OCA board member Janis Burger speaks truth to Trump's Interior Secretary What scary thing happened to a retired ranger looking for marmots? Plus a first-hand report on climate impacts at Olympic National Park, a tribute to the park's disappearing glaciers, rare bird alerts and a debut of our new, one-of-kind shipping report! Read and listen
PUD Commissioner: Grid stability underlies our quality of life
Time to build local power generating capacity?Bernard urges public to get involved. Image by Laurseum from Pixabay By Paula Hunt Peninsula Daily News Clallam County Public Utility District commissioner Phyllis Bernard urged residents and business leaders to take a more active role in shaping the county’s power future, saying public participation is essential as the PUD plans long-term …
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Wildfire Pretense Logging: The Trojan Horse Destroying Public Lands
Image by James De Mers from Pixabay What do these recent actions on public lands have in common? The Orwellian “Fix Our Forests” Act. Trump’s executive order to expand American timber production. The rescinding of the Roadless Rule. “Emergency” designation across 112 million acres—59% of National Forests. All of them—unprecedented in scale and scope—push industrial logging under the …
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News roundup: The Gates of Doom
Climate scientists take Bill Gates to task. Image by Augusto Ordóñez from Pixabay First off, thank you to everyone who joined last week’s virtual event, where four leading climate scientists shared about Bill Gates’ controversial climate memo. If you couldn’t make it, the full video is here. Rather than summarize the entire discussion, here are a few useful quotes …
Farewell to Bob Lynette
OCA founding board member dies at 88 Engineer, entrepreneur, social activist, visionary, and environmental hero Bob Lynette died on September 30 in the company of his loved ones. On top of a jet-propelled career in aerospace and wind energy, Bob combined a love of the outdoors--he could still outhike most folks into his 80s--with a …
A new low for the U.S. Forest Service :(
...and for public service in general... Atop the USFS home page: "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe …
Sun Day asks: Can our common ground be based in the sky?
What's the path forward given today's politics? Image by Ben Kerckx from Pixabay With the national Sun Day event approaching, including here on the Olympic Peninsula on Sept. 21, organizers Bill McKibben and Jamie Henn ponder where we can go from here when 35 years of climate activism seem to be stymied. Is it time to tone down the ideologies …
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OCA comments on proposed forest-stream buffer rule
Rule change has been 20+ years in the making The OCA Board of Directors has sent letters of support to both the WA Depts of Natural Resources (DNR) and Ecology, in favor of the proposed greater protections around upper-watershed streams. Here is an excerpt of our letter to Ecology: We can always say there’s a …
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“Fix Our Forests” Act is anything but
The Manti-La Sal National Forest covers more than 1.2 million acres (4,900 km2) and is located in the central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Utah and the extreme western part of Colorado. (Photo by Danita Delimont/Getty Images) During the Vietnam War, an American officer offered one of the most infamous quotes of …
Republican Bill Bryant: Save Doc Holliday and other legacy forests
Image of Doc Holliday Timber Sale by Scott F McGee / forest2sea.com Logging trees next to an Olympic Coast campground and cutting a century-old forest above the Strait of Juan de Fuca shows why Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Commissioner Dave Upthegrove was right to pause new logging contracts. Unfortunately, his decision came too late to save …
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The Other Side shares our concerns — Can we hear them?
