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
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
Here is Local 20/20s’ February Column in the Port Townsend Leader (Thank you, PT Leader!), titled Resilience Review. It is copied below, as submitted.
Taming BigfootTM is Loose
by Bob Bindschadler
Did you happen to hear the story on KUOW, or read the article in the Seattle Times about how the Taming Bigfoot competition that started in Jefferson County … Read the rest
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 has a monthly column in the Port Townsend Leader titled “Resilience Review”. (Thank you, PT Leader!) Copied below is the August column, as submitted, about king tides and sea level rise.
King Tide or Crystal Ball?
By Dave Wilkinson
One of the joys of living in a coastal community is to simply watch the water as it … Read the rest
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
Come join others from across the Olympic Peninsula to take to the streets for a safe climate, justice for all, and a prosperous clean-energy economy. We’ll be joining a huge march in Washington, D.C. and dozens of sister marches around the world to send a message of resolve on climate, jobs and justice. The march kicks off at 3 pm … Read the rest
Come join us as we Celebrate Science and Earth Day (and Bigfoot?!) in Jefferson County! We will check in with the many of the Taming Bigfoot Carbon Footprint Reduction participants to see how their footprints are one year later, and will provide general updates for all on the state of climate science as it applies to Jefferson County. We will … Read the rest
REACHING BLUE, a film about Climate Change in the Salish Sea, will be shown on Friday March 17th, 6:30 pm, at the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, at 2333 San Juan Avenue, Port Townsend. Local 20/20 is one of the many co-sponsors of the film.
There will be a Q&A discussion with filmmaker and former Port Townsend resident Ian Hinkle. … Read the rest
Climate change mitigation (reducing greenhouse gases) and adaptation (preparing for climate impacts) are some of the most complex issues we’ve faced as a society. Learn more about both the global and local aspects through a 6-session course in Port Townsend, this December and January (One Saturday, 1-4pm, Dec. 3, AND 5 Tuesdays, 7:15-8:45pm, Dec. 6 & 13, Jan. 3, 10 … Read the rest