Climate


Citizens Climate Lobby meeting after all this time!

Signs of spring and covid lifting Sunday April 2 – 2:00 pm – Jason’s Deli We’re so excited to meet you in person and talk together about next steps!  Please let us know if there is anything in particular you would like to get out of the gathering/anything that would be most helpful to you. You’re most welcome to bring a friend or two.  Jan Shaper, Joanna Michener for Citizens Climate Lobby 7 More Years To Do This!


You are your city’s best source of climate data

Yes Magazine Nov 2022 https://yesmagazine.cmail20.com/t/d-e-zeujiy-tllhqntj-q/ On very hot days, Victor Sanchez makes sure to leave his home in the afternoon. “The sun just pours in,” he said of his top-floor, west-facing apartment in Harlem, where he has two fans but no air conditioner. Sanchez usually finds a shaded bench in nearby Morningside Park, sees a film, or rides his bike to the beach, returning home after the relentless sun has begun to set. “It’s just dangerous to stay inside,” he said. In 2016, Sanchez, who is 67 and works in public media, helped scientists quantify just how dangerous it is […]


Putting Out the Planetary Fire

And how to make an impact! New (free) book on Climate Change and Advocacy Mark Dunlea’ via People vs Fossil Fuels <build-back-fossil-free@googlegroups.com> http://gelfny.org/putting-out-the-planetary-fire/ Green Education and Legal Fund – www.gelfny.org – January 1, 2023 Dear Climate Activists and friends: As we welcome a new year, time is rapidly running out for the world to avoid climate collapse. I have compiled a new climate book – Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy – which you can read for free on the Green Education and Legal Fund’s website. The link is to the index and chapter outline; each chapter is also […]


Climate Change Forum

Sunday Feb 6 – 1:30 pm on ZoomCity Alderman Teresa Turk will give us the first-hand low-down on her proposal to set up a climate resilience fund.She presented it in December but could not get enough suppport. She’ll talk about the potential of the fund and what it could mean for the city.


Climate Change Forum Sunday Oct 3

Climate Change ForumSunday Oct 3 – 1:30 pm – on zoom (link below)’Solar Under the Sun’ trains installers around the world! Awesome demonstration that church people are taking climate change seriously and taking beautiful pragmatic action to help address the problems Solar Under the Sun Ministries Presenter Chris McRae, founder of Solar Under the SunAlmost one third of the world’s population (1.6 billion people) endure the hardship of energy poverty. This means that they have no power at all, or it is too expensive, and unreliable. To bring this many people online with fossil fuels would be a death knell to […]


Virtual Climate Change Forum

Rights of Nature vs Climate ChangeSunday Oct 4 – 1:30 pmLolly Tindol presents on a topic near to her heart. She lives near Jasper, AR on a nearly self-sustaining farm and considers the life-forms around her to be friends and co-creators of her life.Join at the link below. Virtual Climate Change Forum Sun, Oct 4, 2020 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM (CDT)Please join our meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/153483117You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (312) 757-3121Access Code: 153-483-117


Climate Change Forum News

Upcoming Virtual Climate Change Forum July 5 – 1:30 pmRegenerating Earth and Human Life Geoff Olesner will present. A link will follow for a virtual program on Go to MeetingGeoff has worked with the Findhorn Community in Scotland, the Nuclear Information and Resource Center, OMNI, Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Citizen’s Climate Lobby, Wild Foundation, The Institute for Noetic Sciences, and members of the British Commonwealth’s initiative to reverse climate change. He also generates collaborations between climate scientists and individuals with profound intuitive gifts, as part of an unorthodox effort to address the climate crisis with greater insight and innovation.Geoff will focus […]


Virtual Climate Change Book Forum Climate Impacts of Covid 19

Sunday June 7 – 1:30 pmon GoToMeeting link below!Welcome, All, to Climate Change Book Forum’s first virtual meeting!We will be looking at the impact of Covid 19:Alberto Torres will review general aspects of the virus that causes Covid-19, what policies different countries have implemented to control the spread of the disease and how those different strategies have worked. Setting the discussion for Shelley to address the social inequality aspects of this pandemic.  Shelley Buonaiuto will present on the disproportionate impact of Covid 19 on low income and People of Color.Richard Tiffany will talk about the impact of Covid 19 specifically on […]