Image by Zdeno Kittler from Pixabay When we hear the underlying concerns of those who oppose our views, Dr. Renée Lertzman shows how opportunities to communicate and connect improve. She is a leading climate psychologist, strategist, advisor, and trainer. For over 20 years, she has partnered across sectors and political affiliations, with communities, leaders and organizations around the …
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Oppose the rollback of the Roadless Rule
June 23, 2025 Climate Forests Campaign Responds to Trump Administration Rollback of the Roadless RuleLongstanding Rule Protects More Than 58 Million Acres of Forestlands SANTA FE – Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on Monday a rollback of the Roadless Rule, a policy that has protected more than 58 million acres of our National Forest System against …
‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
Forest management approaches promoted as “resilience,” “restoration,” “fuel reduction,” and “forest health” often degrade natural systems and reduce carbon stocks. Image by hagenstaadt from Pixabay Deciding what's best for our forests depends on who is making the decisions. Logging practices have swung from clearcutting to many forms of selective logging. Increased logging is now being justified because it …
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Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year
Image by PublicDomainImages from Pixabay "When careful, evidence-based forest management is replaced with a heavy emphasis on suppressing every fire or clear-cutting forests, I worry that human lives, property and economies, as well as the natural legacy of public lands left to every American, are at risk." -- Laura Dee Read More From the Conversation
This is not about politics
Letter from OCA member Dan BurdickPlanetary perfection Painted by Dan Burdick I was thinking today about the perfect position of our earth from the sun, and the size and gravitational force of our planet. It us just right for our existence and for millions of other species. I was thinking too about the wonderful relationship …
With Tesla stock plummeting, Musk turns to bully tactics
Protests against Tesla dealerships are spreading around the world in response to Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal government Stung by people power protests, Elon Musk targets my group and a close friend From The Raven
Value the legacy forests for the life that is there
A walk through the Upper Rutsatz forest — saved from logging after advocacy action in 2022 — underscores how legacy forests differ from plantation forests; a commentator explains why that understanding is vital. -- Sattva Photo "What industry wants to “clean up” looked to me like wildlife habitat. And rather than forests “falling into disrepair,” what I …
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More Options for State Forests
Reijo Telaranta from Pixabay County commissioners and city council members are questioning the decisions of the Department of Natural Resources and the Legislature to log mature forests. The benefit to rural communities is often less from logging than most people know. Read the story from the Seattle Times Op-Ed.
The stench of climate denial
Paul Krugman points out that we're probably way underestimating the likely costs of climate damage, and that culture-war climate denial will only make the impacts worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opinion/climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.66UV.Df2ZgoeDZ4TL&smid=url-share
Forest Service: your “greatest good” goal right now should be to protect our older forests
By Jim Furnish and René Voss, The Missoulian Kai deSilva --Pixabay In the early 20th century, Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service wrote what is now considered the agency’s mission statement: Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, prioritize “the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.” This approach …
Discourses of climate delay
Where is your favorite politician on this axis? Where is your old uncle? And where are YOU? Click to see the full cartoon
DNR, please read your signs
From a sign at the Nisqually Refuge...
Plantation forests are water hogs…
...so why don't they have to apply for water rights? Originally published in the Peninsula Daily News, 9/30/23 Goumbik -- Pixabay It’s well-known that forest clear-cuts adversely affect stream flows in multiple ways, such as by increasing surface temperatures, damaging water absorbing organisms and causing faster runoffs. Not so well known is that the more …
New Trees Are No Substitute for Old Trees
The fires in Canada underscore the need to let our current mature forest grow old. Warmer and drier conditions will weaken this resistance and make even these mature forests more prone to wildfire. This is very likely an important factor with the fires currently burning in Canada. | Megan Albu/AFP/Getty Images Across America, forests on …
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I Pledged $1 Million to Plant New Trees. My Money Could Have Been Better Spent.
