Category: Climate Change

Celebrate Earth Day in Davenport

4/15/2019

Earth Day Celebration - Saturday, April 20th at 9:00 am

Freight House
421 W River DR, Davenport, IA (map)

Environmental Forum

Join us in celebrating Earth Day on Saturday, April 20th from 9-1. There will be mini TED talks throughout the day, live music, 20 demonstration tables, and a full activity tent for kids with reptiles from Nahant Marsh and birds from the raptor center. And there will be door prizes! Food will be available at the adjacent restaurants. The interior portions of the Farmer's Market are up and running. The flood has not defeated us, but it does remind us that Climate Change is real.

Lori McCollum

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Paris to Pittsburgh Film on Climate Change

4/15/2019

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Paris to Pittsburgh Film - Wednesday, April 17th at 7:00 pm

Rogalski Center
St. Ambrose University
W High ST, Davenport, IA
(the parking lot is at Lombard ST and Ripley ST) (map)

Environmental Forum

Join us in viewing Paris to Pittsburgh, a free screening of the film produced by Bloomberg Philanthropies and RadicalMedia in 2018. We are co-sponsoring this event with the Green Life Environmental Club of St. Ambrose University to kick off the Earth Day weekend. There will be a panel presentation after the screening to discuss climate change and ways you can personally address this issue.

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Green New Deal Demonstrates Real Climate Leadership

2/4/2019

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Green New Deal Week - Monday, Feb 4th - Friday, Feb 8th

Friends of the Earth
Nationwide Event

From February 4th to 8th, help bring the call for Real Climate Leadership to your Congressperson’s doorstep. We will ramp up our call for a Green New Deal by calling on our Representatives to:

Halt all new fossil fuel extraction, infrastructure and subsidies, and transition power generation to 100% renewable energy by 2035 or sooner.
Rapidly decarbonize agriculture and transportation sectors and expand access to public transportation.
Ensure a Fair & Just Transition led by impacted workers and communities, including low income and communities of color, without relying on corporate schemes or market-based mechanisms.
Uphold Indigenous Rights
Pass a national jobs guarantee, creating good jobs with collective bargaining and family-sustaining wages.

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Cedar Rapids Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting

12/3/2018

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Linn County Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting

The PACG Environmental Forum continues to educate Americans about the growing dangers of climate change and the many climate solutions that work, and members continue to take action to demonstrate leadership in environmental sustainability. Climate change is as urgent as ever. The Fourth National Climate Assessment released on Friday, and the IPCC report on limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius released October 8, underscore the urgent need for action. Recent climate-related disasters like the wildfire in Paradise, California, and Hurricanes Florence and Michael, show the very real dangers to real people and property in the United States. The Fourth National Climate Assessment outlines growing damage from climate change to the economy including agriculture, infrastructure, health, and water. For more details, visit: nca2018.globalchange.gov/.

The Cedar Rapids Citizens Climate Lobby Meeting is Saturday, December 8th in the second-floor technology classroom at the public library, 450 5th Avenue SE, in downtown Cedar Rapids. This is an organizational meeting to discuss plans for 2019. It will be followed by the national Citizens Climate Lobby monthly conference call. For more details, and to share with your friends, here is an event page: facebook.com/events/267597140614174/

Please join us for this worthwhile event!

The 2020 U.S. Senate elections are coming – There are 21 majority incumbent U.S. Senators up for re-election in 2020 who, in my opinion, have not only failed to take any positive action to address climate change, but have stood by while Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and done other damage to our country. It is essential that we have Senators who take positive action to address climate change before the 2020 elections. Climate change should not be a partisan issue!

Shirley Johnson
uffdauffda@hughes.net

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March 2018 Board Update

4/8/2018

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March 2018 Board Update

The Board wants to bring the following events to your attention, brought to you by our hard-working volunteers in the PACG Book Club, Environmental Forum, and Health Care Reform Forum:

Tuesday, April 17 at 6 pm at Fresh Deli in Davenport - Discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (discussion led by a professor of English literature from St. Ambrose)

Thursday, April 19 at 6 pm at the Quad City Botanical Center - Celebrate the Earth! - a presentation on climate change in the Midwest.

Saturday, April 21 at 10 am at Davenport Central High School - Minority Health Conference - an event especially for immigrants, refugees, and members of minority communities (registration required). Please come yourself and invite your friends and contacts in those communities.

Hope to see you at one (or all) of these activities/events!

Alta Price, Board President

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