Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.
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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.
In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.
The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.
Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.
“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.
With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...
...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...
Lawmakers Weigh In
More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”
The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.
Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.
“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.
“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.
“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.
Program Details and Grant Deadlines
The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.
Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”
The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."
-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023
For the people in the news asking how to join or get involved!
Here's an article that compiles what we know about the program and how to join as of September 20, 2023.
It also mentions that the program plans to link with the smaller climate corps that are being established by California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, and Washington. So if you're in one of those states, you can also check and see when your state's climate corps plans to start hiring!
The Biden administration has also set up an official page where you can sign up to get info and updates about joining the Climate Corps!
I don't understand why it took me 30+ years to read someone's biology homework PowerPoint slide on Google images and find out scabby, red-dotted, nasty looking skin on your legs and arms is very often (BUT NOT ALWAYS) an early sign of vitamin c deficiency (aka scurvy) and so is having really delicate, easy-to-damage skin in your mouth. and that I will feel better and be less scabby if I just eat some vitamin c. I seriously don't understand why every family doctor doesn't immediately tell you to try this. do you ALSO have something wrong with your stomach or take any kind of antacid or proton pump inhibitor?? congratulations you are probably not absorbing vitamins from your food correctly even if you are eating enough nutrition in the first place
^^^ acid-blockers linked to iron deficiency due to causing malabsorption, which then causes restless leg syndrome (and other issues) -- btw do not start supplementing iron without talking to a doctor first if you are a person who does not menstruate. iron toxicity is much easier to accidentally give yourself if you aren't routinely shedding extra blood. be careful with iron supplementation in general, dont take more than the RDA unless a doctor tells you and is monitoring your levels
^^^ PPIs linked to: bad absorption of magnesium and calcium, increased c. diff overgrowth (which can then lead to even more malabsorption)
the progression seems to go like this, just based on my own experiences/observations:
- patient goes to doctor for chronic tummyache
- doctor tells patient to take antacids or PPIs because they're considered harmless and will immediately lower the amount of acid in the stomach which causes immediate pain relief
- long term use of antacids and PPIs slowly causes nutritional deficiencies and bacterial overgrowth (because when your acid is too low you cant kill c. diff or correctly dissolve food you eat)
- patient keeps going back to the doctor with worsening stomach problems and overall health
- patient is diagnosed with GERD, IBS or some other "we give up idk" diagnosis, which is treated with:
- restrictive diet and more antacids/PPIs, which cause:
- additional nutritional deficiencies, many of which arent measurable in serum tests* so blood tests often come back normal
- patient develops malnutrition and SIBO and gets stuck in a diagnosis-seeking purgatory with doctors who think these problems are "rare"
- once your stomach is all fucked up its increasngly difficult to get enough vitamins and minerals to FIX the damage that has been caused by the malnutrition
doctors aren't doing this on purpose, there's no conspiracy to make people osteoporotic with Famotidine or whatever, its just another example of a closed failure loop we didn't know about until the 2010s, and the fact that it takes 30 years for new research to actually make it into clinical practice means your gastroenterologist probably hasnt heard anything about this anyway and is truly doing their best to help you out. the other confounding factor is that any alternative treatment modalities are immediately colonized by charlatans who will make bullshit out of a tiny kernel of medical truth. so while a lot of people actually need MORE acid, not less, you only find crackpots talking about it because snake oil salesmen are making money off it
so you cant even bring it up to the real doctors because they will immediately suspect you have been reading facebook groups full of Dr. Axe bullshit and shut down, which in their position is a reasonable assumption to make.
- "Since the extracellular concentration of magnesium ions may not reflect their intracellular level, none of the current methods of evaluating magnesium status is regarded as satisfactory." Serefko A, Szopa A, Poleszak E. Magnesium and depression. Magnes Res. 2016 Mar 1;29(3):112-119. doi: 10.1684/mrh.2016.0407. PMID: 27910808.
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hell yeah (not alcohol btw they mean like, sauerkraut and kimchi and miso and stuff)
I keep thinking about a post I saw the other day, and likely won't be able to find again, which proposed as a response to "you'll be fine if you have nothing to hide" the phrase:
" I have nothing to hide, but I don't trust your intentions and judgement"
Was it this one?
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are."
This child who came to my house tonight is literally the funniest human being on the planet. She complimented me on having both lollipops and mini Three Musketeers available because "a lot of houses these days don't give you a fruit flavor option." She was very solemn about this.
me when im feeling male vs me when im feeling female
why are you as a man keeping your eyes fully open? to see more men?
😳😳😳
ohh mein gott, zhey're posting püssenvagen on ze instagrāmmen
yeah not leaving this gem in the tags
safety tips from Anubis
oh my fucking god
Acording to Drago, he said, ingest poison and then call the ambulance. the most fun way to spend the day, have fun kids!!
This lady was the main act in a funny online "scandal" some weeks ago (?) bc she is some famous bigshot in the tradwife online community and it got 'leaked' that she is married to a pretty high up millonaire guy, and thats why she can live by making videos of her making all kinds of foods from scratch in vintage and original expensive ass old kitchen.
But well, nothing more trad than the rich wife of a rich guy being able to be a stay at home mom and to larp as a farmer. Even old time royalty liked to do that from time to time.
I had to do a double take because I recognize that stove! That’s the stove from the fucking book. This romance novel I read (Scrap Metal by Harper Fox) kept talking about something called an “aga” and I went “what the hell is an aga?” and then got trapped all day reading about the history of the AGA cooker on Wikipedia, and let me tell you-
They’re designed to be on 24/7, they do not turn off. They use almost forty times the energy of a normal stove. The smallest AGA cooker will burn the same amount of gas in one week as a standard oven will use in nine months. So not only do they cost a million dollars they’re unimaginably wasteful.
