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Climate Change Forum on Sunday Jan 9

1:30 pm on zoomChange in schedule for the holidays The January Climate Change Forum, will be on the second Sunday this month, Jan. 9th, at 1:30 on zoom.We’ll be sharing the video of a panel examining the global, policy and community aspects of a just transition, from the global climate refugee crisis, through strategies to implement energy democracy in the US. and how we can develop community solar projects here in Arkansas. Shelley Buonaiuto, Dr. Joanna Person-Michenor and Dr. Paulette Meikle presenting. Zoom link here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88399823627


HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN?  A Timeline 1926-2000.

HOW COULD WE HAVE KNOWN?  A Timeline 1926-2000. Compiled by Dick Bennett, revised New Year’s Eve 2021. https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/2151229136087998997 A CHRONOLOGICAL SAMPLE OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, FILMS, EVENTS REVEALING THE LONG, OBSTRUCTED LEARNING CURVE OF GLOBAL WARMING ANTICIPATING THE PRESENT URGENCY OF GLOBAL CHANGE BECOMING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE/EMERGENCY/CHAOS:  FROM 1926 TO 2000.   The expanded Timeline years 2000 to present will appear soon.  (Years in 18 point type; texts in 12.  Roughly, Green indicates advancing knowledge of the reality of climate change, of ensuing climate calamity, emergency, and chaos, and of resisters.  Red indicates villains and villainy defending the status quo by corporations, denial, […]


Climate Memo Mondays, #55, December 27, 2021

Climate Memo Mondays, #55, December 27, 2021: Planetary Catastrophe, Resistance in BostonContentsAlfred McCoy, Global Warming, and Twenty-First Century Catastrophe.Militaries are huge contributors to climate collapse.But Boston’s Green New Deal: mitigation, adaptation, resilience. Fifty CCMs Linkhttp://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-memo-mondays-first-50.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/twenty-first-century-catastrophe-or.html Alfred McCoy.  To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.  Haymarket, 2021.  Comment by Dick Bennett, 12-26-21.       This is probably the first geopolitical history of the world oriented beginning and ending by the climate catastrophe, written to answer the question, where is the US now in this history of conquest and ruin?      The history begins with a Chronology of World Orders, […]


What’s the Buzz About? A Wild Bee Workshop

Saturday Dec 18 – 2:00 pm – Omni CenterJoin Facebook Live event here tomorrow at 2:00 pm.Livestream the Bees!At this workshop Entomology PhD student and wild bee researcher Olivia Kline will give a presentation on the importance of native bees to the local ecology and agriculture. Olivia will give an overview of the results of her research into the surprising variety of wild bees and their critical role as pollinators. She will discuss ways to promote bee populations through native plants and habitat. We will also look at simple ways to build a wild bee house for your yard.   We’re limiting […]


52. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #52, December 15, 2021

–52.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #52, December 15, 2021   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-52-december.htmlWho Is Destroying Peace? Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings about Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Taiwan, China Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.     Read more… Goading China to Go to War Dr. Chandra Muzaffar […]


OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021

OMNI UN COP26 Glasgow Followup #2, 11-17/12-4, 2021 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-un-cop26-glasgow-followup-2-11.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS I reported all I received after 11-17, leaving blank the days my sources did not report on COP26. 11-19Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Guterres’ dark appraisal of COP 26 (“the      army of corporate executives and lobbyists”), COP 27 UNA/USA  Keyon Rostamnezhad, UNA/USA Today  UNA CALL TO TAKE ACTION  Read IPCC Report 11-20Baraka, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance.org: COP26 Northern Colonial Capitalist Greenwashing. 11-24Prashad and Alexandra, Two gains at COP26: next COP in 2022 and 1.5     degrees Celcius kept alive.Harris, Climate […]