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Economic Issues and Climate Mitigation The 4th Learning Session focused on the cost of inaction, and creating more sustainable economies and businesses, as well as mitigation using economies and carbon pricing solutions. After the Lands Acknowledgement, the Assembly reviewed the original question of “How can WA State equitably design and implement climate mitigation strategies while …
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Learning Session #5 – Technology issues & climate mitigation
Saturday, January 30, 10:00am – 1:00pm (PST)
Peninsula Daily News | January 19, 2021
At-home COVID test availability is growing. Can it help turn the tide?
Global COVID-19 death toll tops 2 million
This, amid an uneven vaccine roll-out.
Expanded vaccine rollout in U.S. spawns a new set of problems
5 reasons to wear a mask even after you’re vaccinated
2020 in Review:
Stories on Climate Change, COVID-19 budgets, and the election
Solutions
50 countries vow to protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030
Top U.S. officials were notably absent, as were the leaders of Russia, India and Brazil.
— PBS News Hour
Unlock Your Cycling Fitness Goals by Fixing Up Your Bike
Don’t blow your savings on a new bicycle. Instead, learn how to better maintain the one you’ve already got and upgrade some key components along the way.
— Wired
What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
— Wired/Grist
The Washington Climate Assembly
Next — Saturday Session #3
Environment & climate mitigation
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Tuesday’s Learning Session #2
Social issues & climate mitigation
Regional Actions
Contact your legislators today and ask them to support our Resilient Future Priorities
Standing between the northern spotted owl and extinction
We need to build a #CleanAndJust transportation system in #WA that works for everyone
A message from ClimateCrisisPolicy.org
Meeting times have changed.
We’re reworking the meeting schedule to focus on the substantive work. Please see the new schedule. Thanks everyone!
New Meeting Schedule
Building Climate Resilience During COVID-19 Recovery
January 27 Virtual Panel Line-up Announced
Support the Voting Rights Restoration Bill
(HB 1078 and SB 5086)
Climate-friendly buildings are within reach
Supporting the Healthy Homes and Clean Buildings bill for its first hearing on Friday, Jan. 22 at 10am
— Climate Solutions
National Actions
Sign the petition:
Stand with Deb Haaland
She’s a historic choice to lead the Department of the Interior.
Biden must keep his promise to stop DAPL expansion
Update on Biden’s first day in Office
Call on the Biden Administration to Take Bold Action in its First 100 Days
— NRDC
Tell Biden: Adopt a Climate Test
It’s not enough to stop one single pipeline — we must go further and think bigger — we must implement a climate test for all fossil fuel projects.
Join us this coming Tuesday, January 26th at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for the #BuildBackFossilFree Digital Rally
Biden and Congress: Take Climate Action Now
Send 10 immediate demands of the Biden Administration and Congress to tackle in their first 100 days.
Local/Regional News
For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture
The Tulalips are expanding efforts to protect land and water that are integral to their identity.
— HearldNet
Wildfires Produced Up To Half Of Pollution In Western U.S. In Recent Years, Stanford / UC Study Finds
The findings underscore the growing public health threat posed by climate change as it contributes to catastrophic wildfires.
— CBS San Fransisco
Will states use the Capitol riot to crack down on pipeline protests?
In the riot’s aftermath, Ohio quietly joined a dozen states that have legislated harsh new penalties for environmental activism.
— Grist
Northwest’s Salmon Population May Be Running Out of Time
The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office found that some salmon species are “on the brink of extinction.”
2020 State of Salmon in Watersheds
Executive Summary
December 2020
National/International News
Is NASA about to get its first female leader?
No woman has led NASA in its 62-year history.
— Space.com
Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals
This is a discussion of the report from 2-weeks ago, for which only the summary was available.
— Associated Press
Climate Change Drove $75 Billion in Rainfall Damage Over the Past 30 Years in U.S.
UN report:
Climate change means more weather disasters every year
— causing 2 million deaths and racking up $3.6 trillion worth of economic costs.
— PBS News Hour
‘Science Moms’ campaign seeks to make climate change personal for Americans
Campaign aims to harness mothers’ concern for their children to spur lagging action on climate change in the United States.
— Thomson Reuters Foundation
Biden presidency sets stage for wider global advances on climate policy
End of the Trump era could lead to shifts in climate debate in bodies from the World Trade Organization to the G7.
OPINION: What does 2021 hold for Black Lives Matter?
This year, we should not be satisfied with surface level cosmetic change. We must pay attention to who really takes the difficult – and often less public – steps to materially improve people’s lives.
Biden rejoining the Paris Agreement, explained
Biden just put the US back in the Paris Agreement
Now the pressure is on
2020 was the hottest year on record
We’ll remember it as one of the century’s coldest.
— Grist
Creating a More Just Climate Future for Those on the Front Lines
The Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act accounts for the unjust burden that climate change poses to communities of color.
Grape Crop Brings in Millions, but Farm Workers Live a Harsh Life
Vineyards well watered, while people struggle for water.
— circle of blue
Choose Democracy’s whirlwind effort to prevent a coup is a crash course in good organizing
Being part of the team that trained 10,000 people to defend the election taught me five principles I want to practice going forward.
— Eileen Flanagan
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A federal appeals court has struck down President Trump’s industry-friendly Affordable Clean Energy, or ACE
That means that the new president can craft emissions regulations from scratch.
— Grist
A recent investigation of zip code-level health data shows that people living in low-income communities are more likely to get sick from heat-related illness.
“Zip codes do determine your health, and most of that is because of structural racism.”
— Mother Jones
Climate in Politics
An Ocean and Climate Agenda for the New Administration
— Center for American Progress
In Trump’s last days, a spree of environmental rollbacks
— The Washington Post
Presidents Say the Darndest Things
Tiny windows, exploding dishwashers, and other lies Trump told about the environment — illustrated.
— Grist
How the climate movement came of age under Trump.
— Grist
Amanda Gorman recites her poem at inauguration
Like Mr. Biden, Gorman has struggled with a speech impediment throughout her life, making poetry a “lifeline” for her.
Also like Mr. Biden, she has a long-term goal of running for president.
— CBS
Meet Amanda Gorman, who made history as youngest inaugural poet
— New York Post
Nan Bray is an oceanographer and climate scientist who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands, Tasmania since 2000
Note to Yarns from the Farm readers: This is a series of articles on climate change that I’ve written for our local monthly newsletter, the
Southern Midlands Regional News.
Cheers, Nan
