June 2020 - Washtenaw Climate Reality

photo of a woman at the lakeshore, holding a sign that reads: End white silence, black lives matter

Washtenaw Climate Reality statement on racial justice

Washtenaw Climate Reality stands with Black Lives Matter.

Michigan Climate Action Party — Monday, October 2 7-8 PM

Great opportunity for climate advocacy at the state level on Monday evening, October 2 at 7 PM, and you don’t even have to leave your living room for it. We’ll be hosting a Climate Action Party advocating for the passage…

Free online training on effective climate action: don’t miss it!

“Let’s face reality. The climate crisis doesn’t care if you’re in a red or blue state. It is an existential threat.” – President Joe Biden, State of the Union

Easy ways to talk about the new Climate Bill

If talking to others about climate action is one of the most important things we can do, as Katherine Hayhoe suggests, then I really blew it yesterday. I was hanging out on a friend’s deck last night, when one of…

How the Line 5 Tunnel Can Impact You and the State of Michigan

A new unproven technology is being proposed for the State of Michigan’s most sensitive location, the Straits of Mackinac, with huge potential impacts: a boring tunnel machine that will bore a 20’- wide tunnel 60-100 feet below the lakebed for…

The Climate Crisis: Let’s talk and let’s act

A couple of presentations I’ve been to lately made the following points:72% of U.S. adults support regulating CO2 as a pollutant. Only 35% discuss global warming at least occasionally. And only 8% are “activated” and making an attempt to do…

Month: June 2020