24th year, BioCon offers access to inspiring keynotes, provocative panels and workshops, and networking sessions with others who are committed to progressive action in restoring people and planet. Don’t miss it! I look forward to seeing you at the Conference! For our future,
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It’s about the climate
In the next few days, the U.S. Senate will vote to determine the fate of a pipeline that would link a vast tar sands deposit in Alberta, Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. The construction of the pipeline has been blocked once by President Obama, who refused to buckle to pressure from Congress and industry to cut short the environmental review. Unfortunately, they are at it again.
If approved and built, this pipeline, Keystone XL, would carry one of the most carbon-intensive sources of oil on the planet.
For the next 24 hours, The Climate Reality Project is joining with 350.org, MoveOn, League of Conservation Voters, Patagonia, Sierra Club, Energy Action Coalition and others to garner 500,000 signatures in a community-wide effort against the pipeline. Bill McKibben of 350.org will be on The Colbert Report tonight and will update the world on our progress — so sign 
now, and then pass it on. We’ve come together before to stop production of this dangerous pollutant — and with your help, we can do it again:
Join me in telling the U.S. Senate to say NO to one of the most carbon-intensive oils on the planet:
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/keystone
If you care about the climate, you have to care about stopping this dangerous pollutant and the pipeline that carries it. After extensive research, the EPA estimates that annual carbon pollution from the Keystone XL pipeline could be at least 82% higher than average crude refined in America — if not more.
What does that number really mean? That’s the same amount of pollution as adding 4.8 million cars to our roads: an additional 27 million metric tons of carbon pollution.
Instead of pouring money into the production of more dirty oil, we need to work with Canada to invest in clean energy and energy efficiency. Clean energy is already the fastest growing industry in the U.S. and one of the fastest growing industries around the world.
It doesn’t matter where you live, or if the pipeline crosses into your home state. An increase of carbon pollution anywhere leads to climate change everywhere.
I just returned from an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, where the temperature has risen by over 8 degrees in the last 60 years. And more than that, the glacial retreat caused by this temperature increase means sea level is rising and dangerous changes are happening around the globe. To put it simply: it means we are all living on thin ice.
Take a minute and sign this important petition and tell the Senate to say NO to Keystone XL:
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/keystone
Thanks,
Al Gore Founder and Chairman
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No tar sands oil in our backyards …Rainforest Action Network
What would you do if an oil company was planning to build a pipeline through your back yard?
For me, that question is a very real one. Four years ago, I discovered survey crews trespassing on my land East Texas, staking out a path for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
That’s where my journey to stop this pipeline began. Since then I’ve organized other landowners, lobbied lawmakers and petitioned banks to halt financing for Keystone XL, and now I’m hitting the road.
Follow the Stop The Pipeline Tour from August 20-September 3, as fellow landowners and I wind along the proposed pipeline route to share our story and the potential effects of Keystone XL. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S0MiVnDFmfgiNwQvKiH%2B13ZA%2B2vgGlYH
The Stop The Pipeline Tour will take us to meet with concerned citizens, debate TransCanada face-to-face, visit the Kalamazoo oil spill site, and educate the public before heading east to Washington D.C. for the massive Tar Sands Action with Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Klein, Clayton Thomas-Muller, students, scientists, climate activists and more.
We are standing up to defend our rights and oppose this dangerous pipeline. We want water that’s safe to drink, land that’s fit for our families, and a way of life free from the threats and harassment from corporate oil thugs.
Please stand with us! If you can’t join us in D.C., sign and share this petition telling President Obama to block the Keystone XL. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S0MiVnDFmfgiNwQvKiH%2B13ZA%2B2vgGlYH
Within the next four months, the U.S. State Department and President Obama will decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would pump nearly one million barrels of toxic tar sands oil per day through pristine rural landscape that I, and thousands more, call home.
Help us protect our home. The struggle we face is one that all of us must win, as oil and natural gas companies get more desperate for product by the day and turn their sites on the next unsuspecting community.
Sincerely
David Daniel
Stop Tarsands Tour
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Extreme Weather Got You Freaked Out? Tara Lohan, Senior Editor
I can’t believe the weather right now — the Midwest and East Coast are suffocating from the heat, while those in the Pacific Northwest are complaining about chilly temperatures and unseasonable rain (yes, there are some times of the year it doesn’t usually rain there). The Southwest is in the grips of a horrible drought, made worse by wildfires and dust storms, while parts of the Midwest and South are battling destructive floods.
As we’re increasingly seeing, extreme weather is the new normal and that’s one of the reasons AlterNet‘s newest book, Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource is so important. Our book assembles some of the best minds out there to break down what we are facing with a growing water crisis, and to connect the dots between climate change and our water woes. (You can buy the book here)
Beautiful photography and infographics, combined with essays from some of my favorite writers like Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Tina Rosenberg, Sandra Postel, Elizabeth Royte and Wenonah Hauter, illustrate the dangers we’re facing, but also tell us what we need to be doing right now to get this planet back on track. This is a crisis affecting the U.S. and the rest of the world — from the California Delta to the Niger Delta and from Midwest to the Middle East.
This issue is literally life or death for millions of people and for the planet we call home. I hope you’ll choose to fight to save our most critical resource by buying a copy of Water Matters for yourself or a friend. Leading commentator Jim Hightower put it in perspective: “About two-thirds of our bodies are H2O, so water doesn’t just matter to us — it literally is us. So why are we letting our corporate and governmental leaders treat this essential life-sustaining resource so carelessly? That’s the core question posed by this beautifully written and beautifully designed book. Water Matters will engage, enrage and inspire you. Read it — and take action.”
You can buy your copy of Water Matters here — enjoy it while you’re trying to beat the heat (or cold, or rain, or drought or …).
Tara Lohan
Senior Editor
Environment, Food, and Water
Environment, Food, and Water
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