Climate Activists Remain Committed to Transit and Transportation Equity Work following MTS Decision to Halt Elevate 2020 Initiative
San Diego – April 16, 2020 – At today’s MTS meeting, Chair Nathan Fletcher said the MTS initiative “Elevate 2020” would not proceed to the ballot in 2020. This is a statement from Bee Mittermiller, SanDiego350 Transportation Committee Chair: SanDiego350 members are disappointed that the transit initiative has been put on hold given its huge potential […]
Young People are Turning our Climate Grief into Hope
By Peter Sloan The first week of winter quarter, I was sitting with Erica Ferrer, a doctoral student in Marine Biology at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in Muir Woods Coffee House. We had met to talk about the dire situation facing life on planet Earth and what we, as graduate students at UC […]
SD350 Interfaith Team Addresses Faith and the Climate Crisis at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living
On May 27th, Philip Petrie and John Michno of the SanDiego350 Interfaith Team presented a free climate change workshop, entitled “Faith and the Climate Crisis,” at the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas. Phil and John organized the workshop with Sandy Atkinson of Seaside Center’s Earth Care Ministry, along with other representatives of the […]
SanDiego350 Attends Earth Fair
By Amy Van Schijndel, SanDiego350 On Sunday, April 23rd, 2017, San Diego’s 28th annual Earth Fair was held in Balboa Park, and it drew more than 60,000 visitors. It is the largest free Earth Day-related event of its kind. The event included environmental issues such as lowering our carbon footprint, climate change, and what to […]
San Diego’s April 29 Climate March: Why It Matters
By Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on 4/27/2017) In the recently published book, The Knowledge Illusion, authors Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach assert something rather disturbing: we rarely think for ourselves. Instead, we patch together our understanding of the world by taking a bit from over here and a […]
Popular Republican Mayor Praises Community Choice Energy
By Tyson Siegele, SanDiego350 Originally published in the San Diego Free Press A staunch supporter of Community Choice Energy gave the keynote address at a March 10th forum organized by the Climate Action Campaign. Since clean, renewable energy is one of the main benefits of Community Choice Energy (CCE), you might think the speaker would […]
The Rise of Corporations as Climate Change Allies
By Nicola Peill-Moelter, Ph.D., SanDiego350 (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on 4/6/17) There’s a new category of climate and environmental champions appearing just as the federal government is fading into the background: corporations. While we’ve been conditioned to think of corporate sustainability programs as greenwashing, evidence of real action is mounting, motivated […]
SECURITY & CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE REVEALS DISTURBING ATTITUDE SHIFT
By Mark Hughes, SanDiego350 (Originally published in the East County Magazine on 3/5/2017) On February 21, 2017, an audience of approximately 75 attended the Security & Climate Change: Issues and Perspectives conference, held in the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park. Organized and funded by The Center for Climate and Security (with the support of The […]
CLIMATE MOBILIZATION RALLY ENERGIZES SAN DIEGANS
By Bill Wellhouse, SanDiego350 The local affiliate of The Climate Mobilization, led by Derek and Nancy Cassady, held a rally Tuesday evening, February 21, 2017 at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building on Front Street in downtown San Diego. An energetic crowd gathered at 6:00 PM to protest the Trump administration’s national climate policy and […]
Climate Change – An Islander’s Experience
By Shanty Asher (Originally published in the San Diego Free Press on 2/23/2017) I am a proud Pacific Islander. Over the years, I have witnessed and stood alongside many of my fellow islanders and leaders, combating climate change and its impacts on the islands. Though the percentage of people in the US believe that climate […]