#environmental action

[lilybug-02]

Dark Fountains Causing the Apocalypse? ❌😒

Dark Fountains as a Metaphor for Global Warming? ✅👏

#deltarune is a metaphor for climate change #change my mind #also climate change is real and Ralsei is an environmentalist #bread #comic #deltarune comic #used a new brush today for line art! absolutely loved it #I love changing up my style and consistency! #deltarune #art #my art #memes #carbon emissions #reduce carbon emissions #environmental action #this only took me like an hour and a half? not bad!! #yes I’m pushing my own ideals on delatrune. who hasn’t #ralsei deltarune #ralsei #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune

[cock-holliday]

For folks who haven’t been following, various groups have been fighting to slow/stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, an oil line that will cut through Appalachia, destroying land and putting the environment and community at risk.

Yesterday (August 9th, 2023) the land defenders of Appalachians Against Pipelines were able to halt production twice. Support their efforts and the efforts of others where you can, and don’t forget that this pipeline project got fast-tracked by Biden.

#STOPMVP

#stopmvp #mountain valley pipeline #appalachians against pipelines #environmental action #land defense

[wachinyeya]

In Hawai’i, an Indigenous stewardship and conservation system known as ahupua’a is slowly being revived on a mountain-to-sea scale in partnership with U.S. government agencies.

Three Indigenous communities that have successfully reintroduced the ahupua’a system are seeing some conservation successes, such as a 310% increase in the biomass of surgeonfish and an increase in the Bluespine unicornfish (Naso unicornis) population.

The inclusion of Indigenous Hawaiian conservation, social and spiritual values, like Aloha kekahi i kekahi, have been key to building these conservation areas and forming better working relations with the government.

#indigenous #climate change #hawaii #hawai'i #conservation #environmental action #good news #nature #animals #environmentalism #environment #science

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

So I’ve written a number of posts to the extent of “don't worry about conscious consumerism, the best way to change the world is to get involved in environmental action!” But I wonder how actually accessible getting involved in local action feels to people. So, as someone who has been able to find cool activist groups to join both when I was in college and now post-graduation, here’s my advice for how to get involved in something happening in your area!

