Today the DNC voted down holding a climate debate. Evan Weber of the Sunrise Movement was in the room and live tweeted the conversation. The link below is that thread.
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Hot Off the Wire — 8/16/2019
Icelandic memorial warns future: ‘Only you know if we saved glaciers’
Regional Actions
Join Fridays for Future in Seattle
Fridays at Seattle City Hall from 1:00 to 2:00 PM
See the arrest of a young teen for a misunderstanding
Clallam PUD Community Solar Project! Buy-in deadline Sept. 30
Jefferson PUD is also considering a Community Solar Project!
Take the survey to help guage community interest
Congress has 60 days to revoke Trump’s new rules that threaten endangered species.
— Greenpeace
Tell the Puget Sound Officials: Reject the permit for Tacoma’s dangerous fracked gas project. — Sierra Club
Send in your comment to urge PSCAA to reject the permit for the Tacoma LNG project! — Washington Environental Council
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Hearing — August 27th
Rialto Theatre in Tacoma from 2-5pm and from 6:30-10:00pm
Submit a public comment to the agency — PSCAA Talking Points
Stop Trans Mountain and protect the West Coast — stand.earth
Speak up today for Washington’s right to protect the public from dangerous crude oil trains
— Washington Environmental Council
Forest Service Plans to Eliminate the Public in Decisions — Sierra Club
Read more about the proposed revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures.
National Actions
Make the call: we are demanding a real climate debate
If you’re a young person under 35, sign up to join the West Regional Summit.
Putting democracy at the root of mobilization:
August Thought Leadership Call
Tell Congress: Protect us from Methane Pollution — Sierra Club
Help pass the “Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019
Climate Strike Training Webinars — 350.org
- August 21st: Communications & Digital Tools for Climate Strike Organizing
- August 28th: Utilizing the Strikes to Build Our Movement: Strategies for Leadership Development & Plugging People In Post-Sept 20th
- September 4th: Know Your Rights to Stand Up for Climate Justice! (with the Civil Liberties Defense Center)
- September 11th: Opportunities & Challenges: Bring your ideas and questions around Sept 20th-27th Organizing
Local/Regional News
National/International News
Greta Thunberg has started a sailing
expedition to
North America.
Twitter Feed – A Race We Must Win
Live Tracker: Team Malizia & Gretta
The race is on. It is a race we can win. It is a race we must win.
Study concludes that nature benefits
when more women make land management decisions
— Mongabay.com
IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
Communicating science to policymakers: six strategies for success — Nature
Bill McKibben
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature — issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic — was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience.
Falter tells
the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that
keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on
McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global
citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways
out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history — and we’ll
either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears
built slip away.
Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
Thomas Friedman
“Thank You for Being Late”
An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated
observers.
Thomas Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration–
and explains how to live in it.
The Climate Museum’s poetry slam
Watch These Young Spoken-Word Poets Take On Climate Change
The Climate Museum’s poetry slam at Harlem’s Apollo Theater was
equal parts grief, anger, and hope.
August Meditation for Climate Emergency
August Meditation for Climate Emergency – Sun, Aug 11, 2019 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
— The Climate Mobilization
Join our webinar for this hour of meditation and conversation about the personal side of the climate crisis. We’ll be debriefing our experience asking the question “how do you feel about the climate emergency?” and will share a meditation focused on mindfulness of emotions to help us navigate charged conversations.
Join Fridays for Future Seattle on 8/16 to stand with Zoe
When:8/16 at 1pm, Where: Seattle City Hall
Why: Every Friday from 1-2 a group, called Fridays for Future, of mostly youth Climate Strike in front of Seattle City Hall. They are asking extra people go out on 8/16 to show support for Zoe. Every week they use sidewalk chalk to show their message for climate action. This past week an adult handed Zoe a bottle of spray on chalk that turned out to be chalk paint. As soon as she realized they began making plans to clean it up, but the police intervened and took a 13 year old away in handcuffs.
Holy SHIT, @seattlePD. Making a 13-year old w/ sidewalk chalk cry, & cuffing her?
“You realize she’s 13 years old?”“That’s great, we’ll figure it out at the precinct. We’re not going to sit here while we’re surrounded by a bunch of people who want to make their opinions known.” pic.twitter.com/iCgPkktRF1
— 350 Seattle (@350_Seattle) August 9, 2019
