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1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 350 Humboldt Book Club invites everyone<\/em> to attend. This week we are reading All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis<\/a> by Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth<\/a>, K. Wilkinson, Katharine<\/a>. We are reading the first four chapters this month, and the second four next. Each chapter is made up of a number of essays and poems by women activists.<\/p>\n However, for this book the group is organized so that people can participate without having read the book: each of the book club members will summarize and lead a discussion on one of the essays.<\/p>\n January 25, 7 pm.<\/strong> \u00a0Meetings are regularly on the fourth Monday of each month<\/em><\/strong> at this time. Here is the link for Book Club meetings. https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/87104876080?pwd=Q1Z2Z0d3K3V0UE9EN2Z0TlFweTZndz09<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n 2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 General Meeting 6pm Thursday January 28.<\/strong> Our meetings have switched to the fourth Thursday of the month. An agenda is at the bottom of this email. Here is the zoom link: https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/84370554552?pwd=V2phMDBOUlNiS3hLL1BQSHNIVDFTQT09<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Speaker series: Rabbi Naomi Steinberg on Restoring the World and Restoring the Soul. Monday February 1, 7pm.<\/em><\/strong> Sign up at: https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/events\/naomi-steinberg<\/a>?<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Write letters to influence policy on your own or you can join 350 Humboldt members every week at 7pm Sunday at this link: \u00a0 https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/85643874306?pwd=Tm1yeXJBVVhWMGt5ZjZXVTVYbGFoZz09<\/a> <\/strong>See suggested letters below or bring your own ideas.<\/p>\n One hour a week the Ohm Connect<\/em> folks determine when \u201cpeaker\u201d gas plants would ordinarily have to be used. By getting thousands of people to reduce their energy use to a minimum in that hour they avoid having to turn those dirty plants on. PG&E pays them for the reduction and they pay us.<\/p>\n Signing up is free and they offer prizes and money<\/em> for participating. Over 125,000 people participate, getting rewarded for helping reduce CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n Right now Ohm Connect<\/em> is paying a $10 bonus to you if you are recruited through an existing customer and a $40 bonus to the existing customer. So sign up using Steering Committee member Dan Chandler’s sign-up link and he will transfer all the customer bonus money to 350 Humboldt: https:\/\/ohm.co\/dwchandl<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks very much to the five 350 members who have already signed up. That’s $200 going to 350 Humboldt.<\/em><\/p>\n Here is the Ohm Connect website if you want to check it out first:<\/strong>https:\/\/www.ohmconnect.com\/how-it-works<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n And here is an article explaining how it works and why it is going big.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90582902\/a-100-million-investment-will-fund-the-largest-virtual-powerplant-in-the-u-s<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Switch to the Ecosia search engine. Ecosia uses its ad revenues to buy tree planting through grass roots organizations (not monoculture). Does not sell your data. (It is also easy to use Google for any specific search, just add #g to your search string.)<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.ecosia.org<\/a><\/p>\n Independent verification below (we heard about it on the podcast \u201cHow to Save a Planet\u201d, which also investigated it.)<\/p>\n https:\/\/greenstarsproject.org\/2019\/10\/12\/green-search-engine-ecosia\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/ecosia-use-profits-to-plant-trees\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.patharoundtheworld.com\/ecosia-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n Letter 1<\/em><\/strong>: Axis Capital becomes<\/a> the first North American insurer to pledge that it won\u2019t underwrite oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. \u201cWe believe climate-related risks are among the most serious issues facing the world today,\u201d Conrad Brooks, the general counsel and corporate secretary of the Bermuda-based firm, wrote in a letter<\/a> to the Gwich\u2019in Steering Committee. The Gwich\u2019in people have won a series of remarkable victories in persuading financiers to back away from Arctic drilling, which the Trump Administration had tried to force through.<\/p>\n Write to thank Axis Capital: Conrad Brooks<\/p>\n General Counsel & Corporate Secretary AXIS 10000 Avalon Blvd. Suite 200 Alpharetta, GA 30009<\/p>\n Write to the Director of these agencies asking for these policies to be overthrown. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n More pipeline actions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Facilitator: Katy Gurin \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Notes: Dan Chandler<\/p>\n Check in<\/p>\n Poem: Chosen and read by Hayley<\/p>\n Land Acknowledgement <\/strong><\/p>\n 350 Humboldt would like to acknowledge that where we live and hold our meetings in Humboldt County is on unceded territory and ancestral homeland of indigenous nations which include Tolowa, Hupa, Karuk, Mattole, Wailaki, Wiyot, and Yurok.<\/p>\n We thank indigenous nations who have been caretakers of the land. Additionally, we recognize that the well-being of all people is bound up with that of indigenous peoples, and we must all take action on the climate.<\/p>\n This acknowledgement compels us to take action by supporting the Anishinaabe peoples to resist the Line 3 Pipeline that is designed to carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. I encourage you now to sign this link to add your name to the petition to President-elect Biden to halt Line 3 construction immediately. CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n *For more information on Land Acknowledgements we recommend watching Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy\u2019s presentation on What Good is a Land Acknowledgement.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n New Committee: \u00a0Off shore wind. Report on developments to date, and some members for the committee. We are also looking for participation by people very knowledgeable about or very interested in offshore wind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Speaker series. \u00a0Rabbi Naomi Steinberg on Restoring the World and Restoring the Soul, Monday February 1, 2021. 7 pm on Zoom. What are the dynamic connections between political activism and spiritual practice? Rabbi Steinberg will explain Hebrew terminology, share stories and songs, and discuss how efforts towards environmental protection and social transformation interface with personal and spiritual transformation. Sign up: https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/events\/naomi-steinberg?<\/p>\n Regular committee reports<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Local – Katy<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Legislative\/national\/regional \u2013 Dan and Mary<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Art – Hayley<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Letter writing party: Deborah<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Book club: Reading All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson<\/a> and Katharine Wilkinson<\/a>. However, you can participate without reading the book since book clubbers will each summarize a section and lead a discussion.<\/p>\n Please contact Deborah for more information, deborahmdukes@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n The zoom link for the, 7pm book club meeting is: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Presentation: Guest speaker from the Humboldt State University\u2019s OLLI Sea Level Rise Special Interest Group<\/p>\n Good news: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAvangrid Inc.’s New York utilities have agreed to limit the growth of natural gas use in their territories, as state regulators continue to challenge gas distributors to evolve their business model.\u201d \u00a0MORE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cResearchers in Britain unveil a new method to convert carbon dioxide into jet fuel. Researchers led by the University of Oxford published a study on a new scientific process that would transform carbon dioxide in the air into an alternative jet fuel that could be used by existing aircraft and result in \u201ccarbon-neutral\u201d emissions. Using oxides of iron, manganese and potassium as a catalyst in flowing hydrogen, the researchers pioneered a process that pulled carbon dioxide out of the air in a laboratory setting and resulted in a liquid they think could act like jet fuel.\u201d CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\nEarn money for yourself and 350 Humboldt by joining Ohm-connect; and\/or plant trees by using the Ecosia search engine<\/h2>\n
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LETTER WRITING THIS WEEK<\/h2>\n
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Agenda for January 28th meeting, Thursday at 6pm<\/h2>\n