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No December Community Meeting
350 Eastside won't have a community meeting this month.
Have the happiest of holidays, whatever you celebrate, and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to seeing you all in January!
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Salmon, Orcas and Justice Imperiled by BPA Obstruction
Supporters and Community Members:
August and September of 2022 saw a string of important policy developments affecting endangered Snake River salmon, imperiled orcas, and many Northwest Tribes.
While the Biden Administration and Northwest elected leaders are stepping up to break a decades-long gridlock and develop real solutions, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) – the agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that markets the power from the lower Snake River dams’ – is ignoring the current Administration’s goals.
BPA needs to join the team. We need urgent solutions that protect salmon and orcas from extinction, and help Tribes, utilities, farmers, and anglers. Please ask USDOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm to ensure BPA aligns with the rest of the Biden Administration, many Northwest Members of Congress, Governor Inslee and Brown, and community stakeholders on Snake River restoration. Take action ASAP to stop salmon extinction!
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Secretary Jennifer Granholm Contact Info Email: [email protected] Please cc Senator Murray, Senator Wyden, and Governor Inslee, if your platform allows for it. SOS Action Alert Page Click here for the SOS Action Alert to Sec. Granholm Tinyurl: tinyurl.com/DOEActNow
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Gather Up! We’re Sending Holiday Cards to Dirty Bank CEOs
A message from Deborah Moore on behalf of Third Act:
Throughout Third Act’s first year, you’ve heard how the big four banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo—are bankrolling the climate crisis. After the banks’ infuriatingly disappointing participation in the Egypt Climate Conference, where they worked to weaken already-inadequate climate targets and threatened to leave the Net Zero Banking Alliance, it’s time we raise the pressure on these dirty banks!
As we prepare holiday cards and wishes for peace on earth and goodwill to all, please write to the CEOs of the big four banks and tell them to make a healthy New Year’s Resolution: No investments in new fossil fuels.
We are gearing up together for the Banking on our Future Day of Action on March 21, 2023, and escalating our actions on the banks. Many of you have been meeting with bank branch managers, asking them to deliver messages to their leadership that the banks should stop financing fossil fuels - thank you!
Now is a moment for you to write directly to the Bank CEOs and edit the letter to tell them personally why you don’t want the banks to use your money to invest in dirty energy projects that are wrecking our planet and our future.
During the holidays and new year, I take time to reflect on the past year and to consider the year ahead. Making my holiday wishes for peace on earth and goodwill to all come true will require that the big four dirty banks stop financing fossil fuel projects that are worsening climate change, polluting our air and water, and risking our children and grandchildren’s health and future.
Please join me in sending a holiday card to the CEOs of Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo and tell them: Make your New Year’s Resolution to end financing of fossil fuels and live-up to your net-zero pledges. As with personal New Year’s resolutions to lose bad habits or invest in one’s health, these banks should lose carbon pollution and invest in a renewable future.
Wouldn’t you prefer that the banks invest in the gifts of clean energy, rather than lumps of dirty coal, oil, or gas?
Read more of this newsletter for further information about the March 21st 2023 Day of Action!!
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350 WA Civic Action Team (CAT) – Join us!
When: Jan 4, 2023
Housing. The Growth Management Act. Recycling and Waste Reduction. Building Electrification. Forestry. Salmon. Police Accountability. Transportation. All of these policy issues and more are on the table in the 2023 Washington State legislature.
Are you ready to take action on scientifically sound and socially just and equitable climate policy? The 350 WA Civic Action Team is here to make your legislative advocacy simple and effective.
You’re invited to take action with us! Last year volunteers in this campaign took a collective total of 21,764 legislative advocacy actions together - with you on our team we can build even more grassroots pressure to pass the climate policies we need here in Washington.
Come join us at 350 WA Civic Action Team’s 2023 legislative campaign kickoff on January 4th @ 6-7:30pm! Learn how you can make your voice heard on sound & just climate policy in Olympia.
And sign up to take action with us at the 350 WA CAT in 2023! https://www.350wa.org/cat
The 350 WA Civic Action Team works to make grassroots legislative advocacy easy and accessible for everyone. We have the opportunity to mobilize voices across the state to make our voices heard on climate policy in Olympia.
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Third Act – Dis-credit Bad Banks Day of Action
Save the Date! – 3/21/23
Third Act has spent much of the last year collecting Banking on our Future pledges from thousands and thousands of people across America: pledges to move our money out of the big, dirty fossil-fueled banks – Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo – if they don’t move their investments out of fossil fuels. And we’ve learned more about how important this is: new data makes it clear that these banks are using your money to fund the climate crisis in a big way.
