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Climate actions: Why and how to respond to climate change

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.

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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  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

[The info directly below was originally added to this post October 23, 2016.]

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.

Favianna-Rodriguez_LOW-RES_new-dateBicycling 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.

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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 16 June 2023.

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