2024 Legislative Climate Wins
We’re celebrating the environmental and climate wins during the 2024 short legislative session. For just a month-long session, we are so excited to see that climate continues to be an important issue for electeds and other citizens in our state.
Climate Bills at the 2024 Oregon Legislature
The legislative session has started! Here are some ways to learn about what’s going on and how to get involved.
Indigenous Sovereignty Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving season is upon us, and as we gather with family and friends, let’s acknowledge that it is a National Day of Mourning for many Indigenous Peoples and their allies. Thanksgiving celebrations can perpetuate the harmful Euro-centric narrative found in history books – or you can decide to try a different approach: go farther than acknowledgement and take action. This post provides resources on how our community can do that.
Climate Resources for Parents
We’ve put together a list of environment and climate resources for grown-up! There is no shortage of excellent podcasts and reading materials around climate change and parenting in a climate crisis, so this is certainly not an exhaustive list. But this list is useful to keep in your back pocket when you have road trips for the podcasts and audiobooks or you want to dig into an important climate change read on the beach.
June 2023 Climate Wins!
June was a huge month for climate in Oregon with two very big achievements: the passage of The Climate Resilience Package and Multnomah County’s lawsuit against Big Oil. Here we celebrate our wins and discuss what this means for climate moving forward.
Summer Climate Ed Resources and Activities
Summer is almost upon us! What that also means is no school. While camps help fill in some childcare gaps, we know many of you are looking for ways to keep your kids engaged in climate education. Summer is an incredible opportunity to do that.
We pulled together a few resources that can keep you and your kids learning about climate justice and nature all summer long.
FFC General Meeting Re-Cap
On Sunday, May 21, 2023, we finally had a chance to gather and discuss FFC’s work at our first general meeting since Feb 2020. It was a great opportunity to connect and discuss how we can move forward as families to take climate action.
Calling little Artists: Send in drawings of beavers for President Biden
Calling artists and advocates of all ages: Send in your art and messages by May 16!
Today, more than ever, we need beavers to help us restore western watersheds, capture & store carbon, protect salmon, and increase wildlife resilience to forest fires. Before European colonization, it's estimated that 100-200 million beavers shaped the landscape of North America. Intensive trapping dramatically reduced these numbers, and today only about 10-15 million beavers remain.
Help send a message to President Biden that protecting beavers on federally-managed lands may be one of the strongest leadership steps he can make for our children’s future.
Earth Day Re-Cap: Thank You for Celebrating with Us!
We had such an amazing day celebrating this special planet with you! It warmed our hearts to see so many of you in person and it’s getting us excited for a spring and summer full of many FFC events. This re-cap gives a snapshot of the highlights and links to all of the amazing programs and people who made the day what it was.
Celebrate Earth Day With Us
Join us on Saturday, April 22nd 3:00-5:00pm at Scott Elementary School (6700 Prescott Ave) to celebrate Earth Day!
At this FREE, bilingual event, we will be celebrating the Earth with music, art making, hands-on learning, and by sharing lots of ways to make your home, school and community more climate friendly, green and efficient! Walk or ride your bike if you can!
Bills to Follow: 2023 Oregon Legislative Update
With over a dozen bills in the 2023 legislative session, check out what bills we’re following here and learn how to support them.
Feb Newsletter: Valentines for Tree Equity
With February comes peak planting season, so we’re talking about trees! In particular, we want to focus on tree equity because of the existing disparity of tree canopy and shade between higher-income and lower-income communities.
Lids Not Lanes: An Action Alert from No More Freeways
No More Freeways is encouraging you to share your personal story of how the proposed I5 freeway expansion would harm you, your family, and your community with the Oregon Department of Transportation. We think it is both fiscally irresponsible and ecologically immoral to plan a 12-lane highway with a price tag of $1.45 billion through the heart of our city as the climate crisis worsens every year.
Eugene City Council Hears Overwhelming Support for Healthy Homes Policy
Will Eugene City Council vote in favor of their proposed policy to phase out gas in new homes over climate and health concerns? At the November 21st hearing, 63 people testified in support of the proposed ordinance, providing hours of testimony to the council about the benefits of electrification.
Methane Gas: Health, Safety, Economic, and Climate Impacts
“Cutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years . . . We need international cooperation to urgently reduce methane emissions as much as possible this decade.”
—Inger Anderson, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Director
October 2022 Newsletter
The most important climate action we can take this week is to vote for candidates who will do everything in their power to protect a livable climate for children everywhere.
There is no "moderate" position on climate. There is only massive change ahead, and we need leaders who can make the necessary choices, guided by science and grounded in justice, to bring about the healthiest future possible.
Open Letter to PPS: Community seeks accountability for District fossil gas investment at Benson Tech
11.22.22 NPR story interviewing PPS students
Many Portland area climate organizations are deeply troubled by news that the Benson Polytechnic High School Modernization Project will proceed with plans for a fossil fuel heating system, which is inconsistent with Portland Public School’s recently-adopted Climate Crisis Response Policy, and have endorsed a letter to the PPS School Board.
All Aboard the Bike Bus!
“We’re never going to combat climate change with all of us disconnected in our cars. The only way we’re going to do it is by being connected in our communities.”
Introducing ElectrifyPDX!
Families across Portland are creating a brighter future and improving pediatric health by going 100% renewable electric!