📢🚨: Governments United Nations have just agreed on a Global Ocean Treaty! 🌍

🎉 This is huge — it’s the biggest conservation victory ever! 🎉

Here’s a short 🧵 on how we got here and what it means!

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NEW: Banks claim to be funding the 'transition' to clean energy

But new research shows that only 7% of their funding for energy goes towards renewables

93% is still supporting fossil fuel companies to produce more fossil fuels 😲 reuters.com/business/susta…

nytimes.com/2023/01/17/opi…

Out now in the peer-reviewed journal Patterns: Cryptocurrencies on the road to sustainability: Ethereum paving the way for Bitcoin cell.com/patterns/fullt…

ETH showed it’s possible to replace PoW with PoS and realize 99.84-9.9996% electricity savings. It’s time BTC does the same.

NEW: Drax has been accused of driving “environmental racism” after a Unearthed investigation by Sam Quashie-Idun and @Cdeane__ revealed that the power company has agreed a $3.2m settlement over toxic emissions in the US Deep South. Watch and share our latest video now.

🌳 It's time to talk about blockchain and the environment.

In the first of a miniseries from the Solana Podcast, Rolf Skar Daniel Hwang (🌳,🌳) talk with Amira V Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 about crypto, climate, & Greenpeace USA's Change the Code program.

🎧 Listen podcast.solana.com/episodes/green…

Earthjustice and Sierra Club just released the first comprehensive guidebook on the environmental and community impacts of proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining. #CryptoClimateBomb 🧵

earthjustice.org/crypto

BREAKING: What is the #EthereumMerge , and why should climate activists care about it?

Bitcoin still uses more electricity than ENTIRE COUNTRIES, but @Ethereum just proved that cryptocurrency doesn’t have to come at the cost of a livable planet.

The work is not done, but this is a milestone worth celebrating!

There's wishful thinking and denial, then there's reality. Change The Code

Bitcoin miners are taking advantage of the energy crisis in Texas while taxpayers struggle to pay high electric bills.

Riot benefited from July's heatwave by releasing electricity back to the grid, selling it for “50 or more times the low fixed price.”
fortune.com/2022/08/13/rio…

READ:The oil & gas industry loves to use baseless claims of job destruction to scare the @CALegislature when climate comes up. So I joined Nayamin Martinez CCEJN to show how ending neighborhood drilling can protect both workers & communities. #SetbacksNow bit.ly/3ws2j4W

The wake-up calls for humanity keep coming - time to stop hitting the snooze button! Action now, especially phasing out fossil fuels & stopping destruction of natural ecosystems can limit the damage of climate crisis that is already upon us. npr.org/2022/08/30/112…

'This means Riot was still able to mine millions in bitcoin and have the energy bill for July paid for by Texan tax dollars.'

This is absurd. Texans should not subsidize Bitcoin mining profits while the cost of their electricity bills are up 50%. pcgamer.com/texas-paid-thi…

“More than 2M of California's residents live within 3200’ of oil drilling sites, which studies show can cause increased risk for birth defects, cancer, respiratory problems...” - as reported by the AP

This is why Senator Monique Limón and I + many colleagues are authoring #SB1137 🍃

On August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act finally guaranteed African Americans the right to vote.

Now, our Democracy Director, Folabi Olagbaju, reflects on this imperiled right at the foundation of all our others.

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Deforestation doesn't just make the climate & extinction crises worse...violence & human rights abuses are part of the toll. news.mongabay.com/2022/08/organi…

Breaking: We just launched a new click2tweet app to call on EV auto manufacturers to come out against #deepseamining !

🏁 Let’s win the race to stop #DSM before it starts! Check out how each car company ranks & tweet at the worst performers. bit.ly/3zsM0GQ
#RaceToTheTop

California’s wildfires are getting bigger. More destructive. They’ve wiped whole communities off the map.

Oil drilling is #FuelingTheFlames . Go to fuelingtheflames.org to tell Gavin Newsom: STOP permitting more drilling!

On the list of what not to do during the climate crisis: nytimes.com/2022/07/24/wor…