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Climate actions: Why and how to respond to climate change
Climate Change: Why speak up for cycling, at COP28 and elsewhere.
For information about the Climate Reality Project, including the Monterey Bay chapter launched in May 2023, refer to: https://bikemonterey.org/act-on-climate-monterey-bay-chapter-climate-reality-project.html
This post was first published 21 September 2014, with numerous subsequent updates. (It has not been updated in its entirety.) Please contact sources referred to for their latest information.
As of April 8, 2022, a #FridaysForFuture gathering continues to take place each Friday from 4-5 p.m. at Window on the Bay Park in the city of Monterey. For any updates, check with @MaddySpring21 on Twitter (Maddy Springfield).
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For Global Climate Strike information and resources, visit https://fridaysforfuture.org
Transportation
and Climate Change
This post includes climate action info and resources for Monterey Bay Area and beyond.
For the original Bicycling Monterey post, scroll below the green header * * * Climate Change: Bicycling is part of the mix in climate hope!* * *
Updates to this post are mostly in the form of social media posts about climate strikes.
Sunrise Movement Salinas had originally planned an in-person Climate Strike for Earth Day 2020. For the collective good, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, their actions now take place online.
Below, grab Monterey Bay and Global Climate Strike resources and a list of some scheduled actions; see a bicycling company taking a stand in support; watch a video message from 23-yr-old climate activist Luisa Neubauer; get info about how transportation choices impact carbon emissions, plus other information on climate change.
Besides the Monterey Bay list below, find U.S. strikes near you using map, https://globalclimatestrike.net/usa/. #ClimateStrike resources include (and aren’t limited to) #FridaysForFuture https://www.fridaysforfuture.org, https://www.globalclimatestrike.net, https://350.org, https://www.sunrisemovement.org.
Some Monterey Bay Area
climate action resources
(not a complete list)
Monterey Bay resources include (and aren’t limited to):
Monterey County, (February 2021 update: Sunrise Movement Salinas youth disbanded, due to local youth leadership going out of state for college.)
Santa Cruz County, https://www.instagram.com/sunrisesantacruz/ and Santa Cruz Climate Action Network: https://scruzclimate.org.
Check with resources listed above for current activities.
For timeless information, scroll down this post.
Bike or bike-and-ride to gatherings, or use public transportation, carpool, walk, skate, scoot, etc.
https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1170538501810450434?s=20
https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1174556391752601600
https://twitter.com/iamspecialized/status/1174115266516660226
On Friday, people worldwide will strike to demand more urgent action on climate change. The Bike Union is committed to transforming Boston into a greener city, and this rally aligns with that goal. More info here: https://t.co/DrkCOqZyvf#ClimateStrike #climatestrikema https://t.co/NHRKrwND3h
— BostonCyclistsUnion (@bostonbikeunion) September 18, 2019
@BikeMonterey https://t.co/orjC9ADpxk
— PK Diffenbaugh (@pkdiff) September 19, 2019
Monterey High students have also organized one as well!
— PK Diffenbaugh (@pkdiff) September 19, 2019
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Climate Change:
Bicycling is
part of the mix in
climate hope!
Image above © Monterey County Weekly — “Wheel the Earth” text © Mari Lynch
As stated in “Wheel the Earth: HER Helmet Thursdays cuts carbon emissions and costs,” “Earth can’t wait until we all have enough time.”
Transportation
and climate change
“We can’t afford to ignore significant climate mitigation measures just because they are politically difficult,” writes Meredith Hankins in a Dec 5, 2018 article in Legal Planet, “We’re Never Going to Meet Our GHG Transportation Goals Unless We Radically Rethink Our Cities.” She refers to the following “groundbreaking” report from the California Air Resources Board (CARB)—the “2018 Progress Report on California’s Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act”; check it out: http://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/Final2018Report_SB150_112618_02_Report.pdf
Why bike or bike-and-ride in response to climate change?
The Guardian reported 1/1/18, “Vehicles are now America’s biggest CO2 source but EPA is tearing up regulations“: “Emissions data has placed transport as the new king of climate-warming pollution.”
U.S. Department of Energy – Energy Information Administration data http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/#consumption; a 1/19/17 @energy report “Power sector carbon dioxide emissions fall below transportation sector emissions,” stated “On a 12-month rolling total basis, electric power sector CO2 emissions are now regularly below transportation sector CO2 emissions for the first time since the late 1970s.”
Some related posts on the Bicycling Monterey site
- When no one is looking, who cares about climate change?
- Bicycling and ecotourism / good earthkeeping right at home
- We’re all heroes on this bus
- Bicycle advocacy: What you can do
- Former ER doc attending to the health of the planet: Blessed Earth
[The info directly below was originally added to this post October 23, 2016.]
- “Transport is a major contributor to overall greenhouse gas emissions – in most nations the second-biggest element after energy generation,” Peter Walker in The Guardian, “How cycling could help the Paris climate talks change the world,” 12/1/15.
- Bloomberg writer Eric Roston reported in “America’s Energy Revolution Hits a Historic Milepost,”10/31/16: “In February [2016], U.S. transportation emitted more carbon dioxide than the fossil-fuel-heavy power sector for the first time since 1978.”
- Angie Schmitt in StreetsBlog USA, “How Much Can Bicycling Help Fight Climate Change? A Lot, If Cities Try.”
- Advocacy Advance, “Climate Change and Bicycling: How bicycling advocates can help craft comprehensive Climate Action Plans.”
- Rails to Trails, “The Short Trip with Big Impacts: Walking, Biking and Climate Change.”
- Tony Dutzik on the League of American Bicyclists blog, “From Mode Shift to Frame Shift: How Cycling Can Hep Solve Climate Change.”
- Cherry Allan on We Are Cycling UK, “Climate change.”
- Robert Annis in Bicycling, “Bicycles Can Be a ‘Huge Part’ of Combating Climate Change.”
- Bobby Magill on Climate Central, “Shifting Gears to Cycling Would Be Big Climate Boost.”
- And the City of Monterey, on their Transportation Alternatives page.
Many people are unaware
of what Michèle Flournoy stated on March 26, 2018 at the Leon Panetta Lecture Series:
the military takes climate change seriously!
http://twitter.com/MariLynch/status/978481072064245760
http://twitter.com/MariLynch/status/907760291160629248
http://twitter.com/MariLynch/status/827759879272083457
A climate action for Monterey-area people: November 16, 2019 tree-planting. Click here for details.
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The below was previously published 9/21/14.
People’s Climate
We stand with the world family.
We all share the same mother.
Bicycling is part of the mix in climate hope. That’s one reason Monterey Bay Aquarium–an educator on climate change–includes biking as a transportation option. There are many good reasons to bike, not least of all—as the City of Monterey points out—the environmental impact of cars!
Very special thanks to the poster artist,
Favianna Rodriguez. http://favianna.com
for permission to republish her art.
Be part of building a global climate movement. http://350.org
#PeoplesClimate #ClimateChange #ClimateHope
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/ActOnClimateBike
This post was previously published Sept 21, 2014 and republished Oct 23, 2016 with some updates.
This post was published on 10 January 2018. One or more changes last made to this post on 5 December 2023.
