OCA members Ed Bowlby, Ed Chadd, and John Cambalik attended the virtual Retreat at which this Network was formally created. The Network will help our group speak with a strong statewide voice but still leave us the flexibility to voice our own opinion. Kudos to Grace Hope, our 350 PNW Organizer, and to Alec Connon, …
Washington’s Environmental Justice Task Force
Dear Friends: Thank you for your ongoing interest and engagement in the mission of Washington's Environmental Justice Task Force. Its body of work will provide a policy blueprint for how Washington State can provide the highest standard of environmental health protection to every resident. Since September 2019, the Task Force has been collecting public input …
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Water Column: Resetting the rules
by Ann Soule | Wednesday, July 8, 2020 -- Sequim Gazzette If youโre into games of intricate strategy and tales of suspense and mystery, youโd 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 …
A Demand sent to Trans Mountain Insurers from OCA
To the CEOs of AIG, Chubb, Energy Insurance Limited, Liberty Mutual, Lloydโs, Munich Re, Starr, Stewart Specialty Risk Underwriting, W.R. Berkley, Zurich, Amlin, ANV, Arch, Argo, Ironstarr, Lancashire, and QBE: The 2019-2020 certificate of insurance for the Trans Mountain pipeline names your company as a provider of insurance coverage from August 2019 through August 2020.1 …
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Whipped by the โLong Tailโ of the Coronavirus
"When the E.R. nurse asked if Iโd been short of breath that day, I replied that Iโd been short of breath for 65 days." By Jodie Noel Vinson | July 13, 2020 -- The New York Times On day 45 of our illness, my husband, Marc, and I woke up and looked at each other. …
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Hot Off the Wire — 7/10/2020
The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington is hiring an entry-level Research Scientist.You can learn more about the position here . . . Flu Virus Resources Why kids should be in the classroom this fall โ and how to keep them safe thereHow should schools reopen? Pediatricians offer these guidelinesTo save American …
Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness;
A Short List of People in America Who Were Not Freed in 1776 By Arleen Jenson (โJenson,โย 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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Hot Off the Wire — 7/3/2020
The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) at the University of Washington is hiring an entry-level Research Scientist.You can learn more about the position here . . . Flu Virus Resources Quarantine bubbles โ when done right โ limit coronavirus risk and help fight loneliness -- PBS News Hour Opinion Making a Planet Worth Saving | By …
OCA Signs Letter to Big Oil: Protect the Arctic Refuge
OCA joins other groups to encourage the big oil companies of Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Hilcorp, and BP to not pursue fossil fuel development in one of our most majestic public lands in the nation - theย Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.ย Read the letter here . . . Drilling in the Arctic Refuge is risky and unnecessary - it violates …
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Hot Off the Wire — 6/26/2020
Flu Virus Resources It Doesnโt Look Like the Protests Are Causing a COVID-19 SpikeWhat does that mean for other outdoor activities? -- Visual Capitalist Opinion Justice Denied -- GristOpinion: If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacyBy Tamara Toles OโLaughlin on Jun 15, 2020 The Myth of Economic SacrificeWe can afford to act …
In Solidarity with All Our Relations
The senseless, violent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and many other Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of this country are merely the most recent, visible examples of systemic inequality and racial injustice in our country. These deaths and the depth of inequality they represent work against our mission to seek a safe, …
OCA Stands Opposed to the Keystone XL Pipeline
In solidarity with Indigenous communities, farmers and ranchers along the route, OCA is sending our protest banner to the Governors of Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska demanding they stop all pre-construction activity. Background: The movement against the Keystone XL Pipeline has successfully stopped the Trump Administration and TC Energy, aka TransCanada, from building this climate-destroying …
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Hot Off the Wire — 6/19/2020
Flu Virus Resources When Will Life Return to Normal?--Visual Capitalist The Growth of COVID-19 in the U.S., Organized by State Peak Date How U.S. Consumers are Spending Differently During COVID-19 Visualizing the Occupations with the Highest COVID-19 Risk Opinion There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice -- Yes! MagazineCan India chart a low-carbon future? The …
How can we achieve climate justice today?
