Kilmer to Hold Tribal Town Halls and Facebook Live Town Hall
Port Angeles event is TOMORROW, Friday at 5:30 p.m.
The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over — Yes Magazine
David Korten: this is humanity’s make-or-break decade
Solutions
Week 10: Call your utility companies to ask about green energy options
Take part: Feb. 2–8, 2020
Regional Actions
Join us on #FridaysForFuture
Noon to 1:00 at the Port Angeles downtown fountain
Will you organize an event in solidarity with the Tsleil-Waututh, Coldwater and Squamish Nations?
The legal fight continues against TransMountain
350.org Monthly Local Group Call
Wednesday, Feb. 12th at 5:00 pm PT:
Updates & Organizing Strategies for Earth Day Strikes
Hear about the youth-led strike mobilizations coming up April 22-24
Tell the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency that you support a Clean Fuel Standard
— Washington Environmental Council
Public Hearing for Clean Transportation!
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Kitsap
Kitsap Conference Center at Bremerton
Tue, February 4, 2020
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
Help 350.org’s Civic Action Team get the WA legislature moving on Climate
ACTION ALERT: Call your state Senator to support Sustainable Farms and Fields! — Carbon Washington
Olympic Peninsula Natural Climate Solutions Information Session — Audubon WA
Monday, February 3, 2020 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Dungeness River Audubon Center,
2151 W HENDRICKSON Rd, Sequim, WA 98382
- Write a Letter to the Editor on Updating WA’s Climate Pollution Limits
- Local Elected Official Support for Climate Pollution Limits
Join us at WA Environmental Council’s Annual Gala
Saturday, April 4, 2020 | 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Washington State Convention Center
National Actions
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands — New York Times
Stop Trump’s assault on people and the planet! — Greenpeace
Webinar Forum on this year’s priorities
Wednesday, February 5, 12:00 noon PT
Join Girl Scout Troop 6195
in demanding that the EPA do its job:
Protect our health
and the environment
from dangerous coal ash
— Sierra Club
Sign here to tell Congress: Acting Director William Pendley must resign or be removed from heading the Bureau of Land Management — 198 Methods
Sign and send a letter to your governor and state legislators urging them to divest pension funds from fossil fuel industries. It is time to stop supporting climate chaos with our retirement money! — Climate Hawks Vote
The Poor People’s Campaign:
A National Call for Moral Revival
The Climate Reality Project
Repairers of the Breach
The fashion industry produces nearly a tenth of global climate emissions
It will take the whole industry
to radically transform its global
manufacturing and distribution systems
- Only Levi’s and American Eagle have made commitments that address the true scale of the climate crisis
- The climate commitments of 27 companies place the world on a path to 2 degrees or less of warming
- 16 are on a pathway to climate catastrophe
Filthy Fashion Climate Scorecard
— Stand.earth
Local/Regional News
Story of Water Lecture Series:
Olympic Mountain Glaciers and Snowpack
Video of Dungeness Lecture 2, November 13, 2019
Olympic Mountain Glaciers and Snowpack Changes
and Future Challenges — League of Women Voters
How could the California study on oil spills inform Washington?
The Cost of a Salish Sea Oil Spill?
We Still Don’t Know
A new California study suggests the risk could be $700 million or more.
7th Annual River and Ocean Film Festival
28 March 2020, 6-9pm
At the Rainforest Arts Center in Forks, Washington
National/International News
One thing you can do:
Make smarter donations
who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands since 2000
Carbon dioxide: nature’s tiny solar panels
Note to her readers:This is the first in a series I’ve written on climate change for our local monthly newspaper. I wanted to go back to the basics of the science behind climate change.
I’ll post them in coming Yarns.
Cheers, Nan
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Burning Worlds
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