Tree Planting 101
For a tree-planting demonstration and best practices, check out this video with TNC’s Mike Grimm & Friends.
ENERGY FORUM Presentation & Action Items
As part of Every Day is Earth Day 2024, we hosted an Energy Forum to discuss practical actions to reduce our carbon footprint and enhance life on Earth.
We were joined by Focus on Energy’s Brady Steigauf and dove into Home Energy Efficiency and explored the shift to Solar Power production and usage at home with MREA’s Jeff Schneider.
Focus on Energy Action ITems:
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Change all lights to LEDs + turn off as you leave rooms.
Thermostats can save you big:
When home:
Set to 78+°F in the summer. Use fans as much as possible.
Set to 68-°F in the winter, down to 65°F to sleep. Wear sweaters, long underwear.
When away:
Set to 85°F in the summer.
Set to 60°F in the winter.
Use power strips or unplug electronics to stop "vampire energy."
Use inexpensive caulk around windows and doors. Weatherstrip doors.
Use your shades: block out direct sunlight in summer, but let it in during winter.
Save hot water with pipe insulation + low flow water fixtures
Our Previous Solar EducationAL Event
CURIOUS ABOUT SOLAR POWER?
Jesse and Jeff present solar examples at Door County homes, businesses, and non-profits and discuss how you can get started. See the video here, with Q&A, at our CCCDC youtube channel.
Educational Sessions ON OUR CCCDC YouTube Channel
Our YouTube Channel
Peruse, learn from, and enjoy our previously recorded education sessions with subject matter experts discussing the relation between climate change and soil health, energy efficient building, & more.
Good Medicine (A Recorded Discussion)
Dr. Joel Charles, July 22, 2022
Joel Charles MD, is the Chair of the Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action and an advocate for equitable solutions for the climate crisis. He presented on the health impacts fossil fuel use and climate change are having on our health.… and on the significant health opportunities of transitioning to clean energy. This recorded discussion can be viewed here.
news + Media
Climate Change in the Peninsula Pulse
Regional Recognition for the Big Plant
Scientific Resources
IPCC Latest Report
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedent in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some of the changes already set in motion - such as continued sea level rise - are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years.
The Working Group I report is the first installment of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR^) which will be completed in 2022.
Key Points: Faster warming, every region facing increasing changes, and human influence on the past and future climate
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.
Since the 2017 publication of the New York Times bestseller, Drawdown, the organization has emerged as a leading resource for information and insight about climate solutions.
This growing concern about climate change has been accompanied by an increasing understanding that climate change harms humans. In 2020…the changes were striking: there were large increases in Americans’ recognition of the health harms caused by climate change (Kotcher et al., 2020). For example, in 2014, 34% of Americans expected increases in bodily harm due to severe storms and hurricanes over the coming decade; in 2020, the proportion was 57% – an increase of 23 percentage points. Substantial increases were also found in public risk perceptions of the health consequences of many other climate change impacts.
The health impacts of our changing environment may not always be obvious, but they can cause serious harm to people in WI.
Globally, 2020 was the hottest year on record, effectively tying 2016, the previous record. Credits: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Lori Perkins/Kathryn Mersmann
2020 sets the new annual record of 22 events - shattering the previous annual record of 16 events that occurred in 2011 and 2017. 2020 is the sixth consecutive year (2015-2020) in which 10 or more billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events have impacted the United States.
Advocate for Smart Policy and Legislation
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Climate Change Groups
The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) is a statewide collaboration of scientists and stakeholders formed as a partnership between UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. WICCI’s goals are to evaluate climate change impacts on Wisconsin and foster solutions.
Clean Wisconsin has been a constant voice in addressing climate change in Wisconsin. Their team of policy, legal, and science experts are working to encourage clean energy in Wisconsin while also helping communities deal with the impacts of climate change.
The Sunrise Movement and other progressive groups are joining with environmental justice advocates and national environmental groups in calling for the Build Back Better Act to include critical funding that will allow the Biden administration to meet the president’s commitment to deliver 40% of the benefits of his historic climate and infrastructure package to communities that have historically suffered from a lack of investments and opportunities. More information here.
Wisconsin’s Green Fire supports the conservation legacy of Wisconsin by promoting science-based management of Wisconsin’s natural resources. Their climate change work is based on activities to evaluate, address, plan, and educate about climate change in Wisconsin and nationally. This work is developed by WGF’s Climate Change Work Group.
Climate Wisconsin is an educational multimedia project featuring stories of climate change.
Through the Climate & Energy Initiative, the Academy seeks to understand and address Wisconsin's role in global climate change and explore diverse, sustainable energy choices.
The State of Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change is charting a path to meet the goal of 100% carbon-free energy by 2050, while improving the state's economy and environment, diversifying the resources used to meet the state's energy needs, and generating family-supporting jobs.
Outrider uses digital media to provide accessible information about how we can build a brighter future together. Everything we do is designed to build deep understanding and to inspire action.
Scientists Warning Foundation, working in cooperation with The Alliance of World Scientists (AWS), is a non-profit organization made up of an activist network of researchers, scientists, and global citizen scientists. It is dedicated to bringing people together in order to unite behind the science.
Grassroots Action
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