Sunday, April 26, 2015

Town of Newington: Information on Recycling, Hazardous Waste, Sanitation and more

The Sanitation and Recycling Division of the Highway Department.

http://www.newingtonct.gov/content/78/118/130/default.aspx

Newington: CLOTHING/TEXTILE RECYCLING

Newington residents will now have the opportunity to recycle old textiles such as shirts, sweaters, jeans and sneakers as opposed to discarding them in the trash.  Through a partnership with Baystate Textiles residents will now have two locations to recycle unwanted textiles.  Collection boxes will be located at the Senior Center on Cedar St. and the Landfill on Main St (during regular landfill operating hours).

For more details and acceptable items:

http://www.newingtonct.gov/content/78/118/130/24034/default.aspx

Moyers and Company: Interviews with Environmental leaders


Watch online here:

 Moyers on Climate Change, the Environment and What Needs to Be Done: interviews with environmental leaders.  The one on divestment from fossil fuel investments and the one on climate change: faith and fact are very pertinent.

Vice on HBO: Our Rising Oceans: Antarctica is Melting

Watch Debrief of Show:
http://www.hbo.com/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-clip-antarctica-is-melting.html#/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-debrief-our-rising-oceans.html/eNrjcmbO0CzLTEnNd8xLzKksyUx2zs8rSa0oYc5Xz89JgQkGJKan+iXmpjIXsjFyMjKyMbJJJ5aW5BfkJFbalhSVpgIAV3AXOA==


Watch Clip of Antarctica is Melting:
http://www.hbo.com/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-clip-antarctica-is-melting.html#/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-clip-antarctica-is-melting.html/eNrjcmbO0CzLTEnNd8xLzKksyUx2zs8rSa0oYc5Xz89JgQkGJKan+iXmpjIXsjFyMjKyMbJJJ5aW5BfkJFbalhSVpgIAV3AXOA==

Watch Clip of Climate Change Deniers:
http://www.hbo.com/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-clip-antarctica-is-melting.html#/vice/episodes/03/23-our-rising-oceans/video/ep-301-clip-climate-change-deniers.html/eNrjcmbO0CzLTEnNd8xLzKksyUx2zs8rSa0oYc5Xz89JgQkGJKan+iXmpjIXsjFyMjKyMbJJJ5aW5BfkJFbalhSVpgIAV3AXOA==

Vice on HBO: Watch Our HBO Report on Greenland's Melting Glaciers

Watch here online:

http://www.vice.com/video/greenland-is-melting-bonded-labor-000

Vice on HBO: Watch Our HBO Report on the Worst Drought in Texas's History

Watch here online:

http://www.vice.com/video/watch-our-hbo-report-on-texas-worst-drought-in-history-815

Vice on HBO: Watch Our HBO Report on the Lasting Effects of the BP Oil Spill

Watch here online:

http://www.vice.com/video/watch-our-hbo-report-on-the-lasting-effects-of-the-bp-oil-spill-915

Moyers and Company Video: Climate Change: Faith and Fact

September 10, 2014

http://billmoyers.com/segment/climate-change-faith-and-fact/


The latest in a string of dire reports on climate change came this week from the United Nations’ meteorological advisory body, which said that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, due to a “surge” in carbon dioxide, prompting fears of an accelerated warming of the planet.
A majority of Americans think global warming is real and that human activity’s a factor, believing in the science behind reports on climate change. But some two-thirds of white evangelical Christians aren’t convinced.
In the face of those who use religion to deny the worldwide crisis of climate change, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian, believes that her faith is compatible with science. This week she speaks to Bill about ending the gridlock between science and religion in order to find solutions to the widespread threats associated with global warming.
“…The New Testament talks about how faith is the evidence of things not seen,” says Hayhoe, who was recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. “By definition, science is the evidence of things that are seen, that can be observed, that are quantifiable. And so that’s why I see faith and science as two sides of the same coin.”

Eco-Justice Ministries Eco Justice Notes: Subordinate Clause and Our Children's Children

Subordinate Clause
http://www.eco-justice.org/E-110812.asp

Our Children's Children 
http://www.eco-justice.org/E-140131.asp

Conflicting priorities:
  1. I will do what I can to preserve our way of life while I work for the health of the planet.
  2. I will do what I can to work for the health of the planet while I preserve our way of life.

Eco-Justice Notes Archive:
http://www.eco-justice.org/E-list.asp


Eco-Justice Ministries is an independent, ecumenical agency that helps churches answer the call to care for all of God's creation, and develop ministries that are faithful, relevant and effective in working toward social justice and environmental sustainability.

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Yale Report: Climate Change in the American Christian Mind

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/climate-change-in-the-american-christian-mind

We are pleased to release the first report,"Climate Change in the American Christian Mind," from our most recent national survey of global warming opinion. Many Americans draw, at least in part, upon their religious beliefs to guide their understanding and interpretation of climate change causes, impacts, and solutions. This report examines the global warming beliefs, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and related moral values of three major groups of American Christians – Catholics, non-evangelical Protestants, and evangelicals. It also investigates how these groups currently view Pope Francis and the extent to which he is considered a trusted voice on the issue of global warming.

Yale Report - Climate Change in the American Mind, March 2015

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/Global-Warming-CCAM-March-2015/

Today we are releasing results from our latest national survey, conducted in March 2015. Nearly two-thirds of the American public (63%) currently think global warming is happening, a percentage that has remained relatively stable over the past five years. Similarly, the percentage of the public who think that if global warming is happening, it is mostly human caused (52%) has also remained relatively unchanged.

For Survey results in the Yale Climate Opinion Maps:
http://environment.yale.edu/poe/v2014/

To narrow down map to CT results, double-click on CT on the map

A World of Solutions: The U.N. Climate Sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5DxojGAEI

A week after the short film What's Possible opened the U.N. Climate Summit, Lyn Lear and director Louie Schwartzberg are back with a sequel that expands on their vision for climate change solutions.

Lear wrote in The Huffington Post:

Director Louie Schwartzberg and I had similar visions about the beauty and natural violence of evolution and the millions of years it took before human beings arrived on this planet. Then beginning with the Industrial Revolution, in less than two hundred years, man had almost brought this beautiful, complex creation to the brink of extinction. Inconceivable…right?

We wanted to show that we are still in peril, but more, we have the means to solve our problems in the present. There are many reasons to be optimistic and hopeful.

Part of that hope was to make a comparison of the semi-conscious mycelium root/soil system of the earth that feeds all plant life to the burgeoning Internet-connected global society we are evolving into today. If we could learn to use the Internet and mass media wisely we could be a powerful means for good and for progress.  

Learn more about climate change, and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE: The U.N. Climate Summit Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vaajVtgRuI

Presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, this short inspirational film shows that climate change is solvable. We have the technology to harness nature sustainably for a clean, prosperous energy future, but only if we act now. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it calls on the people of the world to insist leaders get on the path of a livable climate and future for humankind.

Learn more about climate change and take action at takepart.com/climate.

WHAT'S POSSIBLE was created by a team including director Louie Schwartzberg, producer Lyn Davis Lear, writer Scott Z. Burns, Moving Art Studio, and the Lear Family Foundation.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Home, the Film

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.