If you have $62,500 in one of these banks, that amount loaned for pipelines, frack wells, coal, and oil exploration produces more carbon than all the driving, cooking, heating, cooling, and flying an average American will do in 6 months. In other words, your bank may well be the largest part of your carbon footprint.
Together we will help make visible the invisible connection between cash and carbon. We will pressure the big, dirty fossil-fueled banks – Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells Fargo – to move their investments out of fossil fuels by moving our money out of their banks, actually and symbolically. That’s what this Day of Action is about. TO DIS-CREDIT THE BAD BANKS MEANS WE NEED TO ESCALATE! So on March 21 (3.21.23) we’ll have a nationwide Day of Action. It’s got to be broad and beautiful to engage people’s minds and hearts in defunding climate destruction.
Read more about the epic vision for this day of action HERE as well as how many ways you can get involved!
You do not need to be a cardholder or account-holder to participate, and if you are, you do not yet have to have figured out how to make the switch. We know this takes time and involves many personal decisions. (Here are some materials to help making the switch easier.) So even if you haven’t finished the switch it doesn’t matter. We’ve known all along we’re not going to solve this one person at a time. The point of the Banking on our Future pledge and this Day of Action – and of the actions that will follow – is to collectively make some noise, raise the visibility of the dirty banks’ role in climate destruction, and grow our movement for climate justice and solutions. |
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Explore more resources available through Third Act’s toolkit, including how to switch to better banks and credits cards, what to including what to consider when switching to greener cards, and other useful FAQs, articles and videos.
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Climate Forests Campaign
The Climate Forests Campaign is made up of over 150 organizations across the country (including several 350 chapters) working together to merge climate and conservation movements and towards a proactive policy to protect federal mature and old-growth forests. Following Executive Order 14072, Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies, we are calling on the Biden Administration to enact a strong, lasting rule across federal public lands that protects mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging, allowing the recovery of old-growth forests that have been lost. These forests are essential to removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere, safeguarding wildlife, and providing clean drinking water for our communities.
We are working to build grassroots pressure across the United States to ensure strong, lasting protections for our climate forests — and we need your help!
(Linked here is the powerpoint presentation.)
Writing Letters To The Editor: We package all of our media hits and send them with lobbyists to meetings with the White House CEQ. Help us keep the drumbeat up by submitting letters to the editor! If you get one published, please send a link to Victoria Wingell ([email protected]) so we can keep track of everything! · Tips for Writing LTE's and OpEds (this includes campaign resources and talking points, and sample LTE's you can use to draw inspiration from)
Promoting America's Vanishing Climate Forests Report: Help us share our new report far and wide! This toolkit is full of resources to help highlight the special places we're working to protect. This report builds off of a previous "Worth More Standing" report, and highlights an additional 12 egregious examples of mature and old-growth logging projects slated on public lands managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Together, these reports spotlight nearly 370,000 acres of federal mature and old-growth logging projects across the U.S.
Background Reading: · The Significance of Carbon Emissions from Logging on Federal Forests · Video: The Surprising Truth Behind Planting Trees and Climate Change · Flat Country timber sale (High-profile logging project in Oregon's Willamette National Forest)
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UTC Survey on Decarbonization A recent email you may have missed in your flooded inboxes from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (see mid-November):
Washington Natural Gas Decarbonization SurveyWashington Utilities and Transportation Commission has partnered with SSG (Sustainability Solutions Group) to explore approaches for decarbonizing, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in Washington’s energy system. We want your input! Take the survey to learn more about the decarbonization pathways project and provide your input to the project. Take the survey
Let’s keep reminding the UTC that we’re here to support full decarbonization! You can also file a comment in UTC rulemakings electronically. For more information on the UTC’s implementation of the Clean Energy Transformation Act, visit www.utc.wa.gov/CETA.
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350.org Fossil Free Campaign (https://350.org/fossil-free- All over the world, the climate movement is raising our voices to put an end to the destructive fossil fuels era. Come with us on this issue to know more about what happened in the last month, and how you can join us for what comes next!
Why don’t you join our Fossil Free mailing list for all the latest stories on climate organizing from around the world. Stories that matter. Campaigns that inspire. All delivered directly to you every month.
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Sunrise Movement (https://www.sunrisemovement. After a lengthy period of self-reflection and reorganization this group of under-35 young people have an ambitious post-Covid agenda. Check out their website! Efforts are underway to organize a Sunrise Hub in Bellevue and to create hubs in local middle and high schools.
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~*~*~*~*~ Wishing you joyful final month of 2022, Lin, Phil, Lynn, Marilyn, Emily, Sara
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