PERSIST. Our Climate Future Matters.
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Greetings Friend!
This is a critical year for our planet. The Environmental Protection Agency has abdicated its crucial role, endangering the sustainability of life on earth. The news can be overwhelming and lead to a sense of helplessness and despair. As Elders, we play a vital role, providing leadership, perseverance and the wisdom of our years.
You might wonder what you can do. This summer we embark on a new approach to informing, inspiring and engaging elders. We’ll keep you informed about actions planned by partner organizations, including a youth-driven initiative and a national day of action focused on "Climate, Jobs and Justice" on September 8th. We’ll inspire you with a series of four webinars featuring nationally recognized leaders in the world of climate action. We’ll give you the tools to start your own ECA chapter and to get commitments from candidates to address climate change. All this will culminate with an ECA gathering in San Francisco on September 15th, following the Global Climate Summit.
We know that you care deeply about the world you will leave future generations. ECA is here to help you act on that concern NOW!
By now you are aware that we cancelled our plans to have a gathering in Washington D.C. in June. This was a difficult decision, requiring us to draw on our flexibility and resilience while maintaining our commitment to build a movement of Elder Climate Activists. A series of four FREE webinars spread throughout July and August will make it easier for people across the country to enjoy the benefits of the inspiring and informative program we planned. We’ll be sending you more details about each program and how you can register along with regular reminders of the dates.
For the grandchildren, future generations and all life,
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Geri Freedman
ECA, Co-Chair
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I was one who attended in 2017 at AU and thinking evidently, just what others were,
that while we'll really miss the camaraderie; the national and international political upheaval is such that we'll likely better serve the greater good and be far more effective, re-focusing things online. Thank you for making this very brave & sensible decision.
(recent email from ECA member)
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What did you do when you first knew?
Each of us should answer that question.
Why Now? This year is a critical one in the efforts to curb CO2 in our atmosphere. We have surpassed 410 parts per million which is far in excess of what the scientists know to be safe.
As stated recently by President Emmanuel Macron of France, “
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Because what is the meaning of our life, really, if we work and live destroying the planet, while sacrificing the future of our children? What is the meaning of our life if our decision, our conscious decision, is to reduce the opportunities for our children and grandchildren? By polluting the oceans, not mitigating CO2 emissions and destroying our biodiversity, we are killing our planet. Let us face it: there is no Planet B."
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Watch President Macron's address to the
US Congress
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There is no planet B and we have great urgency to take care of the planet we no inhabit. This is an election year and the time to have your voice heard and let candidates know you are voting for action on climate change.
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What You Can Do:
- Join us for the ECA Webinar Series
- Talk to Other People
- Join and support (with time, talent or treasure) grassroots climate change organizations like Elders Climate Action
- Support local, national and global climate change actions
- Host conversations on climate change in your community
- Form a climate book club or study group
- Write letters to local, state, and federal officials’ expressing your climate concerns (or use the ECA ONLINE LETTERS)
- Join us and collect climate pledges from candidates for elected office in our Candidates Pledge Climate Action Project. Let's force the climate change discussion in the upcoming elections.
- Participate in climate change protests and events
- Be willing to resist business as usual through peaceful demonstration
- Persist. We can't give up hope for the future.
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ECA Member Marilyn with Earth Day planning team.
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ECA Member Katherine representing Elders Climate Action at Earth Day events.
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We are announcing our new four-part
WEBINAR SERIES: Elders Standing for a Sustainable and Just World.
Join us and hear from incredible guest speakers as well as Elder Climate Activists. We will explore how we as elders can take action on climate change.This exciting series will include the guest speakers and elders demonstrating the many ways we can have our voice heard on climate change. You will not only be inspired but will also have the tools to take action now in your hometown.
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Tuesday, July 10th, 6:00 PM ET, 3:00 PM PT. Our Elder Role in Standing for Social and Environmental Justice
with Heather Booth, John Sorensen & Lynne Iser. Heather Booth will focus on how we can effectively organize as elders to expand our reach, strengthen our resolve and provide a sustainable future for all children. John Sorensen and Lynne Iser will discuss how elders can engage and act now.
Monday, July 23, 6:00 PM ET, 3:00 PM PT. Communicating for Climate Action with Bob Inglis and ECA Chapter Leaders, John Sorensen, Sheila Tarbett, Shirley McGrath, Grady McGonagill and Hazel Chandler.
Bob will talk about engaging conservatives on how free enterprise can help solve climate change faster and cheaper than big government regulations and how it fits with conservative orthodoxy.
Bob Inglis will inspire you to
communicate with conservatives and climate skeptics by changing how you frame the conversation
. Following Bob Inglis our own ECA Chapter Leaders will discuss their successful chapters in very different and diverse geographic parts of the country.
Wednesday, August 8, 6:00 PM ET, 3:00 PM PT. Our Voice, Our Vote, Do Environmentalists Vote?
Nathaniel Stinnett will amaze you with the actual facts about who votes and how that influences the political agenda. With an election in November, the ECA Candidates Pledge Climate Action Project is going into full swing by asking candidates for office to sign a pledge that they acknowledge climate change and will take action. Hazel Chandler, Margo Frank and Jen Chandler will introduce the project and give you all the tools to take it to your candidates in your city and state.
Wednesday, August 22, 6:00 PM ET, 3:00 PM PT. For the Grandchildren, Future Generations and All Life.
The dynamic,
renowned Katharine Hayhoe will bring climate change to the local level. In such a politically charged environment, are we still able to act on climate? Or is it too late? ECA's Jen Chandler will give you all the tools in our ECA Toolbox to take action on a local, state or national level.
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Our Special Guest Speakers
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Heather Booth
Tuesday, July 10
Heather Booth began organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war and women’s movements. She was the founding Director, now President, of Midwest Academy, training social change organizers. She has managed political campaigns and was Training Director of the Democratic National Committee.
Read Full Bio
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Bob Inglis
Monday, July 23
Former South Carolina Congressman,
Bob Inglis launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University in July 2012 and serves as executive director, where he promotes free enterprise action on climate change. For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Read Full Bio.
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Nathaniel Stinnett
Wednesday, August 8
Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses big data and behavioral science to identify non-voting environmentalists and then get them to vote.
Read the the new issue of Washington Monthly which features a cover story
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Katharine Hayhoe
Wednesday, August 22
Katharine Hayhoe is an accomplished climate scientist, with over 120 peer-reviewed publications in the top journals in the field. She is also a remarkable communicator. She’s been recognized by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 global thinkers, and by Fortune as one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. She’s served on the panels for the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional organizations devoted to understanding and communicating climate change.
Read Full Bio
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Our Monthly National Call will be on hiatus until September.
JOIN US INSTEAD FOR OUR FREE WEBINAR SERIES!
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Elders Climate Action, a project of Conscious Elders Network
www.eldersclimateaction.org | info@eldersclimateaction.org
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