Upcoming
350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
7 - 8:30pm
Zoom Meeting
Another Road to Doomsday:
​Planetary Biocide
2021 State of the Planet

George Stone, Ph.D.
.Professor Emeritus of Natural Science
Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations report says.

“Our children and their children will inherit a world of extreme weather events, sea level rise, a drastic loss of plants and animals, food and water insecurity and increasing likelihood of future pandemics,” said report lead author Sir Robert Watson, who has chaired past UN science reports on climate change and biodiversity loss.

- UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK
​Our meetings are being hosted using Zoom until it's safe to meet in person
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March Meeting Follow-up
After the meeting, John Peck, our speaker, wrote:  "Since many folks were asking on the call and afterwards for some more soil carbon resource links, here are a few to pass along."
His links are here.
Fridays For Future
Friday April 16, 2021
​12pm - 1pm
We're back on the street at
Wisconsin & Water St.
​to protest
Chase and Wells Fargo Bank's
Fossil Fuel investing!

Wells Fargo has the third most fossil fuel investments of all banks in the world, and is a lead financier of the tar sands industry.

We have signs

Mask wearing and Social Distancing
Firedrill Fridays
Friday April 16, 1:00 PM CDT / 11:00 AM PST
RSVP - FIRE DRILL FRIDAY: EARTH DAY EDITION
​
Public · Hosted by Fire Drill Fridays and Greenpeace US

Any Friday Actions

Take time to watch "Kiss the Ground", Netflix, Vimeo for $1 (84 min.), or free 45-minute educational version at link.

Guide: How you can eat well, build soil, and regenerate the planet by making conscious purchasing decisions
 - Kiss the Ground
​Do you still have an account(s) or credit cards with Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, BMO, etc.?
​Use this hour to PROTEST by moving YOUR MONEY and CC accounts
See the Moving Your Money section below

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WEC (We Energies) In the News
Columbia power plant to close by 2025, ending coal-fired power in Portage (27.5% WEC)
​- Wisconsin State Journal, February 3, 2021
 THE DIRTY TRUTH - About Utility Climate Pledge s
Spoiler: We Energies scores a D and WEC an F
- Sierra Club, January 2021
Many U.S. utilities plan to hang on to their coal plants for a decade: Sierra Club
- Reuters, January 25, 2021
Menomonee Falls Harley-Davidson completes record-breaking solar energy project with We Energies
- Journal Sentinel, December 16, 2020
Representatives from WEC (We Energies) Addressed 350 Milwaukee's Dec. Meeting
- Video, December 8, 2020
We Energies to retire part of Oak Creek coal plant; replace with solar, batteries, gas
- Racine Journal Times, November 6, 2020
Oak Creek power plant's partial closing a step in the right direction, but activists say there's more work to do
- Kenosha News, November 6, 2020
Sierra Club Calls for State Transition Planning as Vistra Announces Coal Retirements in Illinois, Ohio
- Sierra Club, September 29, 2020
FREE Energy-Saving Packs
- Wisconsin Focus on Energy
We Energies FREE Heat Saving Kit
  • Plastic for 5-6 windows
  • Caulking
  • A few other items
Call 1-800-242-9137 for your FREE kit and save money on your heating bills!
- We Energies
Wisconsin rebates and programs
 - Various, We Energies site
Energy-saving tips
 - We Energies site
We Turned Resilience into Results
- WEC 2020 Annual Report, Spring 2021
WEC Energy Group Inc (WEC) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
- Motley Fool, February 4, 2021
WEC Energy Group spending $338 million on Nebraska wind farm
​- BizTimes, September 3 2019
WEC Energy Group Inc (WEC) Q3 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
- Motley Fool, November 3, 2020
Here Comes the Sun
WEC 2019 Annual Report, Spring 2020

