A number of NGOs have ranked the worldās ātopā banks on how dirty they are, based on how much money they give to coal projects. The report released by the NGOs is titled, āBankrolling Climate Change.ā Can you guess the top contributors to climate change?
Check out news on the robbing of the United States. Senator Alan Grayson on the same thing, but adding some more info and context: More from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, one of our true leaders in Congress, (and heās got a proposal to solve this problem): More in text on RT. Hereās the intro: We knew
If you havenāt heard by now, credit unions are making a killing off of the fast-growing Occupy Wall Street movement. 650,000 people moved from big banks to credit unions in October, 50,000 more than in ALL of 2010. New deposits totaled $4.5 billion. I think that while big banks arenāt suffering yet, theyāre feeling the
āIt is Bank profits before people.ā āThe banks are above people being able to eat.ā This quote is from an occupy protester as she was interviewed by Amy Goodman for non-profit radio. As Amy let the woman speak, the womanās story unfolds: She has a masterās degree in social work and a student loan dept
Everything is connected: the things we do, the things others do, affect peopleās lives. The aura of our material planet is a body of energy that is part of us and extends around us from the inside out. This connectivity is showing up willfully in our streets. Bill Mikkiben points out: āWe cannot solve the carbon problem until we solve the power problem.ā He also acknowledges the good timing of now-linking movements of activism. The time of putting positive energy into a collective force is in action now as a space to heal these gaping wounds in culture and environment unfolds.
Since we had plenty of news last Friday and I was heading out of town, I decided to leave our weekly roundup of global weirding and environmental news (that we didnāt already cover) to Monday. Hereās the global weirding portion. Climate: Student Reporters Take on Climate Change and Security Coincidences aboundājust after posting an item
Rainforest Action Network has declared yesterday and today, November 15th, as national days of protest against Citibank and Bank of America for their consistent support of the coal industry and its impact on global warming.