From urban cities to rural towns, people are coming together in outrage to demonstrate that #BlackLivesMatter and call for the end of white supremacy culture and systematic racism. This is not a new struggle or fight. This is a response to centuries of oppression that has torn apart Black communities through slavery, police brutality, incarceration, …
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Hot Off the Wire — 6/12/2020
Opinion A Novel Approach to Climate Action at the State LevelBy Cindy Jayne An Expose of the Environmental Movement Itโs Time For a Black New DealChris Winters | June 8, 2020 Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 29: Add a book about an environmental issue to your summer reading listTake part: June 14โ20, …
Stop the Money Pipeline supports the demand to defund the police
For years, the Movement for Black Lives has demanded investments in the education, health and safety of Black communities, instead of in institutions that criminalize, cage and harm Black people.Stop the Money Pipeline supports the demand to defund the police, and invest instead in Black communities.Cities across the United States spend a mind-boggling portion of …
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OCA Endorses the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
THE FOSSIL FUELNON-PROLIFERATION TREATY An initiative to phase-out fossil fuels and fast-track solutions Climate change, like nuclear weapons, is a major global threat. Bold and immediate action is needed to address the climate emergency.The main cause of the climate emergency is fossil fuels. Coal, oil and gas are responsible for almost 80% of all carbon …
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What are our next steps toward BLM?
How about that amazing special edition 350 PNW Conversations call on Monday?! We had 22 folks from 12 local groups across our region gather together to reflect, listen, and engage in conversation around the powerful recent message โIn Defense of Black Livesโ from Black leadership at 350.org to all of us organizing for climate justice …
Updates on Climate and Racial Justice
Crowds of protestors have taken to the streets in major cities and towns of all sizes in the United States and around the world, decrying the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and many others, and to demand an end to police violence against black people. Last week the Movement for …
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 …
Large-size Cardboard Resource
I have two boxes once used to ship aluminum fencing. Four or more large pieces, as large as 4 feet x 6 feet are available for: SignsPostersTable-top backgroundsScore them to accordion-fold Paint them for impact, cut them into shapes. Use your imagination Thursday, June 11, 2020 I will update availability as the cardboard is dispensed. …
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 โ a Citizenโs 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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Hot Off the Wire — 6/05/2020
On Social Justice Richard Shotwell/Associated Press Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the N.B.A.โs all-time leading scorer, is the author of 16 books. "Yes, protests often are used as an excuse for some to take advantage, just as when fans celebrating a hometown sports team championship burn cars and destroy …
Stop the Money Pipeline supports minority protests
June 5, 2020 medical worker Breonna Taylor should have been celebrating her twenty-seventh birthday. But on March 13th, police used a battering ram to enter her apartment and murdered her in her bed, shooting her eight times. Anyone who has read about the cold-blooded murder of Breonna Taylor or watched the footage of a white …
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Science is Not Immune to to Racism
The protests that are sweeping the country are a direct response to the fact that racism is an inescapable reality in the United States. That these protests are happening right now, in the midst of a pandemic that places the protesters at risk from congregating, speaks to how deep the injustice is, and how urgent …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/28/2020
Breaking News! $170K grant will facilitate climate planning on theย North Olympic Peninsula Flu Virus Resources HURRICANE SEASON IN A PANDEMIC For many regions facing an active 2020 hurricane season, COVID-19 has created the potential for a double disaster. As state and local governments draft emergencyย plans, uncertainty lingers.-- The Atlantic Solutions REI's Opt to Act …
4 area Tribes are “still in” for climate action
The Jamestown, Hoh, Quinault, and Suquamish Tribes are among 12 Tribes nationwide that have signed on to the We Are Still In declaration, a coalition of cities, states, tribes, businesses, universities, healthcare organizations, and faith groups who strongly oppose the US withdrawal from Paris and are not going to take a retreat from the global …
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$170K grant will facilitate climate planning on the NOP
