2020 Accomplishments and Goals for the New Year
By Masada Disenhouse, Executive Director of SanDiego350 As 2020 comes to a close, I could not be more grateful for every one of you and for how we have come together in this year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a pivotal election (is it over yet?), and an inspiring racial justice movement. Together we navigated and […]
Update: SDG&E plays hardball on Franchise agreements
Amanda Ruetten, Policy Organizer & Masada Disenhouse, Executive Director This week has been a whirlwind. On Monday we got the news that San Diego City Council President Georgette Gómez sent a memo to Mayor Faulconer stating that she will not docket the Mayor’s bad Franchise Agreements deal and was instead requesting a one-year extension. That […]
What Just Happened?
Or, some reflections on what the local election results mean for the climate movement By Masada Disenhouse, SD350 Executive Director So… now that we’ll have a new president who lists climate change as a top priority (though we may yet need to fight for our votes to count), let’s focus on what happened in local […]
Plastics Bills SB 54 / AB 1080, Explained
By: Jill O’Keeffe, SD350 Legislative Intern What is the plastic problem? Single-use plastics dominate our everyday lives: from your morning coffee cup to grocery store bags. After one use, most of these products and packaging will go directly to landfills. Here, they will sit for the next thousand years. About eight million metric tons of […]
We Can Shape San Diego’s Next Climate Action Plan
By: David Harris, SD350 CAP/CCE Committee Chair The City of San Diego released its landmark 2015 Climate Action Plan (CAP). The Plan’s established goal of 100% clean energy by 2035 served as a model for many other cities. It included specific goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity, vehicles, solid waste, and other sources. […]
Flex Your Power: Help SD350 Push for Climate Smart Legislation
By: Jill O’Keeffe, SD350 Legislative Intern SanDiego350 is working hard this summer on state legislation. We kicked off the effort to organize meetings with our legislators this past Sunday, June 28, at the Legislative Training where SD350 members met virtually to learn how to combat climate change with legislation and which bills are currently priorities. […]
SD350 Builds Power with Community Budget Alliance
By: Joe Wainio, member of SD350’s Coalition Team. SanDiego350 has been a member of the Community Budget Alliance (CBA) for four years. CBA is a coalition of local organizations advocating for the interests of immigrants, low-income workers and communities of color. It mainly becomes active during the period when the mayor and city council consider the annual […]
Climate Justice Calls for Racial Justice, End to White Supremacy
By Kimberly Kishon, Masada Disenhouse and Susan Duerksen Black people in the U.S. are subject to violence and unjust death regularly – including at the hands of police who are supposed to protect all of us. We, the people of this country, have allowed institutionalized racism to go unchecked for centuries. It shows up in […]
How we’re responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Coming to grips with the devastating impacts of the pandemic has been hard for all of us. With the situation changing every day, none of us know what this will mean for our health, our loved ones, our jobs, our schooling, and our savings — let alone the nation, the economy at large, our democracy, […]
SD350 response to “Planet of the Humans”
The YouTube video “Planet of the Humans”, created and directed by Jeff Gibbs and presented by Michael Moore, is a hodge-podge of blatant inaccuracies and false accusations of climate leaders -mixed with some truths – that promotes despair rather than action. The video attacks Bill McKibben using a long disavowed quote about burning biomass for […]