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Thanksgiving donation match through Blue Heart?
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

Hi folks, Hope you're doing as well as possible in these wild times! Every year around Thanksgiving, my favorite giving project Blue Heart <https://www.blueheartaction.org/> publishes a Giving Guide (2020 version here <https://www.blueheartaction.org/giving-guide-2020>) to recommend specific places to donate money: important and amazing but less visible/less funded organizations which focus on long-term movement/power building for marginalized communities. This year, we're offering a donation match with the Giving Guide so that any funds donated through the guide, up to a certain amount, will be doubled (!!!). This will also help us see how much money the Giving Guide moves :) I'm looking for folks willing to contribute to this matching pool in advance. This would be a pledge to match up to $N of other people's donations to the specific orgs listed in the Giving Guide. We're hoping this can be a big round number to inspire everyone to give more. If you might be interested in making a larger donation in advance—or if you have friends who might be interested—please reply to me in the next few days and we can chat about the details. I realize this is a bigger ask, and I deeply appreciate your consideration. Excited to share the Giving Guide once it launches! <3 Stacey Q: is there a minimum amount asked of a matching donor? A: not really, every little bit helps! If you're on the fence, please send me an email! I would appreciate increments of $100 for bookkeeping, and if it's < $100, perhaps waiting until the Giving Guide is out and giving directly would be simpler. I'm personally in for $3000.

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write postcards for the election / get out the vote
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

Hi Chrysalis Giving (+ Anna, + Ben), I hope you're all doing well! Some of you helped write get-out-the-vote postcards for the 2020 election—and for Georgia specifically—and may have already gotten this email from 30friends. I wanted to share this opportunity more broadly as we're getting close to the midterms. If you have some bandwidth to write postcards to voters, they're a fairly chill get-out-the-vote activity and can make a big difference in crucial districts! Including the email from F.E. below—please feel free to contact her directly if you'd like to help: *F.E. Young* *f.e.youngsculpture(a)gmail.com <f.e.youngsculpture(a)gmail.com>* She can get you the script/addresses/details—and I of course would love to know if you sign up :) I'm in for 50 postcards to start, hoping to get to 100! Thanks, Stacey P.S. I'm also hoping to motivate myself into more get-out-the-vote efforts, like maybe some phone banking? I don't know if I can get to the level of door canvassing like in 2020. If you're potentially interested, let me know—always easier with friends! -------------------------------- >From F.E.: The Midterms are upon us and it's time to get out the vote. A.K.A. Time to write some postcards!! We're starting with the Senate race in Wisconsin supporting Mandela Barnes who is running against Ron Johnson (a real piece of work!). We're starting there because their mail-in-ballots have already gone to the voters. We'll also be working in California. 1. Because so many of us live here and 2. Because California is soooooo important to holding our Democratic majority in the House. We'll be starting with Josh Harder who is running in a newly redistricted District 9 against Tom Patti (Mike Tyson's boxing coach). You can choose where you want to start...either or both. If you want an information sheet on either of these races, just let me know and I'll send you an information sheet along with the addresses and script...it might be helpful if you want to add your own thoughts to the regular script. Just let me know how many cards you want and I'll get them to you. I'm really looking forward to working with you guys again!! Much love, F.E.

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good news on housing
by Igor Serebryany 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

some bills passed the legislature last week that promise to make a significant dent in california's housing shortage -- up to as many as 2.4M homes. details here: https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/yimby-triumph-in-california (for context, california has ~12M homes total, so these estimates represent almost 20% of available supply). the legislators that made it possible includes both the senator and assemblyperson representing chrysalis -- nancy skinner and buffy wicks. i am sending them letters of support and thanks. --igor

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easy SF climate action this week: $11M funding
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