Once again, partnerships pay off: The Puget Sound Partnership, along with its local stakeholdersโ group known as the Strait Ecosystem Recovery Network, have awarded $170,000 to the North Olympic Development Council (a local coalition of governments, businesses, NGOs, and citizens) to develop multi-benefit local climate action plans that integrate with local governmental comprehensive and shoreline …
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Hot Off the Wire — 5/23/2020
Flu Virus Resources Will you take the COVID/Climate Video Challenge?Join us in starting a global conversation about the relationship between COVID-19 and the climate crisis Opinion Health of People, Health of Planet and Our ResponsibilityClimate Change, Air Pollution and Healthby Wael K. Al-Delaimy, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marcelo Sรกnchez Sorondo Available for free download as PDF or …
350 Leadership Webinar – July 1, 2020
URGENT: ย FEDERAL CLIMATE BILLS & STRATEGYDate & Time: Wed.ย July 1, 2020.ย Noon-1:30 pm.Zoomย Register.ย ย FBย Event. TOPICS:โ Federal Climate Bills: What's Good & What's Missing?โ Movement Action for National Legislation.โ Organizing for Power: A "Climate Bill Package"? PRESENTERS:โ ย Todd Fernandez, Executive & Legislative Director, Climate Crisis Policyโ Jake Davis, Senior Policy Director, Family Farm Actionโ Etelle Higonnet, …
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 โsilver bullet.โย What is meant by this seemingly pejorative comment …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/16/2020
Flu Virus Resources Opinion Why I oppose โPlanet of the Humansโ | Patrick MazzaItโs undermining our main chance to avert climate catastrophe Planet of Half Truths โ Michael Mooreโs attack on renewables unmooredBy their nature, documentary films are supposed to expose mistruths โ this one often amplifies them -- Corporate Knights What Planet of the …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/08/2020
OMG! look at that honeybee swarm! Flu Virus Resources For young people, two defining events: COVID-19 and climate changeAn unforeseen pairing of catastrophes will inform how Generation Z navigates the world as adults, and what sort of future they create. -- National Geographic Youth Climate Activists Are Writing a Just Recovery Curriculum -- Yes Magazine How …
OMG! look at that honeybee swarm!
Quick, call Noelle! 360-280-4594 | noellenordstrom.oly@gmail.com | #beeallaboutit Hello neighbors, my name is Noelle and I am a hobbyist beekeeper who moved here last fall. I live on 9th street in Port Angeles. Alas, my bee colonies did not survive the winter. Since I am renting, I decided not to purchase bees this year and …
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 …
COVID-19 and Climate Connections May 2020
Iโd make this distinction between the โflatten the curve challengesโ of CoV-2 vs. CO2 The former involves a dramatic shutdown of economic activity, which tends to hurt people most who are already the least privileged, whereas the latter involves a dramatic shift of economic activity, which offers the possibility of helping the most marginalized in …
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Hot Off the Wire — 5/01/2020
Local, Actionable and Timely Flu Virus Resources COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for Public Health -- Climate One Opinion LETTER: Healthy body politic -- Peninsula Daily News Jubilee โ A way forward with deep, ancient roots Pandemic Billionaires and Corruption, Corruption Everywhere Earth Day 2025: The things we left behind -- By Todd Paglia, Executive Director, Stand.earth …
Jubilee — A way forward with deep, ancient roots
Itโs the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, weโre 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 donโt 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/
Hot Off the Wire — 4/16/2020
R.S.V.P. for Earth Day Live programming on April 22, 23, 24 See what's happening here during Earth Week . . . Flu Virus Resources & News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hgQFaeaeo0&feature=youtu.be Arundhati Roy: โThe pandemic is a portalโ The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India โ and what the country, and the world, should do next - Free to …
The Destruction of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Photo: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images Go to Earth Day Home How Trump is destroying Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and what it means for environmental protection laws everywhere Thursday, April 23, 7pmOn zoom.us,meeting ID: 972 0690 8213, Password: carolyn@riseup.net, or call in at(253) 215-8782 (more connection information below).Trumpโs border wall is …
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“All Earth Life Matters”
Go to Earth Day Home Go to Inspire Art Projects Reaching out and fostering awareness in Earth care and concerns within the community has been what the supporting visual art projects have been about all along.ย Then along came covid-19 and everything was upended on its earโฆ.so to speak...and we continue to move through the …
