The moral leadership of religious people is needed to challenge and deepen the climate justice movement.
Eiffel Tower sporting turbines; acid oceans pose threat to shellfish; coffee and whiskey fodder for biofuels; coal no longer King in China; and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.
Sometimes our collective battles against Big Oil and Big Coal seem like Frodo and Sam’s many challenges on the way to Mount Doom.
Every day, millions of gallons of highly flammable Bakken crude roll beneath the streets of downtown Seattle, through a tunnel with decades-old safety systems. This Tuesday afternoon, join us downtown as we say NO to bomb trains beneath our streets!
Working together, we can make sure Oregon seizes the day. Here’s a rundown of several priorities and upcoming events in 2015.
On Tuesday, hearing rooms at the State Capitol in Olympia were overflowing with people waiting to tell legislators that it's time for climate action. Join us this Saturday in Olympia or Seattle to learn more about proposed climate legislation in WA.
The 2015 Washington State Legislature gets underway in Olympia, and local officials across Washington are ready.
In a game-changing move, the Lummi Nation are invoking their treaty rights and standing up to oppose a giant coal export facility on their shores. Let's stand with them!
Working together, local groups in Portland's Cully neighborhood are redefining sustainability and development as an anti-poverty strategy.
In perseverance, in humility, and in gratitude: that's how we keep making progress.
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Today in Portland, five west coast mayors announced aggressive commitments to aggressive action on both climate change and equity. The announcement comes directly after a Paris gathering of international mayors talking climate change; it also closely follows the groundbreaking climate resolutions passed last month in Portland. Here's the story of how those resolutions came to be.
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SAVE THE DATE: December 12th, the day after the UN Paris Climate Talks end, people all across the world are taking to the streets to make sure the people, not the politicians, have the last word. Regardless of what gets decided in Paris, we know that climate leadership is coming from the ground up with the grassroots and cities leading the way. In Portland, things are shaping up for a great event! |
Billionaires unite to boost clean energy R&D, deal in the works to extend federal credits for solar and wind, US public opinion backs climate pact, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.
Urban leaders are increasingly aligning their carbon reduction and clean energy agendas with other important community priorities—such as air quality, transportation, social equity, economic development, and climate change resilience. In doing so, they forge stronger and more diverse coalitions for climate action.
The New Economy Get-Together is a flagship event of the national New Economy Week 2015. Now in its third year, and for the first time with a Seattle event, New Economy Week 2015 will challenge us to explore what systemic change really looks like. We hope that by drawing attention to big ideas and concrete examples of real solutions, we will expand the public conversation and what's politically possible, bringing us closer to a just, sustainable, and democratic society.
Fight CO2lonialism, End U.S. Imperialism, Demand Global Justice!
March from Beacon Hill - Seattle's historically Filipino community, into Georgetown site of some of Seattle's worst environmental justice and the staging grounds for fossil fuel exports! Wear Blue.
The 1st annual Indigenous Climate Justice Symposium will be held at The Evergreen State College Longhouse on November 5-6, 2015. It will bring together speakers from Native communities that are working to keep fossil fuels in the ground, by stopping coal terminals, oil trains and fracking, and protecting treaty resources from the threat of climate change. Its major goal would be to get students and youth, particularly tribal youth, involved in community-based climate justice efforts. All events are free and open to Evergreen students and the public.
The Race and Climate Justice group invites you to our next bimonthly community event, a participatory evening exploring the impact of racism on each of us, our society, and our environmental movements. No charge; everyone welcome!
Workshop summary:
Broad coalitions for climate action took bold steps this week in Oregon and Washington, announcing plans to put climate and clean energy measures on the 2016 ballot.
The time for Climate Action is NOW. In Seattle, join a diverse coalition of communities of color, workers, immigrants, activists and everyday folk on October 14 to send a message: Our communities are united in the fight against climate change.
