NEWSLETTER: What’s Next for the Climate Movement? Grounding Ourselves in Compassion and Community, Finding Our Strength in Solidarity

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Climate Action Now Monthly Gathering

Monday, November 25

7-8:30 pm via Zoom 

Register here

What’s Next for the Climate Movement?

Grounding Ourselves in Compassion and Community;

Finding Our Strength in Solidarity

Featuring Jeff Ordower, North America Director, 350.org  

Jeff will be joined by other presenters

Everyone is warmly invited to this interactive event!

Updates coming soon

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Climate Justice in Uncertain Times

Presented by 350.org

Thursday, November 14 at noon via Zoom

Our global climate justice movement needs to come together to stand up to Trump’s anti-climate agenda and to stand in solidarity with frontline communities against his radical far right agenda.

Join 350.org for a webinar featuring climate organizers in the Global South who have refused to back down in the face of authoritarianism, and lessons our U.S. team will take as we plan our next steps.

RSVP for the webinar

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Join Our Campaign to Protect Wildlands in Massachusetts!

Do you find solace in woods and other wild places?

Would you like to join a positive, collaborative campaign that will protect wildlife areas where you live and across the Commonwealth?

Climate Action Now welcomes individuals and organizations ready to take action to identify and protect priority Wildlands to join our new campaign. Learn about the campaign here, and sign up for our first campaign planning meeting on December 11 at 6:30pm here.

Climate Action Now’s Regenerative Farming, Forests and Food Systems group decided to launch the Wildlands campaign in response to the report Wildlands in New England: Past, Present, and Future and because we understand that:

Healthy forests are key for carbon storage, biodiversity, regulating planetary systems and our well-being;

Our state is 60% forested but only 2% has been preserved as Wildlands — much of which lacks permanent protection;

In a time when our ecosystem is under assault, protecting nature is an act of love and a defense of life itself.

We look forward to seeing you at our first meeting at

6:30pm on December 11th!

Photo credit: Dino Kuznik

Climate Action Now Miyawaki Forest Project Will Be Planting at Grow Food Northampton!

Climate Action Now and Grow Food Northampton (GFN) are working together to create a Miyawaki Forest on GFN land in the spring of 2025.

This project, which emerged from CAN’s Regenerative Farming, Forests and Food Systems Group  promises to be family friendly and fulfilling with community-building days of planting and caring for the mini forest in its initial phase.

Springing up all over the world, these tiny, densely planted forests composed of native trees and understory plants grow faster, and remove more carbon than trees planted in traditional ways, support the ecosystem and offer cooling relief on hot days.

Contact climateactionnowmass@gmail.com

if you would like to get involved!

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Please help protect October Mountain State Forest — the largest in Massachusetts — by signing this citizen’s petition.

A message from Janet Sinclair, Save Massachusetts Forests, and

Michael Kellett, RESTORE: The North Woods

As the Mass Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) performs its ten-year review of how it manages our state forests (public meetings and comment periods will be happening soon), residents in the Berkshires and across the state are calling on the DCR Commissioner to ensure the cancelation of the plan to log 447 acres in October Mountain State Forest and to designate the whole forest as a reserve, protected from logging. 

More background on this effort can be found here. We will deliver the petition to the DCR Commissioner in the next two weeks. We urge you to add your signature to this important petition.

Photo: Rene Theberge

Climate Action Now is a people-powered, grassroots Western Mass organization dedicated to building a powerful, unstoppable and just climate movement. We work in our communities and in collaboration with diverse partners across the region to educate, advocate, and mobilize for climate justice.

The Climate Action Now Steering Committee includes a representative from each working group and campaign. Climate Action Now warmly welcomes newcomers. Let’s work together to create an inclusive climate justice movement!

Please send feedback, comments, and suggestions to:

Susan Theberge, Newsletter Editor

Photo Editor: Rene Theberge

Special thanks to Mary Jane Else and Irvine Sobelman,

 climateactionnowma.org

climateactionnowmass@gmail.com

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