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Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
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Planet on a Precipice – Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency ... See MoreSee Less

Planet on a Precipice – Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency
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Series Overview Scroll Down Mass extinction. Climate chaos. Ecological collapse. The future of life on earth is at stake. What are the roots of this emergency?What can be done? Calendar of Events Free...Extinction Rebellion Central Vermont
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Do you want to find out what makes Extinction Rebellion tick? This online presentation and discussion will give you a quick dive into our current climate and ecological emergency and Extinction Rebellion’s analysis of why society has failed to successfully address it. Then you’ll get background on Extinction Rebellion’s strategy for succeeding, based in part on past successful mass civil disobedience movements. You’ll find out all the ways you can get involved and be part of the action. ... See MoreSee Less

Heading for Extinction and What To Do About It — Extinction Rebellion NYC
www.xrebellion.nyc
Do you want to find out what makes Extinction Rebellion tick? This online presentation and discussion will give you a quick dive into our current climate and ecological emergency and Extinction Rebell...4 months ago
Do you want to find out what makes Extinction Rebellion tick? This online presentation and discussion will give you a quick dive into our current climate and ecological emergency and Extinction Rebellion’s analysis of why society has failed to successfully address it. Then you’ll get background on Extinction Rebellion’s strategy for succeeding, based in part on past successful mass civil disobedience movements. You’ll find out all the ways you can get involved and be part of the action. ... See MoreSee Less

Heading for Extinction and What To Do About It — Extinction Rebellion NYC
www.xrebellion.nyc
Do you want to find out what makes Extinction Rebellion tick? This online presentation and discussion will give you a quick dive into our current climate and ecological emergency and Extinction Rebell...Extinction Rebellion Central Vermont
4 months ago
If you’re interested in contributing more of your skills to XR, the first step is to join a Northeast New Members Orientation Call. The first of these hour-long calls will take place Thursday, September 10th at 7pm. The calls cover Extinction Rebellion's principles, demands, and structure. They are also the perfect opportunity to get answers to any questions you may have. After this call, you’ll have the opportunity to join a local group or get plugged in more directly with the Support Team. ... See MoreSee Less

Were Heading for Extinction... (And What to Do About It)
actionnetwork.org
Our Planet Is In Crisis (Warning: This Talk May Cause Existential Dread) We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and global heating is quickly getting out of control. Scientists say what’s...4 months ago
If you’re interested in contributing more of your skills to XR, the first step is to join a Northeast New Members Orientation Call. The first of these hour-long calls will take place Thursday, September 10th at 7pm. The calls cover Extinction Rebellion's principles, demands, and structure. They are also the perfect opportunity to get answers to any questions you may have. After this call, you’ll have the opportunity to join a local group or get plugged in more directly with the Support Team. ... See MoreSee Less

Were Heading for Extinction... (And What to Do About It)
actionnetwork.org
Our Planet Is In Crisis (Warning: This Talk May Cause Existential Dread) We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, and global heating is quickly getting out of control. Scientists say what’s...Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
5 months ago
The author is a South African feminist. Although she writes about the experiences and situations of women in Africa and other parts of the Global South, her points must be heeded by those of us in the Global North, as well, for the policies and practices of our government and corporations have led to this conjuncture of climate crisis and gender- based violence. ... See MoreSee Less

Climate breakdown 'intensifies gender-based violence’
theecologist.org
'We believe in including women in the creation of policies and strategies around environmental protection including disaster response.'Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
5 months ago
“In a letter Wednesday to the Commission on Presidential Debates, 70 lawmakers stressed that their constituents must hear from the candidates about how they plan to tackle “one of the most pressing and all-consuming issues currently facing our country.”
The demand comes on the heels of record-setting wildfires in California, an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season, and brutal August heat throughout much of the West. And a new survey of NASA satellite data shows that climate change has increased the volume of glacial lakes worldwide by about 50 percent since 1990.
Even a single question on climate change at the upcoming debates would be an improvement over 2016, when presidential debate moderators did not once bring up the rapidly worsening global crisis.” ... See MoreSee Less

