Local effort by our council member Chris Krohn and link to an article about planting a trillion trees to absorb CO2.
Climate Refugees
Youtube (10 mins) about how the central american refugees from Honduras and Guatemala are fleeing a climate change induced 5 year drought. Narrated by an excellent reporter recently on Democracy Now.
Santa Cruz City Bans Plastic Water Bottle Purchases
Unfortunately Bottled Water 2019 (1) so far only applies to purchases using city money but it’s a great start.
California Coast Disappearing
A July 7 article in the LA Times includes the possibility of 9 foot sea level rise by 2100. That would flood most of downtown Santa Cruz, but in many other locations would severely affect 100s of millions of people.
Includes a link to an interesting interactive game to try to “Can You Save this Town from the Rising Sea”.
Rally on September 20th
This date is already on our calendar and we’ll start planning in August for a HUGE turnout. See background here
