We welcome all members of the California health community to join us! If you are not already a member of Climate Health Now, please submit a member request form here before registering.
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Apply for Climate Health Now’s 2026 Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship - Now through October 24th!
Have you always wanted to make your workplace more sustainable but felt like you need help? Through our 2026 Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship will provide all the coaching to help you complete a sustainability project – and we’ll see you through the whole process from beginning to end.
As part of the application process, each individual or group will propose a climate solution project that they are already working on or wish to work on as part of the course.
This fellowship is a 1-year course, with the option to continue for a second year, that will consist of monthly 1 hour coaching support sessions. Coaching will be provided by co-chairs of the CHN Healthcare Sustainability Resource Team, Bill Pevec and Pam Lee. All sessions will be held on Zoom. The fellowship is offered tuition free. Participants are expected to attend all sessions, with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Attendance will be required at in-person fellowship seminars on Friday, January 30th, 2026 and January 2027; funding will be provided to defray travel expenses.
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).
Refinery Closures and a Just Transition: Community and Labor solutions from the Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership (CCRTP)
Refinery Closures and a Just Transition: Community and Labor solutions from the Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership (CCRTP)
The California political landscape is reeling with the announcements that 2 of California’s 16 refineries are closing. This has sparked fears of higher gas prices. We know the answer to refinery closures is a managed and just transition to clean, renewable transport fuels.
We hope you’ll join us to learn from California leaders about the story of the Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership (CCRTP) and as they share its recommendations— which have critical lessons for us to learn from and apply to energy transition challenges right now.
Please join us!
Guest Speakers:
Emma Ishii- APEN- Local Policy Coordinator
Jessie HF Hammerling- Co-director of the Green Economy Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Josh Anijar ED Contra Costa Labor Council
Climate Health Now - Community Meeting
Join us for our community meeting where we will get to know one another, and will discuss CHN's Fall strategic planning process that we want YOUR feedback and ideas to strengthen. CHN's Strategic Planning process will inform our work for the years ahead, and we really want you to be a part of creating our priorities.
Clinician-Led Resource Conservation: Strategies to Cut Costs and Carbon Emissions
Join Climate Health Now and speakers from Kimball Sustainable Consulting for the second installment in our Healthcare Sustainability and Cost Savings series: Clinician-Led Resource Conservation: Strategies to Cut Costs and Carbon Emissions.
Event Description: Frontline clinicians are uniquely positioned to lead sustainability efforts that save money and reduce emissions. During this webinar, participants will gain insights and a framework for creating data driven initiatives in the clinical space that reduce waste, carbon emissions, and costs. In a presented case study, participants will learn about a nurse-led initiative that used a hospital's shared governance model to prevent supply waste across the organization, driving measurable resource and cost savings.
Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship - Info Session # 1
Join us for Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship - Info Session # 1 where our Sustainability Fellowship Coaches Drs. Bill Pevec and Pam Lee will give a short overview of Climate Health Now's Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship opportunity and answer any questions you may have! - Register here!
Fellowship Description:
Have you always wanted to make your healthcare workplace more sustainable but felt like you need help? Through the Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship we will provide all the coaching to help you complete a sustainability project – and our coaches see you through the whole process from beginning to end.
To apply, each individual or group will propose a climate solution project that they are already working on or wish to work on during the fellowship.
This fellowship lasts for 1-year, with the option to continue for a second year. The format consists of monthly 1 hour coaching support sessions. Coaching will be provided by co-chairs of the CHN Healthcare Sustainability Resource Team, Drs. Bill Pevec and Pam Lee. All sessions will be held on Zoom. The fellowship is offered tuition free. Participants are expected to attend all sessions, with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Attendance will be required at in-person fellowship seminars on January 30th, 2026 and in January 2027; funding will be provided to defray travel expenses.
Read FAQs here!
Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship - Info Session #2
Join us for Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship - Info Session # 1 where our Sustainability Fellowship Coaches Drs. Bill Pevec and Pam Lee will give a short overview of Climate Health Now's Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship opportunity and answer any questions you may have! — Register here!
Fellowship Description:
Have you always wanted to make your healthcare workplace more sustainable but felt like you need help? Through the Healthcare Sustainability Fellowship we will provide all the coaching to help you complete a sustainability project – and our coaches see you through the whole process from beginning to end.
To apply, each individual or group will propose a climate solution project that they are already working on or wish to work on during the fellowship.
This fellowship lasts for 1-year, with the option to continue for a second year. The format consists of monthly 1 hour coaching support sessions. Coaching will be provided by co-chairs of the CHN Healthcare Sustainability Resource Team, Drs. Bill Pevec and Pam Lee. All sessions will be held on Zoom. The fellowship is offered tuition free. Participants are expected to attend all sessions, with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Attendance will be required at in-person fellowship seminars on January 30th, 2026 and in January 2027; funding will be provided to defray travel expenses.
Read FAQs here!
The Week
Join Climate Health Now's Culture Club to watch and discuss 'The Week', a group viewing experieince that includes a three-part documentary film and facilitated discussion that explores the climate crisis and what to do about it. Participants will meet three times, for 90 minutes each in order to view a documentary (~1 hour) and participate in a facilitated group discussion (30 min).
Pull up a chair, bring your popcorn and join us (virtually) at the following dates and times to view the documentaries and process them together in community:
Thursday, October 16th from 7-8:30pm
Thursday, October 23rd from 7-8:30pm
Thursday, October 30th from 7-8:30pm
Curious to learn more about 'The Week' before you commit? Visit their website here.
Partners, friends, and family welcome (please have them register separately)!
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.
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
Adding Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience to Your Practice
Please join us for "Adding Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience to Your Practice" where speakers Heather Massey, Sustainability Programs Manager at My Green Doctor and Todd L Sack, Executive Director at My Green Doctor will facilitate a conversation about achievable sustainability practices in clinics. We hope you will join us on Thursday, September 4th from 12:30 -1:30pm PST to learn more!
Event description: Each of us would like environmental sustainability and climate resilience to be integral parts of our medical practice but getting started seems daunting. This workshop will be led by two experts from the My Green Doctor program (https://www.mygreendoctor.org). The session will begin with a twenty minute talk on the benefits of environmental sustainability for practices and communities, and resources that are available, including My Green Doctor. Next, we'll workshop together how to overcome barriers we have encountered in our own practices.
Learn about about how Climate Health Now members can collectively mobilize to participate on SUN DAY.
Join us to learn about how Climate Health Now members can collectively mobilize to participate on SUN DAY.
What is SUN DAY?: SUN DAY is a national day of action on September 21st, 2025 that will celebrate wind and solar power and stand up to the wealthy and well-connected who are doing everything they can to stop the clean energy transition.
We’ll harness the power of people, culture and advocacy to defend the progress we have made and demand policymakers do everything they can to accelerate the deployment of clean energy. We’ll build, march and rally in communities across the country to demand the investment and policies we need to get solar and wind projects built. See more information about SUN DAY here!
Public Narrative - What it is and why it matters!
Public narrative is the story of self (call to leadership), the story of now (strategy and action), and the story of us (our shared values and experiences). It's a powerful tool to connect personal experiences and shared values to inspire others to take meaningful action.
Join us on August 28th from 12:30-1:30pm to learn about and practice public narrative as a community organizing framework that has the power to inspire others!
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!
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!
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!
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.
Climate Solutions Potluck Series
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 summer and fall 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.
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!