However you celebrate, we wish you a happy, healthy and safe
holiday season.
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A RECORD NORTH ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON
It’s not so much 2020’s record number of storms (30 named storms including “Iota”), that has raised alarm among scientists, but their extraordinary behavior, breaking records for intensity, strength and rainfall, and causing unprecedented damage. Farmers, especially in Central America, have been hard hit.
Like so much that is going wrong on our planet, the culprit is, of course, climate change. Excess heat, trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, is absorbed by the oceans and raises surface temperatures. From there, it’s pretty simple physics: heat = energy. As storms form, they absorb enormous amounts of energy and hold more water vapor, producing higher winds and heavier rainfall, and cutting wider paths. They penetrate further inland. Stronger winds over rising sea levels cause bigger storm surges. We get intensification, the term used when a storm gains wind speed of more than 70 mph in 24 hours. Before 2005, this occurred once every 1000 years; by the year 2100 it is likely to occur once every 10 years. When a hurricane changes from Category 1 to 4 overnight, there is no time to evacuate.
While it appears that the 2020 season is over for large, named storms (the next would be Kappa), there is no prospect of recovery for many farmers in the hurricane zones of Central America, who have lost everything - their livelihood and their homes - and have no choice but migration. Crop losses, food shortages, and mass migrations; there is no way these won’t impact the lives of our children and grandchildren in our own country as well. WE CAN STOP THIS. Get involved with ECA and take action today. Learn what you can do at www.eldersclimateaction.org. We must act now.
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Thanks to all those who honored ECA on Giving Tuesday!
We raised more than $5200 on Giving Tuesday!
Your generosity allows us to continue to build a movement of Elders taking action on the climate emergency. Donate Now
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WE NEED PHOTOS OF YOU!
As the year comes to a close we'd like to celebrate our community with photos, but with COVID limiting everyone's activities, we haven't been getting many. SO, PLEASE take a photo in your ECA shirt or with your ECA merchandise and share it with us -- even if you're just at home, at your computer, writing a letter or in your yard with a sign. Send photos to info@eldersclimateaction.org
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LAST CHANCE TO SHOP FOR THE HOLIDAYS and ECA is here to make it easy with cool new gear and gifts.
Inspire your loved ones with reminders that ECA NEVER STOPS ITS WORK FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE AND A LIVABLE PLANET.
Your purchases help us raise the funds we need to stay in the fight for the future, for our children, our grandchildren and all children. Shop here for gifts and an extra ray of hope.
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Are you a Climate Reality Trained Leader? Let Us Know! |
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We're wondering how many of our members have completed the Climate Reality Leadership Training
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Watch The Green New Deal: A Path Forward
Our Friends at Grandmothers 4 a Green New Deal, produced this 17 min. video which explains why we must act now on the Green New Deal, if we are committed to leaving a sustainable planet for future generations.
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Help us grow our movement and our impact. Share ECA with your friends, family and community by following ECA on Social Media and inviting all your contacts to follow us too! |
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What Climate Actions have you been taking? Tell us in 150 words (max) what you are most proud of: we'll share it in a future newsletter info@eldersclimateaction.org
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Register Now and Join us for ECA’s Winter Workshop Series: “Climate Policy: You Can Change It!”
2021 will bring new opportunities to influence legislative action on GHG emissions and climate change.
NOW is the time to prepare for a big push!! Register to join our State & Federal Climate Policy Workshops. Whether you are an experienced advocate or new to this important work, YOU have the power to be influential. YOUR unique skills, built over a lifetime, are needed to create the future we want for our children and grandchildren.
Each 90-minute workshop features a different level of government and corporate engagement. Save these dates:
- State Policy: Tuesday, December 15, 6:30 pm EST, 3:30 PT
- National Policy: Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 pm EST, 3:30 PT
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ECA is proud to offer our workshops for free, with a suggested donation of $25.00 for the series. ECA relies on your contributions to continue to provide climate-related programming directly to elders.
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Did you miss the first Workshop - Local Climate Policy: You Can Change It.
Catch up on (or binge watch) ECA's Workshops, Webinars and monthly National Calls on our Website or YouTube Channel
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TAKE A TRULY MEANINGFUL ACTION TODAY: USE OUR LIBRARY OF FORM LETTERS TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET
ECA is collaborating with the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN) to launch a massive pressure campaign from now through January, demanding that the Biden Administration, Congress, and state and local officials act now to end all U.S. CO2 emissions by 2050.
The campaign begins first with the transportation sector, which contributes 35% of U.S. CO2 emissions, more than any other economic sector; and CO2 emissions are rising quickly. But the solutions are at hand: electric and H-fuel-cell vehicles are mature technologies, commercially available now. We want to ‘zero out’ this sector with requirements that all new vehicles be zero emission vehicles by 2030, and all vehicles be ZEVs by 2050, with subsidies to make them affordable.
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This campaign comes out of the USCAN initiative that produced the Vision for Equitable Climate Action (VECA), detailed and comprehensive policy proposals for achieving the goals of the Green New Deal and ending the Climate Crisis. VECA gives lawmakers and regulators a roadmap of detailed targets and financing strategies for all sectors of the U.S. economy. |
And for background, here are links to:
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Due to upcoming holidays there will be no ECA Monthly National Call in December
We will return in January on the 4th Tuesday of Each Month in 2021
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Climate Tea & Talk
Enjoy casual talk with other Elders about climate issues, solutions and strategies.
Second Tuesday of Each Month
6:00 PM (ET) | 3:00 PM (PT)
No Registration needed
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ECA 101 for New Members
Learn more about the mission, vision and action opportunities at Elders Climate Action.
First Monday of Each Month
3:00 PM (ET) | 12 Noon (PT)
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Elders Climate Action is a project of ELDERS ACTION NETWORK (EAN), a 501C3 organization whose mission is to build a movement of elders to address the social and environmental crises of our time. Visit the EAN website to learn about other elder action groups and offerings.
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