Tag Archives: climate news

Hot Off the Wire — 8/16/2019

Icelandic memorial warns future: ‘Only you know if we saved glaciers’

Plaque marking Okjökull, the first glacier lost to the climate crisis, to be unveiled in August

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

Climate Action Summit
23 September 2019

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

Killer Heat in the United States — Union of Concerned Scientists

As Scientists Warn of Biodiversity Crisis, Trump Administration Guts the Endangered Species Act
— NRDC

Arctic wildfires
continue to burn,
releasing record amounts
of CO2

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

Inspiration

Communicating science to policymakers: six strategies for success — Nature

An appeal from Tom Jay and Sara Mall Johani

About Sara Mall Johani

Hot Off the Wire — 8/9/2019

Do you need a green way to spend your money?

Debit card with cash back on every dollar spent
Free access to every ATM in the world
Up to 2.00% APY on savings
Your deposits will never go towards funding fossil fuel projects, firearms, or political campaigns

(This is not a paid ad, it’s just an idea.)

Opinion

Can Civilization Survive What’s Coming? — Rolling Stone

To Survive Climate Catastrophe, Look to Queer and Disabled Folks
— Yes! Magazine

Biodiversity—in nature, and in our
culture and resistance organizing—may be our best defense to the threats
of climate change.

‘Everyone Should Mobilize’:
Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout for Global Climate Strikes

“Our house is on fire—
let’s act like it,” says a call-to-action for
September 20th and 27th strikes.
— Common Dreams

Regional Actions

The Department of Ecology needs us to re-submit our comments to make sure they get counted. — Sierra Club

Clallam MRC is looking for volunteers to help out with the annual forage fish survey which will take place between August 12 and August 15, 2019

**Sign up for our how to Host a Climate Strike Rally training!** — Greenpeace

Climate Adaptation Toolkit for Marine and Coastal Protected Areas
— Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

EcoAdapt State of Adaptation Program

Surging Seas: Ocean at the Door
— Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)

Learn about our efforts to plan and build a network of green infrastructure projects that will improve
Port Angeles’s water quality, wildlife habitat, and community assets. Come tell us what you would like to see!

Our orca are starving!
Three Southern Resident Killer Whales were declared dead!
Tell the Northwest Power Council–
don’t abandon our salmon!

National Actions

Seeking:
Green New Deal – Policy Proposals
— The People’s GND Working Group

This is not a drill: it’s a Climate Emergency — The Climate Mobilization

Climate Strike Training Webinars — 350.org

Our blue planet
is under threat
— Greenpeace

Add Your Name to Support the Global Ocean Treaty!

We Need a Hearing on the Proposed DAPL Expansion
— Lakota People’s Law Project

Let’s call out BP and hold the oil giant accountable by flooding its Twitter feed
— Stand,earth
Let’s pile on enough pressure to make Trans Mountain uninsurable
— Stand,earth

The Arctic is BURNING, with fires so big you can see them from space!
Avaaz works to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people inform global decision-making.

Eradicate a plastic disaster from its root
A notorious petrochemical giant plans to build a new plastic plant, which is to become one of the biggest of its kind in the world. They are applying for permits to pollute in Louisiana.

The Forest Service wants to fast-track mining, logging and construction projects by cutting the public out of their decisions — Sierra Club

Trump is pushing for his NAFTA 2.0 — Sierra Club

Local/Regional News

UBC-Led Study Shows Biodiversity Highest
on Indigenous-Managed Lands
— the Columbia Basin Bulletin

2019 Tribes and First Nations Climate Change Summit
Northwest Tribes Convene Climate Summit In Spokane

Tribal Leaders Hear International Climate Change News
At Spokane Conference
— Spokane Public Radio

Congressional hearing on campus highlights CU Boulder climate change leadership
— CU Boulder Today

National/International News

What Conservation Efforts Can Learn from Indigenous Communities
— Scientific American

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
Do you remember the good old days when we had “12 years to save the planet”?
— BBC News

**Iceland to Hold Memorial for Glacier Lost to Climate Change** — AFAR

In Europe, a historic heat wave is shattering records with astonishing ease, may hasten Arctic melt
— The Washington Post

Temperature departures from average on Thursday, showing the scorching heat across Western Europe. (Weatherbell.com)

Medical Schools Are Pushed to Train Doctors for Climate Change
— The Wall Street Journal

A Glacier the Size of Florida
Is Becoming Unstable.
It Has Dire Implications for Global Sea Levels
— Time Magazine

Days before recess, Daily Kos delivers 130k signatures to Senate
urging no vote on Trump’s NOAA pick — Daily Kos

“I Feel Anxious”: Explosion at Texas Oil Refinery

“Our Economic System Is Crashing with Reality” says Jason Box

Supersizing Climate Change: U.N. Says Meat Production Destroys Land & Diminishes Key Water Sources
— DemocracyNow! videos

Environmentalists Risk Their Lives to Save the Planet
–DemocracyNow! Column By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

Our Stories > onEarth

Inspiration

August Meditation for Climate Emergency – Sun, Aug 11, 2019 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
— The Climate Mobilization

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.

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.

Hot Off the Wire — 8/1/2019

Take Action

Regional Action

Start a Climate Conversation
Download our conversation card with tips for starting your own climate conversations.

*NEW PRICING*
$50 Community Screenings

Free Tacoma Screening Aug. 2

National Action

Why are you striking for the climate? — 350.org

Pledge to join the climate strikes this September — Global Climate Strike

Day One Pledge — 350 Action
We need our next President to be a Real Climate Leader who is ready to take on this crisis starting on day one.

Arctic drilling is bad business — Stand.earth

#Climate2020 Training Series, Beginning TONIGHT at 5:30 p.m. PDT — Greenpeace
August 1: Building Power with Allies
August 13: Planning & Leading Events
August 27: Activism & Storytelling

Chip in to help us turn up the heat on Democratic officials in these final weeks before they formally vote on whether to hold a climate debate.

Tell the Democratic National Committee: Hold a climate debate

Climate News

Local/Regional News

How Permaculture Is Helping Wildfire Survivors Recover — Yes!
Survivors of California’s Camp Fire are working together to heal the land and each other after the deadly wildfire.

National/International News

Canada On Fire — The Fifth Season is here, and Canada won’t stop burning.
From B.C. to the Maritimes and the places in between, 96% of Canada’s communities near forest and grasslands have been ravaged by wildfires for the past three years. — 350.org

**‘Economic butterfly wings can create a climate action tornado’** — Medium

Under Pressure — Four Rivers Charter Public School 2019 Senior Energy Documentary

House Democrats To Unveil Green New Deal Alternative By Year’s End
— Huffington Post
A House committee has set a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — a target some say fails future generations.

Inspiration

Young people are about to utterly transform climate politics — Medium