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Save Hambach Forest

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Channel: The YEARS Project · 2018 · News & Politics

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Activists, citizens and the internet search company Ecosia are coming together to try to stop energy company RWE from cutting down a 12,000-year-old forest to mine for coal. 

TAKE ACTION HERE: https://act.greenpeace.org/page/30799/petition/1?locale=en-GB

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: JOEL BACH and DREW MAGRATTEN
WRITER: MAGGIE BADORE
SCRIPT EDITORS: JOEL BACH, JOSH FUTTERSAK, DREW MAGRATTEN and MATT ROSENBAUM
VIDEO EDITOR: ETHAN DAVID

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[i] HambachForest.org. Hambach Forest. Accessed: Oct 18 2018. https://hambachforest.org/squat/background/the-forest/

[ii] NYTimes.com. Police Move to Clear Treehouse Protest Against Coal Mine in German Forest. Sept 14 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/world/europe/germany-forest-coal.html

[iii] FastCompany.com. To save a forest threatened by mining, this startup offered to buy it. Oct 9 2018. https://www.fastcompany.com/90248101/to-save-a-forest-threatened-by-mining-this-startup-offered-to-buy-it

[iv] DW.com. German police arrest Hambach Forest activists. Sept 16 2018. https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-hambach-forest-activists/a-45504419

[v] DW.com. Last treehouses from ancient Hambach Forest removed by police for RWE mine. Oct 2 2018. https://www.dw.com/en/last-treehouses-from-ancient-hambach-forest-removed-by-police-for-rwe-mine/a-45733775

[vi] FoeEurope.org. 50,000 demonstrators out to defend forest and climate. Oct 9 2018.  http://www.foeeurope.org/50000-demonstrators-out-defend-forest-climate-091018

[vii] CommonDreams.org. Fifty-Thousand Come Together in Germany to Defend Ancient Forest and Fight Coal. Oct 8 2018. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/06/fifty-thousand-come-together-germany-defend-ancient-forest-and-fight-coal

[viii] CNN.com. Hambach Forest clearance halted by German court. Oct 5 2018. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/europe/germany-hambach-forest-court-intl/index.html

[ix] FastCompany.com. To save a forest threatened by mining, this startup offered to buy it. Oct 9 2018. https://www.fastcompany.com/90248101/to-save-a-forest-threatened-by-mining-this-startup-offered-to-buy-it

[x] Zeit.DE.  Mehrheit der Deutschen gegen Rodung des Hambacher Forsts. Sept 19 2018. https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2018-09/zivilgesellschaft-rodung-hambacher-forst-stopp-umfrage

[xi] CleanEnergyWire.org. Germany’s energy consumption and power mix in charts. Apr 3 2018. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

[xii] Unedlich-viel-energie.de. Repräsentative Umfrage: 95 Prozent der Deutschen wollen mehr Erneuerbare Energien. Aug 8 2017. https://www.unendlich-viel-energie.de/akzeptanzumfrage2017

[xiii] Bloomberg.com. Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal. Nov 14 2017. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-14/germany-is-burning-too-much-coal

[xiv] ClimateandWeather.net. CLIMATE & WEATHER. Accessed: Oct 18 2018.  https://www.climateandweather.net/global-warming/deforestation.html

[xiva] EIA.Gov. How much carbon dioxide is produced when different fuels are burned? Accessed: Oct 18 2018.  https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11

[xv] SandBag.Org.UK.  RWE and the Hambach protests: Why should investors be worried? Sept 24 2018. https://sandbag.org.uk/2018/09/24/rwe-and-the-hambach-protests-why-should-investors-be-worried/

[xvi] Blog.Ecosia.Org.  RWE won’t back down. Neither will we! Oct 10 2018. https://blog.ecosia.org/rwe-reaction/

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