Posts by Samara Almonte
Meet the Climate Justice Mural Project Artist Team!
The Artist Team will co-facilitate the Mural Design Workshop and collaboratively craft the final design for the Climate Justice Mural Project. Carrie Ziegler: Carrie is the lead artist for the Climate Justice Mural Project and Community Engagement Organizer for the Thurston Climate Action Team. An expert in collaborative art, she works at the intersection…
Read MoreYouth Climate-Fiction Stories from Thurston County
By Samara Almonte, TCAT Digital Media Coordinator Science-fiction is an established genre in literature and media which many of us are probably familiar with. The exciting thing about art however, is that it is continuously evolving to reflect current events in society. In the recent years a new genere within sci-fi has emerged, called “climate-fiction”…
Read MoreNewsletter Updates!
Starting June 30th, the TCAT Weekly Newsletter has transition to a bi-weekly schedule. The next scheduled newsletter is for July 14th, and will continue to be published every two weeks from here on out. Be on the look out however, for weekly Action Alerts from TCAT, calling for your participation in local and regional climate…
Read MoreAsk Governor Inslee to Declare Climate Emergency
From the Protectors of the Salish Sea The Protectors of the Salish Sea are leading a grassroots movement to have Governor Jay Inslee take action and declare Climate Emergency for Washington State! Can you add your voice? Recently 11,000 scientists declared a Global Climate Emergency. Over 1,000 local & indigenous governments across the world have…
Read MoreClimate action work continues in 2020, by State Rep Beth Doglio
November 27, 2019 We made great progress on environment and climate action in 2019, but much remains to be done if we are to meet our emission reduction goals. The most significant strategy for 2020 is to enact a clean fuel standard. I’ve heard from many of you that this is a priority – I…
Read MoreSetting Priorities for Climate Action in our Region
By Tom Crawford, President, Thurston Climate Action Team The Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan (TCMP) effort has identified nearly 300 possible actions (available here) for reducing community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout Thurston County. As you might recall, the TCMP is the work of Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater and Thurston County to determine how to meet the…
Read MoreClimate Action Toolbox – New Website with Resources for Thurston County Climate Action
By Thad Curtz Some comments at one of the recent work sessions to develop our regional climate action plan led to my building a website to share materials about actually implementing the ideas for reducing emissions that have been proposed so far. It’s at www.climatetoolbox.info. (There’s nothing about some of the ideas because I thought…
Read MoreMemorandum Urging Bold Criteria for Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan
Citizens Letter Urging Selection of Bold Criteria To Ensure Success of The Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan October 21, 2019 To: The Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan Steering Committee: From: the below signed community groups We, the undersigned, thank you for your efforts to reduce our carbon footprint in Thurston County. We applaud your work on the…
Read MoreThe NorthPoint Proposal for a Warehouse Complex on Land that Should be a Wildlife Preserve – What You Can Do About It
By Sam Merrill, Black Hills Audubon A Missouri development company, NorthPoint, is seeking to rezone to industrial a 745-acre parcel of rare glacial outwash prairie owned by the Port of Tacoma (POT), but located just south of Millerslyvania State Park in Thurston County. NorthPoint has made a contingent offer to purchase this parcel in order…
Read More90-day Climate Action Teams Forming
By Stewart Henderson If you agree that it’s time to start treating our climate emergency like a real emergency, you’ll be interested in the latest work of Rapid and Just Climate Action (RJCA). RJCA 90-day action teams have launched in Seattle and on Whidbey Island, and will be launching on October 19 at the Joint…
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