Communications Team Update

We are excited to welcome two new team members to help with creating great content, amp up our presence on LinkedIn, and produce reels for our Instagram account. Please welcome Mina Rios and Chloe Magstadt to our stellar communications team!

We are very excited to announce our new Podcast series, Everyday Climate Champions, will be launching this summer. Stay tuned! Check out the official podcast logo!
 

~ Pam Allio, Communication Chair

Plastic Free July 2022

Millions of people will be reducing their plastic waste this July. Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps people be a part of the solution to plastic pollution to help create cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. 

Be a part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics.

Plastic Free July provides resources and ideas to help people around the world reduce single-use plastic waste everyday at home, work, school, and even at your local cafes. The movement has inspired over 120 million participants in 177 countries. Making a small change will collectively make a massive difference to our communities. Choose to refuse single-use plastics in July and beyond! Being part of Plastic Free July will help find great alternatives that can become new habits forever. Read more....

Need more ideas to be Plastic Free? Here are some resources:

Beginners’ Guide to Plastic Free July: Plastic-free kit Create a zero waste kit with the most common things found in beach cleanups 

• Drawstring cloth bag - hook on the back of your door

• BYOB: Bring your own foldable, reusable bag (if you forget your bag, use your hands or ask for a cardboard box)

• Reusable keep-cup for coffee, tea, leftover food or snacks like fruit or nuts

• Reusable drink bottles (up-cycle old glass jars too!)

• Stainless steel or other reusable straws

• Chopsticks, reusable spork or other reusable eating utensils

• Cloth napkin to wipe your mouth & hands - and to wrap food or leftovers

7 Ways to Make it a Plastic Free July 2022 

• Bring your own (reusable) shopping and produce bags 

• Reusable bottles and mugs 

• Wrap it, but not with disposable plastic; use a plate to cover leftovers, beeswax wraps (can be washed and reused), reusable silicone stretch lids, parchment or wax paper, drawstring cloth bags

• Reduce your (single-use) plastic packaging with reusable snack and storage bags, food containers, cloth wraps, utensils (bamboo or stainless steel)

• Take action: Start something, clean up, get involved, become a smart consumer 

• We’re in this together! 

• Watch the documentary, The Story of Plastic to get the lowdown on the plastics industry and what’s happening globally. 

• San Mateo Countywide Policy Action Squad Monthly Meeting, July 15th, 1:00-2:00pm

• Our Climate Moment Team Meeting, July 18th, 7:00 - 8:15pm

• Solano County Squad Meeting, July 25th, 7:00 - 8:00pm

• The Story of Stuff 
  • “From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.” 
• Per Espen Stokes on “How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming”  
  • “The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes. He's spent years studying the defenses we use to avoid thinking about the demise of our planet -- and figuring out a new way of talking about global warming that keeps us from shutting down. Step away from the doomsday narratives and learn how to make caring for the earth feel personable, do-able and empowering with this fun, informative talk.” 

• Katharine Hayhoe on “The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it” 
  • “How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. ‘We can't give in to despair,’ she says. ‘We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act -- and that hope begins with a conversation, today.’"

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