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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:45:43 +0000

Monday night’s protest will see workers demand longer break times and a free commute at a Staten Island fulfillment center with a record of injuries three times the national average.

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The Amazon Lost an Area 12 Times the Size of NYC Last Year to Logging and Burning

November 19, 2019 admin Amazon, Climate, environment, jair bolsonaro

Credit to Author: Alex Lubben| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:38:44 +0000

The Amazon lost more forest last year than at any point since 2008.

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Amazon Says It Didn’t Get a $10 Billion Contract Because Trump Hates Bezos

November 15, 2019 admin Amazon, aws, azure, Cloud computing, jedi, microsoft, Pentagon

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:48:41 +0000

After ignoring endless internal and external protests, Amazon is now launching one over the Pentagon awarding the JEDI contract to Microsoft.

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Amazon Spent $1.5 Million Trying to Buy a City Council Seat

November 7, 2019 admin Amazon, big tech, citizens united, city council, head tax, kshama sawant, monopoly power, seattle

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:15:01 +0000

Amazon spent $1.5 million to beat Kshama Sawant and back its approved candidates. It may have ended up unifying its opposition.

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1,000 Employees Are Demanding Google Eliminate Carbon Emissions

November 4, 2019 admin Amazon, climate change, google

Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:37:43 +0000

Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030.

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Why the Amazon Is Really on Fire — and Why It’s Going to Keep Burning

November 4, 2019 admin Amazon, amazon fires, bolsonaro, Brazil, climate change, farming, GLOBAL WARMING, South America, vice investigates on hulu

Credit to Author: Agnes Walton| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:58:47 +0000

We visited the front lines of the Amazon wildfires for our new Hulu show, VICE Investigates.

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Seattle tackles homelessness with 'tiny house' villages and sanctioned homeless camps

November 3, 2019 admin Amazon, computer technology, Homelessness, housing, local news, seattle, Technology, vancouver

Credit to Author: Dan Fumano| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:30:09 +0000

Seattle has tried new ways to address homelessness, including funding and sanctioning encampments, and trying to raise taxes on large corporations, .

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Watch the Brutally Short Teaser for Jordan Peele’s 1970s Nazi Hunter Show

November 1, 2019 admin Al Pacino, Amazon, culture, hunters, Jordan Peele, nazi hunters, NAzis, teaser, TELEVISION, the hunt, tv

Credit to Author: River Donaghey| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:53:11 +0000

Starring Al Pacino!

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Anti-Vaxxers and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Are Secretly Rolling Out Another Propaganda Film

October 31, 2019 admin Amazon, anti-vaxxers, Autism, measles, robert kennedy jr.

Credit to Author: Tim Marcin| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:51:42 +0000

The film’s creators are keeping theater locations secret until right before the release next week.

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Heat (The Elephant In The Room)

October 30, 2019 admin Amazon, buildings, clean power, climate change, co2 emissions, data centers, dublin ireland, energy efficiency, Europe, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, google, grid, heating emissions, home energy management, home heating, microsoft, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, United States

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:53:44 +0000

I came across a very interesting statistic the other day from the IEA’s Renewables 2018 report. The statistic is that 50% of total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat for our homes, industry, and other applications