A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ
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From email.. About Fairfield, Iowa..
..I didn't know all that was going on in Fairfield, Iowa, until I heard your
mayor speak at Simpson College recently. I am really impressed.
“Building and Sustaining a Vibrant Community”
In Fairfield, Iowa, The three goals were to create a sustainability culture,
green jobs, and sustainable community design. You can find the Fairfield
Go-Green 2020 Strategic Plan here.
http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307
..the city fathers in this liberal southeastern Iowa outpost
http://www.fairfieldiowa.com/ unanimously adopted a Green Strategic Plan. Their
vote was more than ceremonial: they also secured a state-funded grant to hire a
sustainability coordinator, inventory their greenhouse gases, and create
educational materials for residents. The new plan envisions everything from
conserving energy to supporting local farms. Malloy, who’s been mayor since
2001 and heads up a local oil company, says the environment-economy connection
is clear. He hopes Fairfield’s ideas will catch on
http://radishmagazine.com/stories/display.cgi?prcss=display&id=420248: “We want
to create a model community, a virtual template that other small towns can
adopt to create the same results.”
http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307
http://cityoffairfieldiowa.com/DocumentCenter/View/1307
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An Awesome climate site, Climate Reanalyzer..
https://climatereanalyzer.org/ https://climatereanalyzer.org/
Survival Diet Is Better For the Planet.. people should eat less than 1 ounce
of red meat a day and limit poultry and milk, too.
Here's the environmental argument: Agriculture is responsible for up to 30
percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, and much of the emissions come
from red meat production.
A lot of land and water
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/22/525113726/chew-on-this-for-earth-day-how-our-diets-impact-the-planet
are needed to grow the grains to feed the livestock. (About one-third of all
the grain http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS produced globally is used as
animal feed.)
And, as the World Resources Institute estimates
https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/10/we-cant-limit-global-warming-15c-without-changing-diets,
producing beef uses 20 times the land and emits 20 times the emissions as
producing beans, per gram of protein. By one estimate, if people in the U.S.
switched from beef to beans
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-017-1969-1, this alone could
get the U.S. more than halfway to the greenhouse gas reductions goals..
"Many environmental systems and processes are pushed beyond safe boundaries by
food production," concludes the new EAT-Lancet Commission report
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31788-4/fulltext?utm_campaign=tleat19&utm_source=hub_page.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/27/688765872/this-diet-is-better-for-the-planet-but-is-it-better-for-you-too
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..The Green New Deal..
The bill calls for a "10-year national mobilizations" toward accomplishing a
series of goals that the resolution lays out.
Among the most prominent, the deal calls for "meeting 100 percent of the power
demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy
sources." The ultimate goal is to stop using fossil fuels entirely, as well as
to transition away from nuclear energy.
In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by
Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon
emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to
agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.
In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals
while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority
communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic
transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.
"upgrading all existing buildings" in the country for energy efficiency;
working with farmers "to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions...
as much as is technologically feasible" (while supporting family farms and
promoting "universal access to healthy food");
"Overhauling transportation systems" to reduce emissions — including expanding
electric car manufacturing, building "charging stations everywhere," and
expanding high-speed rail to "a scale where air travel stops becoming
necessary";
A guaranteed job "with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical
leave, paid vacations and retirement security" for every American;
"High-quality health care" for all Americans.
Which is to say