House Democrats demand climate be ‘centerpiece’ of 2020 presidential debates
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In 2016, debate moderators did not ask a single question about the climate crisis. Dozens of lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
5 months ago
“Air conditioners and shaded outdoor spaces in New York City are in high demand this summer, after the pandemic closed most cooled public spaces in areas where many residents lack air conditioning at home, said Gita Nandan, the co-founder and board chair of the RETI Center. Nandan and other RETI Center staff were concerned that the pandemic could complicate the response to natural disasters like storm surges in Red Hook, when this summer's heat shifted their attention.
"We're always focused on floods and hurricanes," Nandan said. "But heat is maybe even more important to address because it's a constant and it's just going to keep happening every year." ... See MoreSee Less

Video: As Covid-19 Hinders City Efforts to Protect Residents From the Heat, Community Groups Step In
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In Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, volunteers in the “Cool Streets” program invent ways to throw shade on the ground and mist in the air to beat the heat.Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
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Not all economists believe that profit margins and stock indexes are more important than planetary health. ... See MoreSee Less

Pandemics: prevention before cure
thenextrecession.wordpress.com
There is now firm evidence of a strong link between environmental destruction and the increased emergence of deadly new diseases such as Covid-19. Indeed, increasing numbers of deadly new pandemic…Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
5 months ago
Home | Regeneration Corps ... See MoreSee Less

www.regenerationcorps.org
Regeneration Corps is a learning collaboration between high school-aged students in Vermont and leading organizations in resilience and agriculture.5 months ago
It’s time for VT media outlets to start telling the truth: our planet is in crisis and we are running out of time to act. ... See MoreSee Less
Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
5 months ago
“Native nations continue to live at the forefront and frontlines of fossil fuel and extractive projects, impacting our livelihoods, well-being, health, cultural and spiritual survival. Targeting Native nations with carbon pricing projects that would disproportionately increase wealth and accumulation for the largest petroleum and mineral polluters at the expense of Native lives is unforgivable and horrifying.
Carbon pricing mechanisms are false solutions with little oversight. In addition, these mechanisms do not cut emissions at source and offer no material impact that would effectively address climate change. Carbon pricing has a simple goal: to make it cheaper for governments and companies to meet emission reduction targets. However, this system is designed in such a way that the targets can be reached without actual emissions reductions taking place.” ... See MoreSee Less

A Message to Senate Democrats: Tribal Lands Are Not Carbon Dumping Grounds
www.commondreams.org
Targeting Native nations with carbon pricing projects that would disproportionately increase wealth and accumulation for the largest petroleum and mineral polluters at the expense of Native lives is u...Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
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“According to the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), Hoboken is the 20th community to take fossil fuel giants to court to "recover billions of dollars in damages caused by the oil and gas industry's deception about climate change."
Richard Wiles, executive director of CCI, said in a statement that "with climate costs surging everywhere and local budgets depleted, more and more communities are turning to the courts as their only recourse to make polluters pay for their fair share of the wreckage they knew their products would cause." ... See MoreSee Less

City of Hoboken Files Climate Suit Against Big Oil: Exxon, Shell, More
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Wiles continued:Exxon and their co-conspirators can't run from this growing wave of climate lawsuits. Thanks to Hoboken, for the first time, Exxon will have to defend its shameful record of climate da...Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
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“COVID-19 has laid bare the human costs of racial and environmental injustice. Regardless of wealth, communities of color, and especially Black communities, are more exposed to air pollution than white communities — which creates conditions that increase the likelihood of complications and death from COVID-19. It is no surprise that the virus hit the Bronx the hardest; we have higher rates of childhood asthma and complications than anywhere in the country.
To fight COVID effectively, we need to address sacrifice zones. That means building a regenerative economy that values life in all of its forms. Otherwise, we will continue to see the sanctioning of Black death and suffering.” ... See MoreSee Less

