Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-191-august-12.html
UNITED NATIONS: UNESCO Green Citizens.
Norman Cousins. Human Options. Support the UN for World Peace.
Jill Stein for the Green New Deal
United Nations Green Citizens
A global voice for local actors of change: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.
UNESCO Green Citizens is the bridge between UNESCO’s scientific expertise, local citizen solutions and young people’s willingness to act against climate change.
UNESCO has identified over 150 local initiatives across 65 countries which are citizen driven, innovative, impactful, and replicable solutions across five key themes for the fight against global warming and to preserve the environment: Biodiversity, Ocean, Education for Sustainable Development, Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Hydrology, and Sustainable Tourism.
Discover the changes UNESCO Green Citizens are operating on the ground, get inspired and join them. Discover people like you! #UNESCOGreenCitizens
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UN AFFIRMATION OF WORLD PEACE against THE CLIMATE THREAT: NORMAN COUSINS’ HUMAN OPTIONS.
“…let us make the United Nations into a shelter broad enough and deep enough to sustain an enforced peace under law” (79). “The United Nations should not be the last thing that statesmen think of when the peace is threatened but the first” (82).
Jill Stein for President Supports the Green New Deal
[I promote 1) the Green New Deal with its dual foundation: a national mobilization to stop FF/Warming and to transition to sustainables equitably, and 2) ending US wars to pay for them. –Dick] Fri, Feb 16
JILL STEIN AND GREEN PARTY IN HAWAII
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Jill Stein is calling on the federal government to provide the resources needed for a full recovery for Lahaina, Hawai’i, where six months after one of the deadliest fires in US history, thousands of survivors need housing and suffer from serious health problems.
It’s time for a Green New Deal for Lahaina to provide housing for all, address the health and ecological problems caused by the fire, and rebuild the community in a just and sustainable way. Full and rapid recovery are beyond the resources that local and state governments can mobilize. Instead of spending hundreds of billions fueling endless destructive wars around the world, the federal government should take responsibility to help people here at home whose communities have been devastated by natural disasters, like Lahaina.
A federally-funded Green New Deal for Lahaina would rebuild it based on community planning for ecological sustainability, public housing for the unhoused with rents scaled to ability to pay, and access to Medicare for those who want it. Under this plan, the reconstruction would be based on building walkable neighborhoods linked by free public transportation. The public housing, key to the design of walkable neighborhoods, would be powered by renewable solar and wind. Residents would have the option of becoming Medicare participants. A community health center would be part of the design of the sustainable community plan. . . .
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With gratitude, The Jill Stein 2024 team