Africa Will Add More Renewable Energy In 2014 Than In The Last 14 Years Combined

shutterstock_67624444August 21, 2014, thinkprogress.org | “Sub-Saharan Africa will add more renewable energy projects in 2014 than it has in the last 14 years, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. As Bloomberg reports, Africa is expected to add about 1.8 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, a category which includes geothermal, wind, and solar but excludes major hydroelectric power plants.”

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Africa Will Add More Renewable Energy In 2014 Than In The Last 14 Years Combined
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Renewable energy is getting cheaper, and Africa is taking advantage of it.

THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH

August 20, 2014, peoplesclimate.org | “This is an invitation to change everything. In September, world leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit on the climate crisis. UN Secretary­ General Ban Ki-­moon is urging governments to support an ambitious global agreement to dramatically reduce global warming pollution.”

 

Over 750 Groups Create the Biggest Climate Change Rally Ever on 9/21
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Scroll down to see the enormous participation in this invitation to change everything. September 21, world leaders are…

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

August 19, 2014, news.mongabay.com | “Here’s a challenge: take a conservationist out for a drink and ask them about their work. Nine times out of ten—or possibly more—you’ll walk away feeling frustrated, despondent, and utterly hopeless. You’ll hear about rainforests being chopped down for palm oil or chopsticks; or a just-discovered species that probably just went extinct; or a government that is worse than ambivalent: corrupt; or a shadowy corporation that’s doing some horrific thing to ecosystems and local people just to make greedy shareholders happy.”

Here’s a great article about why to support the kind of cheerleading that we do at Good News for the Earth —
interviews with top conservation biologists
Why conservationists need a little hope
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the human brain is wired to try harder only when there is reason to believe that those efforts will make a difference. — The Sword of Damocles over our head is not the right image
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Nebraska concert by Willie Nelson, Neil Young ‘will be telling the stories’ of Keystone XL pipeline foes

August 18, 2014, www.omaha.com | “Art Tanderup says he has the vinyl to prove he’s a Neil Young fan from way back.  The 62-year-old retired teacher said his esteem for Young grew when he learned the famous singer-songwriter opposed the Keystone XL pipeline. Tanderup’s family farm in northeast Nebraska lies in the path of the proposed crude oil pipeline.”

“Willie Nelson, Neil Young to play Nebraska concert for Keystone XL pipeline opponents
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Nelson and Young, who for nearly three decades have headlined Farm Aid events, will play Sept. 27 on a family farm…”

Group Representing Half A Billion Christians Says It Will No Longer Support Fossil Fuels

July 11, 2014, thinkprogress.org | “A large umbrella group of churches representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide announced Thursday that it would pull all of its investments in fossil fuels, saying it had determined the investments were no longer ethical.  The World Council of Churches, a global coalition of 345 churches, made the decision to no longer fund oil, gas, or coal at its central committee meeting in Geneva, and recommended that its members do the same.”

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Group Representing Half A Billion Christians Says It Will No Longer Support Fossil Fuels
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A large umbrella group of churches representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide announced Thursday that it…

 

Closing Chicago’s Toxic Cloud Factories

July 9, 2014, www.ran.org | “Last month I was in Chicago to attend the U.S. Climate Action Network’s national meeting. The keynote speaker was Gina McCarthy, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her speech focused on the agency’s recently proposed carbon pollution standards, the first-ever rule to limit carbon pollution from power plants.”

HEALING THE EARTH CREATES JOBS
SHUTTING DOWN THIS COAL SITE BROUGHT JOBS TO THE COMMUNITY VIA THE COMPANY WORKING TO REGENERATE THE LAND
Closing Chicago’s Toxic Cloud Factories – Rainforest Action Network
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Last month I was in Chicago to attend the U.S. Climate Action Network’s national meeting. The keynote speaker was Gina…
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China to limit carbon emissions for first time, climate adviser claims

The sun is seen behind smoke billowing from a chimney of a heating plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi province

June 3, 2014, www.theguardian.com | “China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government adviser.  He Jiankun, chairman of China’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing on Tuesday that an absolute cap on carbon emissions will be introduced.”

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Top Chinese Official hopes to limit carbon emissions
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This is being reported as more than his opinion. that an absolute cap on emissions to should come into effect from 2016, top official says on the day after US announces…”
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Scientists Locate Natural “Strongholds” across Southeast US that Could Protect Nature in the Face of Climate Change

Photo: Scientists find Natural “Strongholds” to Climate Change in the Southeastern U.S. http://nature.ly/1u9CoabJune 2, 2014, www.nature.org | “A new study by The Nature Conservancy has identified a series of natural “strongholds” across the Southeastern United States that are predicted to withstand the growing impacts of climate change and help ensure nature’s survival. ”

Scientists find Natural “Strongholds” to Climate Change in the Southeastern U.S. http://nature.ly/1u9Coab

Total shelves $11-billion Alberta oil sands mine

May 29, 2014 www.theglobeandmail.com | “The Joslyn oil sands mine has been shelved indefinitely, a result of rising industry costs that made the $11-billion project financially untenable.”

A $11 billion tar sands mine has been cancelled because there weren’t enough pipelines to ship their oil.
Total, the company behind the mine, planned to ship oil through Keystone XL, but without that pipeline and others like it, they had to pull the plug.
There’s much more to do, but this is a sign that yes, we can indeed stop the tar sands

China Announces Aggressive Action to Cut HFCs

May 28, 2014, www.enn.com | “China’s announcement follows two HFC agreements President Obama and President Xi negotiated last year, including an agreement to launch formal negotiations to reduce production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.   The 20 largest economies also endorsed phasing down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol last year, leaving accounting and reporting in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.”

“China Announces Action to Cut HFCs by the equivalent of 0.28 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2015
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The US also is taking strong action to reduce HFCs domestically, as is the EU. HFCs are super greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more potent in their…”
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