Cascadia Climate Action Now🌲

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CascadiaCAN supports #ClimateScience activism to protect #PNW, foster #forests, bolster #biodiversity, ramp-up #renewable energy, drive #decarbonization, and ensure #EnviroJustice. Website: https://CascadiaCAN.org

Megadam “will dwarf all other hydroelectric projects in the world with its estimated 300 terawatts of annual power output - three times output of Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze, world's current largest dam, more than entire U.S. produced in net hydropower in 2024.” www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

'They are trying to tame nature': China is building the world's biggest dam in an earthquake-prone region of Tibet

China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people downstream.

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Attn pension fund managers (inc #WSIB): Check out what happened in March. As we’ve been saying, it’s urgent to #divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable clean energy projects & infrastructure. Your hard earning beneficiaries will be made much more secure. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month

It’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid.

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Good news! In a blow to Trump's 'drill, baby drill' agenda, zero companies bid for the chance to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's Cook Inlet. This comes after we notified the Interior Department last month of our intent to sue over the planned unlawful lease sale on March 4.

Trump keeps trying to auction off this US property for oil drilling. No one is buying. | CNN

A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

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If you live in WA leg district 20, support & vote for #AndyZahn! It’s rare when we LD20 voters have opportunity to vote for anyone but the incumbent. More vitally though Andy is super smart, energetic, passionate about sustainable land use, forest preservation, and biodiversity. Lifelong LD20 local.

Andy Zahn for WA LD20@electandy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My platform: 1. Industrial hemp 2. New parks where we live 3. Revitalizing rural communities We need real solutions for the challenges we face in rural Washington State. We must forge a better future for ourselves and future generations.

R.I.P. the “Mother of the high seas”, defender of deep ocean, Kristina Gjerde. High Seas Treaty entering into force 1/17 couldn't have come to be were it not for this courageous passionate educator, ocean advocate. My thoughts & well-wishes to her family & friends. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/kris...

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died

Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep oc...

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#divest pension funds from fossil fuels! Hey, Washington State Investment Board >> follow NY's lead!

New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NYCC statement in reaction to @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social announcement: “Big, if true…” 👀👀👀👀👀👀 “Today’s announcement from Comptroller Lander is a very big deal, but only if he enacts it.” docs.google.com/document/d/1...

WA #GreenAmendment Tour: Constitutional Change for a Livable Future 9/14 - 9/19 Seattle > Olympia > Vancouver > Yakima > Richland > Spokane w/ dynamic speaker Maya K. van Rossum. Help secure a WA constitutional right to clean air, pure water, healthy environment. wagreenamendment.org/constitution...

Constitutional Change for a Livable Future: The Washington Green Amendment Tour – For the Generations – Washington

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The Legacy Forest Defense Coalition @legacyforestdefense is trying to stop over 2000 acres of very special WA legacy forests from being clearcut. Once they are gone they are gone forever and that would be a tragedy. Please donate to the defense fund if you have means. Read more at gofund.me/39a7ac96

Donate to Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests, organized by Joshua Wright

In the fall of 2024, Washington's outgoing Commissioner of Publ… Joshua Wright needs your support for Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests

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