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 […]
Study Finds That Community Choice Energy is Cleaner & Cheaper
By Tyson Siegele, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on July 28, 2017) Community Choice Energy has been taking California by storm. The overwhelming support for and adoption of Community Choice Energy (CCE) only makes sense. All eight operational CCEs across the state charge lower electricity fees than their utility competitors while providing higher renewable […]
Community Choice Energy Myths Debunked, SDG&E Misdirection Exposed
Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on June 22, 2017 By Tyson Siegele / SanDiego350 Sempra promotes itself as an upstanding community participant with only the best intentions for its customers, but in conjunction with SDG&E, it charges exorbitant rates and fights tooth and nail behind the scenes to maintain its monopoly. It does so at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lonely? Try Talking about Cow Flatulence
By Bellamy Dryden This past Saturday, April 29, I celebrated an important milestone with 5,000 strangers at the Peoples Climate March in downtown San Diego. After that same march in 2014 I adopted a vegan diet, cold turkey, so to speak. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Three years later, I’m […]
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 […]