OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #186, JULY 8, 2024.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #186, JULY 8,  2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE

UNESCO.

Students for a Green New Deal.

Move to Amend (corporations not persons).

 

UNESCO Green Citizens 
A GLOBAL VOICE FOR LOCAL ACTORS OF CHANGE.  July 1, 2024

Dear UNESCO Green Citizens  Time to unwind and explore!  Our latest newsletter edition is brimming with exciting updates, valuable insights, and handy tips for sustainable travel!  With the holiday season approaching for many, let’s immerse ourselves in nature and reflect on how to protect it.  Welcome to this special edition about Biodiversity Education. From building school greenhouses to cultivate sustainable farming practices in Peru, to supporting schools near wildlife habitats in Kenya, discover UNESCO Green Citizens projects sparking environmental awareness in children around the world.     You’ll also find exciting updates from our projects, including a TEDx talk all about zero waste, the latest conservation news, and stories from community members such as Pacha Light  and Tamara Klink  who are leading the charge in environmental action. Finally, read on for the latest from UNESCO news!   Join us in celebrating biodiversity and educating the next generation of environmental stewards!      Keep reading to find out!

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

 

STUDENTS FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL
Student-Led Climate Action Is Flourishing In Florida

By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence.  PopularResistance .org (3-24-24).   The University of Florida made history last month when its student senate became the first at a public university to pass a climate resolution in support of Green New Deal policies. The “Green New Deal for UF” is a statement of support for bold, progressive climate action put forward by students at a time when the far-right holds a near monopoly on power in the state. “This is big news for the climate movement at universities — not just in Florida, but everywhere,” said Cameron Driggers, a UF freshman. “It’s a first of its kind resolution that pushes back against the narrative that some... - more -

“Young people push for a Green New Deal for schools across the U.S.”  YCC TEAM FEBRUARY 23, 2024.   AUDIO. 

As a result of student activism, a school district in Colorado will include climate change in the curriculum and implement clean energy initiatives. Many young people want their schools to help prepare them to face the climate crisis.  So students in the Sunrise Movement have been lobbying their local school boards across the country to pass a Green New Deal for Schools. In the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, they recently celebrated a win.  Student activist Tilly Testa says the new resolution requires the district to implement clean energy initiatives, include climate change in the curriculum, and create disaster plans. . . .

 

6-7-24 MOVE TO AMEND opposes corporate seizure of inalienable constitutional rights and corporate personhood and seeks to build a vibrant democracy that values people over profits. Controlling money creation has made giant (banking) corporations so strong they have succeeded in corrupting the courts into highjacking our constitutional rights.  Corporations now spend all they want on politicians and media, shielded from public accountability.   But it doesn’t have to be this way! That is why we are working to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations (including banks), are persons entitled to constitutional rights as proposed in the We the People Amendment (HJR 54).   Since its inception, we have grown into a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social, environmental and economic justice and we have achieved that by thinking outside the realm of what we’ve been taught to believe is possible and exploring big questions as well as unsettling truths. 

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