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In the News: Climate Change Issues in CA
LA Times: Solar installations are plummeting in California and regulators are to blame - 28 Dec 2023
LA Times: Despite no wildfire threats, I suddenly lost my home insurance - 12 Apr 2022
NY Times: Schwarzenegger: We Put Solar Panels on 1 Million Roofs in California. That Win Is Now Under Threat - 17 Jan 2022
BBC News: Climate Change: Where we are in 7 charts and what you can do to help - Jan 14, 2020
Slate article: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Still Matters, In fact, getting politicians and industry to address climate change may start at home - Oct 26, 2018
In the News: Plastic Crisis Issues
Consumer Reports: Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food - Jan 4, 2024
Eat This, Not That!: New Study Finds 'High Levels' of Plastic Chemicals In Many Grocery & Fast-Food Items - Jan 5, 2024
Consumer Reports: Consumer Reports Finds Dangerous PFAS Chemicals Linked to Serious Health Problems Widespread in Fast Food Packaging Tested - Mar 24, 2022
LA Times - discusses CA Senate Bill 343 which has passed the legislature and is waiting for Gavin Newsom’s signature (Fall 2021): A Misleading Recycling Symbol - Sep 29, 2021
Science News: Chemists are Re-imagining Recycling to Keep Plastics Out of Landfills - Jan 27, 2021
Environmental Protection Agency: read about the Basel Convention on Hazardous Waste, a treaty signed by 187 countries that went into effect on January 1, 2021. Based on this treaty, international shipments of most plastic scrap and waste are allowed only with the prior written consent of the importing country and any transit countries.
NY Times: Americans May add Five Times More Plastic to Oceans than Thought (click here for synopsis) - Oct 30, 2020
NPR: How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled - Sep 11, 2020
NY Times: Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa with Plastic - Aug 30, 2020
Green Peace Report: Reusables are Doable - Aug 25, 2020
Financial Times: Surge in Single-Use PPE feeds 'Toxic' Pandemic Waste Crisis - Jul 23, 2020
PEW: Breaking the Plastic Wave: Top Findings for Preventing Plastic Pollution - Jul 23, 2020
LA Times: The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a tidal wave of plastic waste (see also: Pandemic's Blow to Plastic Recycling) - Jun 13, 2020
Consumer Reports: How to Eat Less Plastic - Apr 30, 2020
Science History Institute: Science Matters: The Case of Plastics
Science News for Students (summarizes some of the health risks of additives in some plastic): Our plastic world - Some products contain chemicals that can pose a serious health risk
Green Biz: Why Plastics are also a Climate Issue - Mar 25, 2020
Climate Change Movies
PECA Climate Movies
Placer Earth Care Action (PECA) is a gathering of spiritual communities raising awareness, taking action, and mitigating our climate crisis through interfaith spiritual practices and involvement in community organizations. One of PECA’s actions is to show a climate-related movie on the 3rd Thursday of every month. There are many, so check out the list!
Listen to climate activist, Greta Thunberg, reciting one of her powerful essays over ambient music in this 2019 track “The 1975” (featured on the The 1975’s album Notes on a Conditional Form ).