(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Climate Justice & Art Highlight This Year's Earth Week [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-04 Earth Week 2023 runs from April 16 to April 22, culminating in Earth Day which this year is focused on the need to improve the environment for future generations. Two coalitions are banding together for Earth Week 2023 — People vs Fossil Fuels and Stop the Money Pipeline — in organizing Peoples’ Earth Week - Climate Justice Arts & Action project. Climate Justice poster art is being circulated to people around the country. The poster art aims to organize large wheat pasting actions, arts-centered action, and pop-up art shows on April 22. While the organizations understand individual wheatpasting may seem like an insignificant action, they are aiming for millions of small actions combining to “chip away at harmful, oppressive systems and help to contribute to a new zeitgeist,” says Tejal Mankad, Digital and Social Media Manager at Fossil Free Media. “We may not have the money to take out million-dollar TV ads, but we have the power to blanket the nation in posters and stickers that shine a light on the White House’s role in greenlighting new oil and gas projects and Wall Street’s financing of those projects.” Earth Day has too often been co-opted by corporate forces. Major corporations use Earth Day as an opportunity to put out empty statements and greenwashed marketing, even as they continue to fund fossil fuel expansion and exacerbate environmental racism in communities of color. The President of the Wells Fargo Foundation ― the “charitable” arm of the world’s largest funder of fracking ― even sits on the board of the official Earth Day organization. What better way to reclaim the radical roots of Earth Day than by simultaneously making the world a more beautiful place, and exposing those who are truly responsible for the climate crisis? www.commondreams.org/... You can sign up now for the Artwork and how-to kit: bit.ly/ClimateJusticeArtKit. Allow 1-2 weeks for delivery. You will receive 50 posters, ten of five different designs. x ‼️ What a week ‼️ Activists in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Boston, Honolulu, Paradise, Sante Fe & many more places, got stunning climate art out in their communities (& onto banks). RT to make sure @Chase, @WellsFargo, @Citi, @BankofAmerica get the msg: #DefundClimateChaos pic.twitter.com/AwKRRj9ONL — Stop the Money Pipeline (@StopMoneyPipe) April 13, 2022 Earth Day has pulled together the top 10 Earth Day events of 2023, which include three in the United States and an interactive map to locate an Earth Day event near you. Extinction Rebellion writes of its Boston rally, march, and party: The International Panel on Climate Change makes it clear, fossil fuels HAVE GOT TO GO if we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Yet the federal government just approved new drilling in Alaska and Massachusetts continues to allow new fossil fuel projects and gas hookups. We love the Earth, we love animals and nature, and we want a livable future! Bring your friends and family, and show your love for the Earth! Climate Shorts The World Will Miss the Climate Change Target. Time to Prepare. Some startling nuggets to kick off any local reporting pop out in the cavalcade of disturbing news delivered by the IPCC. Start with the heat: Global surface temperature, the IPCC says with “high confidence” (a measure of the strength of scientific consensus on this assertion), has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2,000 years. Heat is a growth field in the climate realm, and is likely to be shaping every one of the other journalistic beats — with financial, political and health consequences, as this package in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists points out. Heat has even given rise to an entirely new position in municipal government — that of chief heat officers, operating in Southwestern cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles, where they are in charge of helping citizens deal with the health and financial repercussions of increasing temperatures. Hard to think of a more visceral way to illustrate what’s coming our way than figuring out what a resident “heat officer” has to do every day, including on the days when other sides of that coin, the cold and rain, are also made more extreme by climate change. Why the UN is worried about the impact of climate change on women Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 and president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said that 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people are women. Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is what puts the ‘net’ into ‘net zero emissions’. All pathways to limit global warming to 1.5–2 °C above pre-industrial levels that have been assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change require rapid decarbonization to start now. But they also require the removal of CO 2 from the atmosphere because we won’t be able to eliminate carbon emissions entirely on the required time scales. ‘Hard to abate’ sectors such as aviation and shipping will remain large sources of greenhouse gases even in the most optimistic scenarios. Residual emissions will mean that we cannot achieve a zero-emissions goal, and we will need CDR to reach a net-zero target. Historically, this has meant planting or maintaining trees, but removing CO 2 from the atmosphere and storing it in the ground, the ocean or in products will be more durable. Using coffee pods can reduce your carbon footprint—here’s what to know Recent research from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi shows that making coffee using single-serving coffee cups can emit less greenhouse gas than other brewing methods such as using a French press. The entire life cycle of coffee is considered in this study, from the production of the coffee to the packaging, to the waste is creates in the end. Producing 11 grams of Arabica coffee grounds emits 59 grams of CO2e (greenhouse gases equivalent to CO2) while only 27 grams of CO2 are emitted by producing a coffee pod, even accounting for said pod going to a landfill. Additionally, coffee pods allow consumers to optimize water usage, use lower levels of electricity and offer several recycling options. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/4/2162019/-Climate-Justice-amp-Art-Highlight-This-Year-s-Earth-Week Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/