Ideas - Our goal isn't to be perfect, our goal is to reduce carbon
ClimateAdam
a.k.a. Dr Adam Levy
​(Doctor in Atmospheric Physics)
- YouTube, Podcast, Website, ...
ClimateAdam Youtube Channel - 2 to 10 minute clips
Try it, you'll like it!
From the Waste Up - Life Without Plastic
- FREE on YouTube, 1 hr. 20 min.
Our documentary follows the lives of 19 people as they attempt to live without plastic.
- Excerpt from Book, March 23, 2021
A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist 
- Freakonomics Podcast, December 9, 2020
'It is the question of the century': will tech solve the climate crisis – or make it worse? 
- The Guardian, March 6, 2021
​
Why humanity can’t be trusted to repair its own environmental damage 
- Washington Post, February 11, 2021
review of
Under  A White Sky
By Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert Interview
​How Humans Try (And Fail) To Master Nature Audio, 48 min.
- Fresh Air, February 9, 2021
An expert's advice on talking to the climate skeptic in your life
CNN, November 24, 2020
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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer review – a life-changing book
​- The Guardian, October 6, 2019

Financing Climate Change
Big banks’ trillion-dollar finance for fossil fuels ‘shocking’, says report
 - The Guardian, March 24, 2020
BlackRock votes against 49 companies for lack of climate crisis progress
 - The Guardian, September 17, 2020
Samsung Securities pledges no further financial backing for Adani coal after protest
 - The Guardian, July 17, 2020
Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis
 - The Guardian, March 24, 2020
BlackRock Has A New Attitude About Fossil Fuel Investing
 - Cleantechnica, January 15, 2020
Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms
​ - January 29, 2020
JPMorgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, Coal Plants
​ - Sierra Club, February 25, 2020
Climate Movement Takes Aim at Wall Street
 - Common Dreams, January 9, 2020
​Barclays pressured by shareholders to cut fossil fuel financing
 - Reuters, January 7, 2020

Moving Your Money
Personal
Where Should I Put My Money? Tips and Resources - Alison Kirsch, RAN
How and Why to Leave Your Bank - Lisa Servon's research has explored economic insecurity, consumer financial services, and financial justice
How to Switch to a New Bank or Credit Union - NerdWallet
Better Banking - Green America
Why Switch to a Responsible Credit Card - Green America
Break Up with Your Mega-Bank - Green America

Towns, Cities
Divest Your Community Toolkit here - Mazaska Talks
It's such a hassle, Why Bother?
I Quit My Bank. Am I Saving the World? - Maeve Higgins, New York Times
Banking On Climate Change Report (Report Summary) - Rainforest Action Network report and data
A voice from the forest in the corporate boardroom - Al Jazeera op-ed by Tara Houska, Giniw Collective
Want to Do Something About Climate Change? Follow the Money - New York Times op-ed by Lennox Yearwood Jr. and Bill McKibben
Money is the Oxygen on which the Fire of Global Warming Burns - The New Yorker, Bill McKibben 
Two Years of Giving Chase…Hell - Alec Connon, 350 Seattle
Banks and Climate - Rainforest Action Network
​Do you still have an account(s) or credit cards with Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, BMO, etc.?

Take a look at this short video (even if you're not at these banks) Divest -  four minute video, recommended by Bill McKibben!  The animation and narration is by youth from the Bay Area Earth Guardians Crew and Youth vs Apocalypse.

​What is divestment? It's when a person or organization takes money OUT of certain types of banks, companies and funds. Divestment can take power away from industries that are causing really big harm. Divestment frees up money to be INVESTED in  solutions, like green jobs .

Renewables
Nature-led coronavirus recovery could create $10tn a year, says WEF
 ​- The Guardian, July 15, 2020
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sPower - Solverde solar plant
All net new electricity generation in the US will be wind and solar power in 2020
 - PV Magazine​​, January 16, 2020
U.S. clean energy investment hits new record despite Trump administration views
 - Reuters, January 16, 2020
Buying Clean Electricity
 - energy.gov, U.S. Department of Energy

