We hope you will join local climate activists for 350 Humboldt’s General Meeting on Thursday, November 19, at 6 PM. You can join our Zoom meeting at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87113086244pwd=V2h1ZWswcnVEbXh1TUdCeEVXd2I2UT09.
We’ll be discussing a number of actions we can all take toward reducing climate change. A complete agenda is below.
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Agenda, 350 Humboldt General Meeting November 19, 2020, 6 PM
Zoomlink:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87113086244?pwd=V2h1ZWswcnVEbXh1TUdCeEVXd2I2UT09
Dan Chandler, facilitator; Hayley Connors-Keith, note-taker.
Check-in – How are you feeling in the aftermath of the election?
Poem of the month – Katy Gurin [and anyone else who brought a poem]
Committee news
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Art – Hayley
Local – Katy on RCEA advisory boards; Pat on Arcata City Council action on natural gas in new buildings
Legislative/national – Dan
Follow-up: Talking points for McGuire. Also may be other advocacy groups and Representatives interested in offshore wind. Ask Dan for copies.
Helping in Georgia’s US Senate Runoff Elections: Call banking and letter writing:
Flip the West: https://www.flipthewest.com/calendar
Democratic volunteer center: https://demvolctr.org/phonebanking-guide/
Postcards to swing states: https://postcardstoswingstates.com/
Sierra Club, two options to help:
Calls: https://www.mobilize.us/sierraclubbattleground/event/272291/
Letters: https://www.mobilize.us/sierraclubbattleground/event/285407/
Kern County oil petition/reintroduction of AB 345 Please sign the petition. https://crpe-ej.org/stopkernoilordinance
350 Minnesota has asked us to sign a petition to help stop the “Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline”. https://act.350.org/sign/tell-biden-no-line-3/?source=em20201114-2-us&akid=135321%2E4400867%2E4Z59KO
350 South Bay LA and SoCal 350 are offering a training for legislative citizen lobby for anyone who might want to work on legislative issues. Take the training and join our committee (or just join) https://actionnetwork.org/events/legislative-training-for-members-and-friends?source=direct_link&
Book club – What’s our next book? We will vote.
Nominees
All We Can Save: short pieces by 50 women climate activists edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson.
In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren Oakes. A biologist’s story of searching for and studying a tree in Alaska threatened by climate change.
Your choice. Suggest a book, or an article, you have read or want to read and discuss with others.
Letter-writing group, meets on zoom Sundays at 7 pm – Dan
Thanks to all the people who wrote or called to get out the vote, whether you did it in the 350 letter-writing group or on your own.
After the election we switched to writing to policy-makers about climate issues arising, e.g. to Warren Buffet about Klamath dam removal.
But until the Georgia election we are back writing GOTV letters–or maybe both. Please join us.
Awards for climate heroes – Pat
Partnerships/collaborations with other local groups – Hayley
Announcements in the last two weeks that give us hope (or fear):
HOPE: The Fed identifies climate as risk to financial stability for first time.
HOPE: San Francisco will ban natural gas in new buildings starting next year. Natural gas accounts for roughly 40% of San Francisco’s overall emissions of greenhouse gases and 80% of building emissions.
HOPE: Canada’s second largest bank will no longer fund oil and gas in the arctic as part of the company’s plan to get to net zero.
FEAR: Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed, the world’s installed coal-fired capacity has increased by 137 GW, an amount equal to the operating coal plant fleets of Germany, Russia and Japan combined. And over 500 GW of new coal-fired capacity are still in the pipeline.
HOPE: “One of the best ways to make money on Wall Street recently has been to bet against the fossil-fuel industry and buy renewable stocks,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
HOPE: Around the world, a growing number of countries are exploring green banks—financial institutions or facilities dedicated to accelerating the shift to a sustainable economy. A report, the State of Green Banks 2020 is the first aggregation and analysis of this activity.
Bring your own favorite news of hope or fear to the meeting