Make Your Voice Count: WA Climate Response Strategy Update
The WA Dept. of Ecology is working to update the state’s current Climate Response Strategy.  Provide input by filling out this survey and participating in a listening session:
— Dec 5 at 1230PM (Register Here)
— Dec 6 at 6PM (Register Here)
— Dec 7 at 10AM (Register Here)

Dec. 10, 3pm: Sea Otters ecology and conservation – a Future of Oceans lecture at Ford Worden in Port Townsend.

Dec. 11, Work Party: Native Plant Nursery Expansion – North Olympic Salmon Coalition in Chimacum.  Register here.

Dec. 12, 10am, webinar:  “Northwest Stands to Gain Jobs with Clean Energy Transition,” presented by the Clean Energy Transition Institute. Register here.

Dec. 15 and 16: Dungeness River floodplain tour with North Olympic Land Trust – Learn about climate impacts and restoration. To join, email lexi@northolympiclandtrust.org 

WA building code council to protect energy codes – Good news for us!

Video: Rosalia to Pasco shortline rail project for Lower Snake River

Another timber war? Earth Island Journal explores the decimation of old growth on BLM lands in the Pacific Northwest.

Natural forests carbon potential – a report from Nature. Public lands and energy transition – a report from High Country News

Everything you need to know about COP28, a podcast from the Guardian’s Science Weekly

A guide to COP28 from the Nature Conservancy and another from World Wildlife Fund.

4 issues to watch for – from Grist

12 global climate activists are profiled by the International Rescue Committee. Global Citizen notes young activists to watch for at COP28.

Fast cash pledged for affected countries – from Nature

Food systems and agriculture are a priority – International Institute for Sustainable Development

Boost investment to save the planet – from Foreign Policy

A climate conference in a petrostate? from the New Yorker

Jamaica’s climate resilient coastline- Jamaica’s budding blue-green economy works to save the coast, a report from Yes.