[Please adapt and personalize this sample letter to the editor and send it to your local newspaper or neighborhood association newsletter.] The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on March 20 we must … Read more
This side deal will stifle citizen powers to protect communities (usually Black, Latino, Indigenous and/or poor white) against the deep pockets of corporations and the devastation of extraction sites, pipelines, refineries, LNG export facilities and more.
Last June during the Heat Dome, 96 lives were lost in Oregon due to the extreme heat. The City Council has still not taken specific steps to reduce Portland’s greenhouse gas emissions. The latest International … Read more
The City has added funding for Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staffing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and involve the public in the climate policy process. This is a positive first step, but the scale … Read more
We implore the City of Portland to not only meet the IPCC requirements, but to exceed them, through concrete policy laid out here and implemented by a future director…
As I write these words, a blanket of slushy snow lies on the ground outside my window. Just last week though, temperatures were in the upper 70s. A month ago, researchers at the Arctic Circle … Read more
On Monday, April 4, 2022, the Third Assessment Report from the IPCC provided the world an update on climate mitigation progress and pledges, examining the sources of global emissions. The bad news is that in spite … Read more
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt.
We – the entire human and non-human populations of Earth – are now officially in the “We’re F****d” stage of climate crisis. Extinction Rebellion UK called it first, but the IPCC Report that dropped on Monday … Read more
tipping point: 1. (mathematics, catastrophe theory) The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences. 2. (sociology) A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting … Read more