Education

ART

Art in Action – Author and 350 Eugene member Mary DeMocker will inspire you with her creative and effective climate activism art installations.   

Arts Organizing for Climate Justice – This site offers resources, inspiration, and how-to’s for using the arts to protect our climate and communities and to resist injustice. 

Petaluma Arts Center - Their community outreach program DEEDS: Art As Action includes ACT: Climate Action Now, a multidimensional community program. Shop for Petaluma Arts Center DEEDS: Art As Action items and help support local art, local artists and Petaluma Arts Center.

BOOKS

The Global Warming Primer – By Jeffrey Bennett, this book provides answers to all of the tricky questions out there. Global warming is complicated, but the Q&A format makes it easy to follow, addressing key scientific principles as well as common skeptic claims. 

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - By Paul Hawken, this compilation has been a game changer! It contains the top 100 most substantive solutions based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.  Also see the Project Drawdown website, updated regularly as new information is gathered.

On Care of Our Common Home – By Pope Francis, this encyclical letter calls for a “bold cultural revolution” in how we think about technological progress and economic growth. The degradation of our environment, he says, is a symptom of deeper problems. He offers a variety of solutions, including a change in lifestyles away from “extreme consumerism” and toward a greater sense of social responsibility.

Cooler Smarter – By the Union of Concerned Scientists, this book offers proven strategies to cut carbon, explaining how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff.

Climate: A New Story – By Charles Eisenstein, this book flips the script on climate change. Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction.

Resilience Matters – This is a downloadable collection of climate leaders’ writings from the Island Press Urban Resilience Project.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - The Solutions we Have and the Breakthroughs we Need - By Bill Gates, this is an easy-to-read comprehensive look at how all sectors need to get to zero carbon by 2050. With a heavy focus on technology and innovation, he reveals the barriers and opportunities facing businesses and governments.

Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth - By Margaret Klein Salamon with Molly Gage, this self-help guide for reckoning with the climate crisis asks us to confront some heavy truths and become the hero humanity needs! This book works well when read with others and offers questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter.

The New Climate War - The Fight to Take Back Our Planet - By Michael Mann,  a renowned climate scientist, shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Or watch this one-hour interview.

MOVIES

Interview with Dr. David Suzuki - In this powerful one-hour interview, Dr David Suzuki talks about climate change and the need to move beyond business as usual. The environmentalist, activist, professor of genetics and science broadcaster hits us with some hard truths about what our future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been.

The Age of Stupid – This crowd-funded film follows seven real people’s stories and then interweaves them with a fictional character from the year 2055 – a powerful combination of past facts and future predictions that will leave you stunned. Make sure to watch the 8-minute mini-sequel afterwards for an alternative ending.

Merchants of Doubt – This surprisingly entertaining film uncovers the sinister yet effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. The same techniques have been used to create doubt around tobacco, acid rain, DDT, the ozone hole, and now global warming.

Paris to Pittsburgh – From coastal cities to America’s heartland, this National Geographic documentary celebrates how Americans are demanding and developing real solutions in the face of climate change. These stories will inspire you to think globally and act locally.

The Reluctant Radical – What happens when you really, truly take climate science to heart? Activist Ken Ward lets the audience consider if he is out of touch with reality, or if the rest of society is delusional for not acting when faced with the unsettling evidence that we are collectively destroying our world.

Chasing Coral – Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers, and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.

The True Cost - The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. This groundbreaking documentary film pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?

Endgame 2050 - Part fiction, part documentary, this film examines where we’re headed in the next 30 years, covering six categories: Sixth Mass Extinction, Ocean Acidification, Plastic Pollution, Overfishing, Population Growth, Climate Crisis, Food Security, Vegan Diets.

PODCASTS

Crazy Town – With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. From the Post Carbon Institute.

The Crisis - For all those true-crime story lovers comes a new investigative series from Vice News that uncovers the deadly fight over the environment and who controls it.

Broken Ground - An environmental “This American Life” for the South produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Each episode tells the stories of everyday people and the shifting ecologies they rely on for their health, livelihoods and well-being.

Life Raft - Can talk of climate change be fun? Reporter Travis Lux and comedian Lauren Malara think so. Get a good laugh in while they answer your questions about living with climate change.