Clayton Cotterell for The New York Times I asked the Forest Service to guarantee that the saplings planted using my money would not grow up only to be logged later by the timber companies. The agency declined. But overcome, I suppose, by pie-in-the-sky do-gooderism, I pledged the money anyway. Over the next few years, over …
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LETTER:Cut elsewhere
We need more loggers, not less.We gathered earlier this year on the banks of the Elwha River.An Indigenous elder welcomed everyone to their lands.They called on us to not be divided, thanked us for caring for the forests and river.Asked us to be grateful, to forgive.Environmentalists, loggers, tribal people were all there with families.Port Angeles …
Support both our older forests and our timber economy
Kaylee Galloway, Whatcom County Council - Bellingham Herald, 4/12/23 Whether you are traversing trails surrounded by old growth trees or cheering in the stands of the Deming Logging Show, forests have long been at the core of our Whatcom County culture and economy.In recent months, residents across Whatcom County have turned to their state and …
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Save our mature forests for climate, wildlife, water
"Working Forests" do little for our climate Editorial by John Talberth, Center for Sustainable Economy Everett Herald, April 8, 2023 A recent commentary (“Keep state’s working forests in climate change fight,” The Herald, March 18) gets it dead wrong: Forests that are left to grow, big, tall, and old capture and store far more carbon …
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Carpe Diem Moment on Forests and Climate Policy
"Include mature forests … not just old growth" "Nationwide MOG protections would establish U.S. leadership on the Paris Climate Agreement (natural sinks and reservoirs) and the Glasgow Forest Pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation. It would demonstrate progress toward 30 x 30 and present a global model for effective forest and climate response. "Most …
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Paul Stamets Supports Legacy Forests
Paul Stamets at Elwha River overlook "Our old growth forests are undervalued – we should not be deceived that short term gains in selling lumber accurately reflects the value of the intact biodiversity resident within these ancient stands. In particular, varieties of Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis aka Laricifomes officinalis) are now known to have potent antiviral properties. But …
Why we need new stories, by Rebecca Solnit
“There are thousands of answers. You can be one of them, if you choose.” https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/jan/30/rebecca-solnit-why-we-need-new-climate-stories-podcast
Methane and Hydroelectric Dams
OCA member Krestine Reed writes: The topic of methane and dam reservoirs comes up regularly these days. Because this topic is of universal concern, I put together a bit of information. Of course, there is much, much more information available. Take special note of the “Tell The Dam Truth” campaign initiative at the end of this post. The …
Spiritual awakening, or muddling through?
Which is a more likely outcome for humanity in the face of the climate crisis? Volts podcaster David Roberts speaks from his life experience: https://pca.st/episode/a530e098-a970-4f2e-b46d-793b3de5c4ab?t=2381.0
Plea from famed author/naturalist: save our older forests
Letter from Robert Michael Pyle to Governor Inslee and Commissioner Franz "Think back on why it was you loved Wintergreen, and what it has (still) to say about what we have already ruined and what we have within our (your) powers to yet protect, nurture, and love...thank you for reconsidering this deeply wrong decision..." Read …
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One Final Meeting for City of Port Angeles’ Climate Resiliency Plan
Three years in the making, the Port Angeles Climate Resiliency Plan is finally ready for prime time! OCA Steering Committee member Bob Vreeland wrote a compelling letter to the PDN about the proposed Climate Resiliency Plan for the City of Port Angeles. Bob was also quoted in a comprehensive article by PDN's Ken Park in …
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Musk, Twitter wars, & climate politics
Should climate politics be guided by bipartisanship? "Urgent policy action is needed [on Build Back Better] but this would probably require decoupling climate issues from other political and social debates."
Climate breakdown: even if we miss the 1.5°C target we must still fight to prevent every single increment of warming
"That we are on course to barrel past 1.5°C should not be a reason to disavow the values that underpin it. It should instead focus minds and energies." James Dyke and Julia K Steinburger -- The Conversation Read full article
Save Washington’s legacy forests to save ourselves
Board members of the Center for Responsible Forestry (to whom OCA donated $5000 last month to continue their excellent work) just published this piece in the Seattle Times. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR), announced it is setting aside a small amount of older forests for carbon storage instead of timber harvest. At the same time, the …
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Every tenth of a degree matters; every hundredth of a degree matters. Limiting warming to 1.6 degrees will be better than 1.7, which will be better than 1.8, which will in turn be much better than 2 degrees.
