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Category Archives: Actions
Martin Luther King on Living Together
Here is a quote from Martin Luther King that everyone in the climate change movement should take to heart: We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the … Continue reading
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Trump’s Leaders Undoing Environmental Protections
Politics matter and so will the Presidential election in the fall when it comes to solving climate change. Those of us interested in ending global warming must get fully involved in this upcoming election. Here is what the New York … Continue reading
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Amazon’s 100,000 electric delivery vans & employee climate demands
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition has a goal that in some ways is similar to Jeff Bezos’ of Amazon. We both have plans to be replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2030 and reduce greenhouse grasses. In September 2019, Amazon ordered … Continue reading
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Carbon Cash-Back Coalition pushes for fossil fuel fees
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition (SCCC) leadership believes that fossil fuel companies can no longer be allowed to freely dump pollutants into the sky. We wrote earlier about demanding that banks, investment and insurance companies divest their investments in these … Continue reading
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Rural Community Solar Farms: A Maine Example
Earlier we wrote about how Taos, N.M, is establishing solar arrays that could service up to 18,500 homes. Mount Desert Island in Maine is doing the same on a smaller scale. Communities like these are worthy of the Sandwich Climate … Continue reading
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Disrupt flow of fossil fuel investment money
An action step: Right after I read the article referenced below I sent an email to my retirement fund broker and told him to read this article, adding that he and his young colleagues might want to lead a corporate-wide … Continue reading
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Taos, NM can be clean energy model for rural America
Taos, New Mexico is one of more that 150 cities and towns across the USA that have made the pledge to commit to a goal of 100% reliance on renewable sources of electricity by 2030 and for all other energy needs, … Continue reading
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Inspiration, Part II: The Drawdown Project
The Drawdown Project helped SCCC steering committee members Katherine Thorndike and Leonard Witt visualize the possibilities for attacking global warming on individual and societal levels. Its vision statement inspires us most: Stopping global warming is possible, with solutions that exist … Continue reading
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Pachamama: What Inspires Us, Part I
Katherine Thorndike, who along with Leonard Witt and Peggy Longley, all of Sandwich and all on the steering committee, pointed us to the Pachamama Alliance. Here is why it inspires us: Pachamama Alliance, empowered by our partnership with indigenous people, … Continue reading
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How We Decided to Join the Fight to End Global Warming
The Sandwich Climate Crisis Coalition (SCCC) began with a post on the Sandwich Board, our town’s public listserv, which is really like a small town newspaper. Everything gets posted there from lost dogs, to things for sale, to news about … Continue reading
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