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Summer Potluck Challenge
Want to get together with other people in your area who also care about climate change, health and equity? Are you interested in envisioning climate solutions, climate resilience and more clean energy in your community?
Climate Health Now (CHN) is looking for Hosts, Co-Hosts and Participants for fun, community-building local potlucks this July and early August all over the state of California. As a host, you will facilitate a discussion about the 5 categories of climate solutions the Climate Superfund Act would fund (‘qualifying expenditures’), and learning (& documenting) how potluck participants would most want to see those funds (~$150b/20yrs) used in your community -- and we'll support you every step of the way.

Alameda County/Fremont Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, what the 5 categories Qualifying Expenditures are for the climate superfund and how we'd each most want to invest in our Alameda County + Fremont area community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering and everyone in the area is welcome to join!

Tiburon/Marin County Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose- Saturday 8/16/25 (10am-12pm)
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, what the 5 categories Qualifying Expenditures are for the climate superfund and how we'd each most want to invest in our Tiburon/Marin County area community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering and everyone in the area is welcome to join!

Walnut Creek/Contra Costa County Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose- Sunday 8/17/25 (12-2pm)
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, what the 5 categories Qualifying Expenditures are for the climate superfund and how we'd each most want to invest in our Walnut Creek/Contra Costa County area community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering and everyone in the area is welcome to join!

San Francisco Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, what the 5 categories Qualifying Expenditures are for the climate superfund and how we'd each most want to invest in our San Francisco area community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering and everyone in the area is welcome to join!

San Diego Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose- Saturday, 9/6/25 (4-6pm)
Calling all San Diego residents!
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, and how we'd each most want to invest in our San Diego community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering! Everyone in the area who cares about clean energy and climate justice is welcome to join

Yale Online Climate Change and Health Certificate Program for Working Professionals
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health is now accepting applications for the fourteenth offering of its 21-week, fully online, Climate Change and Health Certificate Program for working professionals, including those working in public health, medicine and allied fields, mental health, health education, policy, environmental protection, energy, sustainability, government, advocacy, insurance, and other related fields. Participants in this program are trained to:
Explain the health impacts of climate change and the near-term benefits of mitigating greenhouse gases;
Discuss the specific climate change and health issues faced by the Caribbean, South Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa;
Devise adaptation strategies to increase community or organizational resilience to the health consequences of climate change and improve health equity; and
Communicate effectively about climate change and health to enhance adaptive capacity, motivate positive changes in climate-related behaviors, and promote civic engagement to support systemic change.

From Practice to Policy: Using Strategic Storytelling to Advocate for Climate Health Solutions
Save the date and join Climate Health Now, People Power Health and Stanford Medicine for a fall 2025 virtual course entitled, "From Practice to Policy: Using Strategic Storytelling to Advocate for Climate Health Solutions." The course will help you learn to elevate your voice and perspective as a member of the health community who is seeing the health impacts of climate change on your patients and healthcare clinics, by using the craft of Public Narrative to strengthen health as a key priority in policy discussions and in the media to catalyze bold equitable climate solutions. This course is eligible for the following Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (11.50 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (11.50 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (11.50 hours).

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

West LA / Santa Monica Climate Solutions Priorities Potluck with Purpose- Sunday 7/20/25 (4-6pm)
Calling all West LA/Santa Monica residents!
Join us for a social potluck and conversation about what 'climate solutions' really mean, what the 5 categories Qualifying Expenditures are for the climate superfund and how we'd each most want to invest in our Santa Monica/West LA community with the (billions of dollars) that the climate superfund revenues could generate! It's sure to be a fun and meaningful gathering! Everyone in the area is welcome to join.

Climate Action Team's Picnic with a Purpose
Join us for a fun event, a potluck picnic where we will dream together ways that funds from the Make Polluters Pay bill can make our communities safer and more resilient.
If the bill passes, the MPP Climate Superfund will generate billions of dollars from the mega-fossil fuel polluters. Using a model developed by our partner organization, Climate Health Now, we'll come together to plan how how WE want to invest that money in climate mitigation and adaptation for our East Bay communities!

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

Polluter Pays Climate Superfund Economics and Legalities 101 with Clair Brown and Maya Golden-Krasner: Join us for an hour of learning to strengthen our advocacy
What are the facts about the economic impacts of making polluting corporations pay their fair share to clean up and mitigate the climate crisis? Join us to learn from UC Berkeley Economist Dr. Clair Brown and Maya Golden-Krasner, JD from the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, about the real economic impacts of holding polluters accountable. Understanding and conveying a clear message about the economics and legal issues are critical to winning our Make Polluters Pay campaigns - this conversation couldn't be more timely!

General Education: Natural Sequestration - What’s It Got To Do With Health?
What are the facts about the economic impacts of making polluting corporations pay their fair share to clean up and mitigate the climate crisis? Join us to learn from UC Berkeley Economist Dr. Clair Brown and Maya Golden-Krasner, JD from the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, about the real economic impacts of holding polluters accountable. Understanding and conveying a clear message about the economics and legal issues are critical to winning our Make Polluters Pay campaigns -- this conversation couldn't be more timely!