Too many Americans live in ‘sacrifice zones.’ Let’s fix that.
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It’s no secret frontline communities face compounding crises. We must — and can — take bold action to provide healthy environments for all.5 months ago
XRVT was in attendance tonight at this powerful and inspirational protest against police brutality. Fire those cops! ... See MoreSee Less
That's some serious 5G
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We are sorry to cancel the rally at the Burlington Free Press so late. We will reschedule another Tell The Truth action soon. ... See MoreSee Less
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It has been announced that tonight’s march will occur from the university green at UVM and not from Battery Park. We hope to see you there! ... See MoreSee Less
Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
5 months ago
“The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recently released a Permian Basin-wide study on the emissions of methane and other volatile organic compounds. The study found methane releases across the Permian at a rate three times that which was reported nationally by the Environmental Protection Agency. Furthermore, the EDF found a leak rate 15 times higher than the goal set by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, a group of 10 oil and gas CEOs representing one quarter of the industry’s entire global production. The group committed to investing in projects that will accelerate commercial deployment of low-carbon energy technologies. The amount of wasted gas alone could meet the energy needs of every home in Dallas and Houston combined, and the EDF estimates these methane emissions cost New Mexican taxpayers as much as $43 million in revenue, annually.
It is against that backdrop that a Harvard nationwide study recently revealed a link between air pollution and higher rates of COVID-19 deaths. “The results of this paper suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution increases vulnerability to experiencing the most severe Covid-19 outcomes,” the authors wrote.” ... See MoreSee Less

Fracking Company Has Made It Rain Toxic Water Upon New Mexico Without Penalty
truthout.org
Is New Mexico's state government aiding and abetting fracking companies' damage to humans and the environment?Extinction Rebellion Southern Vermont
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“As of August 10, the public now owns $15 million in bonds of dirty energy firm Marathon Petroleum. (You can see all the Fed’s bond purchases in the SMCCF in the spreadsheets they post online.) Marathon is the largest U.S. oil refining company with 16 refineries nationwide, including one in Detroit, Michigan. The company’s Detroit refinery, which sits in the majority-Black Boynton and Oakwood Heights neighborhoods, has violated Michigan state emissions limits 15 times since 2013. Those who live near the refinery have faced large, fiery flares in October 2018 and vomiting or labored breathing in February 2019 due to the rupture of a propane line and malfunction of its gas flare. After a toxic chemical leak from the refinery in September 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) said that Marathon “cannot be trusted to protect our health,” and held a congressional field hearing to highlight the problems.” ... See MoreSee Less

The Fed Invested Public Money in Fossil Fuel Firms Driving Environmental Racism
truthout.org
The Federal Reserve should not be propping up a dying industry with a track record of harming communities of color.5 months ago
The scary fact about tipping points is you often only know where they are after you have crossed them. This study, published a couple weeks ago, suggests that the tipping point for the Greenland ice sheet was crossed 20 years ago, and it’s melting is now inevitable. This will ultimately result in 24 feet of sea level rise.
In 20 years, what tipping points will we find were being crossed right now? The tipping point that results in the destruction of the amazon rainforest? The tipping point that results in the complete melting of arctic sea ice? The tipping point that results in the collapse of much of the Antarctic ice shelves? ... See MoreSee Less

Greenland ice sheet reached tipping point 20 years ago, new study finds
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At the turn of the 21st century, unbeknownst to the world, the Greenland ice sheet likely entered a state of sustained mass loss that will persist for the foreseeable future, according to a new study....5 months ago
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Here is Burlington Free Press's story on the heat records that were broken this summer (more than one record was broken). Somehow, there is no mention of climate change at all, not even a cursory mention. www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2020/09/02/national-weather-service-names-summer-2020-as-b...
Extinction rebellion Vermont posts stupid Memes. I’m out
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The climate and ecological emergency is rapidly destroying life, causing a planet-wide collapse of ecosystems. Social collapse will follow as economies crumble.
The crisis is the most seminal story in human history and must be a top news story every day. Burlington Free Press, VTDigger, Seven Days, Vermont Public Radio, and other Vermont news outlets must #TellTheTruth about the climate and ecological crisis. They can start by covering the emergency with the urgency the crisis demands, including daily, front-page headlines and segments on every news show.
They are doing it with Covid-19, so why not with a crisis that will dwarf the terrible impacts of the pandemic? ... See MoreSee Less
Front page, every day! I’ll be going to the Tell the Truth protest in Burlington this Friday at the Burlington Free Press (100 Bank Street) at 5pm. It should be a great action. Please join us! facebook.com/events/s/tell-the-truth-rally-at-the-bu/776084326470240/?ti=icl
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Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington and The Black Perspective led protest in Battery Park. What a wonderful and powerful example of non-violent direct action! Follow their pages for more information and join in the daily marches from Battery Park at 6:30pm.
For those that think the tactics being employed are somehow inappropriate, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. are worth reading, and reflecting on.
“You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.”
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
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16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to a...5 months ago
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Image credit: The fantastic Meteorologist Haley Bouley
Yeah, I met a farmer who moved up to VT from the deep south. She says that summers dont feel any different than the deep south nowadays.
ps the arctic ice is melting
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omg! where is this tree? intriguing... did you take the photo? don't see another credit.
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Did you know the arctic is burning at an unprecedented rate this year? Join us Friday at 5pm outside of the Burlington Free Press for a rally and march to ask VT Media outlets to begin telling the truth about the climate crisis and the urgent need for rapid and unprecedented systemic change. This is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced, and we are running out of time.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/arctic-wildfires-emit-35-more-co2-so-far-in-2020-than-for-w... ... See MoreSee Less

