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Sierra Club

10 hrs · 

Huge victory! Shell announced it will end drilling in the Arctic. Take action to keep it safe from more drilling forever: http://bit.ly/1QJ8NyS ‪#‎ShellNo‬

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Earthjustice

9 hrs · 

VICTORY: The Arctic and all the people and wildlife that call it home scored a massive win today as Shell pulled the plug on its risky offshore drilling plans! http://ejus.tc/1O50Rub

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Earthjustice

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BREAKING NEWS! After years of legal battles, Shell is abandoning drilling in the Arctic Ocean in light of disappointing results from one of its exploratory wells. The oil company’s departure removes for now a major threat to the region's wildlife AND helps us avoid the worst effects of climate change, which comes from burning fossil fuels in vulnerable regions.http://ejus.tc/1O50Rub

Credit also goes to all of you for speaking out and taking action! Public pressure on the Obama administration was key towards raising the profile of Arctic Ocean drilling. It’s time for President Obama to advance his climate change success by investing even more in clean energy and putting an end to Arctic Ocean drilling for good!

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Greenpeace USA and 2 others shared a link.

No More Arctic Drilling Attempts For Shell

Shell's multi-billion dollar investment off Alaska comes to a fruitless close — for now.

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  Greenpeace USA

  11 hrs · 

  HUGE NEWS. Shell just announced it will stop drilling in the Alaskan Arctic. They had a budget of billions, but we had a movement of millions. This is YOUR victory! Today, the people won.

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  Greenpeace USA with Alan Dawson

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  Today marks a historic victory in the fight to rein in runaway climate change. We can thank grassroots activism for the "challenging regulatory environment" Shell cites in its decision to halt Arctic oil drilling. This happened because YOU took action.

  The fight against corporate greed and to protect our planet isn't near over. Are you in? >> http://bit.ly/1L16Eyl

  
  

  

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  Greenpeace USA with Samantha Ann Rafferty and 5 others

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  Amazing news! Shell is leaving the Arctic and will abandon Arctic drilling "for the foreseeable future."

  People around the world stood up against Arctic drilling, and the people WON! Now, tell President Obama to protect the Arctic and our climate FOREVER: http://bit.ly/1Lh23KB

  
  

  

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BIG NEWS: Shell has announced it is pulling out of the Arctic! Turns out, there actually isn't that much oil and gas there.

This is a MASSIVE win against the fossil fuel industry. Thanks to everyone who stood up to this project!

Shell spent 7 years and $7 billion on this project -- now imagine if that had been spent on renewable energy...

Americans Against Fracking and 3 others shared Greenpeace USA'sphoto.

Greenpeace USA with Jane Warrem and 23 others

BREAKING: Shell has pulled out of the Arctic "for the foreseeable future."

This. Is. Huge.

Read more: http://bit.ly/1QImg9Y

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  Americans Against Fracking shared Greenpeace USA'sphoto.

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  This is fantastic news — Big congrats to everyone, especiallyGreenpeace USA, who worked hard to keep Shell out of the Arctic!

  
  

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Making Capitalism Work for Everyone Robert Reich: Americans pay more for broadband Internet, food, airline tickets, and banking services than the citizens of any other advanced nation. READ MORE shared from

MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2015 Hippies Won the Culture War W.J. Rorabaugh: The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Making Capitalism Work for Everyone Robert Reich: Americans pay more for broadband Internet, food, airline tickets, and banking services than the citizens of any other advanced nation. READ MORE With Outside Experts, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener Laura Finley: Bringing in a national speaker to talk about a local problem often fails to inspire attendees to see how they can take action in their communities. READ MORE Turning Health Care Into a Business Walter M. Brasch:Health care has evolved from care and compassion to the surgical sterility of a business model, where liquidity, maximizing profits, and return on investment become the fabric and glue of health care practices. READ MORE Why Inner City Schools Keep Failing Leonard Isenberg: The willingness of minority leadership to sell out the inherent intelligence of Black and Latino children to assure that they never reach their potential is both deplorable and at the same time a negation of racism. READ HERE

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The Movement for a Balanced Transportation Future In the San Diego Region

The Movement for a Balanced Transportation Future In the San Diego Region

Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:36 AM PDT

By Monique López, policy advocate at Environmental Health Coalition 

We all need to move, and how we move influences our quality of life. The time of our commute, the safety of our sidewalks, the quality of our air and the type of transportation options we have determine how well we live our lives. On October 9, 2015, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) will decide how to invest $204 billion into our region’s transportation infrastructure. This decision is critical to our livelihood. That much investment will have a tremendous impact on the lives of everyone in our region, particularly the lives of those in San Diego’s urban core where freeways intersect neighborhoods and transit, biking and walking infrastructure is scarce. How these funds are invested will determine whether our region takes a step toward becoming a forward-thinking, sustainable place or whether we remain driving in circles, stuck in the incessant traffic jam that is our car-first mentality.  [Read more...]