#ClallamTogether: Earth Day comes home & goes virtual
Back to Earth Day Home Go to Inspire Art Projects Dear Community Members/Organizations/Businesses/Groups and Allies:As Wednesday, April 22, the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, approaches, we find ourselves in unprecedented circumstances, as the urgent, evolving challenges of the coronavirus pandemic call on people everywhere to respond to one another and to our shifting circumstances with …
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Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now 4/10/20
Amy Goodman interviews Noam Chomsky โ[Climate change] is a far more serious threat than the coronavirus, [which] is bad and serious, but weโll recover somehow. Weโre 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, Americaโs …
COVID-19 and Climate Connections April 2020
What connects Climate Change with CoronaVirusWhat connects CoronaVirus with everything else Climate Change Wonโt Stop for the Coronavirus Pandemic -- ProPublica Pandemic Prescriptions forย theย Climate Emergency -- Stan Cox Why Jane Goodall says human disregard for nature led to the coronavirus pandemic-- PBS News Hour COVID-19 & Climate Change: What does this mean for the fight …
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Hot Off the Wire — 4/10/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8 Are we resilient? -- WE ARE RESILIENT! "The music is amazing, but the interpretive dancing is just baffling!" Flu Virus Resources If you've wanted to see Derek Kilmer with a beard, Here's your chance . . . A message from U.S. Representative Kilmer and CoronaVirus resources. Opinion Destroyed Habitat Creates the Perfect Conditions for …
350.org Crowd-sourced Music Video Project
From: Ahlay Blakely (The Peopleโs Echo, 350 Seattle),ย Austin Smith (Video, 350 Seattle),ย David Solnit (Art.350.org)ย Hello!Song is feeling extraordinarily elemental right now more than ever.ย What are some of the oldest songs you can remember? Song is history: slavery, abolition, civil rights, fair wages, the American Indian Movement just to name a few. Songs are like tiny …
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And People Stayed Home
โAnd people stayed homeand read books and listenedand rested and exercisedand made art and playedand learned new ways of beingand stoppedand listened deepersomeone meditatedsomeone prayedsomeone dancedsomeone met their shadowand people began to think differentlyand people healedand in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways,dangerous, meaningless and heartless,even the earth began to healand when …
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 Iโve 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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Hot Off the Wire — 4/03/2020
Flu Virus Resources It's for your own good.You have to stop touching your face. Opinion Letters to the Editor | Bill Moyers editorThe Sleep of Reason -- March 8, 2017In our inaugural "letters to the editor," Bill hears from a historian about the greatest horror to emerge from Trump's actions thus far.A Historian Speaks to …
Making PPE for our Healthworkers
Jo-Ann's Fabrics is offering free take-home-to-sew face mask kits. The PA store has kits of materials to sew 5 face masks (limit one kit per person at a time). Return the completed masks to the store.Also, you can use elastic from other products, such as head bands, hair ties etc., which should be available at many stores. …
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith These are very difficult times for so many. I have been very touched by the messages that I have received from readers, many of whom are isolated now and are renewing their friendship with Mma Ramotswe and the others.I have written a poem especially for this moment, and the text is below. …
Hot Off the Wire — 3/21/2020
Flu Virus Resources Opinion Naomi Kiein -- Senior Correspondent | The Intercept "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep …
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What if you thought of itas the Jews consider the Sabbathโthe most sacred of times?Cease from travel.Cease from buying and selling.Give up, just for now,on trying to make the worlddifferent than it is.Sing. Pray. Touch only thoseto whom you commit your life.Center down. And when your body has become still,reach out with your heart.Know that …
Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team Issues Report
Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand โHere we present the results of epidemiological modelling which has informed policy-making in the UK and other countries in recent weeks.โ โ March 16 Download the PDF Document SummaryThe global impact of COVID-19 has been profound, and the public health threat it represents is …
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An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans
