This is giant, super-BIG good news! The Mayor of Los Angeles just announced one of the largest cities in the world, that gets electricity from out of state coal plants, goes Coal-Free by 2025. Yes! Way to go Los Angeles! Watch today\’s announcement with the Mayor, or the \”Thank You Mayor\” video on the Sierra […]
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\”Climate change is the most pressing and threatening issue to modern-day society. Through lack of understanding from generations before us, we are having to fix it. And how can we do this without education?\” 15 year old Esha Marhawa from West London wrote a petition to keep climate change in the national curriculum for children
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All across the nation this week, activists like you will stand up to the companies that profit from building the Keystone XL pipeline. Stay engaged and find a blockade action you can support! Every voice counts. Make yours loud and clear. Show up for an event this week! Follow the link to Tar Sands Blockade where
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If you are a parent like me you may wonder sometimes, with all the terrible pollution and destruction going on, \”Am I doing enough? to protect my kids? to protect nature? Will changing my light bulbs really save humanity?\” Wonder no more. Simply follow the link to the one paper we all need to read, written
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In my slideshow for The Climate Reality Project I have introduced audiences in Seattle to the inspiring work of Felix Finkbeiner in Germany, who founded Plant For The Planet a few years ago. I want to bring an Academy here so that our kids can take the training, learn how to train other kids, become
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Rideshareonline matches riders with drivers to fill up carpools all over the area! It\’s simple, so easy to use, and free. Sign up for an account and see what I mean. Starting in April 2013, Lincoln APP Elementary gets to test out a program called SchoolPool that allows our elementary parents to access a secure
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Care for the Planet, the Lincoln Elementary club working to reverse global warming, cleaned debris from Discovery Park beach on our day off from school. A bald eagle watched over us while we worked, and did a long slow graceful fly-by at eye level when we circled up to say thanks and goodbye. What a
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Planning is underway for a major event on Earth Day weekend, an iMatter Youth March and training! We will march along the waterfront and cross the train tracks to Olympic Sculpture Park for an Earth Day event. The puppeteers from Backbone Campaign, the Sierra Club, and others have joined in to help us make this event a
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Alec Loorz, founder of kids vs. global warming, wrote this new Declaration as a teenager. For the last few years he has been collecting signatures of youth from across the country and delivering them to congress each year. You can read the text here, and then go to iMatteryouth.org to Sign the document online and
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The Seattle dad who does \”the Al Gore slideshow\”, Michael Foster here, with good news: I\’m getting organized as an organizer. What\’s my new secret? My incredible wife! She organized this new blog for me because I\’m so hopelessly disorganized. Of course she was right. Again. I\’ve been working on my carbon footprint since 1990,
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