Resilience Review Column – Time to Prepare for a Changing Winter Climate

Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend  Leader (thank you, PT Leader!). It is copied below.

By Cindy Jayne

After a hot, dry summer with wildfire smoke a new normal for Jefferson County, let’s consider climate change projections for our area that might affect the coming winter, and how we can prepare.

Projections from … Read the rest

Sept 15 – Dana Lyons at Port Townsend Salish Sea Event

A free concert featuring singer/songwriter and guitarist Dana Lyons will be part of the Salish Sea Day of Action in Port Townsend, co-sponsored by Local 20/20. The event will feature song, art and education integrated together to raise awareness of how we all can help Save the Salish Sea. Interspersed with Dana Lyons’s songs, leaders in the community will talk … Read the rest

Resilience Review Column – Take a Bite Out of Your Electricity Bill

Here is Local  20/20s’ March Column in the Port Townsend  Leader (Thank you, PT Leader!), titled Resilience Review.  It is copied below, as submitted.

TAKE A BITE OUT OF YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL

by Phil Lusk

Have your energy bills crept up this past winter? Energy conservation is a cost effective way to reduce energy bills in our Jefferson County homes … Read the rest

Letter from American Meteorological Society Regarding Climate Change

The American Meteorological Society wrote a letter recently to the President that is a nice succinct statement about the state of climate science.  https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-position-letters/ams-letter-to-president-trump-on-climate-change/

The text of the letter is below:

Dear President Trump:

In an interview with Piers Morgan on Britain’s ITV News that aired Sunday, 28 January, you stated, among other comments:

“There is a cooling, and there’s … Read the rest

Local 20/20’s Comments on Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord

The Peninsula Daily News kindly asked Local 20/20 what our comments were regarding the President’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, and the published a nice article on local responses on Sunday here. Below is our full response.

Local 20/20, a Jefferson County-based organization focused on local sustainability and resiliency is appalled by Donald Trump’s action to … Read the rest