1. Just show up to stuff. Ok, I know this sounds stupid and obvious, but I do feel like this is truly the best way to get a sense of what’s going on around you. Search online for activist groups near you, check local news for references to anyone doing work that you care about. Find those organizations and see if they have any public actions, info sessions, or other public events that are coming up. This could be anything from a protest, a rally, an onboarding session, a tree-planting festival in the park, an educational event, a local union standout outside the grocery store, a farm volunteer day, what have you. You can even go to a town meeting, although I can’t promise that will be interesting. It may be that the organization you find is not working on an issue that you’re the most interested in or that you don’t like the way they operate or something, but going to events can be a great way to learn about other orgs or campaigns where you live that maybe have less of a high profile. By showing up to these kinds of events, you will get a better sense of the activism landscape, which will help you find out if there are orgs that you want to join 2. In-person events are better for getting to know people, I find, but if you aren’t able to go to in-person events for health reasons, or because you are in rural area, virtual events are great too! I recently moved to a city, but previously was working with a regional activist group while I lived in a rural area, and I basically worked with them on Zoom that whole year. 3. If you’re going to an in-person event, bring a friend! Maybe they’re also interested in getting involved in activism, maybe they’re just going to help you out, but its good to have a buddy, especially if you’re at a rally or a protest. Not only is this safer, this way you have someone to debrief with and talk through whether or not this is a group that you want to commit to. 4. Sometimes, other orgs will be mentioned in an activist meeting. If those interest you, check them out, especially if they are more aligned to the kind of work you’re interested in doing. 5. Talk to people at the event! I know this can be intimidating (believe me I’m an introvert), but this is honestly the best way to get information about the general vibe of this group, or if there are other groups in the area doing things closer to you or more aligned with the work you are interested in. In my experience, people at activist events are always excited to help other activists. 6. Keep a critical eye! All activist groups are imperfect, some are deeply dysfunctional, some are legitimately dangerous. If you’re at a group or event and you think they seem sketchy, disorganized, ineffective, or anything that you are not interested in, leave! Don’t settle to join a group that you have bad feelings about because they seem like the only game in town. That could be frustrating at best or dangerous at worst. 7. Don’t commit to anything at the first meeting! Maybe you’re at an activist meeting for the first time and you think, hey this group is amazing, I want to get involved right away! Or maybe you’re thinking, this is the only group I could find, so I guess I better commit. Don’t do that on your first meeting! Go to a few more public events, meetings, or info sessions. This will let you have a better sense of the group before you commit and will let you see if this is a group that you really want to join. If an activist group requires you to commit to anything at this first meeting (or if they strongly suggest that you do), run! That is a very bad sign, 8. This is the exception for most volunteer opportunities, which may need you to commit for a certain amount of volunteer shifts before you show up. That’s fine! Volunteer groups are also great because they’re a lot more common than activist groups in my experience and more likely to exist in small towns. Some, like Food Not Bombs, have an explicitly political angle which makes them a great place to get to know fellow leftists in the area. Others, like your local soup kitchen, won’t have that angle. But it’s a great way to get involved in your community, get to know people, and do something material to help others. Other kinds of volunteer opportunities may be helping with refugee resettlement projects, pulling up invasive plants, helping a nonprofit with administrative work, all kinds of things! 9.Be patient. I spent most of my late teens/early 20s beating myself up that I wasn’t involved in the kind of activist work that most interested me. But then I met someone at a larger nation-wide event that was from my area, asked for similar things to get involved with at a local level and joined that org. Now, I am doing the activist work that I always dreamed of doing.These things take time and you may not find the exact right kind of opportunity right away. That’s ok! Take your time, keep your wits about you, and don’t be too hard on yourself.

I hope that is helpful! Please let me know if you have any other questions about my experience or my advice and I would be happy to answer them :) Solidarity!

#solarpunk #environmentalism #activism #environmental action #get involved #local activism

[lisamarie-vee]

#environmental action #1960s #washingtonian magazine #earth day

[olowan-waphiya]

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2022/07/15/navajo-nation-citizen-science-pollution

Methane pollution is poorly tracked, so Diné activists are monitoring it themselves.

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From behind her FLIR GF320 infrared camera, Kendra Pinto sees plumes of purple smoke otherwise invisible to the naked eye. They’re full of methane and volatile organic compounds, and they’re wafting out of an oil tank in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin.

Pinto, a member of the Diné (Navajo) community and field advocate with environmental group Earthworks, relies on this device in her fight to keep her community’s air clean. She lives in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, home to booming oil and gas production.

“When I walk outside, I can’t just think about fresh air. I’m thinking about the VOCs. I’m thinking about the methane that I’m breathing in, because I know what’s out there,” Pinto said. “I see it all the time.”

She’s one of countless citizen scientists across the country who are tracking and reporting environmental harms committed by the oil and gas industry to regulators. And here, there are many: The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that each year, New Mexico’s oil and gas companies emit more than 1.1 million metric tons of methane, a greenhouse gas around 86 times more potent in its warming potential than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Much of this comes from wasted natural gas—$271 million of it in this state alone, according to the EDF. It leaks out of faulty equipment and is intentionally expelled through the processes of venting and flaring, in which excess, unrefined natural gas is released or burned from oil wells and refineries to eliminate waste or reduce pressure buildups.

This is bad for the planet—high volumes of methane released into the atmosphere accelerate the pace of the climate crisis. It’s also bad for the people who live around it who are exposed to the pollutants that typically come along with methane emissions, like benzene, a carcinogen, and PM2.5 and PM10—particulate matter small enough to get lodged deep in the lungs. Pinto said her neighbors experience disproportionately high rates of headaches, nosebleeds, allergies, and respiratory issues, like sinus and throat discomfort.

