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Based on the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization's report, "Livestock's Long Shadow", this presentation explains the basics of anthropogenic global warming, and the specific activities in animal agribusiness that create CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide.  It also covers other environmental damages caused by animal agribusiness.

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Powerpoint or PDF.  This a combination of the slides used for EJN's presentations on nuclear power, coal, energy and environmental justice / how energy impacts communities and the presentations on clean energy solutions in both the electricity and transportation sectors.

http://www.energyjustice.net/resources/

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Need a hook to get your peers engaged in global warming? Follow Will Steger's dogsledding expedition to the frontlines of global warming in the High Arctic. Put your campus on the list for the Expedition Tour next fall, and hear from an international group of young polar explorers. More at www.globalwarming101.com

 

http://www.globalwarming101.com/

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"Turning the Climate Corner" with Mr. Ross Gelbspan

Thursday, December 13 2007

Ross Gelbspan was a reporter and editor for 31 years at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. As a Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe journalist, Ross Gelbspan has been watching and reporting on these climate change issues since 1984, and is considered an international authority on the issue This event is FREE.

 

http://www.jamaicaplainforum.org

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Climate Counts is a non-profit campaign that scores companies annually on the basis of their voluntary action to reverse climate change. The new Climate Counts Company Scorecard -- launched in June 2007 and available as a handy pocket guide and via a mobile phone activism program called Climate Counts On-The-Go -- helps people make climate-conscious purchasing and investing choices and encourages them to urge the world's most well-known companies to take the issue of climate change seriously.

http://www.climatecounts.org

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Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice.

For ten years as organizer Clayton has gained vast experience in grassroots movement building, organizational development (fund raising), and strategic campaign planning and policy development. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Clayton’s humble beginnings came from fighting against disparities in the Aboriginal community as a result of poverty and Winnipeg's youth gang epidemic. He co-founded the youth organization known as Aboriginal Youth with Initiative (AYII) and served as the organizations executive director for two years. The Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Awards recognized Clayton’s leadership skills and his devotion to community development in 1997, when he was presented with the Senior Community Volunteer Award.

Clayton went on to achieve many accomplishments as a youth leader in the Aboriginal community. He was cofounder of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Youth council as well as the architect behind the National Assembly of First Nations National Youth Advisory Council. As youth spokes person for the Assembly of First Nations he chaired the AFN National Youth Conference in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in 1999, were the first elections of the National First Nation Youth Council were held. As national youth spokes person of the Assembly of First Nations, Clayton was instrumental in the development and design of initiatives such as the Urban Aboriginal Youth Multi Purpose Center Initiative (UMAYC), a fund that to this day is sponsoring hundreds of Aboriginal youth initiatives across Canada.

Clayton’s work has taken him to five continents across our Mother Earth. Some highlights are:

UN ministers responsible for youth conference, Lisbon, Portugal First Nations youth representative on Canadian youth delegation with Minister Pettigrew and Minister Blondin (8-12 August, 1998)

5th World Indigenous Youth Conference in Waitangi, New Zealand; Coordinator of national Aboriginal delegation of Indigenous youth of Canada. (1999)

International training for Indigenous activists, Taos, New Mexico, USA Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance Network. (INIYA) Coordinator (2002)

International training for Indigenous activists, Rio Bronco, Acre, Brazil. Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance Network. (INIYA) Coordinator (2002)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2003) New York City, New York, USA Delegate (2003)

3rd prep-com of the WSSD in New York City, New York, USA Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples Delegation (2003)

4th Prep-com of the WSSD in Bali, Indonesia, Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples delegation (2004)
World Indigenous Peoples Pre-Summit on Sustainable Development, Kimberly, South Africa Coordinator of North American Indigenous Peoples delegation (2004)

World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa. Coordinator of North American Indigenous Peoples Delegation (2004)

Social Forum of the Americas Quito, Ecuador, Delegate (2005)

COP/MOP 11 UN Framework on Climate Change, Montreal, Canada, Coordinator of North American IEN delegation, Indigenous Peoples Caucus and World Indigenous Peoples day celebration. (2005)

Until recently, he served as the Native Energy organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. Clayton has been on the front lines of stopping industrial society's assault on Indigenous Peoples lands to extract resources and to dump toxic wastes. He has worked across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 states with grassroots indigenous communities to defend their Inherit, Treaty and environmental rights against unsustainable energy policies and transnational energy corporations.