Arctic wildfires emit 35% more CO2 so far in 2020 than for whole of 2019
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About 205 megatonnes emitted in June and July alone as Siberia hit by heatwaveExtinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
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The solutions we need to the climate crisis might just be right under our feet.... ... See MoreSee Less
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This is a great meteorologist to follow for reporting on the weather and explaining its connection to climate change. Here is the latest on hurricane Laura.What I don't want to see...lightning in the eyewall. It means there are very powerful vertical motions at work and therefore the storm is still trying to intensify. Winds in the storm are currently near 150 mph. ... See MoreSee Less
Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
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Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
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CALL FOR A JUST TRANSITION
(long read)
From where I stand as a small farmer, I believe the time is now to press for reform of Vermont's agricultural economy. The need for a resilient local food economy has suddenly become tangible to a wide swathe of citizens.
The current crises we face, the rogue wave of pandemic and the tsunami of abrupt climate change, present us with a watershed moment to put the welfare of the biosphere front and center of all policy change and stimulus spending.
We recognize that the roots of all social injustice are bound up with the exploitation of land water and air. The colonial-capitalist system that historically and currently inflicts so much cruelty upon indigenous people and people of color is the same system that exploits and degrades the natural world. Reparations to one without the other will be meaningless.
We occupy indigenous lands. We recognize this history and reality with all its tragic implications for both the Abenaki people, the wildlife, and the ecosystems of our region. We aim to make reparations. The indigenous people of this bio-region should have land held by the government returned to them. We seek the guidance of indigenous leaders as we seek to find new pathways toward an ecological civilization. We commit to using current technology and practices in alignment with an agro-ecological ethic that respects ancient ways.
Corn squash and beans are making a comeback.
Acknowledgment is a great first step, but once we have done that we need to commit to healing.
The mindset that legalized the enslavement of African people was the same one by which European settlers justified commodifying nature. Where we stand was once an old growth forest that was more ten-thousand years old at the time it was felled by the settler’s axe. The settlers of New England burned down old growth forests and sold the ash back to Europe to fertilize their depleted soils.
We need truth and reconciliation with this land. We need to declare a moratorium on development. From here on “progress” should be measured by “reclamation.”
In 1972, under pressure from a burgeoning environmental movement, the Nixon administration passed the Clean Air and Clean Water Protection Acts. Until we pass a Healthy Soils Regeneration Act, we cannot have clean air and water---it is not possible without healthy soil. Ownership or leasehold or any other form of legal land tenure can no longer mean free license to degrade soils and disrupt ecosystem functions. Biocide and ecocide must be declared illegal.
Conversely, land stewards of forests and farmlands who can demonstrably improve soil and restore landscape functions should be rewarded with tax incentives and price supports.
These are just a few ideas of how to bring about a just transition. We protect what we love.
How can we who share a vision of habitat restoration mobilize this movement to make sweeping changes?
Regenerative land management offers us real solutions to restore biodiversity and mitigate abrupt climate change. How do we form a coalition to get across the message that restoring landscape functions is our last best hope?
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And let’s remember that the commons is an ancient approach based on a widely-shared worldview. Traditional farmers and indigenous communities around the world still retain vestiges of this form of societal organization. Many are struggling to reclaim it. Colonial and capitalist systems are antithetical to this approach and have compromised or obliterated communal land holdings wherever and whenever the two cultural approaches have collided.
Enslaved people were forbidden to grow their own food.
The food sources of indigenous people were purposefully destroyed.
It is time for all human communities to reclaim food sovereignty!
Ever since the process of Enclosure began in Great Britain in the 13th century the war on the commons worldwide has only grown in intensity. Corporate personhood is the culmination of enclosure. It is the total destruction of the commons. The current global civilization has become a death camp for nature. Neo-liberal Capitalism depends on the annihilation of nature. The GNP is a measure of destruction. Exponential growth is a form of mass insanity and collective suicide.
Under current law nature has no rights. It is time for us to recognize the right of nature to exist. Under natural law everything that lives has a right to live.
We recognize that the current political maps by which we organize civil society are arbitrary lines imposed on the landscape by land grants from colonial governments decreed hundreds of years ago and do not represent natural systems. We need to re-think the way we perceive landscape. Begin to read it by shape and inherent design rather than by imposed line. We need to learn again how to enhance landscape functions. We need to open ourselves to the natural intelligence of the land. Understand where and when it is best to simply step out of the way.
