https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/04/omni-earth-day-anthology-april-22-2023.html
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
CONTENTS
ARKANSAS
Donna and Still on the Hill
OMNI Newsletter
Climate Potluck
UAF Earth Day
Story-Myth
Fayetteville’s Action Plan
Hobbs State Park
USA and World
League of Conservation Voters
The Shalom Center
Population Connection
Veterans for Peace
Common Dreams/Green New Deal
TEXTS
ARKANSAS
Greetings ya’ll,
Earth Day is one of our FAVORITE days….because it is also our ANNIVERSARY! This is a song I wrote years ago and did a recording of it at Red Barn but I really wanted it to be a ‘music video’ with images. Our friend Asha is making the dream video and this is the RAW version with just me before Kelly added his magic in the studio and before Asha created the video of it!
Donna and Kelly
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| No Peace Local No Future Global Newsletter of Omni Center for Peace Justice Ecology |
| Celebrating Earth Day on the cusp of deep change. We don’t know what follows this lovely spring. But we can live this moment in celebration. At times when the world is uncertain, stories and myths have given lessons to use stepping out into the unknown. Look for Valemon the Bear a couple stories down to find a myth from the wildlands in yourself. |
| Omni Center Holds Climate Potluck Saturday April 22 – 1:00-4:00 pm – Omni Center You’re invited to Omni’s climate potluck, 3274 N. Lee Ave for a lunch potluck and climate discussion. You don’t have to be vegan to attend, but please bring vegan just for the fun of it so everyone can share and partake. The Omni potluck will be organized by Chip Ballew, dedicated vegan advocate. We’ll try posting some vegan suggestions on the Facebook event very soon. A link for the event page will come out asap. If you’re not vegan it could be a delicious new experience as well as a climate change discussion. |
| Future Earth Festival Earth Day at UA Saturday April 22 – 11:00-3:00 at the Commons between Mullins Library and Student Union Sponsored by Zero Hour UA I am Amelia Southern Uribe, the Vice-President of University Programs at the University of Arkansas. I have been working closely with the Office of Sustainability on campus to create this Earth Day Information Fair! I am so excited that Student Omni is able to make it and teach our campus more about how to make this planet a better place! I hope other Omni folks might come see what students have to offer too. Day/ Location: Event Time: Saturday April 21 from 11-3 in the Union Mall at the University of Arkansas. Set up time: Will begin start up at 9 am. Parking: Meter code 23849255 is set up for use in Stadium garage spaces 201-740 on 4/21/23. Address: 380 N Stadium Dr. Fayetteville, AR 72701 . . . . |
| A wild and beautiful story-myth for Earth Day week Valemon the Bear by storyteller Martin Shaw The Earth itself thinks in myth. There is an aliveness in it. It speaks across species, a form of ecological communication that invites us into the unknown from Emergence Magazine https://emergencemagazine.org/ |
| If you’re ready to do more… Help Fayetteville with its Climate Action Plan! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2023 Contact: Peter Nierengarten Environmental Director Sustainability and Resilience 479-575-8272 pnierengarten@fayetteville-ar.gov City of Fayetteville seeks input for new Climate Action Plan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The City of Fayetteville is embarking on a new, comprehensive Climate Action Plan, and it will host several in-person events this spring to gather input and feedback from Fayetteville residents. . . . Two Climate Action Plan engagement events will be held on the downtown square during the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market. The first [was] Saturday, April 15, and the second will be Saturday, April 22. . . . To view and take the questionnaire, go to: https://speakup.fayetteville-ar.gov. Since adopting the Energy Action Plan, the City has made significant energy improvements, including constructing a 10-Megawatt solar power array, expanding sidewalk and trail infrastructure and a implementing a food waste composting program for Fayetteville residents. In November 2021, Fayetteville City Council passed Resolution 288-21, requesting the addition of an Ecosystem Services Plan to the City’s existing Energy Action Plan. Combined, these two plans will form a Climate Action Plan for the City. For more information about the Climate Action Plan, go to: https://www.fayetteville-ar.gov/climate |
| Earth Day Activities at Hobbs State Park Saturday, April 15th: Activities from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day and the 100th anniversary of Arkansas State Parks! Food trucks will be selling food and drinks. A percentage of sales benefits the park. |
USA AND THE WORLD
Dick — tomorrow is Earth Day, a time each year when we show our support for the planet and advocate for a better environmental future for everyone who inhabits it. But not everyone shares those goals. Right now, there is an urgent effort by the far-right in Congress to push forward a huge giveaway to polluters and lock us into new fossil fuel production — while also proposing draconian cuts to agencies like EPA. Our movement is the only thing stopping them — but the truth is that we need your help. . . . We’re pressuring the Biden administration to adopt historic new standards to protect communities against pollution from dirty cars and trucks, tackling the leading cause of climate change in the U.S. and saving thousands of lives annually. Monthly gifts will power our campaign to strengthen and pass these protections into law >> · Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict voting rights — from statehouse elections to the 2024 presidential election. We’re campaigning to defeat their anti-democratic bills, and pass new voting rights legislation in Congress. . . . Onward, Gene Karpinski President, League of Conservation Voters | ||
The Shalom Center partners with Greenfaith on their No Faith in Fossil Fuels Climate Finance Summit.