“I think the scariest thing about methane is it’s odorless,” Pinto said. “It’s a silent killer. And if my neighbors are breathing it in, that’s worrisome.”

These emissions and the fossil fuel development that causes them have long been “insufficiently regulated,” said Jon Goldstein, senior director of regulatory and legislative affairs at EDF. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump rolled back Obama-era regulations on methane that effectively eliminated the requirement that oil and gas companies monitor and repair methane leaks in their infrastructure.

The Senate voted to reinstate them in April 2021, and last November, the Biden administration announced it would introduce even more comprehensive regulations in an interagency effort to crack down on emissions from the oil and gas sector. As part of the plan, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed its own rules, which include a requirement that states reduce methane emissions from thousands of sources nationwide, and a provision that encourages the use of new technology designed to find major leaks. A final methane rule is expected to be implemented later this year.

The Navajo Nation, too, is taking things into its own hands: The Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency is currently considering adopting a permitting program to regulate methane from oil and gas development on its land.

Here, methane emissions from oil and gas companies are 65% higher than the national average, seeping out of pipelines, oil rigs, and the like. The San Juan Basin, some 150 miles northwest of Santa Fe, has received a failing grade from the American Lung Association for ozone pollution, or smog, the result of the combination between VOCs and radiation from sunlight.

Exposure to ozone has been tied to degraded respiratory health and asthma attacks, and it’s typically seen in cities, Goldstein said.

“The San Juan Basin isn’t home to large cities,” he said. In San Juan County, ozone is the result of the widespread build-out of oil and gas wells; approximately half of the county’s 50,000 residents who identify as Indigenous live within half a mile of those wells, according to EDF.

Catching emissions at the source will be crucial to changing this legacy. And where regulators can’t (or won’t) step in, residents like Pinto are. The federal government is now relying upon community monitoring, or work that citizens do to contribute to public understanding of the scope of air pollution near fossil fuel sites, a development that Eric Kills A Hundred, tribal energy program manager at EDF, believes will be “huge.”

The EPA’s methane proposal includes a plan to implement a program to “empower the public to detect and report large emission events for appropriate follow-up by owners and operators,” according to an agency news release.

During the comment period for the EPA’s proposed community monitoring program, members of the petroleum industry questioned whether the agency has the authority to establish it at all, primarily objecting to the idea that air quality monitoring be conducted by entities other than agencies and producers themselves, E&E News reported​​ in May.

But Pinto said groups like Earthworks have a track record of doing this work long before federal regulators began tapping them for their data collection.

“Documenting these types of emissions is important because no one else is really doing it,” she said. “Even the agencies that are regulating this type of thing. Because we’re in a rural area, what can they actually capture when they come out here? Are they going to more than 100 sites?”

Kills A Hundred said these efforts are not only about what the Navajo Nation can contribute to government data on methane pollution, they’re also about empowering the community to play a role in stopping it.

“Having been the stewards of the land for so long,” he said, “it’s just so important for these communities to be active and raise their voice.”

#indigenous #native american #climate crisis #methane #fossil fuels #greenhouse gas emissions #navajo #dine #diné #navajo nation #epa #environmental action #pollution #science

[grasshoppergeography]

You can find our custom-made Colorado river basin map in conservation photographer Dave Showalter's new book, LIVING RIVER: The Promise of the Mighty Colorado. The book is a remarkable piece of art and an essential read for all the 40 million people who live within the river basin. It explores the endangered Colorado River from source to sea, and illustrates how changing our relationship to water helps make it possible to create a resilient watershed. Additionally, and maybe most importantly, it's a beautiful story about hope and love. We are proud to be a part of this amazing project. Braidedriver sent us this complimentary copy, and it really is a beautiful book.

LIVING RIVER is not only a book but a multi-year collaborative conservation campaign. We hope to hear more from them in the future and we wish all the best to everyone involved.

You can buy the map as fine art print here.