Each one of us and all of us collectively, in a subtle form of mutual aid, must begin the process of de-colonization of our minds, hearts, and bodies---right down to the cellular level---oppressor and oppressed. We are all traumatized by the singular fact of being born into a world already ravaged and damaged by forty generations of civilized humans. Some of us enjoy rights and privileges based on the color of our skin while others are exploited for their labor and face road blocks at every turn. There are historical wrongs in need of reparation that were perpetrated against both people and the land.
We are molded in a society propped up by the destruction of the natural world. We are expected to take it as normal that that forests be cut, wetlands drained, and grasslands plowed down to feed the needs of human expansion. We all bear responsibility for habitat loss. We all stand on ground that was violently taken from the original inhabitants. This same earth still upholds each one of us. We have an opportunity to become the healer.
We are living perhaps the most critical moments in all of human history. The very survival of our species is hanging in the balance---depending on what we as a global civilization decide. The climate scientists are telling us that we have about a two year window to halt emissions and begin drawdown if we are to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of abrupt climate change.
If we are to solve the climate and ecological crisis we will have to cooperate and legislate at an international level. Ultimately nation states will become meaningless. Giving way to cooperating Bio-Regions. A world government that works justly for all humans and all species will be comprised of democratically elected representatives from fully autonomous sovereign regional governments overseeing bioregions. If humans can evolve to become a successful keystone species it will be because we will go on to create a planetary regenerative culture rooted in ecological enlightenment.
In the world we will co-evolve together ecocide and biocide will be abolished under planetary law!
Every person will have access to a base universal income, land, clean water, education and healthcare.
We know what we stand against. And while we engage in creative non-violent resistance---let us not forget to take time together to envision the world we want to see. Not the world we think is possible---but the world we most want to see with our deepest longings. To not be afraid to speak our childish dreams. To unleash the pure light energy of our imaginations.
A bioregional eco-socialist organization of society will allow us to reclaim the commons for all humanity and for all creation. Bioregions defined by watersheds will recognize their interdependence yet be decentralized and autonomous. Right of use replaces private property. Mutual aid replaces alienated greed. Individuals and families still retain personal property but these are articles and goods not land and water and air and all that lives and breathes upon them and within them.
Imagine a future world in which one half of all land is designated as wildlands in perpetuity. Managed by humans as food forests and fields to promote maximum biodiversity.
Wildlife corridors are established to prevent habitat fragmentation.
The privatization of nature is abolished.
We will no longer speak of ourselves as consumers. We will become ecologically enlightened producers. This is a transformation that occurs not only in the mind but from engaging completely with a particular place. The story lines in the landscape become written in your DNA. The soil biome is mirrored in your gut.
I am a small farmer and this is what I am just beginning to understand after thirty-five years of practicing the craft:
Restoration of the Soil Carbon Sponge is the most effective tool we have at our disposal to mitigate global heating. Not only does healthy soil sequester carbon it also holds water. When soils are degraded or destroyed the water goes into the air as water vapor and adds still more heat to the greenhouse effect. Restoration of soil in every habitat from forest to rangeland to desert will restore the planet’s natural hydrologic cycles and naturally cool the environment. Passing over healthy soils there are abundant clouds. We have always assumed that the forest needs rain but now we understand that rain needs forests.
Right rain requires healthy soils.
People who take care of land. Serve land as faithful caretakers. Who know when to step out of the way and let nature heal herself---these are the real revolutionaries.
Show me the healer and I will show you the real revolutionary.
Now is the time when we all must become those good caretakers. Every one of us needs to become engaged land managers. We all need to become earth healers. This is the most important direct action we can undertake. It’s going to take every one of us working together to break free from the chains of the predatory capitalist system and to free all the other species from the certain death sentence of an unchecked industrial growth society. Our direct action. This rebellion for LIFE. Compels us to demand an immediate transition to an ecological civilization.
We hunger to live in right relation with the planet. We are her children. And we are her eyes and ears, hearts and hands, awakening to our senses.
The time is now.
We are in a climate crisis. We make these four demands of our elected representatives:
1) Local, state, and federal governments declare climate and ecological emergency!
2) Halt biodiversity loss and go carbon neutral by 2025
