1,914 The number of western monarch butterflies counted in a survey on the California coast this winter — down from almost 30,000 last year and more than 1.2 million in the first count in 1997. (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation blog | 8 min read)
Reason for Satisfaction
Katrina Bartolomie announced that voter participation in the 2020 Presidential election was slightly greater than 82%. This is greater than the 80% during Barack Obamas 2008 campaign. The MCDCC spent money and effort to drive up voter participation. I think we can take some credit for this success.
Record-Setting Fires in Colorado and California
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For much of the United States around and west of the Rocky Mountains, the summer and autumn of 2020 have been rough. Nearly 80 percent of the region is facing some level of drought, affecting 40 million people.
IMDC Mins 11-20
DATE: 11-20 TIME: 5:30 PM PLACE: Zoom Meeting Click Here Meeting ID 894 0277 5632 Passcode 304953 Call to order / Welcome 5:30 Minutes tabled to next meeting Chair’s Report Outstanding Mobile HQ effort – Joe raised more than $10,000 which we used to buy the 2020 Campaign collateral. A record number of yard signs […]
Mike McGuire Town Hall
Who: Senator Mike McGuire; Mendocino County Board of Supervisors Chair John Haschak and Chief Executive Officer Carmel Angelo; Ukiah City Manager Sage Sangiacomo; Senior Program Manager of Mendocino County Health & Human Services Agency Megan Van Sant; and representatives from the California Department of Housing and Community Development and Homeward Bound, which provides services and permanent housing for homeless residents. What: Telephone or Zoom […]
More heat means less ice, and no going back
Rising temperatures will radically affect how much Antarctic ice melts — and the impact is likely to be irreversible.
‘Apocalyptic’ fires ravage tropical wetlands
Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region — the world’s largest tropical wetland — have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year.
Wildfires: count more than hectares
Record-breaking fires in California will probably ravage more than 1.5 million hectares over 2020.
Two-fifths of plants at risk of extinction
Plant “species are disappearing faster than we can find and name them”, says Alexandre Antonelli, the director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens
You can campaign fom home
Turn Frustration into Action Blue Notes 2020 is a local initiative that sends personalized post cards to voters in key states and districts. We want to boost voter turnout and re-register voters who were illicitly purged from voting rolls. Indivisible Sonoma County is serving as a clearinghouse for info on key campaigns across the country. […]