Shannon Osaka-Grist The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach
Letter to the Editor: Detached from Reality about the Price of Gas
Cal Thomas again displays his complete detachment from reality in his March 10 column. His tirade about the price of gas is senseless, but not cent-less for him. First, why would the fossil fuel industry be interested in lowering the price of gas when consumers are spending $100 to fill up? He doesn’t appear to …
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Ed Fallon Report — Here come the migrants
Dear Friends, Click here for this week's podcast (details below) ... including my conversation with Des Moines City Council candidate, Marcus Coenen (click here). The highlight of my week occurs every Thursday at 8:00 a.m. Sadly, it's not a good highlight. That's when the National Drought Mitigation Center releases its update about conditions across the US. Sure, I …
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Coping with the Derek Chuavin Trial
Friends, The murder trial of Derek Chuavin is a traumatic time for many of us. Though the need for police reform can not be overstated, it is also important that we take care of ourselves. Remember: you are not obligated to consume all the media surrounding this trial, especially if it is disturbing your ability …
Letter to the Editor: Climate Assembly as Cooperative Example
Peninsula Daily News | January 19, 2021 Democracy depends on our ability to cooperate.As the nation confronts an ugly national divide, we must remember that the only way forward is together, and as hard as that way might seem right now, it starts with people talking and listening to one another.Here in Washington, residents from …
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An Open Letter about Soil and Carbon
An open letter from former Clallam County resident Don Wilkin, now living in the Midwest Dear Colleagues, The urgency that moved me to start the EAT FOR GOOD food and farming network a few years back is coming to a head. The perfect storm of global climate change, soil deterioration, fossil fuel depletion, deforestation, and …
How do you become an Intersectionalist?
It starts within each of our guts, hearts, minds and souls. It is the "White Supremacy, Colonialist, Industrialist, Militaristic, Mysoginistic, Zenophobic, Capitalist, Consumerist, Patriarchal, Power-Over" STORY. Each of us has to take an unsparing look into our own "frameworks" of basic beliefs and HOW THESE FEED INTO SUPPORTING the systems we have all come to …
More about the complex history of our past economic recoveries
Although COVID-19 emerged as a new challenge, the disproportionate impacts of crises such as COVID-19 on black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are not new. Rather, disproportionate health and economic impacts on BIPOC communities directly correlate to a history of structural and institutional racism. From housing segregation to community disinvestment to the criminalization of …
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Water Column: Resetting the rules
by Ann Soule | Wednesday, July 8, 2020 -- Sequim Gazzette If you’re into games of intricate strategy and tales of suspense and mystery, you’d probably enjoy water law. You just have to be extraordinarily patient for the solution. I attended an online workshop about the future of water banking and water trusts in our …
Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness;
A Short List of People in America Who Were Not Freed in 1776 By Arleen Jenson (“Jenson,” They/Them)Farm Manager and Co-Owner, SisterLand Farms Independence Day celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in particular, but has become a holiday celebrating American freedom in general; complete with patriotic merchandise, eating outdoors, the wearing of nationalist symbols, …
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Greta Thunberg: Humanity has not yet failed
Sommar & Vinter i P1 | Jun 20 - 75 min. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E2Wz3C5XwtEw3Pi96tLQA?si=gOHyk4gOSMGxKcgdaoc4lg Spotify URL - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E2Wz3C5XwtEw3Pi96tLQA?si=gOHyk4gOSMGxKcgdaoc4lg Episode Description Climate activist Greta Thunberg urges world leaders to do more. Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible, Thunberg says in the Swedish Radio show Summer on P1 where she …
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An Expose of the Environmental Movement
It is empowering to see how many people in Washington state are taking time in this moment to stand up for racial justice. Many of you have reached out to ask how the environmental community can show up right now and what our role is in the fight against institutional racism. At WCV, we believe …
A Novel Approach to Climate Action at the State Level
By Cindy Jayne An effort is afoot to bring an ancient Athenian democratic process to Washington State – a Citizen’s Assembly, where a representative group of randomly chosen Washington State residents would come together to make recommendations on how the state could address climate change. Citizen Assemblies have been happening all across the world to …
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IS CARBON TAX A “SILVER BULLET”? YES!
