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Solar panels and water canals could form a real power couple in California
Solar canals save water, create energy, and protect natural lands all at the same time.
Regional Actions
Both the Washington House and Senate budgets would lock in billions and billions of car-centered highway spending
for the next 16 years!
Sixteen years from now, it will be too late.
Take 30 seconds and tell your Representatives to strengthen & pass the Climate Commitment Act!
— Washington Environmental Council
Urge Congress to support regional solutions for Snake River salmon and its people
— Washington Environmental Council
The Washington Environmental Council website has a new look, and focus
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Stay in the loop
Many voters across Washington State will have an opportunity to vote in an April special election this month!
— Washington Environmental Council
Thank Senator Van De Wege
for passing a Clean Fuel Standard!
After three years of passing the House of Representatives, the Senate finally moved the Clean Fuel Standard forward.
National Actions
Tell world leaders:
Deliver on Climate Justice — 350.org
Biden’s first 100 days and how we can keep that momentum going.
Tuesday, April 20 | Noon-12:45 PT
Sign the petition and become a citizen co-sponsor of The Judiciary Act of 2021
Restore integrity to the Supreme Court.
What spends $3.8 trillion dollars actively destroying our planet and polluting our atmosphere?
Tell big banks: “Stop funding fossil fuel projects that are super-charging climate change.”
“I saw the impact of Superstorm Sandy firsthand“
Sign Beth’s Petition
Biden refuses to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline, despite campaign pledges on
Tribal Relations and Climate
Send him a letter! — 350.org
Watch a video of the San Francisco action here
Dakota Access has begun work on a pump station just north of Des Moines that would allow it to double the flow oil across Iowa.
Please take a few minutes to take these critical actions — Fallon Forum
We showed up at Liberty Mutual’s headquarters with a billboard they couldn’t ignore!
Climate in Politics
Energy Secretary Granholm Talks Clean Energy, Jobs, & Justice With LCV
Comparing the Titanic to a Modern Cruise Ship
Local/Regional News
A groundbreaking water sustainability plan could restore Vancouver Island’s Koksilah river
— The Narwhal
Deliberative Democracy and Climate Justice Assemblies
National Democratic Institute panelists provide an overview of deliberative democracy and an in-depth look at local-level, climate justice assemblies.
Community Conversation:
Award-winning documentary “2040” & the Climate Crisis in King County
Lecture / Panel / Movie
Sunday, Apr. 25 | 12 pm — 2 pm PT
Local and Regional Newsletters
National/International News
Short Films for Big Ideas:
Community Climate Action Network
— Climate Science Alliance
Resilient Restoration Project Team Update
Acorns are Sprouting!
— Climate Science Alliance
Climate Research Station Abandoned Because It’s Falling Into the Sea
“In a way we are unprepared for how much worse things will be with climate change.”
— Futurism.com/The Byte
Earth Week Special: How grassroots efforts have protected the Arctic Refuge
Wednesday, Apr. 21 | 4 pm PT
A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
By Finis Dunaway
National Newsletters
A daily newsletter by Grist
April 9 — Starbucks will soon break its disposable cup habit in South Korea
April 12 — The Navajo Nation will soon host four solar plants
April 13 — France wants to ban short-haul flights
April 14 — Construction of a crucial electric vehicle battery manufacturing project is back on track
April 15 — Facebook is running on renewables
Xerox and Wurlitzer will merge
To produce reproductive organs.
Artificial intelligence is no
match for natural stupidity.
“I think Congressmen should wear uniforms,
You know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could
Identify their corporate sponsors.”
A note to my Yarns from the Farm Readers—I’ve started another series for our local newspaper on biodiversity…”
Cheers, Nan
View the Biodiversity Series
View A Climate Basics Series
“Aldo Leopold argued eloquently for the idea of human obligation to maintain the health of the land through what he called a conservation land ethic—the concept that land is to be loved and respected.”
Olympic Climate Action 