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Congressional Values: “Zippidy do-da, zippidy day.” Posted: 28 Sep 2015 10:30 AM PDT By Doug Porter Speaker of the House John Boehner was singing the classic Disney ditty as he walked in for a Friday morning press conference where he shocked just about everybody by announcing his resignation. While Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is considered a probable successor to Boehner as Speaker, it’s worthwhile to look at the recently concluded 10th annual Value Voters Summit for some context about the changes taking place. It was, after all, the crowd at the political conference for American social conservative activists that gave a standing ovation after hearing news of the Ohio congressman’s resignation.   [Read more...]

Taking the Leap: Imagine a New World Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:37 AM PDT By Jim Miller Last week the Pope came to America and delivered his groundbreaking message about the interrelated problems of climate change and economic inequality as well as the moral imperative to act to address them.   We heard this message at the same time we learned that we have lost half the world’s marine animals since 1970 and that Exxon’s own research had confirmed the human role in climate changedecades ago even as they were heavily funding efforts to block solutions.  During all of this, we were also reminded that every GOP candidate for President has absolutely nothing to offer in the face of this deadly threat.   Clearly we need to change the game and do it quickly.  But how?     [Read more...]

Carlsbad Referendum Signatures Stun Caruso, City Council Pals Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:37 AM PDT

Strawberry Field Owner's Campaign Donations Revealed

By Richard Riehl It must have been quite a shock for L.A.'s Caruso Affiliated executives to see the stack of signed petitions delivered to the Carlsbad city clerk's office last Thursday. The 9,000 signers of the referendum petition are calling for a public vote on the developer's plan for a lagoon-view shopping center, as promised in the title of the initiative, Measure to be Submitted Directly to the Voters. When the Carlsbad city Council unanimously approved his plan on August 25, Caruso had already spent nearly $3 million on signature gatherers and a blizzard of glossy, full-color mailers to persuade 20,000 Carlsbadians that his plan to build a shopping mall was all about saving the Strawberry Fields. The day after the council voted, a grassroots group, Citizens for North County, announced its plan to launch a referendum drive. Caruso had to redouble his marketing campaign. But this time his mailers, accompanied by daily prime time TV ads, featured headshot photos of and quotes from all five city Council members, as well as the owner of the Strawberry Fields. Each repeated the lie that signing the referendum would destroy the Strawberry Fields, despite the promise of Prop D to preserve them, passed by voters in 2006. The Caruso mailer included a detachable, postage-paid card to return to the city clerk for signers of the referendum to have their names withdrawn.   [Read more...]

The Movement for a Balanced Transportation Future In the San Diego Region Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:36 AM PDT By Monique López, policy advocate at Environmental Health Coalition We all need to move, and how we move influences our quality of life. The time of our commute, the safety of our sidewalks, the quality of our air and the type of transportation options we have determine how well we live our lives. On October 9, 2015, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) will decide how to invest $204 billion into our region’s transportation infrastructure. This decision is critical to our livelihood. That much investment will have a tremendous impact on the lives of everyone in our region, particularly the lives of those in San Diego’s urban core where freeways intersect neighborhoods and transit, biking and walking infrastructure is scarce. How these funds are invested will determine whether our region takes a step toward becoming a forward-thinking, sustainable place or whether we remain driving in circles, stuck in the incessant traffic jam that is our car-first mentality.  [Read more...]

California’s Renewables Progress Commendable But Emission Of Global CO2 Still Exponential Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:51 AM PDT By Frank Thomas California continues its remarkable legislative breakthroughs in going green under the SB 350 Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015. Legislation just passed sets two goals for 2030: 50% of state utility power from renewables and a 50% increase in energy efficiency of buildings. The provision for a 50% reduction in petroleum use for cars and trucks failed to pass as did the SB 32 bill that sets GHG emission targets for 2030 and 2050. Still, the sweeping new mandates passed call for DOUBLING energy efficiency and using renewables for HALF of California’s electricity generation by 2030. It is uncertain how fast and to what extent transportation electrification will proceed California's aim to step up its commitment to clean energy acknowledges the scientific reality we humans don't have the luxury of lots of time to transition FAST to renewable energy and much improved energy efficiency.   [Read more...]

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