Bill Murphy

Yesterday (Monday, 4/22) I attended a meeting of the Climate Reality Project's Silicon Valley chapter, of which I am a member... a leader from Citizen's Climate Lobby gave a detailed presentation about the current state of their proposed carbon tax legislation, the Green New Deal, and California's cap and trade system. 

Today I attended an Elders Climate Action webinar, getting started as a volunteer in the upcoming elections... this is called Elders Promote the Vote, but really its the Environmental Votor Project.  There is a serious problem in the environmental community with low voter turnout!

Also, I blogged about climate change on several platforms, including setting up a paid advertisement for Elders Climate Action's northern California chapter.

Yesterday (Saturday, 4/20) I tabled for San Jose Clean Energy, the brand new community choice energy nonprofit.  Our table was one of many at an Earth Day fair at Alum Rock Park in San Jose.

For background:  San Jose residents were all automatically moved off the legacy utility Pacific Gas and Electric in March, and onto the new nonprofit at the 80% greenhouse gas-free level.  

However, to get to 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity, families need to take the step of going online and opting-up.

This was the message of the tabling.  (Our four volunteers, myself included, were actually from the local chapter of the Climate Reality Project.)  
For background:  The remaining 13 of 14 cities in Santa Clara County are already on 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity through another provider Silicon Valley Clean Energy or the longstanding clean energy program of the City of Palo Alto - a leader in the field.

San Jose is last to the party, and very welcome nonetheless...!

Last Thursday (4/18), I performed two volunteer climate related actions:

a) Attended a monthly climate change book group for the first time.  It was a lively two hours with the members going around the table and sharing current climate events locally for the first hour before we ever got around to discussing this month's book.  And it was potentially productive as I may have gotten the group to use Hal Harvey's excellent new book on essential climate policies, "Designing Climate Solutions"  (please check out his recent lecture at Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency). 

https://paloalto.bibliocommons.com/events/5a234b8f3f0f9e2500266f6f

The group was also receptive to me passing out around 25 Climate Flag bumperstickers and using their cars as "influencers."

b) I spent several hours helping set up the climate blog of one of the leaders of Elders for Climate Action.  We will have a final session to complete his setup this coming week.

https://www.facebook.com/Learn-About-Climate-Change-and-its-Solutions-289663075259874/

Monday, my stack of 250 Climate Flag bumperstickers arrived, and yesterday Tuesday I passed out about 25 of them.

Tuesday, I volunteered to man an Earth Day 2019 table at the San Jose event, pushing residents to opt-up to the highest level of green energy as part of their recent Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) rollout, San Jose Clean Energy (SJCE).

Tuesday, I also blogged roughly next three day's content... on roughly a dozen posts on LinkedIn, my Facebook and Instagram pages "Global Warming, You and I."  At this time, with Earth Day coming this weekend many of the posts promote it.

Today, I'm working with the national coordinator for Elders Climate Action to become moderator of their Northern California chapter's Facebook Page.

This weekend, I will help a friend set up his biweekly climate newsletters as a blog in Facebook.

Today, Friday I received a stack of Climate Flag bumperstickers, which I ordered to pass out to folks in my town (especially those with electric cars).  This is a good design, and perhaps folks on your team can use it as well?

Go to climateflag.org to get the .pdf or plans for how to make a cloth flag for marches?

It was designed in 2016 by artists in San Francisco.  The blue circle symbolizes the Earth, the yellow the sun, the white the air, the blue the waters, and the green the land and plants.

Wednesday, I mentored a new blogger in Palo Alto CA, as to how to set up his website, as well as how and why it is a good idea to also create the same blog on some of the social media platforms.

Sunday, I attended the policy and legislation team meeting of 350.org Silicon Valley... and brought their insights back  to the new Climate Reality Project Silicon Valley chapter team for policy and legislation.  This is a new arena for me personally (up to this point, I have been the blogger behind Global Warming, You and I.  But I am shifting to include advocacy for policy and legislation solutions, which I believe will have a higher impact.

Tuesday, I created a meme to advocate for high fuel economy standards, and posted it on my various climate solutions blogs, Global Warming, You and I in Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  My inspiration is the recent book, Designing Climate Solutions by Hal Harvey et al of Energy Innovation LLC in San Francisco.

Please steal this meme and use it yourself!!

Sunday, I created a meme to advocate for Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) for clean electricity.  And posted it on my various climate solutions blogs, Global Warming, You and I in Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  My inspiration is the recent book, Designing Climate Solutions by Hal Harvey of of Energy Innovation LLC... a really fine book for understanding what our main climate policy and legislation asks are.

Please steal this meme and use it yourself!!