Climate on Tap Series – 10/7 – There is No Planet M – How Millennials and GenZs Envision Their Future

Join us for the October session of the Climate On Tap series, done in collaboration with Finnriver, Jefferson County Public Health, and Local 20/20. This month’s session will be facilitated by Students for Sustainability from Port Townsend High School. They are dedicated to taking action to mitigate climate change at their school, in their community, their state, and at a … Read the rest

Resilience Review Column – Repairing the Earth, Repairing Ourselves

Here is Local 20/20’s Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader published in the 7/31/19 edition (thank you, Leader!).

 

REPAIRING THE EARTH / REPAIRING OURSELVES

By Marlow Hotchkiss

The Global Earth Repair Conference ( http://youtube.com/c/globalearthrepair ) at Fort Worden back in May whole-heartedly embodied our very human ‘Catch 22’ dilemma:  If you’re still hopeful, you don’t understand the Read the rest

Are you Prepared for a Disaster? Emergency Prep Workshops starting in September.

Please join us for hands-on, detailed workshops in emergency preparedness.

L2020 NPREP (Neighborhood Preparedness in Emergency Planning) Training Team, along with our friends at the Quimper Grange #720 are co-hosting a fall 2019 seven-week series in Emergency Preparedness. Sessions are ala carte; attend one, more than one or all of them!

Location: Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona, Port Townsend, WA

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All County Picnic – August 18th

Join us this Sunday for the 7th Annual All County Picnic
August 18th, 11AM-4PM, 2019
HJ Carroll Park – Jefferson County, WA

Preparedness, Resiliency and Family Fun

Presented by Local 20/20Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management, and Thunderbull Productions

This years event features a robust line up of speakers and demonstrations, over 40 interactive booths, a whole … Read the rest

Resilience Review Column – Who Can You Believe About Climate Change?

Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader published in the 6/5/19 edition (thank you, Leader!).

By Tom Engel.

Don’t know what to think about climate change? President Trump says “Something’s changing and it’ll change back again”. The UN says that Earth has 10 years to avert climate change catastrophe. Who should you believe? How … Read the rest

Resilience Review Column – Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety – Lower Carbon Emissions

Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend  Leader published in the 5/9/19 edition, by David Thielk.

In January, and then again in November of 2018 (off tourist season), the City of  Port Townsend engineering     department collected traffic frequency and speed information from dozens of locations in Port Townsend. At each location, they sampled over a … Read the rest

Resilience Review Column – Global Earth Repair Comes to Port Townsend

Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader by Michael Pilarski.

On May 3-5, 2019, the Global Earth Repair Conference will bring the world together in Port Townsend.  Six hundred people engaged in ecosystem restoration at local, regional, national and international levels in many parts of the world will meet at Fort Worden. Through keynotes, … Read the rest

Wondering What You can do to help Address Climate Change? Join the Drawdown Ecochallenge NOW!

Sign up now to participate in the internationally recognized Drawdown Ecochallenge, which runs from April 3-24!  The Drawdown EcoChallenge is a fun and social way to learn about and take measurable action on the most substantive solutions to climate change. It provides an interactive online platform for individuals to obtain researched and effective ways to reduce our collective carbon
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Chester Square Mural Installation Celebration

Saturday, March 9th, 3 – 4:30pm

Come celebrate history at the Uptown Courtyard!  A mixed-media mural will be installed on Saturday, March 9th at 1033 Lawrence Street.  This collaborative artwork centers on a theme of beauty growing through community creativity. Adrianna Santiago and Suzanne Jones initiated this volunteer project through their cooperative organizing of the local Intergenerational Art Movement

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