Feedback From Our Earth Day 2026 Celebration
We would appreciate your feedback about our Earth Day Gathering. Also, what insights stood out to you from our discussions? Here are a few insights that caught our attention:
Communities Rising, with our email list and website, will try to amplify the amazing work that 350Seattle, Seattle Citizens Climate Lobby, and WPSR are doing.
We need to put a tourniquet on the blood-letting of the federal government that this Trump regime is doing. Winning back the House and Senate in the November 2026 Midterm Elections is the most immediate tourniquet we can apply. Donating to Movement Voter Project(MVP)is one of the most powerful ways to apply this tourniquet. The May 16th Dance For Democracy is one way we can help fund MVP.
Local action with neighbors at a neighborhood, city, and county level may be a particularly impactful way that we can promote climate and environmental action.
Promoting healthy food, clean water, and non-polluting energy (solar, wind, battery storage) at a local level for those most impacted can help reinforce our interdependence with other people, other species, and our environment.
Seattle is a relatively climate-safe haven, so it is subject to climate migration. This is causing climate gentrification, where the wealthy are buying up housing and land, making housing less affordable. Seattle and the Pacific Northwest will experience the worsening climate crisis, not just as heat domes and wildfire smoke, but also as ever-worsening housing affordability and homelessness, inflation and more big money in local politics (e.g. Brian Heywood). So, adaptation to the climate crisis in the PNW includes addressing these economic and political consequences.
Protecting Democracy and defeating the oligarchy will be essential in our fight to protect our climate and ecosystems.
In the form below, add discussion insights that you remember, as well as suggestions for improving such gatherings: