Local / Regional News
Power Plant timber sale in Elwha watershed cancelled despite having been auctioned off to the highest bidder in July. Read more.
The forest we’ve saved – The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition looks back on successes from this past year in Washington state and discusses taking DNR to court.
Jan. 3, 6pm: Join 350 WA Civic Action Team‘s legislative campaign kick off! Recycling, waste reduction, clean air and water, electrification, solar, forestry, housing, just transitions and more are on the table in the 2024 Washington State legislature. It’s a short legislative session so we have to act quick! Zoom link . Here’s the action toolkit.
Jan. 4, 12:30pm: WA legislative briefing with Front and Centered — For the 2024 legislative session, this coalition of frontline communities will focus on reducing pollution in at-risk communities and ensuring state budget allocations meet mandated obligations. Zoom link
Before Jan. 14- Registration for Jefferson Land Trust naturalist course–Lottery registration is open for the 2024 Tidelands to Timberline Northwest Naturalist Course (April 19 – June 7). Eighteen course participants will be randomly selected. More info here.
Podcast: Old growth logging ban? Dr. Dominick DellaSala discusses the Biden administration’s old growth forest protection.
Check out the Deforestation and Restoration target tracker
National / International News
Scientists say 2023 was the beginning of the end for fossil fuels – a Guardian report
‘Global boiling’ describes 2023 – The last time anyone experienced a year as warm as this one, mastodons and giant sloths roamed across North America during the beginning of the late Pleistocene. More year-end news from Grist here.
Is climate change speeding up? The Washington Post explores our hotter world.
An odd silence, at the end of humanity’s hottest year – Bill McKibben looks back
AARP should support climate action! Sign a petition here.
Inspiration
Great climate reads from 2023
#NotT00Late is a website, book and study guide to invite newcomers to the climate movement, as well as provide climate facts and encouragement for people who are already engaged but weary.
In Before the Street Lights Come On: Black America’s Call for Climate Solutions, Heather McTeer Toney calls for immediate climate action in and for marginalized communities. Heather is the Executive Director of Beyond Petrochemicals.
Zahra Biabani covers promising climate solutions, practical advice, and two years’ worth of “Weekly Earth Wins.”
Craig Santos Perez’s book of poems from an unincorporated territory [åmot] weaves humor and grief to tell Guam’s story. He is the first Pacific Islander to win a National Book award and in this interview talks about colonialism, culture and climate change.
Solutions
A look back at US climate solutions – Grist says there’s some signs of progress. Experts ranked our progress here.
In 2023 organized labor became core for the climate movement – The clean energy transition can’t happen without labor.
Can Seawalls save us? A most-read 2023 story from the New Yorker
What to do with climate emotions – another most-read from the New Yorker
Uruguay’s green power revolution shows the world it can be done – a Guardian report
Olympic Climate Action 