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Climate Cabinet's 2024 Election Recap (Battleground States): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wiXkRoXHEN6D8ErrOv74m_bPDuUmNq4z/view

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I would like to 💚💚💚💚this episode many times: Caroline is a tonic, and articulated the data and logic used to drive what they do, as well as basically capturing the crazy essence of climate activism.

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A specific measure telling the county or city to oppose offshore wind plans won 60-40 in Coos Bay OR. Most of these folks have never seen an offshore wind turbine, probably never been up close to an onshore one.

On Cape Cod, a group of municipalities held an advisory vote regarding local support for offshore wind which lost 48-52. In a similar vote in 2008, offshore wind won 87-13! "Advisory" meaning, "Should our state representative support such and such wind farms?" This is not progress.

The "information environment" for wind and solar is a shit show, and I wish some of the non-profit "climate" orgs you castigate would get with a program of support instead of the incessant "Stop fracking, stop fossils, disinvest..." w/o an alternative.

Until very recently I thought young libtards dominated "social media." Maybe on "social" issues, but it seems on "climate" that many are soooo concerned about habitat and preserving nature or regenerative agriculture or reducing overconsumption or overturning capitalism that any energy source (or storage device) other that rooftop solar or some supposed perfect fusion device assembled w/o toxics by a collective singing Kumbaya and installed on a brownfield by diverse union labor is taboo.

Anyway, I'm not a complete election stats junkie but I did notice one stat which modifies something you said. As I understand it, in a lot of the urban/Dem districts which "swung" Trump/GOP, a huge (like 80-90%) of that swing was that Dems just didn't turn out, or there was a big increase in turnout for Trump, not a switch by Dems to GOP. Something like that.

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Maybe think about slowing you and your guest speech down so everyone can follow you. Also has the intro music and announcements been accelerated or is it me slowing down

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Berkeley also passed a local measure (measure FF) for safe streets so people (and especially school kids) can better get around by biking, walking, and using other electric and assisted mobility devices! The new mayor is also a supporter and won an upset race against the only candidate who didn't support safe streets. Here's to making it easier for people to actually experience their city!

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We had a HUGE climate Victory in Washington State.

Our Climate Commitment Act raises about $1 billion per year for clean energy projects.

The Republicans tried to repeal it with an Initiative Petition.

Their message was Vote YES, Pay Less.

Our climate community, led by Governor Inslee, raised $16 million to campaign against that ballot measure, and we won by a 24% statewide.

As a result, we can already applaud my local utility for quickly developing plans to expand its low-income weatherization and heat pump assistance programs with funds provided by the Climate Commitment Act.

Personally, I’d also like to see funds from the Climate Commitment Act used in new buildings to cover the cost difference between market-rate construction and superefficient construction. The PAE Building in Portland is a good example of what we need to do. It is superefficient and produces as much electricity each year as it uses.

I encourage community-based organizations, local government agencies, housing authorities, and tribes to apply for grants from the Climate Commitment Act. In addition, Washington is launching the Federal Funds Grant Writing Assistance Program.

The FFGWAP is designed for Washington community-based organizations, local government agencies, housing authorities, tribes, businesses, and others eligible to receive federal funds to prepare and submit grant applications, helping Washington meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals while enhancing equity, innovation, economic growth, and job creation.

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This was a fantastic interview - It is great knowing that there are folks focused on the down-ballot races and understand the impact they have.

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It would have been nice to have a list of the candidates you suppported and the results on their races. Also, did you evaluate any races in California? We need help here in trying to get our climate groups to strengthen our power by focussing on specific candidates or pieces of legislation. We're spread out too widely and so are weak. Newsom vetoes everything climate and Big Oil money i very active in our local races.

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