Hi folks, Hope you're doing well! Wanted to share an easy & potentially highly impactful climate action opportunity for San Francisco for this week. This week SF is voting on a budget, and *we have a chance to get $11 million for a San Francisco Climate Action Plan.* More context <https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hOfZ4HYsuz-Vs4zs-3fB3ar5OrOCGIz/view> & details/action options below via my friend Rachel. 1. *Sign* this petition <https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-climate-action-plan-including-th…> 2. *Call your city supervisor* & ask for their support: talking points/sample script in the petition <https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-climate-action-plan-including-th…> (interactive tool to find your district <https://sfplanninggis.org/sffind/>) 3. [superhero fancy option] *Record a < 1 min video *to be played at the meeting by *Wed June 22. *Instructions at the end of the email. If you do any of these things/share this email, would love to hear about it—all the ripples are so inspiring! <3S P.S. I know *this list has been a bit quiet & originally more focused on giving than on climate*. If you have thoughts on better organization/coordination (e.g. wanna join a climate-specific action/event email list? wanna post on more topics/invite more friends to this existing list? want another virtual/in person meetup on giving/activism/etc topics?), I'm all ears! *More details/context from Rachel:* Basically, it's *11 million* that is needed to fund the beginning of the city's Climate Action Plan. *It got left out* of the general budget, so we have to fight for it to be added back in before the budget is finalized, otherwise we just have a city-declared climate emergency and....no plan or $$ to deal with it! *This is a super great leverage pt! * If we can get across that it's important, this will *help fund commercial building climate retrofits, environmental justice grants, and vehicle electrification*. The letter also advocates for *cleanup around the Hunter's Point Shipyard*. If you want to take it one step further than that, you can *submit a video for public commentary. *This will probably have an outsized impact! It needs to be a minute or less and submitted by *Wednesday. * *Video submission instructions: * the city put up a special page for comment day at https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/2022_Budget_Public_Comment_Day.pdf One interesting bit says they allow videos but note the deadline. Videos/Documents to be shown during an individual’s comment time must be submitted 48 hours in advance (*no later than Wednesday, June 22, 2022*), in order to be tested and vetted beforehand. The A/V system in the Chamber does not work with the hybrid system; any documents brought on the day of will not be displayed. Email Videos/Documents to: bos.legislation(a)sfgov.org with the name of the individual who will be requesting it to be displayed when it is their turn in line. Videos should be no longer than one (1) minute and will be played in-lieu of the Remote Callers verbal comments.

