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Africa: Finance Boost Crucial to Get All On Board for Net-Zero Emissions, Says UN Chief
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Barcelona -- Addressing Earth Day summit, Antonio Guterres calls on G7 leaders at June meeting to deliver on unmet promise of $100 billion a year to help poorer nations tackle climate change
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Syracuse's Plymouth Congregational Church Prepares To Install Its First African American Pastor - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
One of Syracuse’s oldest and more progressive churches will celebrate the installation Sunday of its senior pastor…nearly 17 months after he first began
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Air Pollution Listed As the Cause Of Death For 9-Year Old UK Girl Who Lived In Toxic Environment
Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah life in an area rife with dirty air.
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Democratic State Sen. Lena Taylor running for lieutenant governor
A Democratic state senator from Milwaukee announced Monday, October 4, 2021, she is a candidate for Wisconsin lieutenant governor. Sen. Lena Taylor made her announcement on the steps of the state Capitol in Madison. She would be the state's first Black female lieutenant governor. Incumbent Mandela
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CCAC’s Erin McClain named Two-Year College Honors Student of the Year | New Pittsburgh Courier
The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Community College of Allegheny County student Erin McClain has been named the 2021 Honors Student of the Year in the Two-Year Institution category by the Northeast Regional Honors Council (NRHC). The NRHC annually recognizes two students as Student of the
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Cob Structures House Kitchen, Clinic, Shower, in West Oakland Homeless Community
Members of three organizations – Artists Building Communities, Essential Food and Medicine, and Living Earth Structures – have built a kitchen, clinic, free store, stage, toilet, oven, and shower with and for a homeless community near Wood Street in West Oakland. Made out of wood covered in brown
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Video of St. John Girl's Song Shows "Kids Can Make a Difference”
On Earth Day 2020, Elena Magnie, who was 10 years old at the time, felt a call to take action. “Grownups make most of our decisions, and sometimes they don’t see kids as responsible or able to make a difference,” she said. “I wanted to tell kids they can.”
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Not So Balloonatic: How Fleets Of High-Tech Balloons Could Scrub CO2 From The Air
By Abigail Klein Leichman In the same way that too much dressing ruins a salad, too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere ruins the air. This is one of the main drivers of today's environmental crisis. Climate scientists agree that in addition to preventing further damage to our
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Africa: UN Chief Invites Young Climate Activists to Meet, Give Input
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The youth advisory group of seven is tasked with providing perspectives and ideas to help scale up climate action
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New program mobilizes elementary students to act on environmental issues - WS Chronicle
Local non-profit Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) is launching a new program to promote environmental literacy, stewardship, and action among elementary-aged students in the Piedmont Triad - Young Eco
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Puff, Puff, Stop | The Madison Times
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Ban on Menthol Cigarettes and the Black Community When you don’t smoke, it seems extremely weird to see people smoking in public. At first glance, second-hand smoke has become a second-hand thought ever since we changed Wisconsin’s laws around public
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16-year old climate activist on mission to replant trees in Uganda | Africanews
Leah is getting her environmental message out with a regular initiative called Fridays for Future. It involves lake shore clean ups, planting trees together, spreading awareness in schools and climate strikes.
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EarthXR Launches Wild at Home, the First Virtual Nature Reserve | Dallas Weekly
360° Immersive Videos by Wild Immersion on EarthXR.org Bring the Beauty of Africa, the Amazon, and Asia to Your Device   EarthXR, the interactive arm of EarthxFilm, is partnering with Wild Immersion, endorsed by Jane Goodall, for the launch of Wild at Home September 21 to kickoff Climate Week. Wild
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PROTECT, PRESERVE AND RESPECT OUR MOTHER EARTH | The Crusader Newspaper Group
On April 22, 2021, our planet, called Earth, also known as Gaia by the Greeks or Asase Yaa in the Akan tradition, celebrated the 51st anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day was established in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, Senator Gaylord
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Local firm makes trek to sustainability
THIS YEAR marks 30 years since Environmental Solutions Limited (ESL) put the ‘open’ sign on their doors and a ‘closed’ sign is nowhere on the horizon, even with the bracing reality of the global COVID-19 pandemic. With the mission to ‘provide...
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Caribbean Green Technology Center Presents Sustainability Webinar
The Virgin Islands can create a more sustainable and healthier community by adopting practices being followed in other island communities around the world, according to a the Caribbean Green Technology Center webinar.
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Mask Up MKE: Yeah, I Said It! | The Madison Times
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor In the last few weeks, my office has received requests to “do everything within your power to stop mask mandates.” The requests have not been limited to my constituents and they fluctuate between hostile and genuinely distressed. Often, I read them
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Earth Day Latest: 14 million South Africans go to bed hungry
Environmentalists have called on the government to take climate change seriously and to focus on building just food systems on Earth Day.
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 OP-ED: Earth Day Is for Us. Here’s How You Can Celebrate Every Day.  | New Pittsburgh Courier
By Pashon Murray & Nya Marshall  The first Earth Day was observed in the U.S. 50 years ago. The way the history is told, a group of environmentalists had noticed America’s obsession with diesel fuels, inefficient vehicles, and mass consumption—and they thought it could lead to environmental trouble
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Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Game Promotes Diversity While Protecting the Earth - Milwaukee Community Journal
We Are The Caretakers Defends the World on Steam Early Access on Earth Day 10% of Game’s Revenues Support Wildlife Conservation Network ANN ARBOR, MI – March 14, 2021 – We Are The Caretakers, the sci-fi turn-based tactical RPG set in an afrofuturist world from developer Heart Shaped Games, begins
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Drug Paraphernalia or Life Saver? | The Madison Times
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Drug abuse is not new. From morphine to “molly”, there have been any number of medical and illicit substances that have commanded our attention. We’ve been given a front row seat to observe the devastating impact they have had on our community. Just
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Concerns About 5G Technology Remain | The Madison Times
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor In 2019, I stood on the senate floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol and argued against the passage of Senate Bill 239. The bill, which was being rushed through the legislature, raised a myriad of questions for me about the installation of 5G cell
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Video of St. John Girl's Song Shows "Kids Can Make a Difference”
On Earth Day 2020, Elena Magnie, who was 10 years old at the time, felt a call to take action. “Grownups make most of our decisions, and sometimes they don’t see kids as responsible or able to make a difference,” she said. “I wanted to tell kids they can.”
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Unite 4 Democracy presents ‘Pack the Polls Car Parade’
On Saturday, October 24, 2020, Unite 4 Democracy hosted 'Pack the Polls,' a non-partisan event held in more than 20 communities across Wisconsin. The Milwaukee locations included Midtown Mall, 5700 Capitol Dr.; Washington Park, Corner of Lisbon Ave. and Lloyd St.; and Clinton Rose Senior
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Crude Prosperity: Hess Oil on St. Croix (Part Five)
This historical six-part series explores three moments in the past century – VI Corp, Harvey Aluminum, and Hess Oil – where frustration with the given situation boiled over into radical change.
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'He Giving Charity and Got a Ticket': Rich The Kid Fined for Throwing Wads of Cash In Los Angeles Neighborhood
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Africa: UK Enshrines News Target in Law to Slash Emission
[The Point] The UK Government will set the world's most ambitious climate change target into law to reduce emissions by 78 percent by 2035 compared to 1990 levels, announced today (Tuesday 20 April).
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Africa: Data Visualization Reveals Impacts of Climate Change On Displacement
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Biden aims for most ambitious US effort on climate change - Black News Channel
By MATTHEW DALY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In what would the most ambitious U.S. effort ever to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines
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