Our usual get out the vote letter writing party will take place Sunday October 4, at 7pm.
We have only two weeks left to write letters or cards to people who haven’t voted recently. Contact Vote Forward to write letters: https://votefwd.org
After letters and postcards are sent in (October 17-21, depending on the organization), there will be a big need for people to text and call.
Check out the Sierra Club [https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002CEKoAAO] and Natural Resources Defense Council texting and phoning operations [https://act.nrdc.org/sign/af-p2p-volunteer-181002].
350 Humboldt Speaker Series Monday evening at 7pm
Minutes from our general meeting September 17
Meeting Agenda: September 17, 2020, 6:00 PM
Attendees: Pat Car (facilitator), Val Gizinski, Katy Gurin, Deborah Dukes, Jennifer Pace, Nancy Kuykendahl, Cheryl Furman, Diane Ryerson, Emily Siegel, Hayley Connors-Keith, John Schaefer, Lee Dedini, Mary Sanger, Michael Winkler, Nancy Ihara, Rudy Ramp, Randy Carrico, Dan Chandler (note taker)
CHECK-IN: people shared things they have been doing toward protecting the climate. a lot of people are writing letters or otherwise helping to get out the democratic vote. 350 humboldt continues to sponsor a get out the vote party on zoom. sundays at 7pm:
join sunday zoom meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85643874306
BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Starting September 27, meetings on ZOOM will require use of a password, and we will occasionally use a waiting room for smaller committee meetings where that’s manageable
350 Humboldt will present Ciara Emery talking about her research on stakeholder views of local offshore wind development on Monday, Oct. 5 at 7 PM. register at: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=350 humboldt
Schatz Energy Lab also presents a series of webinars on local offshore wind energy beginning Monday, September 14 and running for five weeks. register at http://schatzcenter.org/wind/. slide decks will be available this week at http://schatzcenter.org/wind videos will follow in the next week or so! reports out this week at: http://schatzcenter.org/publications
Monday, September 21, 4 PM webinar including Jared Huffman https://leadonclimate.org/
DON’T MISS THIS.
Climate week NYC runs all next week. SEE THE PROGRAM AT:
https://www.climateweeknyc.org/events-program
A CLIMATE PLEDGE
Katy Gurin: The climate pledge for candidates to elected office.
Asking how we could get candidates who would support the climate. thought of a pledge. started with core things with general approval. katy worked with tom wheeler and Colin Fiske and Sierra Club. mostly is values we all agree on. 350 Humboldt is not a non-profit so we can endorse candidates.
used cap emissions report as a basis. transportation is biggest source of emissions (54%). livestock emissions is 13%. electricity consumption 11%; stationary combustion 13%. livestock very hard to deal with so put it aside.
Electricity: we have the pledge from local governments and RCEA to get all clean electricity by 2025.
A lot of the emissions in the stationary combustion (ie home heaters, stoves, etc) goes away if they get electrified.
Transportation also needs electrification plus more bikes, infrastructure change, public transportation, changing land use policies.
So these are core policies for our community as well as other communities.
Then came up with a pledge for candidates asking them to sign on to the four core policies (above). wanted something pretty specific to allow less wiggle room.
there should be opportunities to implement some of these things in the process of stimulus infrastructure rebuilding. includes guarantee of green jobs. planning to reach out to candidates. pat and Hayley will present it during candidate forums. Will ask:
“To fight climate change we need to decarbonize our electrical grid by building renewable energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind; transition transportation and buildings to all-electric before 2045, and; reduce the amount of driving that Humboldt County residents do. Doing this will create local green jobs and help employ people who have lost their jobs due to the Covid pandemic. Will you pledge to build community support for these goals, and to work toward achieving them in an equitable way, guaranteeing green jobs for those who want them?”
Would like to know from candidates if there are any of these policies they don’t agree with. Use it as an opportunity for dialogues. Deborah will work on this. (Michael Winkler, running for Arcata City Council, says he would work with local unions on green jobs.)
The pledge also represents core 350 policies. We will be talking about other ones in the near future. Please submit your comments about the idea of a pledge or the content to [email protected]
350 Humboldt Committee Reports
Treasurer’s report: $345. Are getting some income from copies of a poem Katy wrote. It is screen printed. She asks for a $5 donation to 350 Humboldt. Contact Katy Gurin <[email protected]>
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE: Mary Sanger and Valerie Gizinski reported on meetings with rep. Huffman and Senator McGui9re to discuss climate priorities
goal was mostly to develop an ongoing relationship with them.
Huffman: two main areas of interest on our part were discussed: offshore wind and the house select committee climate report. he says we will have really only a year if Biden wins and senate flips.
Mcguire:
Please see the detailed notes from both Huffman and McGuire.
HUFFMAN: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10fgEDP8i8VEB8MUUiEF0VPJp0CM-jN62_Vigia5cMtQ/edit?ts=5f517033
and
MCGUIRE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WwB5of0Jj6dcDXKdn6vNOT1OrZ8K7S9c7pJ2_LIpI-Q/edit
Dan: what passed that we supported? Very little. Main bills we supported AB 345 (setback from oil/gas facilities), AB 3030 (conserve 30% of our land and ocean resources), and SB 54 (plastics reform) all failed. Good bills governor not yet signed: AB 3214 increased fines for offshore oil; AB 841 both supports EV infrastructure and retrofitting schools for health and energy; SB 1320 requires new studies of climate change and updating them every 5 years.
Dan: things you can do:
Email governor Newsom to support all renewable energy by 2030 (in wake of Newsom’s comment that the 2045 goals needs to be speeded up): https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
Support Thrive a new recovery agenda by sierra club and many other organizations (including 350 Humboldt) by asking our legislators in congress to support: https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/ask-your-members-of-congress-to-become-original-cosponsors-of-the-thrive-resolution
ART COMMITTEE: Hayley Connors-Keith. The art committee had a just recovery
meeting on zoom at the beginning of this month, inviting a number of groups from the community. The group will meet again. The committee
welcomes everyone to join the planning process. If you would like to collaborate message Hayley at [email protected].
LOCAL CAMPAIGNS: have been active on vehicle miles traveled planning by the county. 350 Humboldt and Colin Fisk are working on this. County’s first attempt was deeply flawed. So went back to the drawing board.
We concluded by watching this video on how we can decarbonize the economy and limit globar warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees centigrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfAXbGInwno&ab_channel=Vox