#geography #maps #cartography #artists on tumblr #my art #river map #colorado #colorado river #living river #river restoration #watersheds #watershed map #colorado watershed #maps reimagined #environmental action #environmental awareness #river basin

[kp777]

By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

Sept. 20, 2023

"This historic victory," said the youth-led Sunrise Movement, "marks the beginning of a new era in the fight for a Green New Deal."

After years of pressure from environmentalists and progressive lawmakers, the Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new program aimed at training tens of thousands of young people in skills and jobs critical to combating climate breakdown, from land and water conservation to clean energy development.

Inspired by the New Deal's popular Civilian Conservation Corps—a popular decade-long program that employed millions of young men—the Biden administration's American Climate Corps (ACC) will establish a paid training program with the goal of providing "pathways to high-quality, good-paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs in the public and private sectors," according to a White House fact sheet.

The administration estimates that the program, established via executive action, will train more than 20,000 Americans, "putting them to work conserving and restoring our lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy-efficient technologies, and advancing environmental justice."

Specific pay for the training program has yet to be disclosed.

The new initiative was unveiled days after dozens of U.S. lawmakers and advocacy groups sent letters imploring President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to launch a Civilian Climate Corps to "prepare a whole generation of workers for good-paying, dignified, union jobs, and build the workforce we need for the robust green economy of tomorrow."

The youth-led Sunrise Movement, which spearheaded the advocacy groups' letter and has been organizing in support of a Civilian Climate Corps for years, celebrated the announcement of the ACC as "a response that begins to meet the moment and show young people how their government can work for them."

"Three years ago, I sat on then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders' Unity Climate Task Force and shared one of Sunrise Movement's top priorities for the future administration—a Civilian Climate Corps, a visionary jobs program to put thousands of young people to work in real career pathways fighting for their future," Varshini Prakash, the Sunrise Movement's executive director, said in a statement Wednesday.

"Now, after years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis," Prakash added. "With the ACC and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible."

"We're often asked how President Biden can win the support and enthusiasm of young people. He's gotten our attention. Keep going."

Biden previously embraced the idea of a climate corps as he crafted what was known as his "Build Back Better" agenda, which included tens of billions of dollars in funding for such a program.

But due to opposition from oil and gas industry ally Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and other right-wing Democrats—as well as the entire Republican congressional caucus—the administration agreed to dramatically pare back its agenda and approve the Inflation Reduction Act, which included a number of giveaways to the fossil fuel industry but not a climate corps.

NPRreported that the ACC is "likely to be smaller in scope than early proposals" and is "much smaller" than the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Biden administration did not say how much it plans to spend on the new program, which "will rely on existing funding sources," according toThe Washington Post.

Nevertheless, climate advocates welcomed the ACC as a critical first step while urging the Biden administration to do more to phase out fossil fuels.

"We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to address the climate crisis, and the Biden-Harris administration establishing an American Climate Corps—with specific opportunities for youth to work in climate resilience careers—is a historic effort to meet this moment," said Sierra Club executive director Ben Jealous. "The Climate Corps will mobilize young people, workers, and federal resources in a way never seen before."

Keanu Arpels-Josiah, a member of Friday's for Future NYC, argued that "a climate corps is important but the executive actions we desperately need are those that will directly and swiftly phase out fossil fuel expansion and production."

"A climate corps that focuses solely on promoting renewables doesn't do the job," said Arpels-Josiah. "It won't undo the Biden administration's damage in approving climate bombs like Willow. It won't end new fossil fuel projects and phase out existing projects in the timeline we need for our generation to survive."

In a memo released Wednesday, the Sunrise Movement called the establishment of the ACC "a show of the strength of young people in the national political arena" and "a hopeful pivot by the Biden Administration towards a 21st century New Deal society."

"Moves like the creation of the American Climate Corps harken back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision of government—meaning American government has a responsibility to invest directly in its people to provide relief, reform, recovery, and good jobs in collaboration with and support of organized labor," the group wrote. "This historic victory for Sunrise and the rest of the climate movement marks the beginning of a new era in the fight for a Green New Deal."

