2017: Off to a Great Start!
The Alaska Big Dividend Tour starts next week on Jan. 28 – Feb 11 to spread CCL and encourage environmental action. Tamara Staton, a CCL Regional Coordinator(PNW) and co-leader for Portland CCL Chapter, and George Donart, a commercial fisherman in Western Alaska and a 5-year CCL member, will tour Alaska for two weeks, giving a series of presentations in cities throughout Alaska to engage Alaskans on how they can protect and improve fishing opportunities throughout the state, preserve and grow a diverse economy, maintain their active winter lifestyle. Follow their trip at citizensclimatelobby.org/alaska-big-dividend-tour/.
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Ready for some Climate Action!?
January Opportunities & our Mtg Update
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
Quarterly CCL Portland Social
Thursday, February 23rd
5-8pm
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Upcoming Panel & Discussion
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Wednesday, January 25, 7 p.m. TaborSpace
"What Lies Ahead for State-Wide Energy Policy?"
A high-level panel will discuss what's needed in state-wide energy policy in the upcoming year, what legislation is likely to be proposed, and how the public can most effectively support policy needs. Presented by Let's Talk Climate, this event is free and open to the public. For further information, go to: www.letstalkclimatepdx.org
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Sign Up for Action Alerts
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Take just 30 seconds...
Citizens’ Climate Lobby now has text messaging or SMS (simple message service) for volunteers who opt-in. Text messaging is the first of a series of steps we’ll take to enhance our responsiveness and coordinate actions for creating political will.
How to sign up:
1. Go to the text opt-in subscription form: cclusa.org/text
2. Fill out the form and click “Sign Up.”
3. You will not receive a confirmation text, but you will be redirected to a confirmation page on our website.
* You can unsubscribe from receiving texts at any time by texting “Stop” to 619-243-8706 or replying “Stop” to any text message.
For more information, click here.
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Become Involved with our Action Teams
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Wondering how you can get involved?
With a goal to increase our effectiveness, we have decided to create Action Teams in our chapter. For the past few months, we've been breaking into Action Teams for the last part of our mtg, and it's gone so well that we wanted to deepen the concept and encourage people to join a team or two (or three!).
Current Action Teams
1. Membership
2. Rural Action
3. Writer's Workshop
4. Outreach
5. Tabling
6. Endorser's
We'd love to support you in finding a team to fit your passion, strengths and experience. More information on teams will be available at our next mtg, and / or you can reply to this email to sign up.
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Join a Discussion course!
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Change is Our Choice: Creating Climate Solutions
CCL is starting a partnership with the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) with 5 discussion courses based upon their discussion course on climate action. The intent is to have multiple groups happening all around town on different evenings of the week starting mid-February. Details will be announced later this month, but until then, the following is excerpted from the NWEI website on the course itself:
"The science has long been settled: climate change is real and it’s happening all around us right now. Our new five-session discussion course on climate action will help you take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Presented in an interactive ebook, this new discussion course experience integrates video, audio and printed content with action plans that help you roll your sleeves up and get started taking action toward a better tomorrow. - See more at: http://nwei.org/discussion-course-books/climate/"
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Get Inspired by Yoram Bauman
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Watch the recording of this month's National Call or listen to the podcast on iTunes.
Yoram Bauman, founder of Washington’s “yeson732.org”, discusses I-732 as the first carbon-pricing initiative to go on a ballot anywhere in the USA. It failed, narrowly, but Bauman learned a lot on the way. Intent was revenue neutrality, balanced by reductions in sales tax and business taxes. Plus earned income credits for low-income households.
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Priceless: Film and Discussion
Seventh-grader Jeremy Clark is hosting a viewing of the Years of Living Dangerously "Priceless" episode that focuses on a carbon price. The viewing is at First Congregational UCC Portland at 1:00pm, Sunday Jan 29th. There will be attendees from CCL, as well as other environmental groups for a discussion after the episode.
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