What can we do to fight climate change?

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About the group

Climate Change is the most important issue of our time and all signs show that our society is not doing nearly enough to avert the coming planet-wide catastrophe.

At the same time, the problem seems too big to fully understand, and the actions we need to take too numerous and large for one person to seemingly make a difference.

To start, this group will be a discussion forum to share information and resources around climate change and (hopefully) start to identify local actions we as the Chi Hack Night community can take to slow the warming of our planet.

Group leaders

Derek Eder @derekeder

Who we're looking for

Literally anyone and everyone

Tools

This will be a discussion group and we'll be taking notes

Relevant Links

• What is Climate Change? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
• Groups organizing around Climate change
  • https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
  • https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
• Illinois Climate Change legislation:https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jc-kibbey/illinois-passes-nation-leading-equitable-climate-bill
• Electrification efforts: https://electrifynow.net/
• Works of science fiction about Climate Change: https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136

Where we meet

Likely in the main room

Chi Hack Night slack channel

TBD

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Meeting 1: we had a discussion with about 8 people and took notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB_nmPAf_Hlhai_2-ziIBGAYurpdUJFoXoMakgIXo-s/edit#

We're continuing to gather information and resources to identify what are the highest leverage things we can do to reduce carbon emissions. Please add your suggestions as well!

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Updated meeting notes doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gs7gO9YmBgIWOMd7oGXmIF1XRwfBIt8jGTOpn8udjg/edit#

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superseded by #215