2019 Agenda Overview
8:15 am – 9:00 am Registration, Refreshments, Visit Sponsor Tables
Cafeteria / Commons
9:00 am – 9:55 am Opening Session, Cafeteria
Welcome to the land – Candace Penn, Squaxin Island Tribe
Welcome to Olympia – Mayor Cheryl Selby
TCAT greeting – Tom Crawford and Barb Scavezze
CCL greeting – Louise Stonington
Drawdown focus – Lynn Fitz-Hugh
Keynote Speaker – Representative Beth Doglio, invited
9:55 am – 10:05 am Networking Break
10:05 am – 11:05 am Morning Concurrent Sessions A
11:05 am – 11:20 am Networking Break
11:20 am – 12:35 pm Morning Concurrent Sessions B
12:35 pm – 2:10 pm Lunch, Socialize, Visit Sponsor Tables
Mid-Day Plenary at 1:05 pm – Derek Hoshiko, from For the People
12:35 pm – 2:25 pm Drive Electric Earth Day
Carlyon Street Parking Lot
2:10 pm – 2:25 pm Networking Break
2:25 pm – 3:25 pm Afternoon Concurrent Sessions C
3:25 pm – 3:40 pm Networking Break
3:40 pm – 4:50 pm Action Group Breakout, Cafeteria
CCL State Chapter Meeting
4:50 pm – 5:10 pm Closing Session
5:10 pm – 6:30 pm Reception
Raging Grannies
Folly of Frack play at 6:00 pm
With an energetic flurry of bizarre characters, this play presents fast- paced entertainment to introduce the harms of full-cycle fracked gas production.
Concurrent Sessions
To download the resources listed under the speaker’s name, click on the title of the session.
| Track | 10:05 am-11:05 am Concurrent Sessions A | 11:20 am-12:35 pm Concurrent Sessions B | 2:25 pm-3:25 pm Concurrent Sessions C |
| Activism | Holding Climate Movements Accountable Derek Hoshiko, For the People; Board President, E3 Washington Resource: Presentation | How to Devise Smart Strategies for the Climate Movement Glen Anderson, Glen’s Parallax Perspectives; Grassroots Organizer for Peace and Social Justice Resources: Handouts | Folly of Frack, a Play & Discussion Jan Zuckerman, Susan Monson, Kelly O’Hanley, Jim Plunkett, Bonnie McKinlay |
| Activism | Be Part of the Solution! | Environmental Grief, Hope and Healing Kriss Kevorkian, PhD, MSW, Study of Death, Dying & Bereavement; Walden University; Climate Reality Leader; Founder, Legal Rights for the Salish Sea | Be Part of the Solution! |
| Advocacy | Sparking Action Among Faith Communities Barak Gale, organizer among Jewish community; Climate Reality Project -Thurston County Frank Turner, Earth Ministry Olympia Colleagues; Olympia CCL; Unitarian Universalist Church member | Adaptation and Mitigation: Thurston County’s Two-Pronged Approach to Climate Action Paul Brewster, Senior Planner, Thurston Regional Planning Council Tom Crawford, Thurston Climate Action Team, Board Chair Resources: Session Video, presentation, websites, GHG inventory report | Sunrising on a Green New Deal Jaime Cruickshank, Student, The Evergreen State College; one of the founders of local Sunrise Chapter |
| Citizens’ Climate Lobby | National Climate Legislation Mike Kelly, CEO at Tech DNA, Chapter Leader, Bainbridge Island CCL Resources: presentation, websites | Transformational Advocacy Gwen Hanson MD, Family Medicine Doctor; Chapter Leader, Bellevue CCL Resource: presentation | Climate and National Security Bob Hallahan, Retired Commander, US Navy; Chapter Leader, Whidbey Island CCL Resource: presentation |
| Citizens’ Climate Lobby | Communicating Across the Political Divide John Sandvig, Retired Aeronautical Engineer, Product Development Manager and Executive; WA State CCL Co-Coordinator Resource: presentation | Be Part of the Solution! | Making Dollars and Sense of Clean Energy Louise Stonington, J.D., Retired Legal Services Lawyer; science teacher; WA State CCL Co-Coordinator Resource: presentation |
| Education | Climate Change Basics – 101 Rhonda Hunter, Ecosystem Biologist; Climate Reality Project – Thurston County Donna Thompson, Chapter Chair,Climate Reality Project – Tacoma | Northwest Trees, Forests & Climate Jan Keller, People for Climate Action in King County Carolyn Rodenberg, Tree Keepers Alliance | Climate and Healthcare Chris Covert-Bowlds, Physician with Kaiser Permanente; Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility |
| Energy | A Bright Spot: Residential and Community Solar Kirk Haffner, President, South Sound Solar Mason Rolph, Chair, Olympia Community Solar | Achieve 95% Fossil Free Electricity with Public Power within 5 Years Randall Samstag, Civil and Sanitary Engineer; Steering Committee Member: Island Power, Bainbridge Climate and Energy Forum Steve Johnson, Retired, Executive Director of WA Public Utility Districts | Be Part of the Solution! |
| Food & Agriculture | Take the Food Challenge Lynn Fitz-Hugh, Founder, 350Seattle.org; Faith Action Climate Team; TCAT Convention Program Chair Resource: Session Video | Waste Not, Want Not: Food Waste and Climate Mary Harrington, Organics Management Lead, WA Dept of Ecology Peter Guttchen, Solid Waste Planning, WA Dept of Ecology Cathy Visser, Senior Nutrition Program Director, Senior Services for South Sound | Reverse Climate Change thru Regenerative Agriculture Pat Rasmussen, Coordinator, Edible Forest Gardens |
| Green Buildings & Cities | Clean Building Policy: How to get to Zero-Net Carbon Buildings Chris van Daalen, Executive Director, NW EcoBuilding Guild Resources: presentation, websites | What Makes a Green Building? Jim Lazar, Economist; Carnegie Group of Olympia Chris van Daalen, NW EcoGuild Kirk Haffner, South Sound Solar Randy Foster, Artisans Group | Building an EcoDistrict in Downtown Olympia Karen Gaul, Anthropology and Sustainability Studies, The Evergreen State College Lisa Parshley, Olympia City Council |
| Transportation | How can we build a pathway to lower transportation emissions? Veena Tabbutt, Deputy Director, Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC) Karen Parkhurst, Planning and Policy Director at TRPC | Electric Vehicles and the Phaseout of Gasoline Matthew Metz, Co-Executive Director, Coltura | Bikeable / Walkable Olympia Chris Hawkins, Thurston County Public Health & Social Services Duncan Green, Intercity Transit Resource: Session Video |
| Water | Effects of Sea Level Rise on the Squaxin Island Tribe Candace Penn, Climate Change Ecologist, Squaxin Island Tribe, Natural Resources Department Brian McTeague, Quantitative Services Manager, Squaxin Island Tribe, Natural Resources Department. | We Agree: Water is Life Sue Patnude, Executive Director, Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team Zena Hartung, Founding Member, Olympia Urban Water League; League of Women Voters of Thurston County | Restoring the Deschutes Estuary: Why it Makes Sense! Sue Patnude, Executive Director, Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team |
| Youth | Climate Learning in K-12 Schools Abby Ruskey, US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development Sheila Wilson, Program Director, Nisqually River Education Project | Youth Activists Panel Emma Song and Kaylee Shen, Students, Olympia High School Rebecca Canright, Student, The Evergreen State College Sue Leander, Plant for the Planet | Climate Change and the Courts Andrea Rogers, Lead Attorney on Children’s lawsuit against the US government |