3) Create people’s assemblies to oversee a just transition in every sector
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Pic is of Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm
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Regenerative land management can cool the planet, restore biodiversity, and save humanity…but for any of that to happen we need to understand that soil is the matrix of life and as such is the very essence of the “commons”. Let’s provide farmers with the training and incentives they need to transition to regenerative practices. We must not only reward farmers for ecological services, such as growing nutrient-dense food, providing cleaner air and water, and sequestering carbon---Land managers who are capable of growing topsoil while providing food, medicine, fuel, & fiber must be justly compensated in the same way that civil society supports all other essential infrastructure and basic service providers.
The Novel Corona Virus is telling us many things. One clear message is that this global pandemic has the same root causes as abrupt climate change. We have created this situation through land degradation & loss of habitat. The predictable tragic outcomes of an unfettered capitalism that commodifies nature and externalizes environmental costs
On the other side of all this death and suffering---collapse of the global economy----we have before us a watershed moment for change on an unprecedented scale. We all have feet on the ground. This is the place to begin. Just as in the Great Depression---government will act to save our economy. We must be ready to lift our collective voices to ensure that change comes in the form of a Green New Deal---which recognizes habitat restoration as the basis of true societal wealth.
People’s Assembly
Come join in a People's Assembly on a Just Transition in Agriculture to be held on the lawn of the People's House in Montpelier on September 1st 2020 from 11am to 1pm.
Main event is an assembly to discuss a just transition to a resilient, sovereign, re-localized food economy in our region---with the aim to draft a proclamation to present to our elected representatives for immediate deliberation.
Participants are encouraged to express their views using any form of communication they are most fluent in, including but not limited to:
Speech, dance, music, art, poetry.
Physical distancing and mask wearing.
Coalition building!
Bring your own beverages, foods and blanket to sit on.
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Conservation Corps
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As a society we must recognize soil as basic infrastructure. This means agriculture should not be operating in a purely unfettered capitalist system. New deal elements such as debt forgiveness, price parity and supply management must be built in---along with other means of insuring basic livable incomes for farmers and farm workers so they can operate farms to maximize ecological services and local food production without having to compete within globalism and against the corporations that would like to see all small farms disappear.
This would mean a progressive tax system to make nutrient dense local food affordable for low income people whilst paying farmer a living wage and revamping the land grant universities to train a new generation of regenerative farmers and field agents. Replace the soil conservation corps with a soil regeneration corps! Put young people to work planting trees and restoring habitat---and not just in farm country but re-greening urban landscapes, too.
We know that agri-bizz is heavily subsidized---big oil, big pharma, transportation---all these lobbying groups make sure that it is so. Small farmers have proven they can compete even with the odds stacked against us---now is the time to turn the tables.
Healthy soil can sequester 3-10 tons of carbon per acre. It is estimated that if all 8.3 billion acres of rangeland and 3.8 billion acres of cropland on the planet were converted to regenerative land management we could sequester enough carbon to bring CO2 in the atmosphere back down to 350/ppm in just 5 years!
And to top that off, the benefits of regenerative agriculture go far beyond carbon sequestration. At 90%-----Water vapor is the most prevalent greenhouse gas. CO2 is a mere 0.04%. One gram of soil carbon can hold 8 grams of water. We can restore the hydrologic cycle. Restore the small rain cycles. Cool the planet one micro-climate at a time. Mitigating both flood and drought, while extending plant longevity.
Right now health care is listed as the most important issue to people in our region.
Why are we getting sick? What is the best health care?
We are getting sick from the contamination and degradation of our habitat. The best health care is reparation of our environment. All life on terrestrial earth this begins with soil.
XRUV General Assembly: 8/13 qt 5pm in Lyman Park, WRJ
People's Assembly for a Just transition in Agriculture: 9/1 at 11am on the VT statehouse lawn (see note below)
Come join in a People's Assembly on a Just Transition in Agriculture to be held on the lawn of the People's House in Montpelier on September 1st 2020 from 11am to 1pm.
Main event is an assembly to discuss a just transition to a resilient, sovereign, re-localized food economy in our region---with the aim to draft policy directives to present to our elected representatives for immediate deliberation.
Physical distancing and mask wearing.
Coalition building!
Bring your own musical instruments, beverages and foods.
Bring something you have produced on your land to add to a collective display---food, fiber, medicine, etc.
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Big Beef: You May Not Recognize the Name. But This Bad Actor’s Meat Is Sold Everywhere—Except by Your Local Grass-Fed Farmer or Rancher. ... See MoreSee Less

