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Posted by Andy Hoover on 07/19/2022 - 2:01pm

From our discussion of climate change, here are some resources that might be helpful.

News sites:

Pennsylvania

NPR's state impact website - https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/

Philadelphia Inquirer - https://www.philly.com/science/climate/

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - https://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment

Pennsylvania Capitol-Star - https://www.penncapital-star.com/category/energy-environment/

Pittsburgh independent news - https://www.publicsource.org/category/environment/

Philadelphia independent news - https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/category/environment/

National

Yale Climate Change page - https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

EOS - Earth and space science news - https://eos.org/articles

Vox - https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment

Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/?utm_term=.9b08a3891ef0

New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/climate

The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change

Bloomberg News - https://www.bloomberg.com/green

Axios - https://www.axios.com/energy-environment

Grist - https://grist.org/

Tree Hugger -https://www.treehugger.com/energy/

Inside Climate News - https://insideclimatenews.org/news

National Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/onearth

Open Democracy - https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/tagged/environment/

Democracy Now - https://www.democracynow.org/topics/climate_change

Common Dreams - https://www.commondreams.org/climate

Mother Jones - https://w ww.motherjones.com/topics/climate-desk/

State resources

Penn Future - https://pennfuture.org/climate

Conservation Voters of PA - https://www.conservationpa.org/issues/fighting-climate-change

Sierra Club of Pennsylvania - https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania

Penn Environment - https://pennenvironment.org/

Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light - http://paipl.us/

The Pennsylvania Council of Churches has useful links: http://www.pachurchesadvocacy.org/resources/

Fracking resources:

Fractracker - https://www.fractracker.org/

Cornell University group involved in fracking research - http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/index.php

Earthworks - https://earthworks.org/issues/fracking_methane_and_climate/

Better Path Coalition - https://www.betterpathcoalition.org/

Major national organizations devoted to climate change advocacy:

Al Gore's group - https://www.climaterealityproject.org/

Bill McKibben's group - https://350.org/

Sierra Club - https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/low-carbon-diets-are-good-for-planet-and-your-health

Transition US Resilience - https://www.resilience.org/environment/

Natural Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/issues/climate-change

Union of Concerned Scientists - https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/global_warming/Exec-Summary_Climate-Change-in-Pennsylvania.pdf

Climate Mobilization - https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/

Post Carbon Institute - https://www.postcarbon.org/

Sunrise Movement - https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

Extinction Rebellion - https://extinctionrebellion.us/

Union action on climate change - https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/

Six of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations - https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/2/20976180/climate-change-best-charities-effective-philanthropy

Chesapeake Bay Foundation - https://www.cbf.org/

Moms clean air force - https://www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/ethane-cracker-plants/

Justice for the coalfields - https://www.coalfieldjustice.org/

Other resources:

Hawken book and website mentioned in 2nd hour discussion

Drawdown: 100 solutions to reverse global warming

https://www.drawdown.org/

Our World in Data article on greenhouse gases - https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Democratizing the Green New Deal - https://thenextsystem.org/energydemocracy?mc_cid=f9b7109108&mc_eid=44d55f0ccb

From Founder's Pledge - comparison of personal lifestyle changes - https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-and-lifestyle-report

Here is a related book mentioned in the current issue of Friends Journal: The Parents Guide to Climate Change

https://www.marydemocker.com/

Local resources

South Mountain partnership - https://southmountainpartnership.org/about-us

Watershed protection groups within Cumberland County - https://www.ccpa.net/4628/Watershed

Agricultural Land Preservation Board - https://www.ccpa.net/106/Agricultural-Land-Preservation-Board

Cumberland County Conservation Collaborative - https://www.cumberlandconservationcollaborative.org/

Clean air board - http://greatercarlisleproject.dickinson.edu/listing/clean-air-board-of-central-pennsylvania/

Pennsylvania Environmental Council - https://pecpa.org/wp-content/uploads/PEC_Climate_Change_Roadmap.pdf

Quaker sites:

https://quakersandclimatechange.com/

EQAT (Earth Quaker Action Team) - https://www.eqat.org/

from Eli Fishpaw from Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Friends in Unity with Nature - NEXT STEPS IN JOURNEY TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH CREATION https://nextstepsearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/next-steps-in-journey-to-right-relationship-with-creation/

Tools from FUN to calculate carbon footprint

https://nextstepsearch.wordpress.com/carbon-footprint-fact-sheet?iframe=true&preview=true

For those of you who remember when Charles Eisenstein spoke at the meetinghouse, he has a new book out on climate change. Here is a link to a selection from the book:

https://www.utne.com/environment/beyond-climate-fundamentalism-zm0z18wzgsch

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