The Green Flash

There’s wonderful news on the climate front – and in Congress no less! Can you imagine U.S. carbon emissions dropping by 40% within 12 years?

Yes, you’ve read that correctly… There’s a newly introduced bipartisan climate bill, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, and it’s manna from Heaven (it will be reintroduced early in the 116th Congress). This socially just, truly effective climate bill, which Citizens’ Climate Lobby has been working toward for 11 years, is a real gamechanger. And it has a strong chance of becoming national law if we unite to support it. Please check it out, spread the word and support it. Many Thanks!

I snapped this “smokeset” image in my hometown San Diego – far away from the blazes that have ravaged our state, and yet the micro-bits of peoples lives and wildlife lost,  hung in the air, sullying our skies and our psyches even this far south.

Dozens dead, with that number growing daily, hundreds missing, a town so thoroughly wiped out that identifying the dead is made even more difficult due to destroyed dental offices and patient’s records, which were obliterated in the mega inferno. Homes,  businesses, livelihoods, nature, all vanished. The severe conditions amplifying the devastation and suffering labeled “the new abnormal” by Governor Brown, are due to climate change.

We must raise our voices as one. We can no longer allow our leaders to stand idly by, taking oil money campaign contributions in exchange for, at best, toothless rhetoric on climate. Politicians must be compelled to represent their electorate rather than their corporate sponsors. Representatives must stop playing party politics, stop bickering over political turf, and seniority, and start acting in terms of OUR SHARED SURVIVAL. Let’s PLEASE build something positive, proactive and unified from this horrific tragedy. We are ALL indigenous to this planet. I’m beyond ready for a #GreenNewDeal.

“After the final no, there comes a YES, and on that YES, the future world depends.” – Wallace Stevens.

I’m proud to be a part of this… Spiritually Motivated Activism for Resilient Transformation is coming your way! Make sure to attend this important event. The Seaside Sisters’ S.M.A.R.T. Symposium is this Saturday afternoon, Nov. 3rd, from 1 – 4 p.m. at Seaside Center for Spiritual Living 1613 Lake Dr. Encinitas, CA See details below. Please join us ❤

Hot Topic Solution Circles hosted by fiercely passionate activists:
• Waste Reduction – Marina Qutab, Jessie Franklin
• Conscious Consumerism – Kalli Holmes Sorensen
• Gun Violence Prevention – Lonna Leghart
• Empowered Citizen Participation – Eve Simmons
• Intersectional Social Justice – Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson

https://www.facebook.com/events/1228346277332558/

How much more must Americans take before the Republican party speaks out against this president gone amuck? In response to yesterday’s mass murder at a Pittsburg synagogue the madman who currently sits in the oval office and heads the Republican party tweeted..

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

This is completely and utterly wrong. Please find the personal dignity and courage to stand up to and resist this demagogue who seeks to profit from the ruination of everything good that America can be. You know what is happening is wrong. History is at a turning point. Please don’t sit idly by and let this continue. Please speak out individually or in numbers for our democracy’s sake.

Rock the Vote and join us for my presentation on Democracy and the Climate Crisis. Enjoy a FREE organic lunch (it’s open to the public and vegan & gluten-free options are available) courtesy of SDSU Green Love/Sustainability Commision, this Wednesday, Oct. 24th, from noon til 1:30 pm in the beautiful (LEED Platinum-certified) Aztec Student Union Theatre at San Diego State University. Increase your knowledge and awaken your personal power in a time of Climate Crisis. Don’t let what you can’t change keep you
from changing the things you CAN change for the better. We’re ALL citizens of planet Earth and we need every single one of you. This is what democracy looks like, be there! (click here)