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You’ve never seen this company’s name on a package of ground beef or steak. That’s because the world’s largest beef producer, JBS, doesn’t sell beef under its own name. But U.S. consumers bu...Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
5 months ago
Timeline Photos9 de Agosto Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas "Pandemia, derechos y pueblos indígenas" escrito por Jesus González Pasos de Mugarik Gabe, clacpi.org/2020/08/04/pandemia-derechos-y-pueblos-indigenas/ "
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples "Pandemic, Rights, and Indigenous Peoples " by Jesus González Pasos de Mugarik Gabe.
#WeAreStillHere
#LivingPeoples
#IndigenousRising
#IndigenousPeoples
#PueblosOriginarios
@clacpi
Crédito del Arte: elijodignidad.org ... See MoreSee Less
Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
6 months ago
Time for a Just Transition in Agriculture
The time is now to press for reform of our regions agricultural economy. The need for a resilient local food economy has suddenly become tangible to a wide swathe of citizens.
The VT Green Mountain New Deal and the Federal Green New Deal need to place at least as much emphasis on incentivizing regenerative land management practices as they do on conversion to renewables. Emphasis should be placed on retooling farms to a human-scale geared towards local production. We can restore health to people, land and climate by working to support and regenerate basic landscape functions. Technological solutions alone won't save us---we must repair our relationship with the biosphere.
We need research and development focused in the applied sciences of regenerative biomimicry.
The current crises we face, the rogue wave of pandemic and the tsunami of abrupt climate change, present us with a watershed moment to put the welfare of the biosphere front and center of all policy change.
To transform our society we need to grow out these three branches:
-Education
-Small Farm Promotion
-Just Transition for Dairy Farmers and farm workers
How can we reach out to farmers, loggers, ranchers and private land owners to engage with these issues?
Can social democratic reforms build upon the original New Deal to bring about a more just and compassionate society? Can we awaken ecological literacy among our general populace? We need full citizen participation to repair and reinvent our relationship with earth.
Is non-violent civil disobedience an effective tool to leverage government, industry & financial institutions?
What about boycotts?
On thing is clear---sustainability no longer cuts it. We have so damaged our environment that we must embrace regenerative practices to repair it.
What are the catalysts to bring about a change of hearts and minds that will allow regenerative culture to become embedded in policy? How do we as a society embrace an ethic of habitat repair?
Our only hope for survival lies in understanding the fundamental role healthy soils plays in supporting all of life. This is why land managers who are capable of growing healthy soils as they produce food, medicine, fuel, fiber, building materials, etc., must be rewarded with a living wage and benefits by society at large. Collectively, we need new agreements that recognize soil as the fundamental infra-structure---the essence of the "commons". The wanton destruction of soil can no longer be a "right" of land owners or corporations.
Conventional and traditional organic farmers, ranchers and foresters need access to training, tools and incentives to transition to regenerative practices. Farm workers and migrant laborers should be guaranteed full equal rights and justice under the law. Climate refugees who want to farm should be given access to land, tools and markets.
A re-localized agriculture will require human labor. Many more citizens should have the opportunity to enjoy meaningful employ on regenerative farms in every city, town and village of the state. Young people should have access to training and grants to start up small farm businesses in a revitalized agricultural economy. Society must guarantee that regenerative farmers receive a living wage---this is key to restoring biodiversity and stability to our climate.
