Climate Change Action, Winter 2009

Thurs, Feb 19 7pm - Living Without Oil - Green Building Institute - EnviroCenter, 7761 Waterloo Road (MD Rte 175), Jessup, MD 20794 - FEE - info www.greenbuildinginstitute.org/LivingwithoutOil.htm

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.

Sun, Mar 1, 6:30-8:30 pm Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben and Gus Speth -- for a night of discussion, poetry and inspiration. George Washington University Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street NW, Washington, DC $15 or $10 for Students. Register here .

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

Wed, Mar 18, 2009 6:45-8:45pm - Climate Change, Movement Building and You Attend this forum, as we talk about where the climate crisis came from, what solutions are currently on the table, and what action needs to be taken. Led by Janet Redman a researcher for the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions\ energy investment and carbon finance activities. www.hotsalsa.org/index.php?dept=POL - FREE class at 1112 Sixteenth Street, NW, Wash DC Suite 600

Tues Mar 24-May 5, 2009, 7--8:30 p.m. - One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment - Odyssey Class - Coordinator: Cindy Parker MD, MPH, is a board-certified Preventive Medicine physician who specializes in the health impacts of global climate change and global environmental change. She is Co-Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has just released her first book Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk with coauthor Steven Shapiro. Homewood campus in Baltimore - FEE - info http://odyssey.jhu.edu/about-odyssey/

Mar 28, 2009 8:30 pm - Earth Hour - Turn off lights for one hour Turn Out. Take Action. www.EarthHourUS.org

Wed, April 22, 2009 EARTH DAY http://earthday.net/

CLIMATE ACTION RESOURCES

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
Transition Towns DC area group - http://ecolocity.ning.com/

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

Transitions Towns - www.transitiontowns.org/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns

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

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

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