Episode 18: News on Banning New Oil and Gas Drilling, Holding Actions Against Land Grabs, and a Moveable Forest
Welcome to news episode no. 2 of Turning Season Podcast, your regular dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning, bringing you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who’s awake to our multiple crises, feels their love for life on Earth, and chooses to participate in cultivating ways of life we can believe in, making a life-honoring present even in the face of an uncertain future.
In today’s quick episodeIn today’s quick episode, 2 stories of Holding Actions (both works in progress), and 1 story that fits into the dimensions of both Life-Sustaining Systems and Shifts in Consciousness:
- Los Angeles bans new oil and gas drilling, and plans to phase out existing wells, thanks to activism in local frontline communities
- Resistance in Ghana, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast to land grabs by global agriculture firms
- and a forest that traveled through a Dutch city for 100 days this summer.
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Read more about Nalleli Cobo and the end of urban oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles:
https://bioneers.org/youth-activism-on-the-frontlines-of-urban-oil-drilling-nalleli-cobo-ztvz2101/
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/no-more-oil-and-gas-drilling-for-l-a
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-15/la-los-angeles-oil-drilling-ban
Read more about communities in Africa standing against land grabs:
Read more about the walking forest in Leeuwarden:
https://dirt.asla.org/2022/08/22/a-walking-forest-in-the-netherlands/
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