🌠We are the cosmos

Jul 28, 2022

ed. 186 Thursday July 28th 2022

in partnership with Make My Money Matter

🌠 Good evening cosmic travelers,

It’s high time we remembered we are one with the cosmos. ✨ Did you know that scientists so far have discovered 100 billion stars in the milky way and 100 billion neurons in a human brain? Or that the human placenta is dubbed the tree of life? Coincidence? We don’t think so…
We are the cosmos
We are nature
We are ecosystems
We are the oceans
We are life
We are one with every living being and life on this planet. Once we truly realize this peace and wellbeing follow. We can thrive with nature once we accept that we’re one.

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This Week in Climate News:

🖼️ Climate activists glue themselves to a Botticelli masterpiece at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
⚫ Blackouts in China as heatwave pushes electricity usage to record levels.
🇮🇹 Italian government to pay workers furlough if they cannot work due to temperatures over 35°C.
🔥 Wildfires ravage California, near Yosemite, forcing thousands to evacuate.
🪥 California passes first sweeping US law to reduce single-use plastic, putting economic responsibility on producers instead of tax payers.

📈 Cool Trends:

🌲 Countries granting constitutional rights to nature: Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Chile.
🍙 Seaweed edible plastic

☮️ Let’s Remember that Woodstock Was a Protest

History has conveniently eliminated from our shared memory that Woodstock, perhaps the USA’s most famous event, was actually a protest against the Vietnam war. Half a million people gathered in Bethel New York in 1969 in peaceful protest against the government’s actions.

Several of the headlining artists gave anti-war speeches, and policemen were confused by the peaceful and dancing attitude of the protest goers. Could non-violent, dance protest instigate change? Check out Rave Revolution if you’re intrigued!

💰 Make My Money Matter

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Did you know that in the UK for every £10 you put in your pension, £2 is linked to deforestation? Make My Money Matter is a campaign to ensure that the trillions of pounds invested through pensions help build a better world instead.

How?
MMMM is on a mission to democratize the financial system, so that every day savers have more say in how their money is invested, and businesses are able to align their investments with their values.

Successes so far:

Over 100 organisations from IKEA to Tesco, Oxfam to WWF have joined MMMM Green Pensions Charter: a public declaration of businesses and NGOs committing to align their pensions to green their company pensions, and leading pension providers.
They’ve managed to mobilise over 40 leading pension funds representing over 1 trillion in assets under management to commit to robust net zero targets.

🤯 Did you know that having a green pension is 21x more effective at cutting your carbon footprint that going veggie, stop flying and switching to a renewable energy provider, COMBINED?
Take their 21x challenge to make sure your pension is not undermining your efforts to go green!

Take the 21x Challenge