Introducing
“Documenting the momentum toward a clean energy future, curating and compiling
the full range of issues related to this transition to provide the clarity required to make the critical investment and policy decisions needed to accelerate this transformation.”
With articles like:
How Fast?
The era of carbon-intensive energy derived from the burning of fossil fuels will come to an end, and a cleaner, more reliable energy future based on renewables like wind and solar will be the new normal.
Doing More with Less
To aggressively reduce our
emissions, we are going to need to overhaul our thinking about
not only what we build but also
how we build.
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused — Yes!Magazine
Young Activists Kick off a Climate Hunger Strike
by Occupying Nancy Pelosi’s Office
They will start eating once they talk to her for one hour—on camera!
“The way that this movement is going is we’re going to need more and more extreme actions in order to bring the climate crisis to the forefront of the debate, and you know it’s going to take mass participation in civil disobedience and direct action.” — Mother Jones
The World Needs More Ethiopia and Less Exxon
“If a rich country like Canada were to invest 1% of its GDP planting new trees over a period of just eight years, it could remove up to half of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases (GHGs) that have been deposited by humankind in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.” — Corporate Knights – The Voice for Clean Capitalism
Solutions
This new “battery” aims to spark a carbon capture revolution
Chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
have created a new device that can remove carbon dioxide
from the air at any concentration — PBS News Hour
Seven Challenges for Energy Transformation
2019 | By Rocky Mountain Institute
Cooling for all, without warming the planet
An innovation competition to develop a climate-friendly residential cooling solution that can provide access to cooling to people around the world without warming the planet — 2019 Rocky Mountain Institute
Secretive energy startup
achieves solar breakthrough
For the first time, concentrated solar energy can be used to create the extreme heat required to make cement, steel, glass and other industrial processes, generating heat above 1,000 degrees Celsius. — CNN
Mission
Project Pura is a platform that is dedicated to let people worldwide discover, follow and support sustainable ecological projects.
Meet the Farmers Putting Politics Aside to Address Climate Change
The Practical Farmers of Iowa waste no time on partisan stances as they face the challenges of extreme weather and depleted soils — Yes! Magazine
Regional Actions
Answer Governor Inslee’s Questionnaire about the LSRDs
now thru December 24
Join us in supporting Indigenous Nations going to court who say NO to oil and tanker traffic on the west coast!
2020 Legislative Climate Briefing Webinar
A Clean Fuel Standard will improve our air quality
and it will expand transportation electrification. HB 1113 will be disussed.
Tues. Dec. 3, 2019 — 2-3 pm
RSVP to joelle.robinson@climatesolutions.org and for webinar instructions
Tell Senator Maria Cantwell to co-sponsor S. Res. 404, Senator Ben Cardin’s resolution to keep the U.S. in the Paris Climate Agreement
— Win Without War
Send a message to Rep. Derek Kilmer: Take action on the climate crisis now by championing the 100% Clean Economy Act! — NRDC Action Fund
National Actions
Nori is the world’s only carbon dioxide removal marketplace
Five years ago, the UN issued a report that if we don’t solve problems of soil erosion, we won’t be able to grow food in 50 years
Listen to Bill McKibben’s recent podcast interview
Register in advance for the Dec. 3 Zoom meeting, 5:00 PM Pacific Time
Urgent Action: Say NO to DAPL Expansion — Lakota People’s Law Project
Slam the Door on Keystone XL — MoveOn
Please contact your US Senator and urge her/him to oppose the chemical industry-backed Save our Seas Bill, S 1982. Time is short and the American Chemistry Council is working hard to pass this flawed bill.
— #breakfreefromplastic
[RETWEET NOW!] — Read the letter — Get the .PDF
Support The Public Housing Green New Deal Act — Sunrise
Tell President Trump and the U.S. Forest Service: Save America’s Largest Wild Forest — NRDC
Stand with the Indigenous people of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters and pledge your support — Stand.earth
Tell Toyota and other automakers to protect the climate — Change.org
THE PEOPLE’S GND WORKING GROUP IS IN THE HOME STRETCH!
FINAL CONTENT REVIEW IN MOTION FOR DECEMBER LAUNCH!
Put it on your calendar.
“I hope while you hear me speak, I won’t make you terrified – maybe a little – but I’ll also inspire you to join us, and to join indigenous peoples in resistance … for the existence and survival of all of us. “
Local/Regional News
A wonderful reason to share the season
This Saturday, the 23rd of November
The Second Annual Cranksgiving Food Drive
PORT ANGELES FARMERS MARKET, PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK AND BIKE GARAGE
- Participants need to bring a bike, cash to shop at participating stores, and a bright smile.
- Don’t have a bike? Sound Bikes will rent one to you for $10 an hour.
- Look for our “Ballet” Bike Parking attendants at participating grocery stores.
- Free registration begins at 10:00 AM at the Farmer’s Market (133 E. Front St, Port Angeles)
- Prizes awarded at noon.
Alison Silverstein to speak at the Clean & Affordable Energy Conference
National/International News
The world’s largest development bank will stop funding unabated oil and gas projects by the end of 2021 — Climate Home News
Climate activists briefly shut down Chase branch over tar sands support — Isthmus.com
Madison Police bill youth activists $5,000 for September climate strike, but mayor says charge will “go away”
EPA Science Advisers Push Back on Wheeler,
Say He’s Minimizing Their Role
Also pushing a plan to reduce the use of science in decision making, particularly with pollution — Inside Climate News
Iowa Climate Defenders Five
go to trial
Dressed in black and wearing
adult diapers, Bold Iowa supporters were arrested while holding a sign reading “Climate Denier in the White House scare the S#*T outta you?
IT DOES US!”
Climate in Politics
2019 Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice — DemocracyNow!
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Environmental Justice, Shutting Down Pipelines, Capitalism & Billionaires — DemocracyNow!
Pete Buttigieg Climate Advisor
Is a Fossil-Fuel-Funded Witness
for The Obama/Trump Administrations Against Children’s Climate Lawsuit
— Hill Heat | Tuesday, 19 November 2019 | With updates and rebuttal
Did a climate champion emerge from last night’s “debate?” — The Fallon Forum, Iowa
An Update about
Sierra Club
Artists for the Green New Deal
Common Sense for the 21st Century
Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse
By Roger Hallam
Hope for the Future
Lies in the Multitude
A conversation about capital,
consumption, and population
— Sierra Club Magazine
Olympic Climate Action 