It is time to explicitly link "a just transition in agriculture" to racial injustice, social inequity, loss of biodiversity, abrupt climate change.
One way to achieve these ends is to press our elected representatives to pass a Healthy Soil Protection and Restoration)Act. This legislation could be embedded in a wider green stimulus bill or green new deal---or stand on its own.
The path to healthy soil is a revolution.
Such an act could include:
-Reparations to those historically disenfranchised from their land
-Incentives for land owners to adopt regenerative land management practices
-Establishment of "new commons" (through partnership between government, NGO's and land owners) to grant access to farm land to climate refugees, young and new farmers, people of color, women farmers
-Research and development on biomimicry
-Field agents trained in regenerative land management
-youth soil regeneration corps for habitat restoration.
Hope to see you at "The People's Assembly for a Just Transition in Agriculture"---September 1st, 11am on the Vermont Statehouse Lawn ... See MoreSee Less
Not ranchers. AUHM (animals under Human management) Is a known cause of the putrefaction of the soil and air. Truck farming, yes, but ranching, absolutely not. 350 used to promote biomass, but now they are against it. So to AUHM will go the way of burning nation-wide species' forests. "Truck farming, horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. It is usually less intensive and diversified than market gardening. At first, this type of farming depended entirely on local or regional markets." Vegan is of this type. BTW, all that corn, as far as the eye can see, is not necessary, it is not for people, and should not be included in the idea of truck farming. --- from the deep woods of the Species' Forest, Conway, MA (Dick Stafaurky, Brattleboro, VT) speciesforest.blogspot.com/2020/04/vroc-because-there-is-no-planet-b.html
Extinction Rebellion Upper Valley - A Bioregional XR
6 months ago
Hello friends & neighbors,
This is a call for an XRUV General Assembly.
It's been a long time!
I propose that all who safely can, meet at Lyman Park in WRJ from 5 to 6:15pm on Thursday, August 13th.
(physical distancing and masks)
How does the climate justice movement continue in the time of Covid?
I would like to add to the agenda:
-Holding a "People's Assembly on a Just Transition in Agriculture".
-Advocating for our elected representatives to pass a Healthy Soils Protection (and restoration) Act.
Stand up for life!
Health & Peace
Stephen Leslie ... See MoreSee Less
Extinction Rebellion Central Vermont
8 months ago
ANNOUNCEMENT! Uprise Youth Action Camp has the green light from the State of Vermont to hold camp! We're going for it! Sign up HERE -> forms.gle/dw5USfjAdLT7ee7p6
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11 months ago
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Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe ... See MoreSee Less

Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe
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Evidence shows a link between the presence of resource extraction workers who live in temporary 'man camps' and violence against Indigenous women and girls.Extinction Rebellion Central Vermont
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Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience ... See MoreSee Less

Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
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The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.Extinction Rebellion Central Vermont
11 months ago
Photos taken 9 days apart from each other. Pressure must be kept on the globe’s largest polluters— fossil fuel companies and the defense industrial complex. ... See MoreSee Less

'Antarctica Melts,' NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm Spell
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Taken just nine days apart, two images illustrate the impact a recent warm period had on the Antarctic Peninsula. NASA says such warmth "has become more common in recent years."