We invite you to 350 Humboldt’s General Meeting on Zoom coming up this Thursday beginning at 6 PM. We’re nearing the end of one heck of a year, and not only have we gotten through it, we’ve done some great work together. Our program features information about how to reduce the potentially powerful climate impacts of refrigerants, as well as other climate actions. (Full agenda — along with valuable links and information — is below.)

Topic: General Meeting
Time: Dec 17, 2020, 6:00 PM
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Agenda: 350 Humboldt December 17, 2020 General Meeting

Facilitator: Pat Carr           Notes:   Dan Chandler

a.   Check in: Briefly tell us what’s on your mind, or share a look back at our meetings together, your life in the pandemic, or thoughts on the climate crisis.

b.   Poem – Selected and read by Katy Gurin (You can read your favorite poem, just let the steering committee know at: [email protected])

c.   Hayley Connors-Keith talks about our six month exploration of acknowledgments that Humboldt County was and is still home to a variety of indigenous tribes.

Part of what a land acknowledgment means is that we support indigenous people in their fight against a changing climate. Tonight we want to support the Anishinaabe peoples who are resisting the Line 3 pipeline that is designed to carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. We can all add our names to a 350.org petition calling on President Biden to halt Line 3 construction immediately: Click here to sign.

d.   Presentation on the climate impacts of refrigerants in the world, California and Humboldt – Dan

e.   Committee reports

  • Local – Katy
  • Legislative/national/regional – Dan
  • Book club – Deborah
  • Art – Hayley

f.   Please consider a small year-end donation to 350 Humboldt

g.   Consider participating in Ohm-Hour – Dan

Here is an article that explains it

h.   Two other campaigns you can help with:

  • Call out misleading social media information about climate change: The Environmental Defense Fund has put together some guidelines on how to report and request deletion of misleading social media information about climate change: Click here
        • Petition for natural gas in new buildings: Tell Governor Newsom to get gas out of new buildings (via Sierra Club) Click here:

That’s the end of the meeting agenda, but check out the stories below. They help us believe the change we need is possible.

Oil has peaked
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-peak-oil-era-is-suddenly-upon-us/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

Bank of America becomes the final US bank to say they won’t fund oil and gas in the Artic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/bofa-says-it-won-t-finance-oil-and-gas-exploration-in-the-arctic

Swedish firms are investing heavily in green steel production: https://rmi.org/technology-disruption-in-the-global-steel-industry/

Army corps of engineers denied permit for massive mine on Bristol Bay in Alaska. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/pebble-mine-alaska/2020/11/25/bc46575c-2f41-11eb-860d-f7999599cbc2_story.html

Feeding cows seaweed cuts methane burps by 98%. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/11/27/climate-solutions-seaweed-methane/?arc404=true

Denmark’s new rules mean companies will be barred from receiving new licenses to search for and extract oil and gas resources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/denmark-phaseout-oil-production/2020/12/04/c5559eb4-35b0-11eb-9699-00d311f13d2d_story.html

New Zealand is the most recent of 34 countries to formally declare a climate emergency. http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/12/02/new-zealand-declares-climate-emergency-plan-action-reason-hope/

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced that New York State will divest its $226 billion pension fund — one of the world’s largest pension funds — from risky oil and gas companies. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/new-york-climate-change-divestment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Thank you for joining our work!