Climate Change Action, Winter 2009

Sat, Jan10, 2009 - Chesapeake Climate Action Network Annual Polar Bear Plunge! Keep winter cold! www.keepwintercold.org/

Wed Jan 21-Fri Jan 23 - Local Webcast of Conference - "Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability" including two speakers who are heroes of the climate change movement Majora Carter and David Korten. At the Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 East University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21218 www.ang-md.org/christian_formation/trinity/2009-registration-form_pub_0001.pdf

Mon, Jan. 26 4-8:30 - Environmental Summit in Annapolis - Show your support for global warming solutions!
President's Conference Center West I & II, 11 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401
4:00 - 5:00 Skills Workshop TBA
5:00 - 5:30 Registration
5:30 p.m. - Welcome
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Presentations information from top state officials (Governor O'Malley, Senate President Miller, Speaker Busch, and others invited), expert briefings on the top environmental issues
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Opportunities to make your voice heard: County Caucuses to prep for future lobby meetings, distribution of environmental legislative agenda to legislators, and rally on state house steps as legislators enter for 8:00 p.m. session. Info here.

Feb 4 - 6, 2009 Green Jobs Conference, Marriott Wardman ParkHotel, Washington, D.C. Green Jobs Expo on Thurs, February 5 from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - If you would like to attend the expo as a person interested in green careers or jobs (e.g., you are not an exhibitor), no registration is needed and attendance is free.

Thurs, Feb 5 , 2009 The National Teach-in on Global Warming Solutions. Create or find a Teach-In in your school, neighborhood, faith community.
www.nationalteachin.org/

Sat, Feb 7, 10 to 2pm, Growing Food, Growing Faith: Creating a Vegetable Garden with Your Faith Community - Solid Rock Apostolic Church, 523 North Schroeder Street Baltimore, MD 21223 www.jhsph.edu/clf/PDF%20Files/events/GardeningWorkshop_Flyer09.pdf

Feb 27 - Mar 2, 2009 POWER SHIFT 2009 -At Power Shift 2009, more than 10,000 young people in the youth climate movement will converge on DC for three days of training, strategy and action, uniting as a movement and holding elected officials accountable. On the last day all will be invited to join the youth to demonstrate support for climate action! see http://powershift09.org/ Location: DC Convention Center.

Mar 2, 2009 - Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben invite activists to civil disobedience outside a coal-fired power plant near Capitol Hill. Info here and here.

Tues Mar 3, 2009 - Dr. Vandana Shiva on “Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in An Age of Climate Crisis”, JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health (Wolfe Street Building), Baltimore, Md www.jhsph.edu/clf/events/#clf

CLIMATE ACTION RESOURCES

The Alliance for Global Warming in Maryland - www.alliancemd.org/

Chesapeake Climate Action Network site -see this site for cutting edge local climate activism and climate activism news at www.chesapeakeclimate.org/blog/.

Local Climate Action/Climate Change groups:
Baltimore - www.baltimoreclimate.org
Greenbelt - www.greenbeltclimateaction.com/
Howard County - www.hococlimatechange.org

National Climate Change Groups
www.wecansolveit.org
www.1sky.org/

Simplicity Matters Earth Institute (SMEI) calendar is here . SMEI offers discussion and action circles in the MD from Balti to Frederick to Annapolis and DC on voluntary simplicity, globalization, etc, and a new popular 4 week discussion circle on global warming. Info at: SimplicityGrpsMD@aol.com . Also Bethesda and Baltimore Sunday night Forums

Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light - www.gwipl.org/ has many great climate change resources and a local calendar here

EVERY TUES - Radio and TV on Climate Change
10 to 11 AM - Earthbeat with Mike Tidewell & Daphne Wisham WFMW 89.3 FM DC www.earthbeatradio.org - listen online at www.wpfw.org/
9pm ON TV - "The Green" on Sundance - Info: http://www.sundancechannel.com/thegreen#/homePage