CORRECTION: This paragraph should have specified 7-8 pm for the Good Ancestors discussion Monday evening. The mail program also removed the image which is supposed to be below. Trying again.
Join a 350 Humboldt discussion of how we can be viewed as “good ancestors” by the generations to follow us in 30, 100, and 10,000 years. Monday November 8, 7 – 8 pm.
To join the discussion, listen to this 7 minute TED talk by UK philosopher Roman Krznaric:
Here is a graphic from the book to whet your curiosity. It is amazing how different the last 40 years have been. So come discuss.

WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS
Write letters and sign petitions on your own or join the 350 Humboldt “chat and write” letter-writing group Sunday evenings at 7pm. Here is the zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09
NEW POSTCARD WRITING GROUP FOCUSES ON CITIES
We wanted to let you know that we just helped start a new postcard program focused on making sure progressive voters who care about climate change turnout in local elections this November in some key cities with relevant climate policy at stake. It’s www.PostcardsforClimate.com.
It’s unrelated to Postcards to Swing States but has a similar setup.
Would you be willing to write some of these postcards? The sign-up form is accessible from the website.
The current campaign is for New Orleans. We have an FAQ with more details: www.PostcardsforClimate.com/faq.
POSTCARD WRITING TO VOTERS ORGANIZED BY HUMBOLDT ACTIVIST FREDERICA AALTO
Here is Frederica describes what they are doing:
I am administering a postcarding network in Humboldt County (presently over 300 writers) and we supply postcards and stamps to writers, which are available for cost at several convenient pickup locations. Have anyone interested in joining us contact me. We mostly postcard for ROV (Reclaim Our Vote), which is non-partisan, but have also postcarded for Activate America (which used to be called Flip the West), which is partisan.
She can be reached at: [email protected]
VOTING – POSTCARDS TO SWING STATES
Please SIGN UP to write postcards to make sure Democrats come out and vote. We’ll send you the postcards, addresses and instructions for free. You provide $0.36 stamps and mail the cards. A number of campaigns are available on the website.
With the help of volunteers like you, we wrote 21 million postcards in 2020, and we saw incredible results! Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. You can help us keep New Jersey and Virginia blue!
Visit our website to learn more about Postcards to Swing States and get answers to our frequently asked questions.
OTHER LETTERS/PETITIONS/CALLS
Stand.org
JP Morgan Chase and UBS are some of the biggest financiers of Amazon oil and gas – the last place in the world where oil drilling should be happening.
Indigenous communities and partners who are present at COP26 need our support to amplify their call to action and protect the Amazon.
Stop the MONEY PIPELINE
We have had some wins over the last three months but only time will tell if they are more than symbolic. AXIS Capital became the first North American insurance company to commit to phasing out coverage for all coal businesses. After hundreds of you swamped its phone lines, Chubb publicly committed to stop insuring tar sands extraction (though we are still waiting on an official policy). Most recently, Chase, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs joined the Net Zero Banking Alliance (which still has loopholes as we covered in a recent blog post).
COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES
Once every 4 years, the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) updates the county’s Regional Transportation Plan. That process is happening now, and they want to hear from you about the draft plan they’ve written.
This is important. The RTP is the official plan for Humboldt County’s transportation system for the next 20 years, and it helps determine which projects get built and which ones don’t.
The plan is organized around a set of Safe and Sustainable Transportation targets, marking a major shift from previous plans. These critical new targets include:
- Reducing bike & pedestrian deaths to zero.
- Reducing vehicle miles driven by 25% by 2030.
- Doubling transit trips by 2025, and doubling them again by 2030.
- Putting electric vehicle charging stations practically everywhere.
- Ensuring new housing is walkable and transit-oriented.
CRTP helped develop these targets, and we believe in them. But there’s one problem: Even if we completed all the projects in the draft plan, it’s not clear that we would actually meet the targets.
Please email HCAOG today. Thank them for the Safe and Sustainable Transportation Targets, and ask them to evaluate all of the projects in the plan to make sure they will actually meet those targets. Projects that could encourage more driving or make streets more dangerous should not be included.
EPIC
On October 11th, the California Natural Resources Agency released its draft Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy for public comment. The document is replete with misinformation from the timber industry and, if the Natural Resources Agency doesn’t hear from the public, soon they’ll be the driving force behind California’s forest carbon strategy during the immensely important next few years.
Close of comments is November 9th, 2021 and comments can be emailed to [email protected] or sent by mail to California Natural Resources Agency, 715 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. You can even leave a voicemail by calling 1-800-417-0668. Let them know that you support transforming more of California’s forests into carbon reserves and that logging is not a climate change solution.