ThurstonClimateActionTeam

Electric Vehicle (EV) experts and everyday drivers will entertain you with their EV experiences during 129 events from National Drive Electric Week 2020. Choose your favorite event, one from each topic area, or make it an entire week of learning the latest in EVs. Register & learn more here!

REGISTER HERE!| Bringing together community leaders from impacted communities on the frontlines of demanding and building a Just Recovery on the ground. We are demanding an equitable, inclusive, and healing Just Recovery from compound crises of COVID-19, climate breakdown, and racial and economic injustice, at scale with the crises.

Join us for this Zoom Meetup to meet old and new Climate Reality Leaders and Members of our Chapter, and introduce our Leadership Team.  We will include a short, locally focused presentation that includes how to support the Thurston Climate Mitigation Plan. JOIN MEETING HERE!

REGISTER HERE! The draft TCMP is posted for public review.  The goal of the plan is to reduce the county’s carbon emissions 45% below the 2015 baseline by 2030, and 85% by 2050. This reduction is roughly the county’s share to keep global temperature increase well below 2.0 degrees C (3.8 degrees F) through the turn of the century.

Join Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler and his guests for Climate Summit 2020. Climate Summit 2020 is free, open to the public, and will be an online experience. Register here

Buildings As Climate Action (BACA) meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. To join the meeting click here! For more information and receive the agenda for upcoming meetings, email Chris van Daalen at

Green Drinks is a no-host networking meet-up for people interested in the environment. It occurs the 1st Wed. of the month (except holidays). Check Facebook for location.

More information to come here

Public Hearing on Amending Thurston Comprehensive Plan To Allow Asphalt Plants In The Nisqually Subarea

The hearing shall be held virtually. The Planning Commission will provide a link to connect remotely to the public hearing for those interested in providing testimony, posted one week before the public hearing online.  Read more on our Facebook.

Zachary Schneider and Brian Turner from CMTA, Inc. discuss planning for and designing high performance schools without the price tag. CMTA, Inc. has 10 schools operating at zero energy. Register here.