Climate Action
Inescapable and Interconnected
Climate instability, caused by the burning of fossil fuels and biomass, threatens life as we know it. It sounds hyperbolic, but we must consider that we live within a finite system. We already see signs of agricultural and ecological collapse all around us; how much worse will it get before we say enough is enough?
Care for the majesty of life is not political; it is universal. However, while every bit of evidence points toward the reality of climate collapse, political leaders refuse to use their power to protect us. Disinformation rotted the core of the conversation about human's impact on life systems when we could be cooperating and making good jobs out of the need to switch to solar, wind, geothermal, storage, and well-regulated and safely maintained nuclear power.
Learn more below about what you can do below.
Personal Action
Divest Your $$
Do you bank or have credit cards with:
Chase
Bank of America
citibank
Wells Fargo
Oops! Cancel your card and choose to bank either locally or choose a local credit union. Read more here.
Close Your Loops
The less we throw away and more we reduce, reuse, repurpose, and correctly recycle, the more responsible stewards of our home we can be. Here are some ideas:
Host a clothing swap + donate the remaining items
Compost and grow as much food as you can at home
Create art from trash
Learn to mend your clothes and shoes
Take electronics into be fixed whenever possible
Think, "Do I need this?" before you buy
Make friends with neighbors and borrow each other's appliances and
Do your best to keep a clean email inbox & reduce online storage so data centers use less power and water i'm the worst at this one - real talk
Learn how to recycle where you are, and for the love of God, tear apart your pizza boxes and only put non-greasy cardboard in the recycling
Lowes offers e-waste recycling drop off for batteries & any electronics you can't fix. MOM's Organic Market also offers recycling for abnormal items.
Learn more about the right to repair here and the circular economy here.
Collective Action
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
We advocate for an end to the subsidization of biomass as a "renewable" energy through support of the Reclaim Renewable Energy Act of 2025 (shout out Clean Water Action!). Burning trash and biomass harms surrounding communities, leads to greenhouse gas and heavy metal air pollution, which causes higher rates of asthma and cancer.
Sunrise Movement
National and Local hubs have a very different feel to their action choices. Sunrise Movement DC offers community building and mutual aid activities.
Extinction Rebellion
XRDC leads local action, including creative disruption that calls for the end to new gas infrastructure in Washington, DC
This page is a work in progress - if you see errors or want to see something added, please feel free to email me.