Hot Off the Wire — 4/15/24

Local / Regional News

NOAA Earth Day 2024 image
Image: NOAA 2024 Earth Day art

Clean a beach for Earth Day! Washington Coastal Clean Ups, Sat. April 20 – sign up here.


4/22 – Take a guided forest immersion walk for Earth Day. Sign up with Dungeness River Nature Center.


Earth Day to Election Day – Join WA Conservation Action in calls for the climate. Launching on Earth Day Monday, April 22, then every 3rd Thursday until the election. Register here.


Biochar Image by Anne Bikle
Image by Anne Bikl

Biochar bucket share program – host or sign up with the Olympic Carbon Fund

4/16: Elwha Legacy Forest monthly meeting. Zoom in at 7 pm.


4/18 and 4/25 –Western Washington University Environmental Speaker Webinars. Thursdays, 4:30pm. 4/18: Multifaith network for climate justice. 4/25: Where nature lives.


Tell DNR to change its timber harvest planningSign this petition.


A Forest of Your Own: The Pacific Northwest Handbook of Ecological Forestry is now available from the Northwest Natural Resource Group.


What’s misunderstood about indigenous cultural fire practicesLessons from the Yurok


EPA releases priority climate action plans for states – See Washington state’s plans here. The Sierra Club response is here.


National / International News

Earth Day 2024!

NASA Earth Day posters

Planet NOAA podcast: Earth Day is everyday

4/19: Fridays for the Future Global Climate Strike

Reclaim Earth Day organizing

4/21 and 4/22: Sunrise Movement Earth Day teach-ins


Support the plastic pellets free act – Sign this Environment Washington petition.

NASA Earth Day 2024 poster
Artwork created with NASA satellite imagery.

Inspiration

Pacific Northwest butterfly project restores hope – A report on saving endangered butterflies in partnership with a Washington women’s prison.

Taylor's checkerspot - image from Grant Callegari/Hakai Magazine
Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies were once common in prairie-oak ecosystems ranging from Oregon’s southern Willamette Valley to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Today they have lost almost 97 percent of their habitat, and there are only 13 known wild populations. (Grant Callegari/Hakai Magazine)

Solutions

flyer for less
ons in climate story-telling workshop

4/19 Webinar: How can we tell stories that engage people on climate change? Climate story-telling workshop by Yale Center for Environmental Communication. Register here.

Video: Imagining a more just climate future – A Yes magazine presentation


Colorado ranch women practice climate smart agriculture – a League of Conservation Voters report


Can green hydrogen production help ocean dead zones? A Hakai report


Want a climate career? The Natural Resources Defense Council has some tips


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