Introducing Climate Action Now

Who is Climate Action Now? A growing group of highly concerned and deeply committed Vermonters, advancing an intense and strategic campaign to make Vermont a world-leader in solving the climate crisis.

This work is based on a shared belief that climate change is now the human rights struggle of our age, with the millennial generation’s right to a future, to inherit a planet similar to the one that sustained life as we know it for thousands of years--now being grievously threatened by the forces of greed, ignorance and inaction.
 
Facing this rising challenge, this group of Vermonters is gathering behind a shared conviction that Vermont, with its close-knit communities and long history of leading on social justice causes, must once again play a leading role by pointing the way for global climate change solutions.

This Vermont campaign focuses on three primary outcomes:

1.     Raising a bold and audacious, people powered movement that represents a clear mandate from the people of Vermont -- calling for climate solutions at a scale equivalent to the size of the crisis we must now address.

2.      Popular education about the importance of passing far more aggressive climate action legislation in Vermont—in light of the urgent need to end the massive levels of  greenhouse gas presently being emitted worldwide.  

3.      A community-based cultural shift to climate friendly social and economic practices through a strategic program of practical education, model community projects, and staging a network of local climate action centers and information hubs across the state.

Solid work has already gone into organizing this initiative: statewide listening tours, planing retreats, organizing meetings, a statehouse rally and the recent launch of Climate Action Now, an online climate action center.

In the months ahead the effort will continue with 350-VT, Transitions Town, Interfaith Power and Light, Town Energy Committees, campus climate groups and the Vermont Worker Center and many other grassroots and grasstops in Vermont to advance this campaign, through a series of escalating statewide events and citizen forums that will crystallize bold climate action demands into concrete plans and specific legislation, all bolstered by robust public support. 

Finally, in the spirit of open source organizing, Climate Action Now represents an open invitation for your direct involvement. The spirit of this work is one of openness, inclusiveness, equality and transparency. While the work process may never be perfect, the values and standards of behavior are clear.  Every group, every project, every forum is an open invitation for active participation based on a shared awareness that this movement can only advance through our collective action.