Stop. Just stop. It is no longer a request. It is a mandate. We will help you. We will bring the supersonic, high speedย merry-go-round to a halt. We will stop the planes the trains the schools the malls the meetings the frenetic, furied rush of illusions and โobligationsโ that keep you from hearing our …
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Hot Off the Wire — Special Edition
Let's Stand with the Wet'suwet'en for the Salish SeaOn March 15 from 12-2 there will be a rally in Port Angeles at the Coho ferry terminal in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en fight.ย The rally is an opportunity for indigenous and non-indigenous folks on the Peninsula to share songs, prayer, and drumming and show the Wet'suwet'en that …
Hot Off the Wire — 3/6/2020
What can I do about the spread of CoronaVirus? Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 15: Count the number of single-use plastic items you use this weekTake part: March 8โ14, 2020 Regional Actions We are standing for mother Earth and humanity, especially for the youth inheriting this future. Join us on …
About CoronaVirus
Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) Letter from Dr. Robb at UC San Diego. For those concerned about the coronavirus: Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic by James Robb, MD UC San Diego Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at …
Help the 350.org WA — Civic Action Team
Hello Climate Action Team! 1615: Climate calls made to legislators!932: Climate comments left on bills!2570: Climate emails sent to legislators!5117: total legislator contacts made by the Civic Action Team in 2020! 9: Days left in the legislative session! Weโre now in the home stretch with a big cut-off looming on Friday at 5pm when bills …
THE CHEHALIS AT A CROSSROADS
THE CHEHALIS AT A CROSSROADS: PLANS FOR A FLOOD CONTROL DAM THREATEN THE HEADWATERS If a dam is built, the populations of spring and fall Chinook that spawn above the dam site may go extinct Twin Harbors Waterkeeper Chehalis dam would not address all major storms,nor regular, shallow floodingState Environmental Review ProcessSEPA Draft Environmental Impact …
Hot Off the Wire — 2/28/2020
NEW -- Raven DebriefsRAVEN DeBriefs are conversations between Indigenous thinkers, legal experts, organizers and community leaders exploring the shifting legal landscape upon which moments of crisis โ and opportunity โ are builtEpisode One : The Power of Music to โup the Auntieโ in us all Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 14: …
OCA has Endorsed the National Fracking Ban Act
Now, here's what we can do about getting it passed . . . Hello everyone, thank you so much for endorsing the Fracking Ban Act introduced by Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez! My name is Thomas, Iโm the National Climate Organizing Manager at Food & Water Action and Iโll be sharing update on the bill …
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Hot Off the Wire — 2/23/2020
Opinion Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Our Common Enemy is Climate Change -- Bill Moyers LETTER: Past Republican officials on current affairs -- Peninsula Daily News Illustration by Matt Chinworth Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming BurnsWhat if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels? By …
Hot Off the Wire — 02/15/2020
Derek Kilmer in Port Angeles meetings Twice TODAY! Saturday at 10 am at Clallam Democrat Headquarters, 124 Front St, and at 1 pm at the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E 1st St Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 12: Go meatless one day this weekTake part: Feb. 16โ22, 2020 Regional …
Hot Off the Wire — 2/07/2020
Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming By Fred Pearce | YaleEnvironment360 Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to …
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 …
Hot Off the Wire — 1/31/2020
Kilmer to Hold Tribal Town Halls and Facebook Live Town HallPort Angeles event is TOMORROW, Friday at 5:30 p.m. Opinion The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over -- Yes MagazineDavid Korten: this is humanityโs make-or-break decade Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 10: Call your utility companies to ask about …
Climate-related Bills in the WA State Legislature
Climate- and energy-related bills in the WA State Legislature that the League of Women Voters supports: SHB 1110 / SB 5412 Reduces greenhouse gas emissions with transportation fuels. HB 1113 Aligns Washington State's greenhouse gas reduction goals with the 2015 Paris Agreement and current climate change science assessments. HB 1597 Integrates the natural gas upstream emissions rate and global warming …
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Hot Off the Wire — 01/24/2020
Opinion Even before Australia erupted in wildfire, the European Space Agency was asking, โIs the earth on fire?,โ as multiple fires burned across the globe. Read more about 2019 fires, and fire-tracking via satellite, here. Bill Joy has a plan to cut global carbon emissions in halfSolving the Climate Crisis Can't Be Gamified -- Kamp …
Interrupting the bad news with kindness
