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US community action news/2020-2021

CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from CASwiki's United States community action article and is for news and comment in that context. Image: San Francisco cable car in 1994. Attribution: Rick Dikeman

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  • News Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out, The Guardian (Oct 17, 2021) — Features activists from Philippines, Australia, India, US, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya and Canada

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Images show decline of California's 'life source', Aug 17, 2021[1]

US heatwave: Wildfires rage in western states as temperatures soar, Jul 11, 2021[2]

Berkeley's Ohlone Park Crop Swap builds community through food, Jul 6, 2021[3]

Jan-Jun 2021

Many things can be a commons - even an ageing commercial oldies radio station. How Radio Kingston (covering NY and the Hudson Valley) became its community's mirror, Jun 18[4]

Hawaii becomes first US state to declare a climate emergency, Apr 29[5]

US pledges to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade, Apr 22[6]

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  • News 'I'm hopeful': Jerome Foster, the 18-year-old helping to craft US climate policy, The Guardian (Apr 13, 2021)

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The Hope for Lasting Change from a South Dallas Mobile Food Park, Apr 7...[7]

Guaranteed Income Increases Employment, Improves Financial and Physical Health, Mar 3...[8]

Biden's climate agenda: Is this the beginning of the end for fossil fuels? Jan 31[9]

Jul-Dec 2020

Joe's not sleepy, but he should wake up to American localism[10] Nov 8

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  • News Why Women Are Biking in Record Numbers in N.Y.C., nytimes.com (Oct 07, 2020)

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Public libraries are giving away an insane amount of free food[11] Sep 29

Global warming driving California wildfire trends say scientists[12] Sep 25

California and Oregon 2020 wildfires in maps, graphics and images[13] Sep 18

Oregon wildfires: Half a million people flee dozens of infernos[14] Sep 11

California wildfires: Smoke turns skies orange[15] Sep 10

The SEED grows: after 2 years of a basic income experiment, the residents of Stockton, Cal., are on the uplift[16] Jul 15

Jul-Dec 2020

Seed libraries help communities grow food in a pandemic[17]Jun 17

It's their religious fervour, and their love of culture, that XR/UK can teach the US green movement[18] Jan 27

"Funky around the edges, humanly fermented, alive". How the Park Slope Food Coop makes a commons (and great produce)[19] Jan 13

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