Register for the summit HERE
Rabbi Waskow will have the honor of offering the opening blessing at the summit’s opening session, May 8 from 12-1:30.
Climate destruction is being bankrolled by large corporations and their executives who choose to act against what is right and good, at the expense of our planet’s future. The climate crisis is a crisis of greed.
>From May 8-11, people of faith will gather to learn about how banks and asset managers continue to invest in the fossil fuel industries that are destroying communities in the U.S. and around the world – and then find out how to hold these financial institutions accountable. Together, we can commit to taking the bold steps necessary to effect real change.
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Population Connection | Join us for a presentation with our CEO John Seager (too late but I wanted you to know about my favorite population/contraception org.)
| Engage | 1:58 PM (1 hour ago) | ||
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Hi James R.,
All month long we’re gearing up for Earth Day with inspiring and informative events that highlight the most pressing environmental issues of our time. We’d love for you to join us!
Next week, our CEO and President John Seager will dive into the crucial need to remove barriers to family planning services to address the drivers of rapid population growth. World population has more than tripled since the middle of the 20th century —with devastating impacts on people and our natural world.
His presentation, Whose Planet Is it, Anyway? Earth Day Challenges for a Crowded World takes place on Thursday, April 13th at 2pm ET/11am PT.
We hope you can join us for this event and participate in the Earth Day conversation!
For the Planet,
Natalie and Stephanie
Membership Relations Team
COMMON DREAMS April 20, 2023
Veterans For Peace 4-22-22(arrived too late for 2022)
| Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race! (2 hours ago) For Earth Day 2022,The Climate Crisis & Militarism Project (CCMP) of Veterans For Peace (VFP) invites you to our webinar: Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race! Click here to register! Militarism fuels the climate crisis, as we see every day now in the war in Ukraine (and Yemen and elsewhere), yet the mainstream and alternative media remain mostly silent on the many connections between war/militarism and the climate catastrophe. The devastation to the climate and environment caused by wars and increasing military spending must be confronted, then stopped. It is more important than ever to join us in this work. Can you support our Climate Crisis and Militarism Project by donating today? Veterans For Peace members have been hard at work over the last few months doing hundreds of presentations to bring awareness of how militarism fuels the climate crisis. Sign up to have CCMP do a presentation to your local organization, chapter or faith group! You can also check out these great resources: · NEW! Download the updated VFP’s Environmental Costs of War handout · Distribute our half-page flyer that links to the above PDF! Don’t forget to join us TONIGHT at 7pm(EDT), 6pm(CDT), 4pm(PDT) for our webinar! There is still time to register! Moderated by Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK, features panelists: · Dr. David Vine, Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University. Dr. Vine is a widely sought-after speaker, authoritative source on militarism and Empire, and the author of The United States of War and Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. · Col. Ann Wright, retired U. S. Army Colonel, and former high ranking U.S. State Department official, who resigned her position in protest of the U.S. illegal invasion of Iraq and has continued to be a powerful voice for peace and the environment. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience. · Erik Edstrom, A West Point graduate and infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan and Presidential Escort Platoon Leader during the Obama administration. He studied climate change at Oxford University earning a Master of Science degree. Author of UN-AMERICAN: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War. Climate Crisis & Militarism Project! Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser Contact Us Veterans For Peace 3407 S. Jefferson Ave, #219 St. Louis, Missouri 63118 (314) 725-6005 vfp@veteransforpeace.org |