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OCA at the historic COP 16 Climate Conference in Cancun
In 1999 and 2003, the OCA helped organize protests and teach-ins against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and Cancun. The "Battle of Seattle", as it came to be known, and subsequent mobilizations were the coming of age of the global grassroots.
In 2010, OCA Director Ronnie Cummins and other OCA staff led an escorted delegation to the historic teach-ins and rallies for climate justice and organic agriculture at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.
Over 100,000 concerned citizens from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia are converge on Cancun, including leading farm, food, Fair Trade, climate justice, and anti-GE activists. Thel attenedd a wide range of workshops, forums, and cultural events. Following up on the theme of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, "Another World is Possible," the emphasis in Cancun was on presenting solutions and alternatives to the climate crisis.
The OCA delegation partnered with OCA's Mexico sister organization, Via Organica.
Books
OCA Director Ronnie Cummins' Essential Reads on Agriculture and Climate Change
- Diet for a Hot Planet - by Anna Lappe
- Plan B 4.0 - by Lester Brown
- Plan C: Community Survival Strategies - by Pat Murphy
- Eaarth - by Bill McKibben
- Eating Fossil Fuels - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- Confronting Collapse - by Michael Ruppert
- The Biochar Debate - by James Bruges
- Food Rebellions - by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change - by Robert Henson
- Blue Covenant - Maude Barlow
- Soil Not Oil - Vandana Shiva
- Boiling Point - Ross Gelbspan
- What We Leave Behind - Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay
- The Vegetarian Myth - Lierre Keith
- The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain
Times - Carol Deppe
Find these and more at the OCA's Books We Like page!
PRESENTATIONS
- Regenerative 21st Century Farming: A Solution to Global Warming & The Organic Green Revolution
- Climate Change and Agriculture: Time for a Paradigm Shift
Materials
- The Climate-Friendly Gardener Guide
- Farming Futures Fact Sheets
- Cool Farming: Climate Impacts of Agriculture and Mitigation Potential (PDF)
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
- Fighting Global Warming at the Farmer's Market PDF
- Good Food We Can Afford Today and Tomorrow PDF
- Book: The War on Bugs
- The False Promise of Biofuels - PDF
Links
- Promoting Refillable Beverage Containers
- 1 Sky
- 350.org
- Global Response Network
- Take a Bite Out of Climate Change Blog
- Mother Earth News' Environmental Events Calendar
- Greenpeace
- Redefining Progress
- Environmental
Working Group - Rainforest Action Network
- Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change - The Green
Home Guide - The Global
Footprint Network - Biofuels Guide
- Energy (r)Evolution
- Friends of the Earth
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Earth Island Institute
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- Wild Earth Guardians
- Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily
- Save Our Environment
- Eco 20/20
- Global Response Network
- Radio: Beyond Organics
Ag & Climate Headlines
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- 05/23/12 - Let's End Polluter Welfare
- 05/23/12 - The Rise of the New Economy Movement
- 05/22/12 - The Commodification of Forests Justifies Displacing Communities in Chiapas
- 05/22/12 - Evidence Continues to Mount for Ticking 'Methane Time Bomb'
- 05/21/12 - The Enviro Disaster You Know Nothing About: The Eco-Devastating Quest for "Frac Sand" in Rural America
- 05/21/12 - Plastic Bags Banned on All Hawaiian Islands
- 05/21/12 - The Pacific Ocean Is Dying
- 05/20/12 - Why the Government Doesn't Really Want You to Drive a Fuel-Efficient Car
- 05/20/12 - Nine-year-old's Lunch Blog Shames School into Making Changes
- 05/20/12 - Investors Controlling $1 Trillion Demand Fracking Best Practices
- 05/18/12 - The Future of Agriculture: Triple-Bottom-Line Beauty
- 05/17/12 - Why Seafood Guides Alone Can't Save the Troubled Seas
- 05/16/12 - Syngenta Celebrates Earth Day by Ladling on the Pesticides
- 05/16/12 - How Occupy the Farm Gave a Breath of Fresh Air to the Occupy Movement and Asserted its Right to Reclaim the Commons
- 05/14/12 - How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane
- 05/14/12 - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin Calls for Reform on Flame Retardant Chemicals
- 05/14/12 - Judge Deliberates on Whether to Save Earth's Atmosphere by David Swanson
- 05/12/12 - Can Beer Save America?
- 05/11/12 - Occupy Organic Vegetable Gardens - Rebirth of the Victory Garden
- 05/11/12 - A Breath of Fresh Air for the Occupy Movement: How Occupy the Farm Hopes to Reclaim the Commons
- 05/11/12 - Game Over for the Climate
- 05/11/12 - U.N. Fails to Finalise Rio 20 Plan on Sustainable Future
- 05/10/12 - Walmart Heirs Quietly Fund Walmart's Environmental Allies
- 05/10/12 - Plastic in 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Has Increased 100-Fold
- 05/07/12 - Can Geoengineering Solve Global Warming?
- 05/06/12 - Last Words to an America in Decline
- 05/06/12 - World's Faith Groups Agree that Climate Change is a Growing Concern
- 05/05/12 - Agriculture Cooperatives Could End Hunger while Boosting Socio-Economic Development in Impoverished Regions
- 05/05/12 - Vermont Poised To Become First State To Ban Fracking
- 05/05/12 - Flame Retardants in Furniture Don't Work as Advertised, Research Shows
- 05/04/12 - Science Says: Cut that Steak in Half to Keep the Climate in Check
- 05/03/12 - A Warmer World and Weather Gone Wild: The Most Important Story of Our Lives
- 05/03/12 - International Permaculture Day is May 6th!
- 05/03/12 - The Most Important Story of Our Lives
- 05/03/12 - Should Dow Get a Veto Over Government Scientists?
- 05/02/12 - Beyond Fossilized Paradigms: Futureconomics of Food
- 05/02/12 - The Philanthropic Complex
- 05/01/12 - How to Rebrand Occupy: A New Resistance Movement Not More Business as Usual Democratic Party Politics
- 05/01/12 - Farm-Connected CSAs Should Offer More than Just 'Veggie Subscriptions'
- 05/01/12 - E. O. Wilson Wants to Know Why You're Not Protesting in the Streets
- 05/01/12 - Climate Change is Expanding Allergy Risks
- 04/30/12 - Genetically Modified Crops' Results Raise Concern
- 04/29/12 - America's Moral and Climate Crisis
- 04/28/12 - Occupy v. Whole Foods? Activists Take Over Land Slated for Development and Start a Farm
- 04/26/12 - Meet a Pesticide Even Conventional Vegetable Farmers Fear
- 04/26/12 - How a Group of Japanese Mothers Are Saying No to Nuclear Power
- 04/26/12 - The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns
- 04/25/12 - Help Protect Food and Farm Freedom in Your Area With Local 'Right-to-Farm' Laws
- 04/25/12 - Mad Cow Number Four: A Closer Look
- 04/24/12 - Mothers Challenge a Trace Contaminant in Tide
- 04/23/12 - Some Question Whether Sustainable Seafood Delivers on its Promise
- 04/23/12 - Labor Unions' Fight for the 99% Goes Way Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars
- 04/22/12 - Where No City Has Gone Before: San Francisco Will Be World's First Zero-Waste Town by 2020
- 04/22/12 - Earth Day Should Remind Us of Successes
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