A Democrat and a Republican were on a plane It sounds like a set up to a political joke, doesnโt it? Itโs actually real. On a recent four hour-flight to Chicago, my seatmate and I enjoyed something that has become rare in these times: a civil exchange of ideas and a surprising consensus. He was …
Hot Off the Wire — 1/17/2020
Opinion League of Women Voters of Washington2020 Legislative Session Expectations Forests and RiversEnergyClimate Change Rewriting the Rules about the Environment, Energy, and Agriculture How the bills undermine protections for our environment-- The Center for Media and Democracy Solutions Your Guide to Talking With Kids of All Ages About Climate Change-- NRDC REI's Opt to Act …
Hot Off the Wire — 1/10/2020
Opinion LETTER: Endorses local contributions to climate knowledge -- Peninsula Daily News - Friday, January 3, 2020 My Journey to Radical EnvironmentalismItโs never too late to take action aimed at protecting our planet.By Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist, -- New York TimesIn agreement with a comment on the article:@A Reader in Hampstead I can't agree …
Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal
Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins, founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association, will be available January 28. This is one of the most important books Chelsea Green has published, and we are offering activists and organizations the special discounts listed below. $17.95 paperback โ 208 pages โ ISBN 9781603589758 โ Available January 28, 2020 …
Learn to Defend Voting Rights and Environmental Justice
WEBINAR INVITATION The 2020 election is a key opportunity to push leaders to lay out a bold vision for how they plan to combat the relentless assault under way on science, truth, and justice that has weakened our democracy. And throughout the election year, we will need to fight back against attacks on voting rights …
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Attend Environmental Lobby Day on January 30
More than 500 activists gathered on the Capitol steps for Environmental Lobby Day in January 2019 to call for bold action for the Southern Resident orcas, reduction in plastic pollution, 100% clean electricity, and oil spill prevention. For the upcoming 2020 legislative session, the Environmental Priorities Coalition will continue fighting for policies that will help …
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LSRD Breach Now! Rally — January 23rd
Facebook Event at Orca Oracle Bus Carpool -- https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/a3uj90 Join advocates for salmon, orcas, tribal rights and fiscal responsibility to rally on the Washington Capitol steps, Jan. 23, 2020 at 11 am in support of breaching the 4 Lower Snake River Dams (LSRDs) now. Gov Inslee is taking written comments on his โLSRD Stakeholder Studyโ …
Hot Off the Wire — 1/3/2020
Opinion The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic -- The New York Times A revealing forum discussing what we can all do together. Debatable -- The New York Times, January 3, 2020Lead with values, not factsOr is trying to convince climate change deniers a waste of time? 2018: The Wake-Up Call Podcast year in reviewDecember 20, …
Chicago Review of Books — Burning Worlds
The Man Who Coined โCli-Fiโ Has Some Reading Suggestions For You by Amy Brady -- February 8, 2017 โBurning Worldsโ is a new monthly column dedicated toย examining important trends in climate change fiction, or โcli-fi.โ It astonishes to think just how long humans have known that the Earth is getting warmer. The term โglobal warmingโ didnโt enter …
Hot Off the Wire — 12/27/2019
Opinion Deputy Sheriff Charles Blountslams the head of a Sonoma County citizen into his own window frame, killing him. Deputy Blount has faced multiple allegations of using excessive force in the past. Blount's comment afterword, "Oh well." Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / Checklist Week 5: Make your New Yearโs resolution an environmentally …
Hot Off the Wire — 12/20/2019
We are standing for mother Earth and humanity, especially for the youth inheriting this future. Join us on #FridaysForFuture -- Free iPhone/iPad App - "Fridays For U" Noon to 1:00 at the Port Angeles downtown fountain Opinion Climate Youth Declare: โWe Are Unstoppable! Another World Is Possible!โ Solutions REI's Opt to Act Weekly Calendar / …
FridaysForFuture demonstrations in PA
Every Friday at noon at the downtown fountain #FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and Twitter and …
Hot Off the Wire — 12/16/2019
Opinion Save the rare wild beauty of the Tongass National Forest from renewed logging -- The Seattle Times In the early โ90s, we saw the timber industry here in Southeast Alaska collapse due to a lack of profitability, despite half a century of heavy federal subsidies. The Big Picture -- opinions from Fridays for Future …
Nature is Speaking
Nature doesn't need people.People need Nature.Nature holds at least a third of the solution to climate change. What Force Of Nature Are You? Sky -- Joan ChenIce -- Liam NeesonMountain -- Lee PaceWater -- Penelope Cruz Flower -- Lupita Nyong'o The Soil -- Edward NortonForest -- Shailene WoodleyThe Ocean -- Harrison FordHome -- Reese WitherspoonCoral …