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Our Last, Best Chance to Save Solar in CA
by Igor Serebryany 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hi Folks, Forwarding this email from the indefatigable Igor Tregub. If you're like me, you probably also waffled re: the proposed NEM3.0 rules in California. On the one hand -- yes, under current net metering rules, home owners who are getting paid back for their *average* cost of electricity for power produced in the middle of the day, when it's cheapest, are getting a pretty good deal. And this deal *is* financed by people who do not have solar on their homes -- in effect, a wealth transfer from the less wealthy home owners to the more wealthy ones, since it's the wealthy who tend to have rooftop solar. On the other hand, I think it should be possible to fix the rates without also creating a giveaway to utilities, in the form of interconnection fees. For our newly installed system at Chrysalis, it would be more than $100 per month, just for HAVING the solar panels! This is madness -- it will destroy the rooftop solar industry in California and cement the power of the investor-owned utilities like PG&E. Although I cannot make the in-person rally on Thursday, I plan to call the governor every day for the next two weeks. --igor ----- Forwarded message from Igor Tregub <itregub(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:26:00 -0800 From: Igor Tregub <itregub(a)gmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: THURSDAY 1/13: Our Last, Best Chance to Save Solar in CA - LA, SF, and from Your Home! X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_FONT_SIZE_LARGE, HTML_MESSAGE,HTTPS_HTTP_MISMATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,URIBL_GREY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Dear friends, I hope the new year finds you and yours well and safe. As you may have heard, rooftop solar is under attack. Whether you’re a rooftop solar owner, plan to go solar in the next couple of years, or just think local and community solar plays an integral role in fighting climate change: solar needs you. Action 1: [1]Call the CA Public Utilities Commission Thursday 1/13 at 9:40 am (meeting starts at 10 am but get on the line early). Details immediately below and talking points are at the bottom of this email. Date 01/13/2022 Time 10:00 AM (please sign on by 9:40 am if possible) Location Remote access only via webcast or phone Call-in-Number (800) 857-1917 Participant 9899501# PASSCODE Contact email [2]VotingMeetingHelp(a)cpuc.ca.gov or call (415) 703-5263 Webcast [3]http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc [cleardot] Action 2: Every day for next 2 weeks: Call the Governor at 916-445-2841 and say something along these lines: I am against the proposed Solar Penalty Fee! Nobody should pay a penalty for putting solar panels on their roof and California should be doing more, not less, to promote rooftop solar. Please show us you are serious about rate hikes, blackouts and air pollution. Say no to the utilities’ profit grab, and yes to helping millions of working and middle class people get solar. You can also email the Governor [4]here. Action 3: [5]Can you show up this Thursday, Jan. 13 at 11 AM? We’re rallying at California PUC offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. COVID protocols will be followed. Please wear a mask. Action 4: Write an op-ed opposing the Net Energy Metering 3.0 Proposed Decision and submit it to your local paper. The Background (hat tip to Climate Hawks Vote for developing the background below (slight updates from me). Last month the California Public Utilities Commission released a proposed decision that would gut rooftop solar in California. The fees imposed on rooftop solar owners would make California one of the three most expensive states in the nation for rooftop solar - joining Alabama and worse than West Virginia and Mississippi. It’s a horrible, shocking decision, long sought by the big corporate utilities (PG&E, SoCal Edison, and Sempra/ SDG&E). If you don’t already have rooftop solar, you might not have been following the details. Solar homeowners get credits for the electricity they sell back to the grid, known as net energy metering. The corporate utilities hate giving that credit and claim that the cost shift (a term they invented) means that they have to raise rates on non-solar customers. Climate hawks know the real reasons they raise rates – payouts to wildfire victims, bankruptcy lawyers, and their CEOs’ excessive salaries. This is nothing more than a corporate money-grab: to keep their profits high, I mean un-shift the costs, the investor-owned utilities want to impose a new penalty on rooftop solar owners. The proposed decision - a near-carbon copy of what PG&E requested - would tax rooftop solar owners $57/ month and decimate the solar industry. Simply put, it would be so expensive to go solar in California that no one would do it, during a climate crisis hitting California hard. It’s mind bogglingly short-sighted and slams the brakes on our state's climate leadership, at just the time when the Biden Administration [6]has said we need to increase solar adoption by 40%. Even the Governor yesterday said this proposal is flawed and "needs work." According to CalMatters, he also "said 'changes need to be made' to [7]state regulators’ controversial proposal to reform a wildly successful rooftop solar incentive program." (Please be sure to thank him). Thanks for standing up to save CA solar! In solidarity, Igor Disclaimer: I am an employee of the CA Solar and Storage Association Talking Points for Your 1 Minute at the CA Public Utilities Commission 1) Your name and where you live 2) Your org (if applicable) 3) I ask you to listen to the Governor and reject the Net Energy Metering 3.0 Proposed Decision. Instead, please: ● Keep local and community solar and battery storage growing in California, so that millions of working and middle class people can get solar in the coming years - both homeowners and renters. ● Don't buy the utility lie that rooftop solar is costing other people money. Rooftop solar is reducing the cost of long-distance power lines - the real reason for high rates, blackouts and wildfires. 4) In your own words, one of the following arguments to back up your request (you pick, but remember you only have 1 minute): a. Consumers should be able to control their energy bills: We're getting socked with endless rate hikes. Consumers should be able to control their energy bills and not be penalized for it, especially if we are expected to switch to electric cars and appliances. b. Power outages: Local rooftop solar and battery storage is the best and proven way for people to protect themselves from power outages. This is especially important for people with disabilities, medical issues, and those whose budgets are devastated when a week's worth of groceries spoils. c. Promoting local solar creates well-paying jobs: Rooftop solar and battery storage projects are one of the best "shovel-ready" job creators out there. Rooftop solar offers lots of local jobs in every community that cannot be outsourced. Promoting local solar saves all ratepayers money whether or not they have solar. Rooftop solar reduces the cost of long-distance power lines, and can save every ratepayer $300/year for the next thirty years if we keep it growing. d. Climate change: California will not meet its climate change goals if we back off from rooftop solar. The state itself says we need to triple the amount of solar to get off fossil fuels - both large scale and rooftop solar. We can't do that with large scale renewables alone. At this time, when it is so urgent to get more clean energy on the grid of all forms, why would we nickel and dime rooftop solar?? e. Open space: California can't meet its goals of protecting 30% of the last remaining open spaces without a lot more rooftop solar. Rooftop solar reduces the need to develop large solar and wind farms and transmission lines, and will save an area half the size of LA. Let's be smart about how we transition to clean energy and utilize our rooftops! References “Unpacking California’s Controversial New Rooftop Solar Proposal,” Inside Climate News [8]https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16122021/ inside-clean-energy-california-rooftop-solar-policy/ “Everything you need to know about California’s plan to slash solar incentives,” Los Angeles Times [9]https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2021-12-16/ california-plan-to-cut-solar-incentives-boiling-point -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "berkeleyclimate" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [10]berkeleyclimate+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit [11]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ berkeleyclimate/ CAHdPQY4s0HA-X5D%3DPPJQaUHYc0bv9JDPF9VeV5Ep0PqLxcv90g%40mail.gmail.com. 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visioning workshop Dec 8 or 10: "life blueprint" for activism
by Stacey Svetlichnaya 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

