September 2008 - Sustainability

[Sustain] Audio: Carbon Taxes & Trading Will -Not- Work (15 mins)
by Eric Brooks 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi all, Redeye Co-Op radio from Vancouver, Canada had a recent 15 minute program on the climate crisis and why carbon taxes and trading will absolutely not help solve the crisis. To listen go to: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29452 -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Fwd: Monday: "Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas"
by Eric Brooks 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3r0aid%2BvPO4xaPHkOy…> Tell a Friend About GX <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YHdx5ioOZKSHVw%2FnLu…> Go on a Reality Tour <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f5nCx2yf8m49tIFOMdeb…> Global Justice - International CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL EXCHANGE <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4MYuVr7dp1ZK%2Fba%2B…> ***please forward widely*** /*Beyond Elections:** Redefining Democracy in the Americas*/ Film screening and Report-back with Filmmakers, Michael Fox and Silvia Leindecker and Activist, Carlos Martinez /From Venezuela's Communal Councils, to Brazil's Participatory Budgeting, from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere. This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy?/ *Monday, September 29th, 2008 7:00 pm At Global Exchange 2017 Mission St. San Francisco, California * Sílvia Leindecker is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker, philosopher and independent photographer. Michael Fox is a freelance journalist, translator, reporter and documentary filmmaker based in South America. Carlos Martinez will be joining them in the panel following the film. Carlos is the Global Exchange Venezuela Program Director and has been living in Venezuela for the past year. / **Visit www.beyondelections.com <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zwOsyjvFj%2BWtpVS3hv…> for more information** / *Co-sponsors: Global Exchange, Center for Political Education, & Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC)* Global Exchange is an international human rights group that relies on its members - tens of thousands of people like you - to work with us to create social, political and environmental justice. Please become a Global Exchange member today. Your tax-deductible donation helps keep our programs running. Click here to support Global Exchange <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gD5%2FOrQucYjn1Ak6ht…> WWW.GLOBALEXCHANGE.ORG <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=T2uZIpaIBPRDM2Pxpz7R…> Unsubscribe from this list <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mwvGnfztSyHkeYHUBmbM…> -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Joint Transpo/Sustainability Meeting Canceled For Tomorrow
by Eric Brooks 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi all, It looks like election time has us all so over committed right now that there isn't enough critical mass for the regular Transpo/Sustainability meeting tomorrow night. peace Eric B -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Meeting?
by Eric Brooks 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi all, I am going to miss the joint Transpo/Sustainability meeting on the 25th because I need to attend the Power Plant Taskforce meeting. Does someone else want to organize the meeting and be there to open the door etc? Eric B -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Fwd: GEIS ISL Uranium Mining Alert
by Don Eichelberger 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

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[Sustain] Oppose H.R. 6887
by Eric Brooks 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

H.R. 6887 To authorize the President or a designee of the President to waive any legal requirement under any provision of Federal law otherwise applicable to a covered energy project as the President or such designee determines necessary to ensure expeditious conduct of such project, and for other purposes. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-6887 =

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