Action
France to ban some domestic flights where train available
 ​- The Guardian, April 12, 2021
Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive
 ​- The Guardian, March 30, 2021
Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic
 ​- The Guardian, September 18, 2020
Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
Audio, 44 minutes
- Freakonomics Podcast, August 12, 2020
‘It's time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting’
 ​- The Guardian, July 29, 2020
Biden plots $2tn green revolution but faces wind and solar backlash
 ​- The Guardian, July 25, 2020

Impact
One of Earth’s giant carbon sinks may have been overestimated - study
- The Guardian, March 24, 2021
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A train of loaded coal cars heads to Oak Creek, Wisconsin
This town powered America for decades. What do we owe them?
- CNN, January 23, 2021
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action
- The Guardian, August 20, 2020
Climate change made Siberian heatwave 600 times more likely – study
- The Guardian, July 15, 2020
Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 65F
- The Guardian, February 7, 2020
 PictureElizabeth Wathuti, a climate activist from Kenya
‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
- The Guardian, February 10, 2020
California's wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020
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‘It looks like a film. It looks like a video game.’
Pictures of the world on fire won’t shock us for much longer
- The Guardian, January 13, 2020
The hellish future of Las Vegas in the climate crisis: 'A place where we never go outside'
- The Guardian, September 3, 2019

Video & Podcasts
Jamie Dimon ‘doesn't understand the risk’ of climate change: Greenpeace Exec. Director
​Yahoo Finance Video - January 21, 2020 7 min.
​“A Message from the Future with AOC”: New Film Imagines World Transformed by the Green New Deal
- The Intercept, April 17, 2019, 7 1/2 Min.
 Watch CNBC's interview with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at Davos 
CNBC - January 22, 2020 4 min.
Go to the 14 minute point to see Dimon's comments on climate, carbon, and fossil fuel.
Migration and climate change are deeply connected
350.org has released a 2 minute video. 
Watch it and share!
How Climate Change Threatens Humanity
 - Fresh Air Podcast, NPR​, April 15, 2019
​Bill McKibben talks about heat waves, fires, flooding, drought, and, soon, millions of climate refugees.
How Climate Change Became A Partisan Issue
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 8, 2019
Greta Thunberg Speech at Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm
- YouTube, June 13, 2019
Climate Crisis
 - TED Radio Hour Podcast, NPR​, June 7, 2019
There's no greater threat to humanity than climate change.
Inside The Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put The Green New Deal On The Map
- NBC News 11 Minute Video

Petitions
Brazil: End the Amazon apocalypse!
"My name is Gabriel, I am a lawyer and I live in Rio Branco, in the heart of the Amazon. I am here because we need to ask all levels of Government in Brazil to mobilise and help us put an end to the burning of the Amazon rainforest!"

Here are links to three petitions to end the burning.
​Would you please choose one and sign?
Need convincing?
Call on Chase Bank and CEO Jamie Dimon to divest from tar sands and all other dirty fossil fuels

This is a Rainforest Action Network Campaign
 Support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
For the first time ever, someone in Congress has a plan that is ambitious enough to address the climate crisis.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing her fellow Democrats to create a Green New Deal – a plan to transform our economy and society at the scale needed to stop the climate crisis.
​
94 Representatives (only one - Mark Pocan - from Wisconsin) and 12 Senators (none from Wisconsin) have signed onto the Green New Deal resolution. Add your name now to help make sure the Green New Deal is on the agenda as Democrats take power in the House of Representatives.
Click here to read, and sign, the petition!

Green New Deal - Sunrise Movement - Website
The left must be bold and back a green new deal - The Guardian
The Green New Deal, explained - Vox
​The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal - The Intercept

350 Milwaukee is a supporter of the Green New Deal!

350 Milwaukee in the News

​Coverage of 350 Milwaukee protesting Trump - Milwaukee Courier
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​350 Milwaukee's Keep it in the Ground Protest - Wisconsin Gazette

Larry Hoffman talking about solar power - Wisconsin Public Radio

George Martin talking about oil trains - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Julie Enlsow on the Paris Climate Agreement - Milwaukee Courier
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Photo courtesy of the Overpass Light Brigade

​​350 Milwaukee