Hot Off the Wire — 12/13/2019
In the face of the growing climate emergency, governments seem determined to continue embracing fossil fuels, and even meeting their Paris Agreement pledges would see warming of 2.8หC by the end of this century. Opinion โListen to Mother Earthโ: Indigenous Youth Leaders at COP25 in Madrid Protest Fossil Fuel Extraction -- Climate Reality Project Why …
2019 State of the Sound Report
issues a Call to Action for Puget Sound Recovery NEWS RELEASE -- December 2, 2019MEDIA CONTACT: Jon Bridgman, 206.276.5309, jon.bridgman@psp.wa.govย The latest biennial State of the Sound Report, released this week, stresses that โโฆwe can still recover Puget Sound, but only if we act boldly now.โ This is the scientifically informed assessment of the Puget …
OCA Joins 450 Organizations Calling for Action
Top 10 Climate Actions for the Next Presidentโs First 10 Days in Officeย ย How Presidential Action Must Address the Climate Emergency In a letter from Ben Goloff: About the Plan: The Plan unpacks the top 10 executive actionsโthat do not require action by Congressโthat the next President must take to tackle the climate emergency in her/his …
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Hot Off the Wire — 12/6/2019
Climate Strike with us Friday Our survival canโt wait. Opinion Clallam County Carbon Emissions data move on hold Commissioner Peach says collection company biased A Thanksgiving Call for Climate ActionBy Mark Dunlea, Green Education and Legal Fund Climate change deniers are increasingly angry and hostile -- MediumCognitive dissonance at being forced off of position after …
Here: Poems for the Planet
Here: Poems for the Planetย is a lovesong to a planet in crisis. Summoning a chorus of over 125 diverse poetic voicesโincluding Mary Oliver, Robert Hass, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, W.S. Merwin, Natalie Diaz, Kimiko Hahn, and othersโthis anthology approaches the impending environmental crisis with a sense of urgency and hopefulness.
2020 Adventure Travel Series Announced
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 …
Walking Tours by North Olympic Land Trust
Visit North Olympic Land Trust'sย current conservation project, the 104 acre River's Edge along the lower Dungeness River. These tours will give you a more in-depth look at this propertyย and the impact it will have in our community. I know this time of year can get particularly busy so I've added a couple new dates for …
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OCA Supports the Sustainable Farms and Field Initiative
OCA has joined organizations around the state who are adding their names to the Sustainable Farm and Fields Support Sign-on Letter From: Noa KayI'm excited to add Olympic Climate Action to the letter of support. Thank you!ย We'll keep folks updated as the legislative session begins so you can track the bill's progress and take action …
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Stream Walks Offered Starting Dec. 2
Contact:Robbie Mantoothennis@olypen.com360-808-3139 Guided walks to Ennis Creek are being offered by appointment starting December 2. The free walks will focus on lower Ennis Creek, near Highway 101 and can include opportunities to see some areas where habitat has been improved as well as those still needing restoration.Friends of Ennis Creek is sponsoring the walks as …
Hot Off the Wire — 11/29/2019
Opinion Mapped: The 1.2 Billion People Without Electricity Where are people still living in the dark, and how are these energy challenges being addressed? Solutions REI's NEW! Opt to Act Plan 52 simple weekly challenges for a year of action This Black Friday, REI is kicking-off a year of action. Join us and Opt to …
Black Friday Climate Strike in Sequim
Friday, November 29, 2019 โข 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Verizon Store โข 1241 West Washington Street, Sequim , WA 98264 Signs will be provided, but if you have the time and materials to make a big banner, we have some ideas! -- Host Contact Info: Meigs1@yahoo.com -- Dress warm! Click to RSVP for this …
Comment on Lower Snake River Dams
Stakeholder process throughGovernor Inslee's questionnaire Thanks to NOOP (North Olympic Orca Pod) for this info! LSRD Online Engagement Questionnaire Please respond to Governor Insleeโs โLSRD Stakeholder Surveyโ this week if possible. Lower Snake River Dams Stakeholder Process Background info, including the link to the survey are here Because Insleeโs consultants have made this process complicated, …
Hot Off the Wire — 11/22/2019
Introducing "Documenting the momentum toward a clean energy future, curating and compiling the full range of issues related to this transition to provide the clarity required to make the critical investment and policy decisions needed to accelerate this transformation." With articles like: How Fast? The era of carbon-intensive energy derived from the burning of fossil …
Olympic Climate Action 