2023 Legislative Session Recap
Just like that, another year’s worth of bills are passed, and another Washington legislative session comes to a close. Though a lot of progress was made on climate this year, the actions taken this session fell quite short of the urgency of the climate crisis. We must continue to be advocates for the planet and our future generations, urging our legislators to keep pushing the envelope when it comes to reducing our negative impact on our ecosystems and increasing our resiliency for the future.
Plant-Based Cookbooks Save The World!
Recently, I read an article from The Guardian which wasn’t a big surprise to those of us spending our free time trying to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, but it did make me realize that as climate activists, we need to start doing a better job of shining the light on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and animal agriculture.
After the WRAP Act
“If we could think locally, we would do far better than we are doing now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, ‘What will this do to our community?’ tends toward the right answer for the world.” -Wendell Berry, 1991
Updating the Growth Management Act: Once More, With Feeling
Like many climate activists in Washington, I was dismayed when the legislature last year allowed the clock run out on HB 1099, a bill that would have updated the Growth Management Act to accommodate, among other things, the impacts of the climate crisis. The bill had wide support from environmental activists, housing reform advocates, and […]
We Need More and Better Climate Preaching
Religious Americans are more likely to believe the Earth is sacred and God commands us to care for nature, but very religious Americans are decidedly less likely to believe in or care about the climate crisis. In a Pew Center study surveying over 10,000 Americans 74% of believers affirm the earth is sacred, and 80% agree “God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth.” But “highly religious Americans are far less likely than other U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe” or to believe climate change is happening or caused by human action.
City Council’s Water Ordinance and the Spokane River
The Spokane Sustainability Action Subcommittee (SAS) has worked for the last two years on creating a Sustainability Action Plan for the City of Spokane. The draft version of the plan is now available for citizens of the region to review and provide feedback. Over the summer of 2021 we will be collecting feedback and making revisions, after which we will ask the Spokane City Council to adopt the plan in the fall.
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The Spokane Home Builders Association’s Very Odd Assault on the City Sustainability Action Plan
The Spokane Sustainability Action Subcommittee (SAS) has worked for the last two years on creating a Sustainability Action Plan for the City of Spokane. The draft version of the plan is now available for citizens of the region to review and provide feedback. Over the summer of 2021 we will be collecting feedback and making revisions, after which we will ask the Spokane City Council to adopt the plan in the fall.
After COP26, How Do We Make the Global Local?
The Spokane Sustainability Action Subcommittee (SAS) has worked for the last two years on creating a Sustainability Action Plan for the City of Spokane. The draft version of the plan is now available for citizens of the region to review and provide feedback. Over the summer of 2021 we will be collecting feedback and making revisions, after which we will ask the Spokane City Council to adopt the plan in the fall.
Local nonprofit providing air purifiers to at-risk residents
The Spokane Sustainability Action Subcommittee (SAS) has worked for the last two years on creating a Sustainability Action Plan for the City of Spokane. The draft version of the plan is now available for citizens of the region to review and provide feedback. Over the summer of 2021 we will be collecting feedback and making revisions, after which we will ask the Spokane City Council to adopt the plan in the fall.