“We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta ThunbergSeptember 11, 2019 -- DemocracyNow! Join Climate Strike Week on the Peninsula! Sept. 20-28 Youth leaders of the September 20 Climate Strikes have released their demands. It's critical that parents, grandparents, and families stand with them in support of their bold vision. …
Hot Off the Wire — 9/9/2019
Opinion “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.” -- Yes! Climate Colonialism: The Picture of Dorian’s Graves -- September 05, 2019 Solutions National Drive Electric Week is a great coast-to-coast celebration -- Sierra ClubYou can RSVP now to an event happening near you from Sept. 14-22 Be a Youth Ally …
Hot Off the Wire — 8/30/2019
From Kevin JonesNW Climate and Clean Energy Coalition co-lead Background: The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) has provided preliminary approval for the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Tacoma Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facility. A public disclosure request has revealed that NW Pierce county, portions of SW King county and most of Vashon Island is in …
Hot Off the Wire — 8/25/2019
Opinion You Can’t Put Capitalism Over Sustainability—and Other Lessons From China -- Yes! Magazine Humanity’s existential crisis can be resolved only when we the people stand united behind a vision of the world we truly want. For a Greener New Deal and Cooler Climate, Focus on Food and Agriculture -- Yes! H'20 Howie Hawkins -- …
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 SeattleFridays at Seattle City Hall from 1:00 to 2:00 PMSee the arrest of a young teen for a misunderstanding Clallam PUD …
Hot Off the Wire — 8/9/2019
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Hot Off the Wire — 8/1/2019
Take Action Regional Action Start a Climate ConversationDownload our conversation card with tips for starting your own climate conversations. *NEW PRICING* $50 Community ScreeningsFree 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 ActionWe need …
Hot Off the Wire — 7/27/2019
Take Action Regional Action RSVP now if you plan to come to any of the workshops. Sunrise Washington Training Saturday, August 10th and Sunday, August 11th Commit now to giving a presentation on November 20 or 21 for24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action -- Climate Reality National Action Your gift will be DOUBLED for …
Hot Off the Wire — 07/19/2019
Call Cheryl LaFleur at 202-502-8961 TODAY! to tell her that we need all our elected leaders, and especially Democrats on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to oppose new fossil fuel projects. It's her last meeting and she needs to know. -- 198 Methods Opinion Global Warming shown by Factories Polluting Environment by Smoke and Carbon …
Hot Off the Wire — 7/12/2019
Opinion An Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change -- DemocracyNow! Take Action Regional Action Join a Q&A with legal experts and find out how you can Pull Together to stop Trans Mountain Pipeline. Stop Trans Mountain and protect the West Coast from tar sands tankers -- Stand.earth The Sierra Club Click …
Hot Off the Wire — 7/5/2019
This Thursday evening is our local premier showing in Port Angeles. Take Action Regional Action An URGENT message from the OCA Executive Committee by Bob Vreeland: OCA members, there are some things you can do immediately to help reduce your carbon footprint. This gets more critical each day we delay. We don't have any time …
Hot Off the Wire — 6/29/2019
Opinion 74 Medical Groups declare a Health Emergency -- The Washington PostAs Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change, bluntly defined by the organizations as “a health emergency.” Read …
Hot Off the Wire — 6/23/2019
Opinion No, climate action can't be separated from social justice -- Julian Brave NoiseCat Paying Farmers Fairly Could Curb Climate Change and Hunger -- Yes! MagazineParity is at the core of agriculture’s potential to address overproduction. Is the DNC Missing the Boat on Climate Change? -- Sierra ClubThe Democratic National Committee stumbles on the fate …
Hot Off the Wire — 6/11/2019
Opinion From The Faculty Chair Time to Up Our Game Susan S. Silbey This is my final column as Chair of the Faculty. It is uncharacteristically short in hopes of communicating an unambiguous and urgent message: we can no longer engage in business as usual at MIT. Time is running out. MIT, the United States, …
Hot Off the Wire — 6/7/2019
In laying out a path forward that reflects both the urgency of the crisis as well as a profound understanding of social change, she has offered us an antidote to the despair that so often characterizes our responses to the climate emergency. Margaret's vision will inspire thoughtful, powerful action in our communities- our best hope …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/31/2019
