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January Newsletter
Climate Reality Portland Chapter
January 10, 2025
In today’s newsletter:
Chapter Meeting
Take Action
Transportation Focus
What We Are Listening To
Volunteer Opportunities
Linktree
Share Your Climate Story
Chapter Meeting
Join us January 21st from 630-8pm for our chapter meeting. This chapter meeting will include chapter elections and TED talk style short presentations by Chapter Members about their climate work, from a BESS CAD Drafter for utility scale batteries to a community organizer and naturalist ranger! We’ll also have chapter updates and Q&A.
Register and Join using the link:
Take Action
Sign today– Petition from The Climate Reality Project to stop plastic-burning facilities from harming frontline communities and our environment: Stop plastic-burning facilities from harming frontline communities and our environment - Action Network
Meet with your Oregon representatives. Contact Helena or Amanda at [email protected] for more information. A 15 minute virtual or in-person meeting can point your legislator to supporting good climate bills.
Transportation Focus
This year is a big year for transportation action in both Portland and Oregon at large. Two upcoming places to take action:
Are you affected by the Rose Quarter freeway expansion? There are virtual meetings on January 14 and 16. Learn more here: Events and Meetings | I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project
Join Move Oregon Forward on Thursday, January 30th at 6:00 pm for a letter to the editor writing party for a safe, clean, fair and accoutnable transportation measure for Oregon. Join and Register Here:
What We Are Listening To:
This episode of VOLTS regarding thermal energy networks presents a path forward which may be a win-win for residents, businesses, and utilities! Thermal energy networks are the next big thing
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Speech:
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse discusses his experiences at COP 29, national and state governments leading the transition to clean energy, and the cost of climate change (Whitehouse coins the word climate-flation for inflation increased by climate breakdown). Watch his speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyU3x1unjs
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, 2025Friday, April 18, 2025Friday, April 25, 2025Thursday, May 15, 2025Please 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
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.
Message To Los Angeles
Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the Los Angeles area fires. It is to minimize these community and life-destroying climate disasters, and to build a better future, that we commit ourselves to climate change mitigation and resiliency efforts.
Statement from Al Gore on the 2024 Presidential Election Results
"My greatest source of hope comes from the courage and commitment of grassroots leaders and advocates in the U.S. and around the world who are relentlessly pushing for progress. Onward."