{"id":2452753,"date":"2019-12-30T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/take-climate-action-at-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:18:09","slug":"take-climate-action-at-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/take-climate-action-at-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Take climate action at the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Glad to see Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman is challenging folks to have a \u201cpersonal climate action plan.\u201d (\u201cWhat\u2019s your climate action plan, Commissioner Poschman?\u201d Dec. 28, The Aspen Times)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">However, I would like to challenge everyone to think beyond things like recycling and LED bulbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Whatever bandwidth you have for addressing climate change, please devote most of it to advocating for political change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Email or call your members of Congress and tell them you\u2019re a climate voter. Tell them you want them to support specific climate legislation, such as HR 763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, a bipartisan bill that has been introduced in the House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lobby your state elected officials to appropriate sufficient annual funding for infrastructure and programs to actually achieve Colorado\u2019s stated goal of 100% renewable energy by 2040.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Thank your local elected officials for setting ambitious long-term carbon-reduction goals, but ask them what they\u2019re doing this year and next year to achieve them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s great if you can afford to buy an electric car or put solar panels on your roof. But what we really need is a movement of citizens calling for policy changes that enable everyone to afford to do these things. That is the only \u201cclimate action plan\u201d that\u2019s equal to the scale of the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Dave Reed<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/take-climate-action-at-the-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman is challenging folks to have a \u201cpersonal climate action plan.\u201d (\u201cWhat\u2019s your climate action plan, Commissioner Poschman?\u201d Dec. 28, The Aspen Times) However, I would like to challenge everyone to think beyond things like recycling and LED bulbs. Whatever bandwidth you have for addressing climate change, please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:26:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452760,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452753\/revisions\/2452760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}