Hi folks, Hope you're all doing well! I just signed up for this workshop offered by my friend Jess and thought it might be interesting and relevant to some of you: *Rooted: A vision workshop to clarify what's most important for your life & activism in 2022* https://www.radicalsupport.org/rooted Sounds like we'll be creating a personalized plan for sustainable & impactful & satisfying activism in the next year, which is something I would love support in doing. Would also love to discuss any overlapping interests/opportunities for collaboration that might come out of this visioning :) It's a pay-what-you-can 2 hour zoom webinar, with two available time slots on Dec 8 and Dec 10 (I am doing Fri Dec 10 at 9am) <3S

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Local orgs resettling Afghan refugees
by Christopher Lin 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi friends, if you are interested in giving money or time to help Afghan refugees resettle in the Bay Area, I wanted to point to a couple orgs doing this work: Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay https://jfcs-eastbay.org/urgent-afghan-evacuation/ "Some planeloads of refugees have arrived in Fort Lee, Virginia, and this month, JFCS East Bay has already welcomed 40 people to begin their new lives in the East Bay. We are currently waiting for 23 people more people to arrive from Fort Lee, and have accepted the cases of another 33 who are still in Afghanistan. The number and pace of resettlement is like nothing we’ve seen in recent years." They also have volunteer opportunities (e.g. airport pickups, register kids for school). International Rescue Committee Northern California https://help.rescue.org/donate/Softlandingfund "The IRC Northern California is raising $150,000 toward an Afghan Soft Landing Fund. 100% of your donation will be disbursed to cover emergency temporary housing as well as rental & utility assistance to support evacuee families stabilizing." In solidarity, Topher

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[berkeleyclimate@googlegroups.com: Petition to Save CA Solar]
by Igor Serebryany 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Hi folks, I signed the petition here: https://www.savecaliforniasolar.org/sign-petition The goal is to get the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt rules that continue making rooftop solar cost-effective to install. PG&E and other investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are trying to kill rooftop solar, by passing pricing rules that actually make it MORE expensive to have solar panels on your roof than not having them. I'm not totally sure how effective petitions are, so I've also called Newsom's office and tried to contact the CPUC directly to voice my support for rooftop solar. I will forward more action opportunities as I see them! <3, --igor ----- Forwarded message from "'Milliken, Rebecca' via berkeleyclimate" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> ----- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:03:32 +0000 From: "'Milliken, Rebecca' via berkeleyclimate" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> To: "berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com" <berkeleyclimate(a)googlegroups.com> Subject: Petition to Save CA Solar X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,DKIMWL_WL_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Posting on behalf of Reuben B. Ly – please send questions or replies to [1] reuben.b.ly(a)gmail.com A quiet attack is underway to kill rooftop solar this December. This is not an ad or a joke. The CA utility companies have created a 303 page proposal that would siphon the economic value of rooftop solar away from owners. The jaw-dropping proposal includes: ● 80% reduction in “net metering” payments (the amount utilities pay panel-owners for their excess energy) ● $65 - $90 / monthly "solar connection fee" – rain or shine! ● The result: Rooftop solar panel owners could actually be charged more on their electric bill than someone without panels! Crazy, right? Action:[2] sign this petition to Save California Solar So, what would happen if your neighbors stopped buying rooftop solar panels? ● loss of up to 70,000 local jobs ● loss of the greatest future source of clean energy in the state! A ruling is set for Dec 10^th with the CPUC. Your voice matters. Action 1:[3] sign this petition Action 2: forward this to at least ONE MORE person that you know in CA Please sign the petition now. Thank you. Reuben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "berkeleyclimate" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [4]berkeleyclimate+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit [5]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ berkeleyclimate/ BY3PR09MB8834D8FAADBC659649BBB4FCA08D9%40BY3PR09MB8834.namprd09.prod.outloo… . References: [1] mailto:reuben.b.ly@gmail.com [2] https://bit.ly/3by7yoO [3] https://bit.ly/3by7yoO [4] mailto:berkeleyclimate+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com [5] https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/berkeleyclimate/BY3PR09MB8834D8FAADBC6596… ----- End forwarded message -----

