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The Trump administration has approved the first-ever data center on federal public lands -- and did so without any environmental review or meaningful public input. This could become the blueprint for using public lands across the country to build massive industrial data centers, causing increased water use and unchecked air pollution. Tell Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to stop this dangerous precedent and protect our shared public lands.

I highly encourage everyone to sign and write a personal demand to the US Department of the Interior, through this from organized by the Sierra Club, to prohibit the use of public land for constructing data centers and protect our population from further, large-scale ecological hardship. The form has a template for you to use and edit when you sign.

As of sharing, the form has collected 12,322 responses out of the 13,554 goal! 🌳📝

Key Takeaways:

"Overconsumption and consumerism have thrown up new social, environmental, and economic challenges. There is an urgent need to course-correct by changing how we use our limited resources. One important step would be to teach children the importance of mindful living by grounding their education in the fundamentals of human ecology."

"...People in countries with high rates of meal sharing also declare stronger social support and lower levels of loneliness, suggesting that the decline in communal meals in more industrialized societies is more than a lifestyle shift; it’s a public health concern,”"

Key Takeaways:

A 4-day strike organized by the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) have led to an agreement between the San Francisco Unified School District and its teachers to meet a substantial series of the unions' rightful demands such as:

i) Fully funded healthcare for employees; ii) pay rises for UESF member workers standing at 8.5% for paras and 5% for certified employees; iii) improved working conditions for special education teachers through caseload reductions for retirement savings plans, increased overage pay, compliance periods and complexity indicators that trigger report; iv) programs to support immigrant students and families of communities teachers live with v)

"[...] Stanford [University] students traveled into the city to provide support. There they coordinated with volunteers, helped community members and worked on small business outreach."

"On Feb. 11, a delegation of high school students entered the War Memorial building where bargaining was taking place and demanded to speak with Superintendent Maria Su to explain why they supported their educators’ demands.

"The San Francisco educators’ strike was an opening round in a statewide fight. Educators in Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego are set to take a stand in the coming weeks as well"

The demands of the UESF educators were essential to student empowerment just as much as workers' empowerment. According to associate professor of education at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford, "teachers' working conditions are students' working conditions"

But of course, it's impractical and wasteful to just leave a tree of such size lying around to decay; so from the branches and bark, a community has shelter and fire for warmth, and from its produce and sap the children are fed, and from its seeds a garden of new trees are born, guided to grow just enough that a predator can't dwell while providing in similar, circulating fashion. There will still be trees, but none fit nor around long enough for a predator.