Saltgrass - What can small towns and every day folk do about the global crisis that is climate change? Creating local food systems, protesting ecological destruction, finding zero-waste alternatives are community-led solutions to the corporation-made problems of global warming.

Inherited - Created for, by and about the youth climate movement, these well-told stories reveal the sacrifices of some young activists, and will undoubtedly inspire you toward finding your own spheres of climate activism.

FOR KIDS

The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution – Activist Mary DeMocker will give you 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night's Sleep.

Cool the Earth – Based out of Marin, this is a fun resource for parents, kids, and teachers.

Inherited - Created for, by and about the youth climate movement, these well-told stories reveal the sacrifices of some young activists, and will undoubtedly inspire you toward finding your own spheres of climate activism.

LEGISLATION

California Legislative Information - Using the search options, you can find bills using the following criteria: status, author, committee or floor location, and date ranges for various legislative actions on a bill.

350 Bay Area Action Legislative Team - Working for progressive climate legislation in California, this site provides information about bills the 350 Bay Area Legislative Committee is following. For more information please send an email to: legcomm@350bayareaaction.org

Citizens’ Climate Lobby – A non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.

Realtime Twitter Updates - Follow John Myers of the LA Times @johnmyers and David Siders @davidsiders at Politico on Twitter to get real-time updates.  

Petaluma General Plan Update - This site provides up-to-date information about the General Plan, including ways to participate, reference documents and City contacts.

NEWS ORGANIZATIONS

Vox Energy & Environment – Find leading voices on the climate crisis.

Inside Climate News – A Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering climate, energy, and the environment.

The Guardian US edition on climate  – Breaking news and the politics surrounding climate change.

NEWSLETTERS

The Climate Crisis Newsletter – Updates from inside the climate movement from 350 founder, activist, and author Bill McKibben

Climate Fwd: – The latest news about climate change, plus tips on how you can help from The New York Times

The Climate Center News – Based out of Santa Rosa, their Climate News emails link out to all kinds of interesting info including a section on “Good” news and “Bad” news. 

TIPS & TRAININGS

Carbon Farming – The Carbon Cycle Institute overview of best practices for land management.

The Climate Reality Project – If you ever get the chance to attend Al Gore’s three-day training, it is well worth it, especially when held in person.

Daily Acts Trainings – This Petaluma-based non-profit hosts all kinds of workshops from carbon gardening to greywater systems. 

Daily Acts Tips and Tools – Another Resource Guide with step-by-step instructions from how to Build a Community to Grow a Garden and beyond.

The Climate Center’s Climate-Safe California Webinars – With top-notch guests, this webinar series takes a dive into the science, economics, policy, and technical aspects of their Climate-Safe California platform. 

The Switch Is On – Resources for electrifying your home from the Building Decarbonization Coalition.

Electrify Now - Webinars and resources to help you electrify everything.

Food Waste – NRDC will help you waste less food with their “Save the Food” campaign.

A Zero Emissions All-Electric Multifamily Construction Guide – From Redwood Energy

CalFire Home Hardening - Taking the necessary measures to harden (prepare) your home can help increase its likelihood of survival when wildfire strikes. CalFire provides videos, checklists, and detailed guides to walk you through the steps.

WEBSITES

350.org Science – For a quick tutorial on the science of climate change.

Rocky Mountain Institute  – Detailed information about clean energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, and options for greening transportation

CleanTechnica – Details about clean cars and clean electricity in the U.S. and internationally

Carbon Tracker  – Evaluates how climate change affects industries and capital markets

Interactive Sea Level Rise Maps - If you click "Northern California" you'll see Petaluma and can zoom in from there. Likely projections put us at 4-7 feet of sea level rise by 2100. At 6.6 feet and a 20 year flood, much of downtown is flooded. Fortunately, 2050 projections look much better - only 1.5 feet and not much over topping over the river bank - so we have some time to adapt.

Petaluma General Plan Update Maps - Explore Petaluma through mapping and data visualization.

PAPERS

Point Blue Conservation Science Sea Level Rise Adaptation Framework - This is a two-page summary of a larger document on the best strategies for planning with nature.