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the current haps in congress
by Igor Serebryany 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

hi folks, when i send these emails, they're usually oriented around action. in this case, the action i recommend is: * call your federal house representative, and ask that they vote AGAINST the bi-partisan infrastructure deal unless there's agreement on the reconciliation package * call your federal senators, and demand action on the reconciliation bill, including specifically all climate-change-related spending there i've done these actions and logged them in my activism log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GcwD94b35Qk8j4D4mU5JuSbWdhsEYsWZ60Z… i recommend you keep one of these, and also there are phone numbers there in case your representatives are also my representatives! WHY? WHAT'S HAPPENING? this is a really critical moment. basically, in the next week, the US actually does something on climate change, or we won't. actually, in the next week the US might shut down the government and default on it's debt. yeah, shit's pretty crazy right now. the bipartisan infrastructure deal was a thing that D and R could agree on in washington, and includes very traditional infrastructure funding -- roads, bridges. there are votes to pass it in the senate. however, the house progressive caucus is threatening to withhold their votes on that bill, which might cause it to fail in the house, unless both that bill and the reconciliation bill are brought to vote at the same time. the reconciliation bill, which you've probably seen under it's $3.5T price tag, includes the rest of biden's agenda, including funding for climate change, expanded healthcare, etc... it's a reconciliation bill because otherwise it would be filibustered by senate Rs, and so it needs 50 senate Ds plus harris's tie-breaker to pass. the dems can't agree among themselves about this bill -- in particular, joe manchin of west virgina and kyrsten sinema of arizona are balking at all sorts of stuff. manchin, who is from a coal state (fun fact, there are maybe 20k coal miners, loosely defined as anyone who has anything directly to do with mining, in wv, a state of 2M people) and is also head of the senate energy and natural resources committee, has general objections. sinema seems particularly upset about giving medicare the ability to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. the reconciliation bill includes funding for the federal government, so if *something* isn't done, the government will shut down on friday. the ideal outcome would be passing the reconciliation package. possibly, a continuing resolution could be passed to temporarily fund the government to avoid a shutdown. in the meantime, the US has hit it's debt ceiling, a provision which limits how much the government can borrow (by issuing bonds). the debt ceiling was raised 3 times in bi-partisan votes during the last administration, but now senate Rs are threatening to filibuster the vote unless some unspecified demands for more bi-partisanship are met. if we don't raise the debt ceiling by early october, the treasury will be unable to service (pay interest on) it's existing bonds, and will be in default. in short, everything is a cluster-fuck and it's all happening right now. i've been checking for updates here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/sep/29/democrats-infrastructu…

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activism log
by Igor Serebryany 15 Sep '21

15 Sep '21

activism should be easier. this is why i created an activism log, which includes all the issues i'm tracking and reaching out about, as well as all the phone numbers and contact info for all my government officials and representatives: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GcwD94b35Qk8j4D4mU5JuSbWdhsEYsWZ60Z… i recommend making your own version of this. i've found it energizing and convenient, and it has definitely upped my activism/political involvement. i have a goal of reaching out at least 5 times every week! if you live in berkeley, the "contact info" tab is probably immediately useful for you! <3, --igor

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