Climate Change

Happy 6th Anniversary Peoples Climate March: 2014 – 2020

September 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Link Table Of Contents: -Bill McKibben with Curt Collier Introduction…….1:50:11-19:29:23 -Ambassador Marlene Moses……….19:32:19 – 32:01:09 -Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy………32:06:17 – 46:20:10 -The Peoples Climate March……….46:28:05 – 55:38:17 6 years ago on Sunday, September 21, 2014-400,000 climate change believers from many walks of life marched in Manhattan from Columbus Circle to 34th Street to show their support for action. This encore video presentation of that event, which was first [...]

Climate Emergency and the Green New Deal: Centering the Voices of Movements

December 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

((Table of Contents at Bottom)) On the evening of Thursday, September 5, Bronx Climate Justice North and co-hosts held a panel event designed to work with communities in New York City and beyond to envision the strongest possible Green New Deal from the perspective of social movements — Progressive Labor, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Youth, and Ecosocialism. As yet, the Green New Deal is just a dream. But it has already become a battleground between those who would co-opt it for a version of “green capitalism” that will ensure climate [...]

Greta Thunberg @ S20 Rally

August 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

This video by Peter Eliscu captures Greta Thunberg a few days after she landed by solar sail boat in NYC. The yacht Malizia II is fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines and so avoids generating carbon dioxide. For those of you who may not know about her, she’s from Sweden, born in 2003 and has been a climate activist since 2015, calling on her fellow students to gather on “Fridays For The Future”, taking off from school to protest the lack of effective action on climate change. The action is called: The School Climate Strike Movement. She has been invited to [...]

Climate Change and Flooding Part 1

August 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Graniteville Swamp area, as it’s known locally in Staten Island, continues their fight to preserve their wetlands and forests for a number of reasons, from disappearing to builders to increasing their risk of flooding. In this case, a new BJ’s. This video covers some of their event, which includes a presentation of Bill McKibben’s video: Do The Math, along with 3 other Hurricane Sandy videos, followed by a discussion with Carl Alderson from the National Oceanic and Atomspheric Administration (NOAA), and still another presenter with audience Q & A. And a computer was [...]

Green New Deal Town Hall NYC April 26 2019

April 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Green New Deal Town Hall in New York City April 26, 2016 Welcome by Allison Hirsch. Moderator Beta Coronel of 350.org. Speakers, in order, Jumaane Williams, Public Advocate, Aracely Jimenez Sunrise Movement, William Aristapolis 32BJ Superintendant, Ari Lieberman, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, and Rep Jerry Nadler. Hosted by 32BJ SEIU, Sunrise Movement NYC, Indivisible Nation BK, One Queens Indivisible, 350 BK. Cosponsored by: Sunrise Columbia, Sunrise Sarah Lawrence, 350 NYC, Empire State Indivisible, Indivisible Brooklyn video by Joe [...]

Staten Island Environmental Fair

April 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

The First Environmental Fair on Staten Island has made a video to advertise its event. Two groups have made this happen: Staten Island Coalition for Wetlands and Forests (SICWF) and the Natural Resources Protective Association (NRPA). The Film, Paris to Pittsburg, will be shown along with presentations by government officials, doctors and scientists and tabling by environmental groups. THE ADMISSION IS FREE. Saturday, May 11, 2019 from 9 AM to Noon on the grounds of SI University Hospital at the Regina McGinn Educational Center-475 Seaview Avenue, 10309 For more details [...]

Congratulations NIRS-40th Anniversary

September 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Nuclear Information and Resource Service, NIRS, is 40 years young this day and year. This video showcases one of the events that they were involved in during the “March For A Clean Energy Revolution” on Sunday, July 24, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and sends them congratulations for their efforts and accomplishments. Tim Judson, the Executive Director, and Diane D’Arrigo from NIRS, along with Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear, Jessica Azulay of Alliance for a Green Economy, Nancy Vann, Gary Shaw and Jeanne Shaw from the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition and [...]

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

May 1, 2018 // 0 Comments

On Monday, April 23, 2018, Peter Eliscu captured the rally, “Gov. Cuomo Walk The Talk”, on the streets of Albany and in the capitol’s rotunda. Environmentalists from many groups marched to advocate for sustainable renewable promises made by the governor and to stop financing and using fossil fuels and their infra-structures throughout NYS. Cynthia Nixon, James Cromwell, actor/activist, Jonathan Kirsch, the young environmental author of, “Age Of Suicide”, and long time environmental activists Ray Kemble of Pennsylvania and Ted Glick of New Jersey, can be [...]

Ken Gale: Global Warming and Hurricanes

October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Did climate chaos cause any of this summer’s hurricanes? Yes. Which one? That’s the wrong question. Ken Gale connects the dots between hurricanes, climate chaos, air pollution from China, El Nino, La Nina, and energy use and gives some advice on how you can lower your own greenhouse gas footprint and save money, too. At New York City Friends of Clearwater on Sept. 22, 2017, Judson Memorial Church, Greenwich Village, New York [...]

Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power: An Introduction-Part 2

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

This video is an introduction to the problems/challenges of both fossil fuels and nuclear power. Part-2, herein, is with Dr. Gordon Edwards speaking about nuclear power. Part-1, a separate video, which can be seen at the link below, has Dr. Courtney Williams speaking about Fossil Fuels and their growing infrastructures. Both experts include the human history of living with feeling the risks and effects associated with these fuels in the short term and through the thousands of years of monitoring and decommissioning some of them require. Dr. Edwards talks of radiation, [...]

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