Let’s Keep Alaska Cool — The Southeast Alaska Climate Report September 2022
It’s good to be back at this newsletter! And it is a good time to be a climate activist. Why? Well, the Greenland Ice Sheet is going to contribute at least 10 inches toward rising sea levels globally, even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow, so it’s a good...Here’s what the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Alaska.
Hopefully, you’ve seen the headlines by now, a heavily pruned climate and healthcare bill, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, narrowly passed through Congress last week and was signed into law by President Biden this afternoon, Tuesday, August 16. Though the bill is...Southeast Alaska Climate Report No. 4
May was a busy month for Alaska’s climate movement. For one, my work with SEACC was in the news way too much, and not for good reasons either, questioning nuclear waste, questioning natural gas, and questioning the point of it all. Gov. Dunleavy held a heavily...It’s still Earth Day! — Southeast Alaska Climate Report No. 3
This newsletter is going to be (mostly) good news for once so grab your favorite beverage and buckle up. Let’s start with the bad: SB85. As you’ve heard before, is a bad timber bill that would open up state forests for round log exports to China and remove...Southeast Alaska Climate Report No. 2
Though Southeast Alaska Conservation Council is based in Juneau, not everyone knows that I actually live on Sheet’ka Kwaan lands — 90 miles to the southwest in Sitka. Spring is upon us here and the herring are spawning. As I write this, the herring eggs are coming in....SEACC Urges Board of Fisheries to Act on Herring Conservation at Southeast Finfish Meeting
JUNEAU (Tlingit: A’aawk Kwáan lands) — Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC) is attending the Southeast and Yukatat Finfish and Shellfish meeting of the Alaska Board of Fisheries in Anchorage this week from March 10 through 12 to lend support to Sitka...Introducing the Southeast Alaska Climate Report!
Maybe it’s because it’s the first Monday morning of a potential WW3 as I write this, but my early drafts of this newsletter were full of doom and gloom. I’ve restarted more times than the U.S. has failed to meet its Paris Accord goals, and, well, writing about climate...Alpine Islands: Hunting for Mountain Goats in a Changing Climate
SEACC Climate Organizer Matt Jackson spotlights how climate change will affect mountain goats on a recent hunt — but hopefully, Alaska will correct its course. Halfway up the mountain, we start having second thoughts. First, it was a dash across a steep ravine with...Climate Warrior: Trixie Bennett on 10,000 years of Native Resiliency
We have some of, if not the best, fisheries that are left on the planet. We need to preserve that.