Greta Thunberg and 46 youth activists NEED ADULTS to join them in the Global Climate Strike."Together, on 20 September, we can unleash mass resistance." -- The Guardian Opinion Noam Chomsky: The Green New Deal Is Exactly the Right Idea -- DemocracyNow! video Opinion | The Difference Between Happiness and Joy -- David Brooks Take Action …
Hot Off the Wire — 5/24/2019
Satellite airmass image of the N Pacific for 16May2019. The image shows an unusual mid-May train of storms across the north Pacific ocean. "This isn’t your father’s atmosphere. The climate has changed. This is climate breakdown." -- Daily Kos Opinion Facing Down "Environmental Grief" -- Scientific American Take Action Regional Action Murray & Kilmer Reintroduce …
Hot Off the Wire – 5/16/2019
Opinion Arundhati Roy: Capitalism Is “a Form of Religion” Stopping Solutions to Climate Change & Inequality - DemocracyNow! video Take Action Regional Action Salish Splash! - Celebrating Orca Recovery - June 13thJump into the Salish Sea to support Orca Recovery - Washington Environmental Council Call on networks and newsrooms to discuss climate change with the …
Hot Off the Wire – 5 /9/2019
Opinion The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?An essay by Robin Hanson - Sept. 15, 1998 Take Action Regional Action PSE Executive Listening Session May 22nd - Sierra Club WA National Action Final stop of the Road to a Green New Deal Tour Sign up to watch the Livestream with OAC - Sunrise …
Hot Off the Wire – 4/27/2019
“Dammed to Extinction” May 4, Port Townsend, WA Other Showings Opinion How Will Future Generations Remember Our Time? - Yes! Magazine A Market-Driven Green New Deal? We’d Be Unstoppable - The New York Times Take action Regional Action Thank your legislators for their work this session on climate E-mail your Senator today! - Washington Conservation Voters …
Hot Off the Wire – 4/20/2019
Take action Regional Action Urge your Washington state legislators to stand up for clean energy, clean cars, and climate action. Here's what you need to know about these five critical bills: SB 5116 would set a target of moving Washington State to 100 percent clean energy by 2045HB 1110 would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions …
How to make the world affordably carbon-free
April 12, 2019 Author Gero Rueter DW News - DW.COM This article onlineNew Study: Global Energy System based on 100% Renewable EnergyAbout Energy Watch Group (EWG) If the world is to quit coal and gas for renewable energy sources, they have to be reliable and affordable. Is that realistic? Researchers have crunched the numbers and …
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Hot Off the Wire – 4/14/2019
Take action Regional Action Sign up to gather postcards for climate action! "We need to break through the noise of behind-the-scenes influences with a more personal touch."- The Washington Environmental Council 2019 Tribes and First Nations Climate Change Summit (link pending)July 30-31, 2019 -- Save the DateNorthern Quest CasinoAirway Heights, WA (near the Spokane Airport) …
Hot Off the Wire – 4/2/2019
Please take a moment to contact your Washington State Legislators in the table below with these important messages on legislation tomorrow and Thursday Take action Regional Action HB 1112 – HFC Phase-out – Due date: 4/4/2019 - Message: Please vote yes on HB 1112 in your Senate Ways and Means Committee. I support this bill, …
Hot Off the Wire – 3/23/2019
Commentary A Future Without Fossil Fuels? - Bill McKibben The New York Review of Books “Remember the South”: Devastating Cyclone Idai Another Example of Global South Paying for Polluters - DemocracyNow! interview Unpersuasive: Why arguing about climate change often doesn't work - Knowable MagazineCOMIC: In the US, where political parties have increasingly staked claims on …
Hot Off the Wire – 3/19/2019
1,000,000 Students act in School #ClimateStrike - 350.org Take action Regional Action Sierra Club Regional Initiatives Bipartisan Group of Legislators Backs Sustainable-Farm Bill - Carbon Washington Help Save Endangered Orcas and Wild Salmon in Washington! - NRDC Join a Sierra Forum: Protect the Arctic Refuge - Sierra Club Thursday Mar 28, 2019 11:00 AM Ask …
Hot Off the Wire – 2/2/2019
Take action Regional Action Meeting for Informal Science EducatorsPasco, WA 3/12/19 - Seattle, WA 3/26/19 - Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge 4/30/19 Endorse Earth Law for the Southern Resident Orcas and Salish Sea Demand Real Climate Leadership from our New Congress - The Action Network Sign Up For Climate Month! Encourage your Legislators. National Action What …
Climate-related podcasts
Here's a list of some good ones, which you should be able to access through collector services such as iTunes, Pocket Casts, or Stitcher: Warm Regards Stepping Up Generation Anthropocene Climate Conversations Trump on Earth Terrestrial
Olympic Climate Action 