A number of federal agencies will be involved in supporting and implementing the new program, including the Department of Labor, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, and AmeriCorps.

The Biden administration also announced Wednesday that "five new states—Arizona, Utah, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Maryland—are moving forward with state-based climate corps that are funded through public-private partnerships, including AmeriCorps, which will work with the American Climate Corps as implementing collaborators to ensure young people across the country are serving their communities."

Other states, including California, Maine, and Michigan, have already established climate corps programs.

"This past summer we saw record climate disasters, record labor strikes demanding good, meaningful work, and major climate protests led by young people," Prakash said Wednesday. "We're often asked how President Biden can win the support and enthusiasm of young people. He's gotten our attention. Keep going."

#american climate corp #acc #biden administration #green jobs #climate change #climate action #environmental action #climate crisis #joe biden

[troythecatfish]

#netherlands #comparison #compare and contrast #political posting #political #politics #environmental #environmentalism #environmental activism #environmental justice #environmental science #environmental impact #environmentallyfriendly #environmental awareness #environmental action #ecofriendly #eco friendly #nature #naturecore #environmental responsibility #architecture #architecture lovers #architecture photography #architecture projects #left wing #leftist #leftist politics #progressive politics #leftisim #leftism

[bokchoybabybitch]

happy earth day you beautiful humans!

on this sunniest and warmest of the april 22nds, thank you climate change, id like to rant a lil bit about how important local action is for environmental change

first of all, climate doomerism is scientifically inaccurate. things are bad, and they will get worse, that’s absolutely proven and true. but the social trend of believing that the world is already doomed and nothing can be done to save it is demonstrably false.

in fact, that’s been traced to a propaganda media campaign that’s being funded directly by some of the biggest and most powerful non renewable energy corporations in the world! their thinking is likely that if everyone believes the world can’t be saved, then there’s no point in forcing the corporations to change their ways for the better, and they can keep making record profits at the expense of the natural world.

so no matter what anyone tells you, the world can be saved, and humans can save it!

and be extra wary of anyone who says something to the effect of “we need to get overpopulation under control” or “humans are an invasive species”

chances are, if they’re saying the problem is overpopulation and not wasteful consumption, then their “solution” will probably involve removing Indigenous people from their land!

and the idea that humans are an invasive species ignores the tens of thousands of years that human society has existed in harmony with nature all over the world!

all this to say, one individual person isn’t likely going to change the world on their own. and usually when one person has an impact that large, it’s at least 50/50 positive/negative, if not more negative.

but what one individual can do is change their community, their town, wherever they’re from. if you take good care of a garden just for the sake of doing some good, it might not matter to every other garden in the world, but those plants you grew will be healthy and alive, and that matters a whole lot to them

and if everyone does their little part for their little garden, or forest, or park, or any little bit of good you can bring out, then the whole world changes for the better!

be informed, be brave, and go touch some grass today ❤️

also enjoy these cake pops my mother made :)

#earth #earth day #climate change #climate crisis #environmentalism #environmental activism #environmental action #doomerism #invasive species #hope #cake pop #cake pops #climate doomerism

[gaylienz]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61510336

Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narváez were awarded the Goldman Prize, which recognises grassroots activism.

They used drones and camera traps to document mining on their land.

Their evidence was crucial in securing a legal victory which resulted in 79,000 acres of rainforest being protected from gold mining.

Alex Lucitante, 29, and Alexandra Narváez, 32, are part of the Cofán community, a 1,200-strong indigenous group which has lived in the tropical forest of north-eastern Ecuador for centuries.

Alexandra is a founding member and the first woman to join "La Guardia", a group of 25 volunteers which patrols the area.

It was members of La Guardia who in 2017 first came across heavy machinery on their land along the banks of the Aguarico River, Alex Lucitante told the BBC.

"When we started investigating, we found out that the Ecuadorean state had issued 20 mining licences to several companies and 32 further were waiting to be approved."

