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Climate News:

• The City of Homer’s Climate Action Plan from 2007.

• After a long wait and a lot of research, it's been completed!  City of Homer Climate Action Plan Implementation Project Final Report.  Check out the massive document that compiles energy data for all City of Homer functions as well as provides suggestions for cost saving efficiencies and forward-thinking solutions developing a more independent energy infrastructure.

• The City of Homer signed on to the Coastal Climate Compact after it was created here with folks from coastal communities from around the state in 2009

• See what the Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning (SNAP) has put together for climate projections for Homer as well as their climate charts for our community

• For those interested in climate change education for ages 9 and up, local teachers Jane and Dwaine Tolesfrud have created an awesome curriculum you can use.  Check it out at www.globalfever.net

• Become an AMCC/1SKY ALLY to help find solutions to climate change and ocean acidification in Alaska.  The Alaska Marine Conservation Council has a partnership with 1Sky to promote effective federal action on global climate change and ocean acidification, both of which are important issues affecting Alaska.  Click Here for more information

• Check out the annual report from the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)

• Learn more about how climate change is affecting us at Alaska Conservation Solutions

• Check out the inspiring 350.org to see what is happening in communities around the world.  On the main home page there is a  slideshow sampling some of the more than 25,000 photos of people uniting in a global call for 350ppm.  You will see that the sixtieth photo on the slideshow is FROM HOMER!

• Check out the latest in climate research from the IPCC

• Join in the discussion on climate science with climate scientists at Real Climate

• Read and make comments on the on going discussion concerning the ethics of climate change at Climate Ethics

• Keep up on the latest news stories concerning climate change with the Tiempo Climate Newswatch

• Find out what the Union of Concerned Scientists are saying about everything from energy to food, security to vehicles, and much more.

• Find out who top polluters are amongst nations, states, cities and other various breakdowns.

Articles

• Bill McKibbben The World at 350

• WBGU Report

There is tons of information out there, educate yourself!

Local artist Mavis Muller creates an inspiring statement saying "Yes" to the goal of 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Climate Webinars  Every month ACCAP presents a webinar on a different climate-related theme.  Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. 

HOMER FACT:

The costly changes occurring in Alaska from climate change have very serious implications for the state, the nation and the world.

We, in Alaska, are first-hand global warming witnesses. In fact, according to temperature data, we are at ground zero. During the last four decades, Alaska has heated up more than anywhere else in the country. Our annual temperatures have increased 3–5 °F and our winter temperatures have soared  7–10 °F.

The time to act is NOW.  We are fortunate to have a forward-thinking city government that has adopted the Climate Action Plan, a document outlining ways the municipality can reduce its carbon footprint.  The next step falls to us.  ANYTHING we can do to reduce our carbon emissions will only serve to help improve the situation.  And learn what you can do for your home and our community to adapt to a changing world.

This is Land's End with a hide tide and storm surge in 2006.  How would ocean level rise affect Homer?  (photo by Neil McArthur)

To contact us:

You can drop us a letter at:

Sustainable Homer, PO Box 1801, Homer, AK  99603

Phone: 907-235-6953

E-mail: info@sustainablehomer.org