Our Climate Emergency During the Pandemic: A Virtual Community Forum

About This Webinar

A community forum, co-hosted by the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara and CEC, focused on climate change advocacy during the pandemic and the inter-generational activism that continues to build local momentum.

Resources

• Engage in climate change conversation

• Read about how Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties are warming faster than the rest of lower 48 states

• Review California’s 4th assessment

• Visit Drawdown.org to learn the top 100 ways to reduce the impacts of climate change

• Read more about how the City of Santa Barbara has responded to Black Lives Matter demands

• Read CEC’s blog on the Light Blue Line and sea level rise in Santa Barbara

• Learn more about the Red Deal, the indigenous response to the Green New Deal and how it includes recognition of the importance of land sovereignty, and respect of indigenous cultures. Full description of Red Deal.

• Listen to Elizabeth Rush on her book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

• Learn more about Donut Economics – and see author Kate Raworth featured in 2040, a film about climate change

• Watch Gail Osherenko’s film about the 2015 oil spill

• Watch Story of Plastic, a film about plastic pollution impacts

Connect with the organizations highlighted

League of Women Voters

• Join the League by visiting their website and following them on Facebook or Twitter

• Learn more about LWV’s work on environmental issues and how they are fighting climate change

• Contact President Vijaya Jammalamadaka at 805 462-7126 or President@lwvsantabarbara.org for additional information and to get involved

Fearless Grandmothers Society of Santa Barbara

• Learn more by visiting their website or following them on Facebook or Twitter

• Contact them by email: FearlessgrandmothersSB@protonmail.com

350 Santa Barbara

• Learn more and subscribe to their newsletter by visiting their website and follow them on Facebook or Twitter

• Contact them by email: 350santabarbara@gmail.com

• Explore factsheets linking past and current extreme weather events to climate change (co-authored by Emily Williams)

• Read A Global Pandemic is not a Climate Solution

• Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s video on the Green New Deal

Food & Water Watch

• Learn more by visiting their website and follow them on Facebook or Twitter

• Review and share the Grass Roots Green New Deal Virtual House Meeting Toolkit