Storytelling for Polluter Accountability: Crafting our own Public Narrative Together to Win our Make Polluter Pays Campaigns
Why do some leaders' stories bring us to tears and others land flat? How can we tell a story as a leadership practice-- to win hearts and grow our movement?
Want to learn how to tell your story of why you care so much about clean energy, climate justice and climate polluter accountability– in a way that touches the heart of your audience and inspires them to join our movement for Making Polluters Pay?
Public Narrative harnesses the power of story to the work of leadership. Join allies in the Make Polluters Pay community across California to focus on the leadership practice of public narrative– in which you’ll craft your own powerful story for why this campaign means so much to you– so that when you share it even more people join our coalition!
We will spend an action-packed, high-yield 90 minutes together learning– and practicing– community organizing’s public narrative model for sharing our Story of Self, Us and Now– with the aim of strengthening the power and heart of our Make Polluters Pay community.
We hope you’ll join us!

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

General Education: Climate Attribution Science
Ever wondered how we know that there are more extreme wildfires in the West because of the global warming that burning fossil fuels has already caused?
Let's learn about the science behind this attribution science! Extreme event attribution, also known as attribution science, is a relatively new field of study in meteorology and climate science that measures how ongoing climate change directly affects extreme events, like heat waves and wildfires.
Please join us Friday, May 2nd at 12p PT to learn from Christopher Callahan, PhD about climate attribution science-- with a specific focus on what we need to know as members of the California health community.

CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!

Advocacy Training Session 3: Campaign Tactics and Community Organizing
Our 3rd advocacy campaign training will focus on campaign tactics and structure as well as the basics of community organizing.

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!

Advocacy Training Session 2: Introduction to Campaigns - What California Climate Health Advocates Need to Know about the California Legislative Process
All members of the California health community are welcome to join us for an introductory overview of the California legislative process. We’ll be joined by Dr. Lisa Chang with 350 Bay Area Action for this foundational session.

Brainstorm and interest group: Healthcare sustainability campaign
This year CHN will be creating and carrying out an advocacy campaign that aims to increase the sustainability of the healthcare sector in California. Please join us for this initial brainstorming and kickoff meeting — no experience required!

Advocacy Training Session 1: Introduction to Campaign Work
This is the first in our 3 session advocacy training for 2025. Please join us to learn more about how our legislative and regulatory campaigns work at Climate Health Now, some nuts and bolts about community organizing, and more! Any CHN member is welcome to join. This event is required for 2025 Advocacy Campaign Team (ACT) co-leads.

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

General Education: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Fossil Fuels
Join us for a 1 hour webinar focused on climate change, air pollution, and fossil fuels - and how we can use our health voices to create change

CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!

CHN Hikes!
Please join Climate Health Now members, their family and friends for a fun hike in Alamo at China Wall!

Focus on Healthcare Sustainability: How to Make Your Healthcare Workplace Sustainable
Please join us for an interactive and educational webinar highlighting the work of several CHN members who have made real change in their health workplaces to decrease waste and increase sustainability.

CHN Discussion Club
We'll be discussing the film "Merchants of Doubt" (2014), "a documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change."
You can find more information about "Merchants of Doubt" here, and also find links to how to view it. The movie is about 1.5 hours in length. We hope everyone will have watched it prior to the discussion, but of course you are welcome to join even if you haven't watched it. And please spread the word!

General Education: Climate Change and Child Mental Health
Please join us for an educational webinar on mental health impacts of climate change on kids and adolescents and tips and discussion about how to talk about climate change, facilitated by Dr. Chelsea Young, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Northern California and Reverend Talitha Aho, hospital chaplain at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and author of “In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis.”

New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.

It’s ‘Go’ Time! Get Out the Vote for Climate and Health - Why Our Voices and Votes Matter More Than You Think
Join us for. a 1 hour webinar with the following learning objectives:
Recognize the role of civic engagement, advocacy and voting to shape the policies that determine the social and environmental determinants of health.
Understand the unique role of healthcare providers and settings to foster civic engagement.
Activate the untapped power of the health community to create a healthy, clean energy future through advocacy, civic engagement and voting.

Fossil Fuel Disinformation and Health: A Conversation with Amy Westervelt
Please join us with Amy Westervelt -- a 20-year veteran investigative journalist, Westervelt's earlier work for NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and various other outlets earned her Edward R. Murrow, ONA, and Folio awards as well, and is often cited as amongst the earliest examples of accountability reporting on climate.

CHN Community Meeting
We are launching a new format for our Community Meetings. Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps, and more!

General Education: Heat and Health
Join us for a 1-hour virtual webinar on the impacts of heat on health, with a specific focus on environmental justice and heat islands — as well ways we can use our health voices to protect our patients and communities in the face of intensifying heat waves.

Focus on Healthcare Sustainability: Better Care for Our Patients is Also Better for the Environment
Please join us for an educational event related to healthcare sustainability in California — and how we can collectively make change to improve our health now an in the future.