Seattle – Washington State News
Click here for Climate reference handout
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Seattle’s Green New Deal
Website – www.SeattleGND.org)
To get involved with GND :
https://seattlegnd.org/get-involved
350 Seattle and Got Green are launching a new campaign
for a transformative Green New Deal for Seattle —
Goal: to eliminate our city’s climate pollution by 2030,
address historical and current injustices, and
create thousands of good, green, well-paying jobs.
What does a Green New Deal look like?
A) Affordable housing – Build-out of tens of thousands have units of affordable housing, without displacing existing communities
B) More transportation access, including ubiquitous and free electric transit for all Seattle neighborhoods and bus routes to connect every community
C) “Greening” current homes – Equitable transitioning of our cities hundred and 60,000 fossil fuel heated homes to Carbon free, electric heating
D) Weatherization of our current housing –
Reducing pollution and lowering her energy bills–
Seattle for a Green New Deal: Endorsement Letter
To : Mayor Durkan and Seattle City Council Members
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NEXT: Watch the short video (click above) THEN PLEASE SHARE !
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350Seattle.org –
Please SIGN UP (get on email list)
Martha Baskin – Seattle investigative environmental journalist report on the 4 Chase bank evictions led by 350Seattle. Chase bank is the largest funder of fossil fuel projects in the world
Amazon Pollution Project –
Amazon is in Air We Breathe. By our estimates*, Amazon’s shipping operations in 2017 alone spewed at least 19.1 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere—the emissions equivalent of 4.7 coal-fired power plants operating for one year.
Diagram of Amazon shipping operation pollution
350Seattle – Keep it in the Ground (Action project)
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Backbone Campaign – get involved
Backbone Campaign amplifies the aspirations of “We the People” withcreative strategies and artful activism to manifest a world where life, community, nature, and our obligations to future generations are honored as sacred.
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Fracking 101 – why natural gas is dirty and dangerous (2:30)
(Do you care if your drinking water contains
Lead, Formaldehyde, Benzene, Methanol and ??? )
Bill McKibben and many others have called natural gas perhaps the most dangerous fuel of all.