Derek Kilmer in Port Angeles meetings
Twice TODAY!
Saturday at
10 am at Clallam Democrat Headquarters, 124 Front St, and at
1 pm at the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E 1st St
Solutions
Week 12: Go meatless one day this week
Take part: Feb. 16–22, 2020
Regional Actions
Join us on #FridaysForFuture
Noon to 1:00 at the Port Angeles downtown fountain
Stakeholders Unite to Support Sustainable Farms and Fields bill (SB 5947)
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE & ITS EFFECTS
Climate Change: *NEW UPDATES* Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enact measures to promote climate resiliency.
Energy: *NEW UPDATES* Advocate for clean and renewable sources.
Forests & Rivers: *NEW UPDATES* Protect our forests from wildfires and preserve as important carbon sinks. Protect our free-flowing rivers from dams, disturbance, and depletion.
Please email your legislators today to show support for the Healthy Habitats, Healthy Orcas bill (HB 2550) — Washington Environmental Council
Help the 350.org WA — Civic Action Team
Email your state legislators today: Support the Transportation For All bill!
— Washington Environmental Council
National Actions
Please urge Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to help fight climate change by cosponsoring the Clean Economy Act
— NRDC Action Fund
The world needs fossil-free climate talks.
It’s time to Ban Fossils from Climate Talks
DAY 1: Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22
DAY 2: Stop The Money Pipeline Day of Action; Thursday, April 23
DAY 3: Day of Political Action, Friday, April 24
Watch the short film Guardians of Life
Staring Joaquin Phoenix and produced with Amazon Watch and Extinction Rebellion
Add your voice and help us reach 3 million signatures, and call on Niel Jacobs to agree to a strong a Global Ocean Treaty at the UN
— Greenpeace
Local/Regional News
Olympic Climate Action will support the Fracking Ban Act now proposed in the U.S. Congress, House Bill S.3247 — 350.org
Engineering with Nature
An Ode to Water, Wood and Stone
March 29 — Showing at the beautiful
KENNETH J. MINNAERT performing arts center
2011 Mottman Rd. SW Olympia, WA
National/International News
A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila — New York Times
Extinction Rebellion Capital Region occupied NY State Comptroller DiNapoli Office
What’s happening in Antarctica
How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
Chevron, with $228 billion, has the funds to continue targeting Donziger for as long as it chooses
Grassroots Rising
A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal
Dirt to Soil
One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands since 2000
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
Category:
Burning Worlds
Olympic Climate Action 