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Our Lastest Monthly Action
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May 15, 2020URGE CONGRESS TO FUND EXTREME WEATHER AND COVID-19 RECOVERY
The impacts of COVID-19 will likely be exacerbated by flooding, hurricanes, wildfires and heatwaves which worsen in the summer. Federal agencies are already stretched thin, and need more funding to be able to respond to likely extreme weather events this summer. Ask your representative to...
Lastest Blog Posts
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June 30, 2020Three stories show progress on our pathway to a better climate future
I bet you could use some good news today. I’ve been following three climate progress stories this month that illustrate movement toward a safer climate and a better world. Below are quick summaries of each of them with links you can use to learn more....
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May 29, 2020Turning the COVID-19 carbon crash into our last, best chance
Working from home, I look out my window at the altered world. No cars pass for long stretches but walkers are always about, and I hear bird songs I’ve never noticed before. I drive so rarely that I haven’t charged my electric car since mid-March....
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April 29, 2020Pandemic Insights Two: Our capacity to sacrifice to contain a global threat
It’s not usually advisable to speak for others, yet I think I know how many climate experts are feeling right now. There’s this particular twinge I feel as a climate advocate: seeing how humans are mobilizing globally and instantaneously to fight the coronavirus yet we’ve...
Solutions & Inspiration
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June 30, 2020
Three stories show progress on our pathway to a better climate future
I bet you could use some good news today. I’ve been following three climate progress stories this month that illustrate movement toward a safer climate and a better world. Below are quick summaries of each of them with links you can use to learn more....
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June 23, 2020
Plunging renewable energy prices mean U.S. can hit 90% clean electricity by 2035–at no extra cost
Silvio Marcacci – Forbes, June 9, 2020 Renewable energy has been considered too expensive and too unreliable to power our grid, but new research has overturned that trope for good. Plummeting wind, solar, and storage prices have fallen so fast that the United States can...
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June 11, 2020
How South Korea, France and Italy are using the COVID-19 response to fight climate change
Umair Irfan – Vox, 6/8/20 With clear roads, clear skies, oil prices plummeting, businesses needing bailouts, and political capital to spend, countries like South Korea, Italy, and France have decided that the pandemic response is an opportunity to rethink energy, infrastructure, industry, and government in...