By Climate Reality leader William Tucker - 5/5/2020 Maybe not gold, but definitely silver! We frequently hear those climate activists who are skeptical of carbon fee and dividend legislation (see, e.g., The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 763) dismiss it as not a “silver bullet.” What is meant by this seemingly pejorative comment …
The “new approach” for our leaders
Ed and others,Hope you are all having a nice day!The "new approach" is for our leaders, elected and agencies, to realize that immediate action is required to save salmon, Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW), and Bonneville Power Authority (BPA). Collaboration needs to be about rounding up some of these leaders and to agree and how …
Jubilee — A way forward with deep, ancient roots
It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, the global price of oil hit minus zero and headlines are declaring the end of the economy as we know it. And, sorry, but I don’t want to go back to normal. I want to go forward, toward a better …
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For a healthy planet, we need a healthy body politic
Crises have a way of laying bare some home truths.Letter from OCA chair Ed Chadd: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/letters/letter-healthy-body-politic/
Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now 4/10/20
Amy Goodman interviews Noam Chomsky “[Climate change] is a far more serious threat than the coronavirus, [which] is bad and serious, but we’ll recover somehow. We’re not going to recover from the melting of the polar ice sheets. . . . Just recently, there was a very interesting leak, a memo from JPMorgan Chase, America’s …
Subaru: Stop Helping the Trump Administration Make Cars Less Efficient
Updated with NEW Letters The Union of Concerned Scientists (Winter 2020) reports that Subaru is in a group of automakers trying to fight California's right to keep a higher emission/efficiency standard while the Trump administration is rolling back the national standards. OCA member Janis Burger is a Subaru owner and she's written a letter to …
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COVID-19, Capitalism, and Climate Disruption
How will the coronavirus change perceptions of climate change By Krestine Reed I’ve become interested in how COVID-19 sequestration (a.k.a. social distancing and shelter-in-place) may effect GHG and other factors contributing to climate change. There is much being written that acknowledges just how little time is required to make a significant visible and measurable change. …
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OCA announces climate platform for 2020
It's time for all good folks to come to the aid of their land, their water, their air, and all beings that call this rock home. At our Ground Hog Day 2020 meeting, OCA announced that we will not abide any more years of climate inaction and adopted this set of principles as our 2020 …
A Thanksgiving Call for Climate Action
By Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund Accelerating climate change will likely cause the collapse of civilization. Sooner rather than later. Civilization is a complex web of social and economic interactions that takes centuries to reach its peak, but once it begins to unravel, collapse often occurs swiftly. Prior collapses of human societies have …
DNR: Adopt a forest carbon policy
By consensus at our Oct. 6 meeting, OCA has sent the following letter to the State Board of Natural Resources and Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gShz1QaPB3YwDD97ElLv5L9Yk48SeQa4/view?usp=sharing Excerpt: The Washington State Public Lands Commissioner has a legal obligation to investigate and consider all reasonable, foreseeable mitigation and adaptation measures related to climate change. The DNR …
Trump an “embarrassment”
Letter to the Peninsula Daily News
“How dare you?”
Right here, right now is where we draw the line, The world is waking, and change is coming whether you like it or not.Greta Thunberg, speaking before the United Nations, 9/23/2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KxE4Kv9A8
The terrible truth, in one graph
2050 is a generation too late. That would be unforgivable, and very likely utterly catastrophic. Extinction Rebellion: "The Emergency" If you let this graph sink in, you'll understand why so many are turning out in the streets to demand a halt to business as usual and the most massive turnaround of the world's economy we've …
September 20th
Leviathans in the Harbor
More and bigger cruise ships are crowding coastal destinations. When is enough, enough? Who gets to decide? by Brian Payton , August 27, 2019, Hakai Magazine 'Knoll Lowney, the lawyer representing the three plaintiffs who claimed they were victims of Carnival’s environmental violations, said, “Time and time again, Carnival has shown its contempt of environmental laws and the …
DNC votes down a Climate Debate
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. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1165334843221168128.html
We need a green new deal
At our general meeting of 8/4/2019, OCA members in attendance adopted by consensus this statement in support of the concept of a green new deal. We have little time to waste and urge immediate action at all levels, but most particularly at the federal level, which will ultimately be necessary if we're to avoid unimaginable …
El Paso Terrorism Suspect’s Alleged Manifesto Highlights Eco-Fascism’s Revival
By Alexander C. Kaufman in HuffPost 08/04/2019 01:46 pm ET 'The racist rant inveighs against environmental destruction and calls for mass killings to make the American “way of life” more “sustainable.” It’s not unique.'
