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Solutions at hand

Reversing Global Warming
Introduction to Drawdown

Wednesday, Aug. 21, 7 - 9 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Howard County
9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia
RSVP Here

Join HoCo Climate Action for a two-hour workshop, "Reversing Global Warming: Introduction to Drawdown," presented by Lore Rosenthal, leader of Greenbelt Climate Action Network.

Pachamama's Drawdown Project is a coalition of more than 200 researchers and other experts from 22 countries led by author, environmentalist, and entrepreneur Paul Hawken. Over the course of five years of scientific research, they identified and modeled the 100 most substantive, existing solutions for addressing global warming and concluded that it is possible to not only slow global warming but to reverse it by 2050. Read more about Drawdown. Vox interview here.

RSVPs are recommended. Please be prompt as the workshop will take the full two hours. The workshop material is provided by the Pachamama Alliance and includes video clips of Paul Hawken.

Flier here Facebook event here

Maryland for a #ClimateDebate Rally
Wednesday, July 24, 6:30 p.m.
275 West St., Annapolis

Tell the Democratic Party to hold a debate about the ongoing climate emergency. This rally is at Maryland's Democratic Party office. We want the state Democratic committee to tell the Democratic National Committee to host a #ClimateDebate. Brings signs and your stories of climate chaos. Facebook event RSVP here.

Help organize a
Sunrise HoCo Debate Watch Party
for July 30 & 31

Sunrise HoCo is looking for volunteers to help organize events and to join teams.
We have fewer than 11 years to save ourselves. #SOS

Democratic candidates for president - 10 each night - will debate on Tuesday, July 30, and Wednesday, July 31 in Detroit. They want our votes. We want to know that they will protect our lives and act swiftly on climate breakdown. Sunrise's demands are that candidates sign the pledge to accept no fossil fuels money; support a climate debate, and make the #GND a priority on Day 1. The Democratic Party has agreed to vote whether to have a debate devoted entirely to climate at the Democratic Party national meeting in August. Stay-tuned for updates on HoCoSunrise Facebook, IG @sunrisemvmthoco, TW @SunriseHoCo, this e-newsletter, and by texting DEBATE to 72345.

Climate Justice Now!
Prioritizing Climate Action in 2020 and Beyond
Saturday, July 27, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Baltimore
Facebook event

At this political strategy session, work on building climate justice while learning how communities that already face injustice will experience worse challenges because of climate change.

#NoPotomacPipeline

No Potomac Pipeline Rally and Hearing
Tuesday, Aug. 13, 9 a.m.
U.S. District Courthouse, Baltimore

Support the State of Maryland's fight against Columbia Gas. The No Potomac Pipeline Coalition is holding a rally and press conference outside the federal court hearing for Maryland's "motion to dismiss" Columbia Gas' eminent domain lawsuit. Columbia Gas wants to seize state land for a pipeline through Hancock in the C&O Canal area. See details at the Facebook event and the Sierra Club event. “We are vigorously defending Maryland’s right to refuse a pipeline company’s efforts to drill under state land," Attorney General Brian Frosh said. In addition, 62 state lawmakers released a letter indicating their opposition to this attempted land grab. Article here. Email HoCoClimateAction@gmail.com to meet at 7:45 a.m. for a carpool from Columbia. No one should be building fracked-gas and oil pipelines during a #ClimateEmergency.

BOYCOTT: The Potomac Pipeline would provide fracked gas for a proposed Rockwool Factory in Ransom, W. Va. West Virginians who are part of the pipeline opposition have called for a boycott of Rockwool products.

HoCo Climate Action appreciates your support.

Steering/Advocacy Team
Thursday, Aug. 15
7 p.m.
at Betsy’s house.
Email Betsy or call
410-730-7740
if you plan to attend.

Community Solar Hearings
POSTPONED
George Howard Building
3430 Court House Dr. Ellicott City,
Support community solar options in Howard County before the Board of Appeals Hearing Examiner.

Power52 has two community solar proposals, in Clarksville (BA 18-032C) and in West Friendship (BA 18-030C)

HoCo Green Drinks
Thursday , July 25
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Black Flag Brewing Company
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Strike for Climate Education
Friday, July 26
1 – 5:30 p.m.
Department of Education
400 Maryland Ave SW, DC
#FridaysforFuture is a youth-led #ClimateStrike movement inspired by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. March from the U.S. Department of Education to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to celebrate the inclusion of anthropogenic climate change in the new
Hall of Fossils.
Details here.

Public Workshop
Tuesday, July 30
Livestream details
The Transportation and Climate Initiative is a regional collaboration of 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and DC that seeks to improve transportation and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. Updates will be provided on policies that states are considering to make transportation cleaner, more efficient, and more equitable.

SAVE THESE DATES
Act as if the house is on fire. Because it is.
Friday, Sept. 20, to Friday, Sept. 27
Global Climate Strike and Week of Action

Students have called on adults to step up and walk out during a week of action in September. Adults -- including Bill McKibben, UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres, authors Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, scientist Katharine Hayhoe and others -- have answered that call. Pledge to join student strikers here.
To help plan September events, email HoCo Sunrise or HoCo Climate Action.

Community Solar
No Roof Required

Anyone who pays an electric bill, including renters, can subscribe to a local solar project and save money – with a 5% discount off your utility rate. Details

More events and updates on Our Events Webpage:
www.hococlimateaction.org/events/MD-DC-Events

Climate News

Extreme heat waves in Europe, Africa, eastern Asia, and the U.S. are driven by “persistent (‘stuck’) extreme weather patterns ... favored by human-caused climate change, giving us more frequent persistent weather extremes like we are seeing right now,” says climatologist Michael Mann. Trump policies, such as "drill, baby, drill," deleting mentions of climate change from scientific reports, and rolling back clean-car rules, take us in a disastrous direction.
Yet another report warns of killer heat waves in our future. Less than two weeks ago, this area had a month's worth of rain in an hour. The US also had the wettest 12 months on record and the hottest June. The UN warns that a climate disaster happens somewhere every week.
Bravo to Berkeley,CA, for banning fracked gas in new home construction.
Emily Frias from CCAN writes about the connection between ICE raids and climate chaos. Author and PBS reporter John Carlos Frey also explains how the climate crisis is pushing migration. Suketu Mehta, author of “This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto,” says we have an obligation to take in more immigrants, in part because of our outsized contribution to climate breakdown..
Maryland is failing to do enough about the climate crisis, writes David Smedick of the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club.
To dramatize the climate emergency, students in Germany stood with nooses around their necks on blocks of thawing ice.

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Calvin Ball outlines action on climate

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball outlined
numerous measures to help stem the causes of climate change in our community. "At all levels -- global, national, state and local -- we face environmental concerns that demand our attention as well as our action," he said. Video here

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