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Spiralling Global Temperatures

This powerful visualisation of climate change by climatologist Ed Hawkins plots the global average temperature for every month since 1850. The farther from the center, the hotter the month.

Climate, Jobs, and Justice: A Plan for a Just Transition to a Climate-safe Economy

Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability
Americans have often been told that meeting climate targets is impossible without threatening jobs and costing a fortune. But the Climate, Jobs, and Justice Project shows that the opposite is true. The Clean Energy Future represents a pathway away from climate destruction that is far better for workers and consumers than our current economy based on fossil fuels.

Friday Nite Videos -- April 22, 2016

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Bernie from Brooklyn: A Conversation With Mark Ruffalo. Library Flashmob | 'Hallelujah'. Bernie Is Going All the Way. How To Help Every Child Fulfill Their Potential. Baba Brinkman | "Make It Hot".

Baba Brinkman | "Make It Hot"

A song from the forthcoming album "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos," exploring some of the dynamics that drive global warming and arguing for the urgent need to price carbon emissions. 

Earth Day 2016: Retrospect and Realism

H Patricia Hynes Portside
Capitalism wedded to delusional American manifest destiny–including our fatuous decades-long effort to control of the Middle East and recent militarized pivot to Asia–meets its limits in Nature. Either we heed those limits immediately and aggressively, or we face an ecocide from which not even those who own lifeboats will escape.

Bernie, Hillary, and Fractivism 2.0 in NY

Ari Phillips Fusion
Since NY has banned fracking, a lot of people are working to try and develop clean energy at the state, county, and local levels. These efforts together are known as “fractivism 2.0.” “They’re trying to prevent the country and the planet from digging their own graves by committing ourselves to another 50 or 100 years of burning fossil fuels.”

Friday Nite Videos -- March 11, 2016

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Warren: Senate GOP 'Paying the Price for Their Own Extremism.' Baba Brinkman | A Brief History of Rhyme. Voters for Trump. The Computer That Mastered Go. Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell | Till I Can Gain Control Again.
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