USEFUL LinkS
This guide will help you to find local organizations that fit your preferences to get involved in climate action.
Community organizations engaged in climate work
100% Renewable Committee. Chair, Nick Exline.
Citizens' Climate Lobby, North Lake Chapter
Tahoe-based government agencies engaged in climate work
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Trash and Climate
South Tahoe Refuse is a family-owned company that handles all the trash in this world-class vacation destination. Jeanette Tillman gets down and dirty in her podcast series about what happens with all the trash generated in South Tahoe. We encourage you to check out this eye-opening podcast called 'Trash Talk'.
Episode 9, 12/2020: Special Guest, Bonnie Turnbull joins in the conversation about how to reduce impacts in our community and what we do with all that trash!
Episode 8, 11/2020: Climate Change brings it in to how our individual climate can create change that has positive affects on our world. Even our little community can make a difference!
Episode 7, 09/2020: Do I (you) need a Bear Box? Maybe..maybe not..
Check out more episodes from the link above!
A clock that counts humanity's emissions and time until we exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The goal is zero net carbon emissions in time to avert worst case climate change effects. This shows us the urgency to do something immediately about Tahoe climate. What's up with everyone talking about 1.5 degress Celcius? Go to the source and read the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees.
Reliable internet resources on climate change
Yale Program on Climate Communications
Climate-oriented podcasts