Mr Lucitante, a rights defender who wants to become a lawyer, says that when the complaints the Cofán raised with the authorities went unanswered, the community decided to take legal action.

Mr Lucitante says that the aerial images the community took with the help of drones and the detailed record they kept through photo traps of incursions into their territory were key to their fight.

After a legal battle which lasted almost a year, the community achieved a remarkable victory.

A court in their home province of Sucumbíos ruled that the Ecuadorean authorities had failed to seek the free, prior and informed consent of the Cofán needed to legally grant the mining licences.

The court nullified both the existing and pending licences and ordered that the mining activities be stopped.

An appeal by the Ecuadorean government resulted in another victory for the Cofán when the court ruled that they were the ancestral owners of the land and their right to a healthy environment and clean water had been violated.

Alexandra Narváez told the BBC that the ruling was absolutely key to the Cofán "because our territory is our life".

"We know this territory, we have walked through it, we know the sacred sites, the places to go hunting, where animals come to eat. It's full of life and it's everything to us," she explains.

"A Cofán without territory is not Cofán," she says of the importance of their ancestral land to her people.

Ms Narváez says that even before taking on the legal battle against the state, she had to prove herself inside her own community.

"It's been very difficult to be the first woman to join La Guardia, I received a lot of criticism at first from both men and women," she says.

"Traditionally in our community it's been said that women should stay at home looking after the children and the home. So when I said I wanted to be a member of La Guardia, that caused a big stir.

"But I told them, I have to do this not just for myself but for my two daughters and all the women in the community."

Ms Narváez says that eventually she managed to convince the doubters in her community that knowledge traditionally held by women could prove valuable to La Guardia.

"We are the ones who fetch water, who collect medicinal plants and seeds to make our necklaces, and therefore we have a deep connection to our territory.

"The world needs to hear our voice and that voice is saying 'we're going to defend our land with our lives!'"

Ms Narváez is proud that since she opened up the indigenous patrol to women, five more women have joined.

And she says that in moments when she had come close to quitting because she felt she did not spend enough time with her two daughters, it was them who encouraged her to carry on.

"They tell me 'Mum, go on patrol, we're fine and we want to be like you. Once we finish school, we want to wear the Guardia uniform and follow in your footsteps.' That's what gives me strength."

#environmental action #indigenous people #indigenous resistance #grassroots #grassroots activism #Cofán #la guardia #ecuador

[autistic-fandom-trash]

So I found this petition to help protect forests that you can sign here, you can also get to it through the optional chapter in Monument Valley 2.

#enviromental #environment #environmetalists #climate action #climate crisis #climate change #climate #forest preservation #forest conservation #forest protection #forest #forests #monument valley #monument valley 2 #vidoe games #video game #vidoe gaming #climate activism #environmental activism #environmental action #petition #environmental petition

[wachinyeya]

Native Wildlife Flourishing Again After Another Caribbean Island Rid of Mice https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/native-wildlife-flourishing-again-after-another-caribbean-island-rid-of-mice/

#good news #science #environmentalism #nature #environment #animals #conservation #news #environmental action #climate and environment #caribbean #caribbean islands

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

A video explaining the current fight against Atlanta’s cop city and the repression activists are facing.

These are the sites linked in the video description for how to learn more, help, and get involved:

Stop Cop City https://stopcop.city/

Atlanta Solidarity Fund https://atlsolidarity.org/

Community Movement Builders https://communitymovementbuilders.org/

#save atlanta forest #stop cop city #acab #fd signifier #defund the police #solarpunk #environmental justice #environmental action

[captnbas]

day 22 of folkbruary- stone circle

out of all the stone circles on the isles, i have the most intimate relationship with stonehenge as a result of spending the past year and a bit squatting land nearby in protest of the proposed road expansion and tunnel within the world heritage site. to be in the company of the stones is a truly awe-inspiring experience. the lines between millennia blur, and the space is considered sacred by many across the world. they truly are everyone’s stones, which is why i want to raise the alarm on what our government is up to.

