Posted by Founder, Bicycling Monterey
Climate actions: Why and how to respond to 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 away to college.) https://twitter.com/MvmtSalinas https://www.instagram.com/sunrisemvmtsalinas/
Santa Cruz County, https://twitter.com/SCsunrisemvmt https://www.instagram.com/sunrisesantacruz/ and Santa Cruz Climate Action Network: https://scruzclimate.org.
Directly below is an archive of September 2019 actions
Check with resources listed above for current activities.
For timeless information, scroll down this post.
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9/20/19 – Salinas – Salinas Climate Strike March https://actionnetwork.org/events/salinas-climate-strike-march
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9/20 – Seaside – Otter Climate Strike https://actionnetwork.org/events/otter-climate-strike
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9/20 – Watsonville – Youth Climate Rally https://actionnetwork.org/events/youth-climate-rally
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9/20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 – Santa Cruz, multiple events: https://scruzclimate.org
- 9/20 – Seaside High School Climate Strike event for students who sign up (not a public event); see details in tweet below from MPUSD Superintendent P.K. Diffenbaugh.
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9/20 – Monterey High School students have organized an event —reportedly will gather at 4 p.m. at Colton Hall. Students and other residents will rally at Window on the Bay Park.
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9/23 – Santa Cruz – #ExtinctionRebellionStreetAction
(no link) – 11:30 a.m. Meet at Town Clock Tower, march Pacific Ave
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9/26 – Santa Cruz – Blowout Fracking Movie https://actionnetwork.org/events/blowout-fracking-movie
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9/27 – Salinas
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9/27 – Santa Cruz Climate Strike Bike Parade: 5:30 p.m. For details and other activities (there are many), follow Sunrise Movement Santa Cruz https://www.instagram.com/p/B2K3UGnAQWj/ and Santa Cruz Climate Action Network. https://scruzclimate.org.
Bike or bike-and-ride to gatherings, or use public transportation, carpool, walk, skate, scoot, etc.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2IkQG8gDZG/
"Power isn't something you either have or don't have. Power is something you either take or leave to others." –@luisamneubauer
— Bicycling Monterey (@BikeMonterey) September 8, 2019
https://t.co/cNbf6B6P4x#TakeYourPowerBack #ClimateStrike #FFF @350 https://t.co/TaO9G7tSBthttps://t.co/0cfgZD65Wu
Sept 20 and 27 the World strikes again! Everyone is welcome, everyone is needed. I’ll be in New York 20/9 and in Montreal 27/9. Find or register your local strike at https://t.co/G06WbXNvl1 or local websites. Spread the word! #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate pic.twitter.com/BNI7ZywpsL
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 8, 2019
Global Climate Strike 20-27th of September:
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 17, 2019
4638 events in 139 countries on all continents.
And counting…
Everyone is welcome.
Everyone is needed.
Find your closest strike or register your own at https://t.co/ikOafwrNSk
Spread the word!#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/ekrmeUx100
Thanks to @IAmSpecialized for their actions in support of #ClimateStrike!
— Bicycling Monterey (@BikeMonterey) September 19, 2019
Tell Bobcat Bicycles in Salinas, Work Horse Bicycles in Monterey, and other Specialized dealers that you dig bike industry professionals who #ActOnClimate.#NotBusinessAsUsual https://t.co/QHVgBpMoZm
This Friday, we’re joining the Global Climate Strike by closing our website and global headquarters to support the youth activists driving this movement. Get involved in your own community → https://t.co/2RFF1UQXsg #climatestrike pic.twitter.com/di89ewN4LA
— Specialized Bicycles (@iamspecialized) September 18, 2019
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
Walking Santa Cruz we came across some chalk-activism:
— Dr. Heather Price (@huprice) August 20, 2019
“Climate Emergency”
Have a feeling there will be a lot more during the Worldwide Climate Strikes, Sept 20-27. pic.twitter.com/eHOVJR88Ob
Portland Public Schools supports the #ClimateStrike! Yes! Thank you @PPSConnect
— 350PDX (@350_PDX) September 16, 2019
"All high school and middle school students who leave school on September 20 for the Global Climate Strike will be given an excused absence"
Join the PDX strike here –> https://t.co/PEQKs21qOm pic.twitter.com/4ruzEfuapD
In Santa Cruz, activists of all ages ready for Global Climate Strike https://t.co/oTY8vI4ykG
— Santa Cruz Sentinel (@scsentinel) September 19, 2019
Many elected officials in the US have voiced support of the #ClimateStrike. We’re calling on all of them to step up their game.
