The Future of Climate Justice Begins with Knowledge of the Victims of Now
Look at the bigger picture, not just in regards to our own futures affected by global warming, but physically bigger, as in its current effects around the world.
You Can’t Get Clean Energy From Natural Gas!
Originally published by the San Diego Free Press on January 26th 2018 By Edward Bergan / SanDiego350 In retrospect, branding the toxic gas that emerges from underground deposits as “natural gas” was a stroke of marketing genius. It sounds so, well, natural. But natural gas is much more like “organic tobacco” – harmful in any form. […]
Juliana v. U.S.: A healthy planet – worthy cause or a right?
by Ivanna Patton The debate on climate change in the U.S. is taking an unexpected turn. New questions are being raised, not about whether a healthy climate is a cause the government should support, but rather a human right they must defend. Twenty-one youths, in conjunction with Earth Guardians, say it’s a human right, and […]
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. […]
2017 People’s Climate March
by Celeste Oram and Mark Hughes On April 29th, 2017, SanDiego350 and partner organizations put on our local version of the People’s Climate March. This march was held last in 2014 and around 1,500 people participated. This year, the goal was to double that number, but that’s not what happened. Instead, the rally and march […]
SanDiego350 Reports on the Science March
By Pat Masters, SanDiego350 Last Saturday’s Science March drew fifteen thousand scientists and science enthusiasts, energized by attacks on science and the environment by the Trump administration. They turned out on Earth Day to march for science and evidence-based policy. The crowds jammed Civic Center Plaza and surrounding streets, their signs urging respect for science […]
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 […]
Climate Change and Faith: A Moral Imperative
By James Long, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the East County Magazine) On Monday, March 13, 2017, at the First United Methodist Church in Mission Valley, a panel composed of a climate scientist and representatives of the Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic faiths discussed climate change, each from their perspectives. The evening began with Dr. V. Ramanathan’s […]
Aliso Canyon’s Fate – and Ours – Hangs in the Balance
by Amy Knight, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press) Considered one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history, the record-setting release of methane from SoCal Gas’s Aliso Canyon in October 2015 had both long-term climate altering consequences for the world and immediate health consequences for the people of the greater Los […]