How A Climate Scientist Learned to Love Taming Bigfoot
SSCAN is excited to support 1 Sustainable Planet and Taming Bigfoot in Seattle!! We’re grateful for their leadership in helping us all reduce our carbon footprints. Taming Bigfoot in Seattle is a fun way for committed activists and others to learn how best to reduce our carbon footprint. Team sign-ups are underway for this friendly, Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
The upcoming state legislative session starts up again in Jan 2018 and SSCAN is ramping up its plan of action for this short session. We warmly invite you to join the discussions on how to support effective climate justice policies through WA state. At the same time, the Ranier Great Streets workgroup will also be Continue Reading
Mt Baker Meaningful Movie – The Economics of Happiness
“Lonely people have never been happy people. And globalization is creating a very lonely planet.” So says activist and author Vandana Shiva in The Economics of Happiness. The Economics of Happiness, is an incisive documentary that links today’s global crises (climate change, terrorism, the financial crash) with personal malaise (rising levels of depression and the Continue Reading
Port Commissioner Candidate Conversation
Please join us for a conversation with Port Commissioner candidates John Creighton, Ryan Calkins, Peter Steinbrueck and Preeti Shridhar. This will be a chance to learn about the port and ask questions of the candidates. What happens at the Port of Seattle has a huge impact on our environment and decisions that are made by Continue Reading
Mt Baker Meaningful Movies: The Story of Climate Change
Mt Baker Meaningful Movies presents an evening of information and action! We will be showing two short films, The Story of Climate Change and Solutions to Climate Change. These films feature Bill McKibben from http://350.org, Jim Hansen, Katharine Hayhoe and others who provide updates on the science and solutions to climate change. After the films, a speaker from Alliance for Continue Reading
September Monthly SSCAN Meeting
Please join us for this monthly meeting event. John Stafford will give a presentation on the last legislative session in Olympia. As you may know, John is a teacher, and he will grade our legislators’ accomplishments. Did they flunk? Come find out… Next we’ll focus on our new Great Streets program with group discussions to share ideas on how Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
We will have a report on the Climate Reality Project training from attendee, Bogdana Manole, a tour of the new SSCAN website, a report on Phase 2 of the Rainier Corridor Safety Project and a discussion on new SSCAN volunteer opportunities! After the meeting we will move to the Perihelion Brewery for our customary quaff Continue Reading
SSCAN hosts Happy Hour at Perihelion Brewery
Join climate-conscious neighbors and friends for a Happy Hour at Perihelion Brewery. It’s an opportunity to either relax and mingle or talk shop. See you there! Continue Reading
Mount Baker Meaningful Movies Project presents “Nuclear Lands: A Story of Plutonium”
From the Hanford site in Washington State (home to scientists working on the Manhattan Project in 1943), to La Hague in France (a plutonium reprocessing plant), to Rokkasho in northern Japan (a nuclear plant built atop a seismic fault), this film tracks the origin and uses of plutonium. Along the way it questions Continue Reading
SSCAN Monthly Meeting
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Mt Baker Meaningful Movies: Rikers- an American Jail
The United States is facing a crisis of mass incarceration with over 2.2 million people packed into its jails and prisons. To understand the human toll of this crisis, Rikers Island is a good place to start. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not Continue Reading