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1. St. Louis has committed to becoming 100% renewably powered by 2035. It is the 47th US city to make such a pledge.

<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/St-Louis-to-transition-to-100-percent-renewable-12312245.php">

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/St-Louis-to-transition-to-100-percent-renewable-12312245.php</a></p>

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2. The average first freeze in the US is now coming a month later than it did 100 years ago.

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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/28/us-winter-has-shrunk-by-more-than-one-month-in-100-years</a></p>

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<p>3. An excerpt from Jeff Goodell’s book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World tells of how some residents of Makoko, a poor community in Lagos, Nigeria, are adapting to sea level rise but are threatened

 by their own hostile government. It is a parable of wealthy neighborhoods attempting to deal with climate change by isolating themselves in unsustainable enclaves.

<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956">

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956</a></p>

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4. Richard Branson is leading an effort to rebuild Caribbean communities with renewable energy. It features a Disaster Recovery Marshall Plan to negotiate debt relief.

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/caribbean-energy-branson/richard-bransons-green-energy-plan-for-caribbean-may-include-debt-relief-idUSL8N1N27JF">

https://www.reuters.com/article/caribbean-energy-branson/richard-bransons-green-energy-plan-for-caribbean-may-include-debt-relief-idUSL8N1N27JF</a></p>

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5. 32 of the 33 public housing buildings damaged by Hurricane Sandy have yet to be repaired. New York is moving to armor Manhattan with a sea wall.

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/27/hurricane-sandy-five-years-later-climate-change">

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/27/hurricane-sandy-five-years-later-climate-change</a></p>

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6. In a 27-minute panel discussion Al Gore reflects on his films and assesses the climate situation.

<a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/28/the-weekend-wonk-al-gore-on-inconvenient-truth-ten-years-later/">

https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/28/the-weekend-wonk-al-gore-on-inconvenient-truth-ten-years-later/</a> With Makoko in mind, I was glad to be reminded of Gore's long-maintained sense of the centrality of community in countering the climate crisis. <br>

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