San Diegans Say No to TPP Fast-Track
Wednesday, May 27, SanDiego350 joined forces with the Sierra Club, Climate Action Campaign, Environmental Health Coalition and others to urge local Congressman Scott Peters to vote against fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Our message: TPP is bad for people, bad for the environment, and bad for the climate. Underscoring that TPP-climate connection, the […]
SD350 Awarded Patagonia Grant for Anti-Fracking Efforts — Again!
For the second year in a row, SD350 has been awarded a grant from the outdoor clothing company Patagonia. This year’s grant, which again recognizes SD350’s activism in the fight against fracking in California, is for $5000. Patagonia’s grant program donates 1% of annual sales – not profit! – to local action-oriented organizations that build […]
Plant-based Diet for a Healthy Planet
Hungry? Step Inside Earth Fair’s Garden of Eating! Many of us take pains to do the right thing for the environment. We may recycle, take shorter showers, and turn the lights off when leaving a room. But did you know that you can eat your way into making an even bigger difference? It’s true: food choices […]
Rob Greenfield Donates to SD350’s Planet-Based Diet Team
Local powerhouse environmental activist and SanDiego350 member Rob Greenfield has kindly donated a $3,000 advance he received to a cause he passionately believes in: using our forks to change the world. He has designated $1,500 to SanDiego350’s Planet-Based Diet team (which he is also now a member of), which advocates the environmental benefits of shifting to plant-based diets and […]
Recycling Water to Our Garden
SD350 Member’s Family Makes Water Recycling Simple and Do-able Last September, SD350 sponsored an Activist Training Workshop. One of the attendees was Juan Ahumada, a graduate student, Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Adviser in the Communications Department at SDSU. Juan had been looking for an organization where he might direct his energy and skill towards the […]
SanDiego350 Applauds President Obama for Keystone XL Veto (Press Release)
Calls on the President to reject the project outright SAN DIEGO, CA – In San Diego and across the nation today, citizens concerned about climate change applauded as President Barack Obama vetoed legislation that would have forced him to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL). SanDiego350 (SD350), an all-volunteer climate action group, called the presidential […]
In Deep: Sea-Level Rise and San Diego
As we burn more fossil fuels, and thus pump more heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we are changing every aspect of earth’s climate system. One of the many consequences is that the sea is rising. On January 19, San Diego 350 will stage a simple action to help make people more aware of what […]
Trailblazing Effort Needed on San Diego Climate Action Plans
By Jeffrey Meyer With the recent release of a new United Nations report on the global impact of climate change, we are given still another chilling warning that we are facing catastrophe unless we accelerate efforts to confront this crisis. The release of this report comes on the heels of a court decision rejecting […]
National Security and Climate Change
“There is a relationship between carbon emissions and our national security.” General Gordon R. Sullivan (ret,) chairman of the Military Advisory Board and former Army Chief of Staff RAdm Len Hering Speaks in Coronado about the Effect of Climate Change on National Security Human-induced climate change: Is it acknowledged in places that count? There must […]
SD350’s Activist Training Workshop
It’s a Saturday. Twenty-five young San Diegans have arisen early to attend SD350.org’s Activist Training Workshop. Some animated, some earnest, all very engaged – they’re clumped in small groups talking about what they came for: to learn about climate change activism. WHY AN ACTIVIST TRAINING WORKSHOP Juan Ahumada, a twenty-something graduate student and teaching assistant […]