for anyone unaware of what’s going on, the governmental transport body National Highways (formerly highways england) are gearing up to start work on expanding the a303 around stonehenge, which is just one of their many destructive road expansion schemes currently underway. involving the construction of a new dual carriageway, a 4.5km long tunnel, expanding the roundabouts either end and making new flyovers. Despite a high court judge ruling against the project on environmental grounds in 2021, highways are currently handing out contracts to construction and security companies (to take on protesters). autonomous activists continue to hold ground nearby, raising awareness of the environmental impacts of road expansion projects like this.

key issues with this project:

-road expansion & the climate crisis. pretty obvious really. construction companies actively add to carbon emissions with the high use of oil-powered machines, the felling of ancient trees, hedgerows and grasslands and concreting over large swathes of land (most of which is only used in the construction process then sold off as ‘brown sites’ to developers).

-also new roads = new traffic. it’s a documented phenomena, called the ‘induced traffic effect’. if you want to reduce traffic, we should obviously spend this money on improving local public transport schemes.

-a little known fact about the stonehenge world heritage site is that it is the largest untouched chalk grassland habitat in Europe. there are many species native to or reliant upon these plains, such as the adonis blue butterfly, kestrels, hen harriers, etc. that are directly threatened by this scheme.

-UNESCO have warned that they may revoke World Heritage Status if the plans go ahead. In doing so, this opens up the land (especially all the brown sites that they will create with the road project) to developers. Further habitation loss and destruction of sites of archeological interest will follow.

- there’s a chalk aquifer beneath stonehenge that has been supplying humans living on the plains with water since the end of the last ice age. It has also been crucial to the preservation of archeological artefacts in the area. The tunnel plans will bore directly through it, affecting the delicate hydrogeology of the entire site. Untold artefacts will be lost, and carcinogens from the chalk will leak into the local water supply, rivers, etc.

this ended up being a pretty long post, and the first of this nature I’ve made since making this blog, but i couldn’t draw a stone circle without bringing light to the fight on our hands right now. for more information, updates and petitions, check out stonehenge alliance’s website:

#folk february #stonehenge #resistance #environmental justice #activism #stonehenge tunnel #resist anti trespass #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #peapappa #stone circle #call to action #stonehenge heritage action group #stonehenge alliance #environmental action #environmental activism #archeology #archeologicalsite #stonehenge world heritage site #unesco #folkbruary #basil draws

[olowan-waphiya]

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/06/10/indigenous-groups-offered-mediation-in-french-supermarket-deforestation-dispute

A judge on Thursday proposed mediation in a legal dispute between French retailer Casino and Indigenous groups from Brazil over links to Amazon deforestation.

The Amazonian groups allege Casino failed to do adequate due diligence in its supply chain, resulting in the sale of beef linked to deforestation and human rights abuses in the Amazon.

It is the first time a French supermarket chain has been taken to court over deforestation and the loss of land and livelihood under a 2017 law in France called Devoir de Vigilance - or 'Duty of Care'. The law holds companies accountable for human rights and environmental violations.

Lawyers for Casino said the French retailer supported the mediation proposal, while an attorney for the Indigenous groups said he would be advising his clients to back the proposal.

"We advise our clients to accept the mediation proposal," Sebastien Mabile, a lawyer for the Indigenous groups told Reuters.

"What we want is for Casino to stop buying from companies who are supplied by farms that have invaded Indigenous lands and are implicated in deforestation."

Environmental activists and representatives of the Indigenous groups from Brazil claim that their rights have been violated, land and territory stolen, and their forests and livelihoods destroyed. They protested outside the courthouse this week.

"The Casino group's networks support intensive farming ... that devastate forests, deplete soils, and destroy the forest populations' social structures," said Crisanto Rudzo, a Xavante people representative from Mato Grosso.

Casino, which controls Brazil’s largest food retailer, Grupo Pao de Acucar (GPA) and Colombian retailer Almacenes Exito, has repeatedly said it actively fought against deforestation by cattle ranchers in Brazil and Colombia.

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