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 […]
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, […]
Plant-Based Meal Recipe
Looking to incorporate plant based meals into your diet? This quick dish is a great and customizable combination of familiar and yummy foods- ‘no-meat’ balls over pasta and oven-roasted veggies with a balsamic twist. Recipe below: VEGGIES (serves 4-5): 1 onion, 2 zucchini, 2 red bell pepper, 2 eggplants *any combination of your favorite veggies is […]
SanDiego350 Educates Southwest High School Students on Urgency of Climate Action
Originally published by the San Diego Free Press on April 30th 2018 By Susan Huntington Bishop SanDiego350’s Presentation Team has been busy spreading the word about climate change throughout communities in the San Diego area. Team volunteers Beverly Harju, Ron Schneider, and Nancy Cottingham spent April 11th with students in Michelle Roberts’ Biology classes at […]
A Look at Climate Change Effects On San Diego County
Originally published by the San Diego Free Press on December 6th 2017 By Cynthia Wootton and Angela Deegan / SanDiego350 A recent presentation by Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography on climate change held locally (at the San Diego City Council Environment Committee meeting), made us wonder what climate change might look like […]
Climate Change Lawsuits and Coastal Plans — Where Does San Diego Stand?
By Stephanie Corkran / SanDiego350 Originally published by the San Diego Free Press on October 27th 2017 Coronado Island in 2300 if sea level rises by 12 feet; Nickolay Lamm/StorageFront.com, Data: Climate Central San Francisco, Oakland, San Mateo, Marin and Imperial Beach are suing fossil fuel companies over the sea level rise and expected property damages to homes […]
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 […]
PRESENT AT THE CREATION
By Ron Bonn, SanDiego350 Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on 4/20/2017 You could say I was present at the creation. Looking back in our lives, we rarely know exactly when something started. But regular television news coverage of man-made climate change, with all it implies, started on New Year’s Day, 1970. The […]
Why I Am An Activist, #4
By Amy Knight, SanDiego350 It started when I began volunteering my Saturdays. It progressed when I got excited about giving up entire Saturdays. The feeling seemed all too familiar, but new. A laser-like focus, inexhaustible, melting hours away as if they were minutes. A flush of excitement came to my face whenever ice core records […]