— 350 dot org (@350) September 19, 2019
If you hold public office in the US, sign here to endorse the US demands: https://t.co/noXswBeQXV #StrikeWithUs
@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.”
Since that history of the HER Helmet Thursdays Project was published in the Earth Day 2010 issue of the Monterey County Weekly, the project passed its 9th anniversary. Thanks to the businesses and organizations in HER Helmet Thursdays, including the early leaders / charter participants.
In the January 17, 2019, Monterey County Weekly, senior writer David Schmalz wrote: “Humans are transforming the Earth in ways that pose an existential threat to our civilization, and many of the other creatures we share this planet with.
“Central to that transformation is climate change, which is being driven by greenhouse gas emissions – whether from cars, planes, factories or power plants.” Read David’s story, “Local agencies are wrestling with how to adapt to a warming planet, and the crises it will create.”
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!
Mounting evidence of what @micheleflournoy pointed out speaks louder: the military takes climate change seriously, despite the fact that many who say they support the military do not.
— Mari Lynch (@MariLynch) March 27, 2018
Not only saving #water and #energy, "will save taxpayers millions of dollars over next decade." @pomgarrison https://t.co/h3LIxzWLUZ #solar
— Mari Lynch (@MariLynch) September 13, 2017
At @nps_monterey: among most advanced Arctic climate models in world. Rpt by @davidmschmalz. https://t.co/8b1252QuXC #USNavy #climatechange
— Mari Lynch (@MariLynch) February 4, 2017
A climate action for Monterey-area people: November 16, 2019 tree-planting. Click here for details
"There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself—a tree. An example of a natural climate solution."—@GeorgeMonbiot
— Mari Lynch (@MariLynch) September 20, 2019
"We spend 1K x more on fossil fuel subsidies than on natural-based solutions."—@GretaThunberg https://t.co/6xi00ETeOH
Below, see a gallery of people who have started reducing carbon emissions right where they are—by bicycling in Monterey County.
Answer to the question: If we have global warming, why is it so cold? Here's our post with experts explaining the connection between climate change and extreme weather. https://t.co/C63CgdSKU1 #ActOnClimate
— EARTHDAY.ORG (@EarthDayNetwork) April 3, 2019
Check out this gallery of people reducing carbon emissions through bicycling.
Salinas, Monterey County, California
Monterey, Monterey County, California
Carmel, Monterey County, California
The Alisal/East Salinas, Monterey County, California
Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California
Greenfield, Monterey County, California
Pebble Beach, Monterey County, California
Del Rey Oaks, Monterey County, California
Sand City, Monterey County, California
Seaside, Monterey County, California
Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California
Marina, Monterey County, California
Castroville, Monterey County, California
Big Sur, Monterey County, California
Moss Landing, Monterey County, California
Archive of some past events
A Monterey Bay Regional Climate Action Compact Climate Summit took place at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) on Thursday, October 27, 2016. See James Herrera’s story in the Monterey County Herald to learn more about that summit. In this post, Bicycling Monterey encouraged attendees to bike or use a bike-and-ride option, such as Monterey-Salinas Transit, to get to the summit. And since October 27, 2016 was a Thursday, before or after summit activities they could make use of HER Helmet Thursdays discounts for people who bike.
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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 20 February 2021.
