In today’s newsletter:

• March Chapter Meeting

• The Climate Reality Project Leadership Training May 1&2

• February Recap and News

• In Person Events 3/24, Rumble on the River and 3/28, No Kings
  and more opportunities to Take Action

• Switching Gears (Important communications Info) and Join a Committee

• New Climate Podcast: Heated

• Share Your Climate Story

March Chapter Meeting

Join us at 7 pm Tuesday March 17 on zoom! Register now. 

Our guest speaker Jacqui Trieger is the coordinator for Move Oregon Forward and the Building Resilience Coalition. She will talk with us about what happened in the 2026 Oregon legislative session, and preparations for next year.

We’ll also discuss onboarding for and using Reality Hub, and discuss next steps for the Chapter. There will be time for  Q&A and discussion. See you there!

Welcome New Members!

If you are one of the wonderful people who joined our chapter recently, thank you! We look forward to meeting you at the 3/17 meeting or another venue. In the meantime please reach out to Helena at [email protected] with any questions.

The CRP Leadership Training!

May 1&2, in Nashville, Tennessee
For 20 years, Climate Reality and former Vice President Al Gore have been training leaders from all walks of life to stand up and make a difference on climate.
Now it’s your turn.

Become part of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps in Nashville, TN this May for a special 20th anniversary Flagship US Training  – a powerful next step for leaders ready to meet this moment.

Train with Vice President Al Gore and world-class experts over two immersive days. Get a deeper understanding of the climate crisis and the solutions here today.

Read more and register here:
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training/nashville

* Can’t make it to Nashville or wanting to not fly? There will also be hybrid– part in person, part virtual– trainings throughout the country in mid-May.

February Recap and News

We had a great Chapter Meeting focusing on the education committee and Frank Granshaw’s sustainable community modeling project. Missed the meeting? Watch the video here.

We went to the Oregon Capitol with over 150 others from across the state to talk about why it’s important to Make Polluters Pay and tell our legislators to support the Climate Resilience Superfund Bill (SB 1541)!

Unfortunately, the Climate Resilience Superfund bill did not make it out of the Ways and Means Committee before the end of the session. Other good climate bills were stalled too. Our coalitions will continue the work to pass them in the 2027 regular session.

Some good legislative news: the CEI Hub Risk Bond bill (HB 4100), which we supported, passed and was signed into law at the last minute due to one more burst in the marathon of community advocacy on the topic.  The nuclear study bill (HB 4046) and the mandatory harvest bill (HB 4105)– two bills that we opposed– did not move forward.

In Person Events

Rumble on the River, Tuesday, March 24

RIGGED FOR RUIN : Methane, An Accelerating Threat To Health & Climate

Portland Association of Teachers Office  345 NE 8th Ave.  Portland
Doors and Info Tables at 5:30 p.m. Panel at 6:30 p.m.
Rumbles are always free.

For the past two decades communities in the Northwest have defeated fracked gas export terminals. Despite these successes, the “natural” gas industry continues to push their product.  Come learn about methane's many harms and alternatives to its use—such as thermal heat networks. Discussion will include environmental, climate and health impacts, the damage dealt to communities through fracking operations and the rampant greenwashing of this questionable energy source.

Panel

• Carra Sahler, Director Green Energy Institute/Lewis & Clark Law School

• Danny Noonan, Climate, Energy & Labor Strategist, Breach Collective

• Diana Meisenhelter, Environmental Justice Committee/NAACP and Action Team/Extinction Rebellion PDX

• Melanie Plaut, Physician and Volunteer/Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

• Samantha Hernandez, Healthy Climate Program Director/Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Moderator: Lynn Handlin, Organizing member of Extinction Rebellion PDX and founding member of Cascadia Magical Activists

No Kings

Join us to at noon on March 28 at Battleship Oregon Memorial in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, or in one of the many other rallies and marches scheduled around Oregon. Find your local event here

Protecting democracy is one of Climate Reality Projects pillars and essential to climate action and climate justice. Climate Reality Project Portland Chapter is a non-partisan organization and supporting this event because it is an explicitly nonviolent call to use our 1st amendment rights to free speech and call to protect our democracy.

More Opportunities to Take Action 

20 for 20 Challenge! To mark Climate Reality’s 20th anniversary, we are mobilizing our global network to take action! This challenge provides you with targeted actions that you can take throughout the year, starting with a list of 20 opportunities. The actions revolve around four central themes: Telling the Truth, Advancing Solutions, Building Leadership, and Mobilizing with Action. The goal? Take 20 different actions by the end of the year! Action items can be found in the 20 for 20: Actions Challenge space on Reality Hub, Climate Reality’s online community. Learn more here.

Ongoing: Climate Changemakers Hour of Action Mondays at 5 pm online. Gather with a group to take action together on a Climate Reality nation-wide priority. 

Switching Gears

We’ve loved communicating with you via this newsletter so regularly! Now though our leadership team is being stretched thin for family and other reasons and we’re going to be winding down some of our regular activities and keeping the Chapter afloat at a slower pace.

Two important things to know: As we wind down, we’ll be pausing most updates to our website and linktree.  Also, we will be shifting our organizing and announcements to the Climate Reality Hub.

If you are not yet on the Hub, here’s how to start using it.

1. Fill out this form if you only get communications from our Chapter and not from The Climate Reality Project.

2. Sign up on this Reality Hub link using the email with which you joined The Climate Reality Project.

We’ll still send this newsletter list a reminder email for the March Chapter Meeting, and then a note in early April with events and a recap of how to join us on Reality Hub!

Join a Committee

Climate Friendly Foods Committee: Email Lynne at [email protected] 

Legislative Committee: Amanda or Helena at [email protected]

Education Committee:   Email Lynn at [email protected]