The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington is hiring an
entry-level Research Scientist.
You can learn more about the position here . . .
Quarantine bubbles – when done right – limit coronavirus risk and help fight loneliness — PBS News Hour
Opinion
Making a Planet Worth Saving | By Bill McKibben | June 9, 2020 — New Yorker
Anti-Racist Tools for your consideration
You Want a Confederate Monument?
My Body Is a Confederate Monument
By Caroline Randall Williams | June 26, 2020
Ms. Williams is a poet
white supremacy culture — Dismantling Racism
DemocracyNow! Examines Our National Reckoning
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
“America’s Moment of Reckoning”: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Cornel West on Uprising Against Racism
The Untold History of Mount Rushmore: A KKK Sympathizer Built Monument on Sacred Lakota Land
What are gender pronouns?
Let’s talk gender: A guide for using pronouns
Justice Ameer Gaines | Daily Kos Staff
Solutions
Save money and energy.
Switch to LED light bulbs in one room
Take part: July 5–11, 2020
- Carbon Pricing 101 on July 9, 2020 @ 10 AM PDT Register here
- Clean and Safe Buildings through Electrification on Aug 13, 2020 @ 10 AM PDT Register here
- The Big Issue: Transforming Transportation on Sept 10, 2020 @ 10 AM PDT Register here
The Hopeful Work of Turning Appalachia’s Mountaintop Coal Mines Into Farms
–Yes Magazine
What to Say When People Say “It’s Impossible”
10 smart conversation starters to address some standard defenses of the status quo.
— Yes Magazine
West Coast Gears Up For Electric Big Rigs — OPB
Electric semis are starting to hit the highways along Interstate 5
What Kelp Forests Can Do for the Climate
Cultivating algae empowers coastal communities while storing CO2 deep underwater.
Regional Actions
New Blog: Caring for Washington’s Agricultural Workers
— Washington Environmental Council
Organize a FridaysforFuture shoe strike in your community
OCA Signs Letter to Big Oil:
Protect the Arctic Refuge
National Actions
The AfrikaVuka Caravan Webinars
join us live online every two weeks as we connect with frontline groups exposing the fossil fuel and finance industry’s role in accelerating the climate crisis
2nd annual Climate Policy Summer Camp
From July 23 to 26, Our Climate will host virtual workshops, networking events, creative actions, state based breakout groups, and even a dance party in support of the Movement for Black Lives.
Youth4Climate Summer Camp (Virtual)
Session I: June 29 – July 24, 2020
Session II: July 27 – August 21, 2020
Stop the Money Pipeline Webinars — 350.org
Communities are sounding the alarm that some of the oldest and biggest trees in Canada are slated to be logged this summer — Stand.earth
Are fashion companies keeping their renewable energy promises? — Stand.earth
Thank AG Ellison for his leadership on holding Big Polluters liable
— Corporate Accountablilty
SIERRA CLUB PRESENTS HD SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE – GROUND ZERO FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
Tuesday, July 7th – 4 pm PT | SLIDING-SCALE TICKETS HERE
Local/Regional News
Justice for Black, Brown and Indigenous Lives: A message of solidarity from RAVEN
In case you missed it –
Sightline Online: What coronavirus means for Northwest fossil fuel projects
— 53 minutes on YouTube
National/International News
The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Coldwater case against Trans Mountain — Sierra Club
#CancelCanadaDay
Rally and March at Vancouver Art Gallery July First
We will not celebrate the ongoing genocide within Canada
against Indigenous people.
Drawdown 2020 – (in case you missed it)
Urgent Federal Climate Bills and Strategy Webinar — Watch on YouTube
Register now for the follow-up call: July 15th, Noon
Learn about the Citizen’s Assembly in detail in upcoming webinars
Learn about the CITIZEN’s ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATE – what Washington can accomplish through deliberative democracy
THURSDAY, JULY 9th – 10-11 AM | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85911537594
and
MONDAY, JULY 13th – 10-11 AM | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89272139818
Greta Thunberg: Humanity has not yet failed
Summer on P1 Sweden — Spotify
Climate activist Greta Thunberg urges world leaders to do more. Doing our best is no longer good enough.
Another Reason to Cut Down on Plastics
Also this week:
Face masks for the environmentally conscious
Climate in Politics
The time for climate action is now
Join the fight against the greatest threat to our future — climate change.
— NRDC Action Fund
League of Women Voters
Clallam PUD District 2 Candidate Forum – July 16 at 6:00pm
Zoom link to Forum
2020 Election Strategy Survey — 350 Action Team
who has farmed superfine merinos near Oatlands since 2000
- Carbon dioxide:
Nature’s tiny solar panels - Take a deep breath
- Galileo Fixes Everything
- A Silver Lining
- If You Don’t Like the Heat,
Get Out of the Kitchen - Rainfall, Evaporation and Desertification
This is a series I’m writing on climate change for our local monthly newspaper. I wanted to go back to the basics of the science behind climate change.
Category:
Burning Worlds
Olympic Climate Action 