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 […]
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 […]
Why I Am An Activist, #3
By Eve Simmons, SanDiego350 I think it started with my love for animals, and the sea, and trees, and my connection to the endless wonders of Nature, of which we humans are a part. There’s a compelling desire in me to protect, to comfort, to celebrate, savor, and honor the magnificence of living things. And […]
Why I Am An Activist, #2
By Sadie Sullivan-Greiner, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press) When I talk about the danger climate change represents, some of my acquaintances say I’m reverting to adolescence (I protested the ‘dresses only’ policy at my high school, back in my younger days). Others say I’m just reverting to type. I’ve spent most […]
One Million Letters & Underappreciated Ocean Effects Presentations
by Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the East County Magazine on 3/5/2017) On the evening of March 1, the organization Stay Cool 4 Grandkids hosted speakers who presented on two climate change topics. Representatives from Kids 4 Planet Earth spoke about their goal to have school children send one million letters to President Trump […]