Hello John,

January kicks off a busy 2021.   350 Milwaukee is hosting author Tim Folger who wrote the Great Lakes feature article for December's National Geographic.

The inauguration takes place the following week and we've included links to two Podcasts relevant to our incoming government and climate crisis initiatives.

Are you up to date on the Milwaukee Climate and Equity Action Plan?  If not, and you'd like to stay informed or get involved, look no further - just below.

350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, January 12, 7 - 8:30pm
Zoom Virtual Meeting

Our guest, author
Tim Folger
will speak on

Saving the Great Lakes and
the Implications of Climate Change

Tim Folger's feature article for the December 2020 National Geographic focuses on the Great Lakes and Tim's assignment was to write on the Great Lakes begins with the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire.  

From his recent interview with Great Lakes Now:
"GLN: So kind of jumping off of that in the article, you do explore a lot of the changes that were happening. Can you explain what the biggest changes were that the lakes were experiencing? How did you decide which to cover in your article?

TF: Yeah, that was a challenge with such a complex system – the largest freshwater system in the world, what do you write about? But there are really three big problems that became obvious as soon as you at start looking into the story.  No. 1 is climate change is kind of the overarching problem that makes all the other problems worse, and if we don’t address climate change, all the other problems will be very difficult to remedy. So that was No. 1."

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Some Zoom basics and our process:

• Note the location of some key.controls
  • Audio Unmute/Mute
  • Video Start/Stop
  • Participants list
  • Chat messages
• Remain muted unless you are speaking
• Raise your hand to join the question stack (queue)
  • Click Participants and then click the Raise Hand button at bottom right (on computer)
  • We generally call on people by the order on the stack
• We accept questions in Chat messages

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Ideas for 2021

A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist
Freakonomics Podcast, December 9, 2020

​President-elect Biden’s appointment of Brian Deese highlights his plan to use economic policy initiatives to drive climate policy. It also elicited criticism from environmental groups like the Sunrise Movement for his work in recent years as the sustainability director for the asset-management giant BlackRock.  This is a very interesting, even surprising, look at how the administration may act on the climate crisis.
 

The Ashes on the Lawn
RadioLab Podcast, December 9, 2020

​Are there lessons from the fight for an HIV/AIDS treatment that apply to the Climate Crisis fight and how we deal with corporations like WEC and our government?  Listen to this Podcast about tactics used in the HIV/AIDS fight for a treatment and how a Dr. Fauci's HIV/AIDS work was impacted.

Milwaukee Climate and Equity Action Plan begins

"The City of Milwaukee faces the major challenges from both climate change and racial disparities. The City-County Task Force on Climate and Economic Equity was created in 2019 (Common Council File 190445) to make recommendations on how to ...."

We're including a link to the sign up form for staying up to date on the work to create the Milwaukee Climate and Equity Action Plan.  The form contains a list of the 9 workgroups and allows you to indicate how you want to be involved.

There are three levels at which you can participate (see below). If you choose to join a workgroup, you should realistically select only one or two.

Public involvement in developing a Milwaukee Climate and Equity Plan

How you would like to participate *

• Serve on a workgroup to propose policy actions (2-3 hours per month, subject to approval of Task Force steering committee)
• Provide feedback on workgroup reports once I know how it might affect me
• Just want to follow progress and support climate action in Milwaukee