Wait, 40 percent of white evangelicals support the Green New Deal?
By Kate Yoder on Jul 29, 2019 in Grist 'In the 2016 presidential election, 81 percent of white evangelical Christians votedto elect President Trump. But this core base of the Republican Party, despite Fox News’ efforts, is more receptive to large-scale action to combat climate change than you might expect.'
Big Cruise Ships in the Salish Sea
This topic keeps coming up from people in every nook of the Salish Sea. Should we be talking about banning these ships from our waters? Twitter thread on cruise ships
Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly prefer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal to Joe Biden’s climate plan
Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly prefer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal to Joe Biden's climate plan Eliza Relman & Walt Hickey 'Democratic primary voters much prefer the more ambitious plans to fight climate change proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee over former Vice President Joe Biden's relatively less aggressive proposal, according to …
‘And a Child Shall Lead Them,’ or: How This Boomer Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Green New Deal
‘And a Child Shall Lead Them,’ or: How This Boomer Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Green New Deal Ross Macfarlane 'I am talking to my peeps: those of us who get the science, care deeply about the environment and the need for climate action, and are filled with both disgust and determination at …
I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.
I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle. Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead. By Mary Annaise Heglar Updated Jun 4, 2019, 9:33am EDT 'When people come to me and confess their green sins, as if I were some sort of eco-nun, I want …
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DNC silences climate debate
DNC tells Inslee it won't host climate debate DNC won't host a climate debate, and if another org holds one any candidate who participates can't be in DNC debates. I can only assume they haven't read this: New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ Starting in 2050
Leah Stokes on Biden’s Climate plan
Leah Stokes is a professor of PoliSci Prof at UCSB wrote this assessment of Biden's Climate plan.
Where is your 2020 candidate on Climate?
Where is your 2020 candidate on climate? Greenpeace has analyzed public record, actions, and responses to their climate survey and used the results to grade the candidates.
Late Night Cram: Green New Deal (ft. Rhiana Gunn-Wright)
Late Night Cram: Green New Deal (ft. Rhiana Gunn-Wright) 39 minute podcast about the Green New Deal talking to Rhiana Gunn-Wright who was a policy lead in developing the deal. "I think it's also about being able to bring these issues to the places where people are actually encountering them in the ways they actually …
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Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’ Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Fri 17 May 2019 05.39 EDT
Jay Inslee is writing the climate plan the next president should adopt
Jay Inslee is writing the climate plan the next president should adopt More than a campaign document, it’s an instruction manual. By David Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com May 18, 2019, 10:00am EDT
Principles in Climate Justice
By Mike Mallory, Sierra Club Sno-Isle Group and Climate Reality Snohomish County Chapter From The Sierra Club, Washington State Chapter Journal - "The Crest" Volume 38, Issue 1 After Mike Mallory and his wife Marilyn retired, they knew they wanted to spend some of their time giving back to the world and they wanted to …
Tokitae in Miami Seaquarium
By Emi Okikawa, Digital Communications Fellow From The Sierra Club, Washington State Chapter Journal - "The Crest" Volume 38, Issue 1 The Story of Tokitae Three thousand miles away from Seattle,a lone Southern Resident orca swims in a tank. To visitors at Miami Seaquariumher name is “Lolita,” but to the Lummi Nation she is Tokitae. …
Deep decarbonization: How? Who?
LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: SUMMARY & KEY RECOMMENDATIONS Deep decarbonization pathways summary This is a summary of a larger report by the Environmental Law Institute, posing the question of what laws & policies could lead to an 80% reduction (or more) of net greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. There are short …
The Three Causes of the World’s Four Big Problems
Deep Transformation, or What London’s Climate Change Protests Teach Us About the Future umair haqueApr 22 - from Medium.com It was a perfect spring day. I was trying to get home to Camden Lock from Oxford Circus, after meeting a few friends for coffee downtown. A siren’s blare cut through the noisy crowds. Soon enough, police …
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THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND. OR MINE.
