Help launch LocalClimate.org
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LocalClimate.org is a new public service that gives you everything you need to know about climate change in your city, and every city. Now, more than ever, it's vitally important for you to be aware of climate change (and solutions) in the area where you live.
Knowing about your city's overall climate change situation may give you fear and optimism at the same time. LocalClimate.org will help you become familiar with the changes and impacts your city will experience over the coming years. As it stands, our future looks bleak, but you'll feel plenty of motivation when you see the amazing things local folks are doing about it.
LocalClimate.org's job is to make it possible for many more people to get interested (and involved!) in their town's ongoing response to climate change.
LocalClimate.org is made for everyone in your local community. Students, educators, moms, dads, city leaders, businesses, orgs, your rep in congress, you, your family, your friends ...everyone!
Your city's page on LocalClimate will be regularly updated, science-based, and fact-checked. It's friendly and free of politics, so everyone can benefit.
Your funding will make an immediate impact on how soon LocalClimate.org can serve more and more cities. The two main things you'll be funding:
1. Gathering and nurturing teams of local climate writers (students, activists, concerned local residents) in cities everywhere. The main task right now is to get each local team started creating multi-media content about climate change in their cities and towns. From now thru 2022, this task will be the bulk of my work.
2. Tech and Starting costs
This includes the expected and unexpected tech costs of growing the site, replacing the site creator's elderly MacBook, and becoming a federal 501(c)3 nonprofit.
It's a small thanks for now, but I'd like to share how grateful I am for your help on LocalClimate .org's "Founding Supporters" page! Do reach out...I want to know what you think! Thanks.
- Steven Scott, founder/creator LocalClimate.org
Steven Scott is from Chicago and local in Las Vegas. He was a city planner at the City of Las Vegas during the town's growth explosion. After getting degrees at University of Oregon, Steve managed energy programs at the City of Portland Bureau of Sustainability. He's directed a university field station in the high desert of Oregon, toured folks around a wildlife refuge, and organized at the Center for Biological Diversity. Steve is interested in all the sciences, birds, desert hiking, and agents of change.
Scary Local Climate Stuff At LocalClimate.org you'll see your latest local climate change projections (we'll call it "climate forecast"), interpreted and graphicized from the work of climate scientists. You want to get a good basic idea of what the climate will be like in your city, during your lifetime. As I create the site, I totally geek out on things like putting info together in a way that my family and friends can get.
What!? No! 128 degrees? [Note from founder Steve] I still need to run my decidedly civilian climate forecasts by an actual climate scientist, as all forecasts on LocalClimate must. But given the easy online tools available from pioneering scientists at UCLA, I'm sure the scenarios, temperatures, and decades in the graphics and narrative are at least close to accurate. Folks in many cities will find their climate forecast to be quite disturbing.
Your town will be impacted, and it will likely need to strengthen local infrastructure against new climate conditions. Every city has its own set of climate vulnerabilities. LocalClimate.org will tell you about them. Is your town resilient enough to cope with the changing climate?
Most cities still have a "Local Carbon Monster," heating the climate with it's 24/7 carbony spew. LocalClimate.org keeps watch on each city's monster (carbon-fired power plants). When will your beast finally be slayed? Wait. What? Someone's keeping the monster alive?
Awesome Local Climate Solutions: If you're curious about your town's rapid response to climate change, you'll discover here the bonus part of LocalClimate.org. You can keep up with progress in every sector of your community as it transitions to clean energy. And see your City's progress making local infrastructure more resilient.
Your mayor and city council are doing something about climate change. More and more cities are well-started on reducing carbon and beefing up inrastructure. Others are stuck in debate or inaction. Some cities (municipalities) are shaping up to become great examples of climate planning, policy, and projects for other cities.
Local residents give a periodic "climate performance grade" on their municipality. This is informal, and definitely not meant to shame public officials, but to show them how well they're doing on the climate, And so people can compare grades among cities for a local nudging effect.
Citizen climate orgs in your town are working diverse solutions to your local climate emergency. Like educating politicians, cultivating diverse community leadership, and litigating against corporate entrenchment.
Students at your local school or University are studying climate change. Your local K-12 system includes climate change into the lesson plans of most subjects. Your local University may soon be offering undergrad climate science programs, taught by climate scientist instructors.
The persistence of younger local climate activists works. Your city's climate action groups can march right into live TV coverage and let the whole town know what's up with Big Carbon and the industry's financial backers.
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Please GoFundMe!!! so this project can provide ongoing local climate change info (and solutions!) for your town, and every town. Because knowing about the changing local climate will help you, your family, and your community. To make your local energy transition go faster! Thanks!
Organizer
Steven Scott
Organizer
Las Vegas, NV
