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By Gretchen Bakke, Klaus Jacob, Ben Franta, Romany Webb
| franknews.us
This interview with Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid, and visiting professor of anthropology at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at Humboldt University in Berlin. , Humboldt University, Berlin Germany, was conducted and condensed by franknews. This interview was originally published in February 2019. frank: I have your book here, it's such a great framing piece that simplifies something so complicated. GB: Incredibly complicated.
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Earth Day at 50 | Spotlight | BillMoyers.com

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By Kathleen Rogers, John Light Verified, Ben Franta, Karin Kamp
| BillMoyers.com
“A unique day in American history…a day set aside for a nationwide outpouring of mankind seeking its own survival..a day dedicated to enlisting all the citizens of a bountiful country in a common cause of saving life from the deadly bi-products of that bounty: the fouled skies, the filthy waters, the littered earth.” That was how Walter Cronkite described the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Today marks the 50th anniversary of that nationwide day of action.
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Why I Got Arrested For Earth Day

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By Ben Franta
| BillMoyers.com
This Earth Day, take risks so your children don’t have to. The world is finally waking up to the reality of climate change. Last year in Paris, nations at last agreed to limit warming to two degrees Celsius – and one and a half degrees if possible. After decades of equivocation, the world has formally announced its aspiration to fix the climate problem. Such aspirations are not equivalent to action. Yet they set the stage for action. And that is where we all have a part to play.
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