Community Climate Workshop 

The community climate workshop is a four-part workshop/seminar that focuses on basic climate science, impacts, policy and solutions. Facilitated by Climate Reality Project leader and veteran geoscience instructor Frank Granshaw PhD. Learn more and sign up: Intergenerational Community Climate Workshop Series | Portland State University

Volunteer Opportunities:

Invitation to Serve as a Climate Solutions Middle School Fair Volunteer:

Are you concerned about climate change? Do you enjoy working with middle school students? Would you enjoy helping students engage in a hands-on learning experience?

If so, we encourage you to join us as a climate solutions fair volunteer.  The Climate Reality Project, Portland Chapter, is part of the coalition supporting the Vision 2030 project, managed by the non-profit, SAGE.  You can learn more https://www.wearesage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SAGE-Vision-2030-Volunteer-Role-Climate-Solutions-Fair-Volunteer-3.pdf

We are looking for people who:

• Relate easily and enjoy working with middle school students

• Are comfortable sharing a short explanation about an exhibit with students who briefly visit several exhibits during the fair (we provide the information you can share)

• Can help at one or more of our fairs at local Portland middle schools (half day or full day shifts available)

  Friday, April 11, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025

  Thursday, May 15, 2025

  Please reach out to Lynn Merrick, our Climate Education Co-lead, for additional information or to sign up.  [email protected]   Also OK to text:  503-957-7305

  

Action Alert 

An essential part of climate action is making sure people have safe spaces during extreme heat, wildfire, and other climate events we’re already experiencing. Submit your testimony here by Thursday, February 6 at 8am. https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/HCEE/HB/3170/0000-00-00-00-00?area=Measures asking the Oregon House Committee on Community, Energy, and Climate to support Resilience Hubs (HB 3170). The Oregon Just Transition Alliance made this handy guide: 2025 - CRH - January Hearing Toolkit v. 01.27.25

Black History Month

“The 2025 Black History Month theme is African Americans and Labor, which focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people and the transformational work that we have done throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora.” Black History Month 2025: We Proclaim It. | ASALH

In this spirit, Climate Reality Project Portland Chapter encourages members to learn or re-learn about the work of local Black-led organizations towards a healthier and more sustainable world, and the history of the environmental justice movement, birthed by the labor of many including Hazel M. Johnson.

Places to start:

• AfroVillage PDX

• Clean Energy & Environment — Albina Vision Trust

• Becoming Hazel and Birthing a Movement - Black Women for Wellness

We have a Linktree!

Have limited time but want to keep up with quick actions and events in between newsletters? Bookmark our Linktree page: https://linktr.ee/climaterealitypdx

Share Your Climate Story or Event

So many of us are working with multiple groups in different neighborhoods! If you’d like to share what you’re doing for climate action and climate justice, we’d love to highlight it in an upcoming newsletter! Email to [email protected] for inclusion.