ARTS
FOR EARTH FOUNDATION:
Introduces
YOU to local non-profits working to improve life in Ventura. Learn about local efforts to clean up the air,
energy, water….. thru the arts!
This Sunday…..
you are invited to attend….
Citizens'
Climate Lobby potluck/meeting
When: April 10th , 4:30pm
Where: SUNDAY
at Rincon-Vitova Insectaries.
April is one
of our most active months
environmental
activities are happening throughout the month in Ventura County:
This Sunday
we will avoid climate melancholy! Instead we'll break bread (or eat fruits
and vegetables) together and appreciate the work of high-energy spirit runner
and local
artist/activist Jackie Fawn.
Learn more about our plans and RSVP so I can plan how many will break
bread with us...
VOTE for
Jackie Fawn's
entry in the
Greenpeace Save
the Arctic Poster Contest:
http://bit.ly/1REy7F9.
Help Jackie win a trip to the Arctic on the Greenpeace
ship
by voting for her awesome poster and sharing it with
friends.
CCL
Agenda: -4:30 View Jackie Fawn art exhibit Greenpeace entry and potluck
-It is
not an accident that while Greenpeace aims to save the arctic, Dr. James
Hansen's paper comes out describing the ice melting much faster than predicted
in the IPCC reports.
-At
6:30 we will view the 15 minute video from climate scientist Jim Hansen about
arctic ice melt and sea level rise.
-Decide
who will write our Earth Day OpEd and help table at the Ojai Earth Day and
other April outreach.
Citizens' Climate Lobby
Ventura Chapter 805-746-53654
next Thursday:
VENTURA COUNTY CLIMATE HUB meeting
April 14, 7pm-8:30
Unitarian Universalist Church Ventura
Event Announcement:
Ventura iMatterYouth
present
WHAT: Climate Hub Monthly Meeting
WHO:
iMatterYouth will introduce their new campaign followed by Arthur
Valenzuela sharing climate-related bills in Sacramento. City of Ventura will receive its CLIMATE
REPORT CARD from iMatterYouth
WHEN: Thursday, April 14, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura,
Fellowship Hall, 5654 Ralston, Ventura, CA 93001.
WHY: A group of Ventura iMatterYouth will
introduce their project. It is part of a recently launched national campaign to
give report cards to cities on public awareness about climate change and what
cities are doing about it. Youth aged ten to 15 years old can learn more at www.imatteryouth.org.
Also
on the Climate Hub agenda:
-Community Choice Energy (CCE) developments
for speeding up local access to renewable energy will be among brief updates
during the Climate Hub meeting Wed.eve April 14th
-Guest speaker Arthur Valenzuela
representing Assembly member Das Williams will describe current bills in
Sacramento that address risks from the oil and gas industry and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
No charge, all are welcome.
Earth Day is
Friday, April 22nd
Let EARTH DAY
Lead the WAY!
The movement
continues.
We are
now entering the 46th year: The Earth Day
movement continues to inspire, challenge ideas, ignite passion, and motivate
people to action.
In 1970, the
year of our first Earth Day, the movement gave voice to:
1.emerging consciousness, getting ready to transform:
2.emerging actions: focusing
energy on environmental issues. Earth Day is more than a festival day, it leads the way to a new
way of life. New habits will sustain life well into the
future!
3. celebrate actions to help our planet Earth:
Lead with groundbreaking ideas & by example.
The time is now. Earth Day 2016 - Countdown
2020
This Earth Day Call-in to Congress: April 21 & 22,
2016
Let’s celebrate Earth Day 2016 by
calling our members of Congress, encouraging them to work on legislation that
addresses climate change. A survey of
staff on Capitol Hill by the Congressional Management Foundation found that 86
percent said phone calls to their offices carry some or a lot of influence on
issues. We’ve designated April 21 for the call-in day: US Sign Paris Climate Agreement
And so it continues. Today.
Right here & right now.
Earth Day:
more than a single day —
April 22, 2016
It’s bigger than attending a rally and taking a stand.
This Earth
Day and beyond, let’s :
1.
Let’s plant 7.8 billion trees for the
Earth.
2.
Let’s divest city fossil fuels to
100% renewable.
3.
Let’s take the momentum from the
Paris Climate Summit and build on it.
Let’s start now. And let’s not stop.
www.ArtsForEarth.com
With over two billion actions to date, Earth Day
Network’s A Billion Acts of Green – the largest environmental service campaign
in the world – is steadily building commitments by individuals, organizations,
businesses and governments to protect the planet.
Now, we’re carrying that momentum forward to reach the
next billion.
This year, after your event, record your actions
at: www.earthday.org/earth-day
Here's the TCM Pledge
The Climate Mobilization
a local Ventura collective of concerned citizens
I CALL ON THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO:
·
Immediately
commence a social and economic mobilization to restore a climate that is safe,
stable, and supportive of human civilization. This heroic campaign shall be
carried out on the scale of the American World War II home front mobilization,
and will require hard work and shared sacrifice from all Americans.
·
Reduce our
country’s net greenhouse gas emissions 100 percent by 2025 and implement
far-reaching measures to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
·
Enlist
tens of millions of Americans in efforts to rapidly expand our carbon-neutral
energy and agricultural systems, conduct groundbreaking research, and implement
large-scale adaptation measures. As in WWII, full employment will be achieved.
·
Conduct
this mobilization in accordance with the Constitution and ensure that the
essential needs of the civilian economy are met during this time of transition.
·
Establish
the following imperatives as our nation’s top foreign policy priorities: A 100
percent reduction of global net greenhouse gas emissions at wartime speed, and
the deployment of comprehensive measures that remove greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere until a safe climate is restored.
·
I will
enlist Americans from all walks of life in this campaign. If sitting
politicians fail to mobilize, we will elect leaders with the courage and
foresight to enact these demands.
I WILL:
·
Vote for
candidates — on every electoral level — who have signed the Pledge to Mobilize
over those who have not.
·
Devote
time, money, or both to elected officials and candidates who have signed the
Pledge.
·
Mobilize
my skills, resources, and networks to spread the truth of climate change and
the hope of this movement to others. When I spread the Pledge to Mobilize, I
will do so with respect, truth, focus and courage.
·
Thus I
pledge to mobilize, in defense of civilization and the natural world.
