Monthly Newsletter
MARCH 2021
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In this issue:
Welcome & Announcements | Educate, Empower, Engage | This Month's Checklist | Friday Note's Summary | Upcoming Dates & Events
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WELCOME
Next meeting: March 26th, 12pm- 1pm EST
Greetings! We're excited to share some great resources and let you know about a few events you won't want to miss. Happy reading!
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The purpose of this newsletter is to keep us on the same page between meetings and serve as a resource for this community. If there is anything you would like to include (upcoming events, a riveting climate health article, or something to add to the announcements), please do not hesitate to reach out to Ellie or submit suggestions to this google form. |
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Announcements
Our next meeting will be held March 26th from 12 to 1 pm EST.
Zoom line here. Meeting password: 123
MiCCA member Larry Junck will speak at our March Meeting!
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With 46K students, 51K employees, and a $9B budget, U-M is a big enterprise. What would it take to make it carbon neutral? Larry Junck will provide an overview of the ambitious proposal it is examining, including hopes that some aspects can be generalized to other universities and organizations.
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Thank you to MiCCA member, Kailey Kanaziz RN, for all she does for our organization and her community!
Kailey is an RN on an inpatient adult general medical unit. She has always believed that if we really want to have a substantial and enduring impact on our patients we have to be willing to advocate for healthy environments outside of the hospital and clinic walls. She also strongly believes in the power of collective action, which is why she joined MiCCA and Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Kailey has spent the last few weeks preparing material for MiCCA’s exhibit booth at the upcoming ANA-MI conference. Like her fellow members here at MiCCA, Kailey is alarmed by the human health costs of climate change and believe healthcare professionals are a crucial voice in this conversation. It is her hope that nurses will walk away from our exhibit with an increased awareness that our climate crisis is in fact a public health crisis and feeling empowered to join us and take action.
MiCCA recognizes Kailey for her work to make our ANA-MI exhibit at the annual conference exceptional. Check out the MiCCA video Kailey made here. Thank you to Kailey for all her work and ongoing support!
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Educate
Great Lakes Regional Webinar #3, "Farm Without Harm: Agricultural Climate Impacts and Solutions" March 23 @ 7PM EST:
The Ohio Clinicians For Climate Action will be leading a guided conversation with Amalie Lipstreu and Chef Erin Meyer focusing on agricultures impact on climate and health. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions they would like featured in the discussion here (more information about the speakers can also be found on this form). Please submit all questions by March 20th to have them included.
Click here to register for March 23rd!.
'When Texas Freezes Over': Artic Conditions in U.S. show Climate Change is Here, an op-ed by MiCCA's Executive Director Lisa DelBuono and Mark Renyolds.
The latest Climate Change in the American Mind report is out now. It includes updated data on Americans’ risk perceptions, personal and social engagement with global warming, emotional responses, and beliefs about how global warming is affecting the weather.
Renewable energy standards policy brief available here, as well as an accompanying action guide with suggestions on how to utilize the brief.
New study out that characterizes global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion.
A new Allergy season & Pollen study suggests that climate change could account for about half of the trend of a longer pollen season.
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Empower
Minnesota’s Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate have launched a petition for fellow health professionals from across the country to join them in calling on President Biden to protect our health and climate. The Line 3 pipeline has been allowed to continue despite its clear dangers, violation of Indigenous treaties, and multiple pending court cases. Please sign today.
Check out Michigan Environmental Council’s Friday webinars “Capitol Connections” to learn more about what is happening in the State legislation - Check topics here!
Twitter and Instagram are great ways to spread important climate action messages. Learn how to make a Twitter or Instagram with the help of instructions made and shared by Liv Rollinger of CCL! Find instructions here!
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Engage
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health will once again hold the Annual Meeting virtually via Zoom on May 21-23, 24 and 25, 2021. The theme for this year’s meeting is The Medical Promise of Climate Solutions: Moving to Action for Health and Equity. Take a look at the schedule here, registration opening soon.
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- Sign the petition to President Biden to support the Line 5 shut down here.
- Check out MEC's "Capitol Connections" webinar series here.
- Register for March 23rd, 7:00 PM EST: Great Lakes Webinar #3- "Farm Without Harm: Agricultural Climate Impacts and Solutions", hosted by Ohio Clinicians For Climate Action here. Submit questions for the March 23rd guided discussion by March 20th here.
- Watch the recording of the second Great Lakes Webinar here!
- Sign up for the next installments of the Great Lakes Webinar series here!
- Thank you to those who have donated! There's so much more work to do, and we encourage anyone who is in the position to do so to consider a donation. This money will be used to apply for 501c3 status, pay our administrative director, and start a website independent of the Consortium page. Donate here.
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Friday Notes Summary
Follow this link to see the notes from the 2/26/2021 meeting, which summarize information shared about the committees and their goals and members as well as upcoming events and information to have on your radar. You can also find information about our February meetings guest speaker Skip Pruss here.
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Upcoming Dates & Events
- March 12th at 3:00 PM EST: Dr. Robert Bullard , widely deemed the “Father of Environmental Justice” will be joining the MSSCH for a webinar. The webinar will review the principles and history of environmental justice with an emphasis on how clinicians advocating on climate change can support environmental justice activists. Read more and register here.
- March 23rd, 7:00 PM EST: Great Lakes Webinar #3 - "Farm without Harm: Agricultural Impacts & Solutions", hosted by hosted by Ohio Clinicians for Climate Action and WHPCA
- April 27th, 7:00 PM EST: Great Lakes Webinar #4 - “Sustainable and Resilient Healthcare in the Midwest”, hosted by MiCCA.
- May 25, 7:00 PM EST: Great Lakes Webinar #5 - "Social Determinant of Health and Environmental Justice", hosted by Illinois Clinicians for Climate Action.
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"We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling”.
- Greta Thunberg
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