FIRST PERSON THIS LAND IS NOT YOUR LAND. OR MINE. By Mary Annaïse Heglar "The iconic folk song has become an anthem for the predominantly white environmental movement. But can a colonized nation built on the backs of slaves ever really make that claim?" https://www.damemagazine.com/2019/04/16/this-land-is-not-your-land-or-mine/
Glaciers and Arctic ice are vanishing. Time to get radical before it’s too late – Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben -- Wed 10 Apr 2019 06.00 EDT No one should be annoyed when schoolkids start leaving class en masse or surprised that Green New Deal advocates call for dramatic overhaul of American society. We should be grateful. @billmckibben 'The respectable have punted; so now it’s up to the scruffy, the young, the marginal, the …
Climate and America’s endangered rivers
“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out
All three parts of the interview can be accessed from this page link. Thousands are taking to the streets in London today to demand radical action to combat the climate crisis. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion have set up encampments and roadblocks across Central London and say they’ll stay in the streets for at …
Locals speak out about orcas & LSRDs
"Injustice to the natural world" Kilmer is backwards on science vs. politics & the LSRDs Snake River dam breaching would be a simple affair "Look to our souls" for the courage to do what's right
How Google, Microsoft, and Bit Tech are Automating the Climate Crisis
Author: Brian Merchant Source: Gizmodo 'These deals, many of which were made just last year, at what may be the height of public awareness of the threats posed by climate change, are explicitly aimed at streamlining, improving, and rendering oil and gas extraction operations more profitable.' Full Article: How Google, Microsoft, and Bit Tech are Automating …
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Breach the LSRDs now. Not next year. Now.
At the direction of our membership at our February 3 meeting, OCA sent letters to Governor Inslee, our District 24 State Representatives, and Rep. Derek Kilmer about both the necessity and feasibility of breaching the lower 4 Snake River Dams this year. Nothing would prevent this from happening if we recognized the true dire straits …
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“What matters is am I doing the right thing?”
“It’s so easy to look at the big picture and get completely disheartened. … What we need to remember is what is my own personal moral obligation. When I wake up each day thinking about what I might do from that perspective … when I come at it from a deep sense of moral obligation, …
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Fantastic Thread On a Green New Deal
Rhiana Gunn-Wright addresses the question of whether the GND is simply a "Progressive laundry list". https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048679667924993 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048685841879040 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048689088282624 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048692204724225 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048695300046848 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048698596818944 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048701549551616 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094048704963710976 https://twitter.com/rgunns/status/1094049076885315585
Green New Deal reality check
From: Post Carbon Institute <newsletter@postcarbon.org> COULD A GREEN DEAL SAVE CIVILIZATION?by Richard HeinbergIs there a set of policies that could actually avert climate catastrophe while saving civilization? Yes, at least in principle. READ MORE
Voice from time immemorial
This "letter from an orca" was published in today's Seattle Times, with a thought-provoking twist at the end: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/orcas-and-a-way-of-life/
Dr. Guenther Twitter Thread
On talking about climate change https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089899109509672965 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089900347433328647 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089901090898878464 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089902486159278080 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089903691795218432 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089904734339846144 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089906253793501186 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089907595652067328 https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1089908959631343618
Greta Thunberg in Davos
Climate action now must focus on the global rich and their corporations
Climate action must now focus on the global rich and their corporations December 17, 2018 11.07am EST
Conservation International Presents
Nature is Speaking Featuring short films personifying Nature, narrated by folks we know well. JOAN CHEN is SkyPENELOPE CRUZ is WaterHARRISON FORD is OceanLIAM NEESON is IceEDWARD NORTON is SoilLUPITA NYONG´O is FlowerLEE PACE is MountainROBERT REDFORD is RedwoodJULIA ROBERTS is Mother NatureIAN SOMERHALDER is Coral ReefREESE WITHERSPOON is HomeSHAILENE WOODLEY is Forest
Olympic Climate Action 