<strong>Climate Action Is My Calling</strong>
By Joyce Lane, SD350 Board President How I got Involved in the Climate Movement and Why There is this idea that when you retire from the work world you will take a break – travel, take up artistic endeavors, take classes or just “veg out” and do nothing. Yet there are other people who use […]
SanDiego350’s Youth4Climate Summer Camp
By: Hannah Riggins, SD350 Youth Volunteer SanDiego350 recently launched the Youth4Climate (Y4C) Summer Camp to introduce climate activism techniques while allowing campers to discover their people, power, and passion. Designed for high school and college-level students, Y4C was first conceived in May, during the initial COVID lockdown, and is currently halfway through its second session […]
Members of the Month: A Youth Perspective
Interviews conducted and condensed by SD350 Volunteer Lorenzo Nericcio This month, SD350 has selected three Youth Volunteers as the Members of the Month. Each helped coordinate and run the Youth4Climate (Y4C) summer camp—currently in its second session of the 2020 Summer—to help teens get more involved with the policy and outreach necessary to mitigate climate […]
Food Vision 2030
By: David Pearl, SD350 Food & Soil Committee Member Our friends at the San Diego Food System Alliance are hard at work on Food Vision 2030, a plan for transforming San Diego County’s food system over the next ten years. In their own words, “The goal of Food Vision 2030 is to inform planning, policy, […]
Discussing a Just Recovery from COVID-19
By: Louise Potash, SD350 Communications Volunteer Within a week of joining SanDiego350, I found we were hosting a panel discussion on a just recovery from COVID-19. I myself have been confronting these questions and feeling daunted by the enormity and complexity of our current and future systemic challenges. The Facebook Live discussion brought together a […]
The 5 Big Moves to Sustainable Transportation
By: Bee Mittermiller, SD350 Transportation Committee Leader The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is working on a 2021 regional transportation plan they have nicknamed “The Five Big Moves.” We must speak up to make sure this plan prioritizes transit over highways. Although these 40-year plans are updated every four years, what we know of the next […]
Tom Steyer draws large crowd for climate change lecture
by Celeste Oram Over 400 San Diegans arrived at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Hillcrest Thursday evening to hear a decisive, energetic message on clean energy and climate action from climate advocate and philanthropist Tom Steyer. The public talk, organized by grassroots climate action organization SanDiego350, was co-sponsored by over 20 San Diego community groups. In […]
SanDiego350 Climate Presentation at Lions Club – National City
By Mônica Prado, SanDiego350 On August 31st, the SanDiego350 Presentation Team shared with members of a local Lions Club in National City what we can do together to solve the climate crisis. Presenters Nancy Cottingham and Beverly Harju explained what climate change is and how we, as individuals and collectively, can act towards reducing fossil fuels emissions. […]
State Legislative Initiatives on Climate You’ll Want to Support
By James Ferguson, SanDiego350 We have known for 50 years or more now that the effect of releasing millions of years of biologically-captured carbon into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels would trap infrared heat radiation. According to James Hansen, formerly the top climate scientist at NASA, our climate is stable when the […]
SANDAG is Ailing; Assembly Bill 805 Could Be the Cure
Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on MAY 25, 2017 By Lisa Wellens/ SanDiego350 Tired of stalled progress from San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)? Frustrated with its failure to address San Diego’s poor air quality and lack of transportation options in overburdened communities? Outraged at it’s latest scandal – hiding financing shortfalls and misleading voters about how […]