Clayton is also a gifted poet and spoken-word performer. He is happily married and has recently become a father. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Clayton is that he’s just getting going. He’s been recognized by Utne magazine as one of the Top 30 under-30 young activists in the United State

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Mike Ewall is founder and director of the Energy Justice Network, one of the Energy Action Coalition's founding members. EJN helps grassroots community groups around the U.S. and beyond in their efforts to stop polluting energy and waste industries. Ewall has worked extensively with student and community environmental groups since getting involved in 10th grade in high school in 1990. A skillful public speaker and organizer, he's been a national leader in developing networks of students and community members seeking to stop proposed coal power plants, incinerators and numerous other damaging energy industries. He has led winning campaigns to stop proposed nuclear waste dumps, incinerators, liquefied natural gas terminals and much more. Through his research and networking, he has educated many students and community groups on the hazards posed by dirty energy generation and has helped them work together in campaigns to protect vulnerable communities.

Topics include:

• Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism
• Energy and Environmental Justice
• Replacing all Dirty Power with Clean Energy Within our Lifetime
• Don't Nuke the Climate!
• Green Energy or Green Scam? -- "Green Energy" Marketing and Biomass
• The Burning Issues with Biomass and Biofuels
• Beyond Combustion Engines: Breaking the Oil Addiction with Clean Energy in Transportation
• No New Coal Plants!
• Global Warming Loopholes

Contact info and descriptions of these and other workshop topics can be found here:

http://www.actionpa.org/speaking/

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Ingrid Chapman, Chris Crass, Clare Bayard and the other trainers in the Catalyst Project have been facilitating workshops with mostly white sectors of social, environmental and economic justice movements on anti-racism and movement strategy within an overall collective liberation framework since 2000.

The Catalyst Project focuses on movement based political education, leadership development, development of movement strategy, and theoretical study. To bring them to your campus for a training or facilitated discussion visit their website and click on "Contact Us".

http://www.collectiveliberation.org

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Ariel Luckey is a 26 year old Oakland native whose community and performance work dances in the crossroads of education, art and activism. He attended his first workshop at the age of 2 with his father, Paul Kivel, a writer and political educator, and has been active in the community ever since. Ariel has developed a powerful approach to arts activism through his training with Wavy Gravy and Patch Adams at Camp Winnarainbow, June Jordan at UC Berkeley's Poetry for the People and Augusto Boal at Theatre of the Oppressed workshops. Ariel's lyrical language and political vision have inspired and transformed audiences from the streets of Seattle's WTO demonstration to Cafe Cantante in Havana, Cuba to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York.

In the Bay Area, Ariel has performed at the Intersection for the Arts, La Pena Cultural Center, Project Theatre Artaud, Ashkenaz, SomArts, the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, UC Berkeley, St. Mary's College, the Writers Corp and various local high schools and community centers. His work includes developing curriculum and facilitating workshops with the Todos Institute, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice, the Bioneers Conference, Y-Step, Jewish Youth for Community Action and the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts. He loves learning the journey of fatherhood with his new baby.

Topics covered

• Poetry for People Power: The Pen, The Mic and The Movement
• Acting Out Change: Theatre of the Oppressed for Collective Liberation
• ToxiCity: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part One)
• New World Water: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part Two)
• Ancestry in Progress: Connecting Our Family Histories to Our Global Future
• Free Land: Unearthing the Legacy of Manifest Destiny and White Privilege thru Hip Hop Theatre

http://www.arielluckey.com/