ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network

Thousands of activists, indigenous groups, students and others take to the streets of New York for the March to End Fossil Fuels protest on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023 in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images To read more of Rachel Waldholz' article, please click here. This time, protesters are marching with a specific message for President Biden: it's time for the U.S. to move away from oil and gas. "[This] march is piercingly clear about what needs to be done to actually solve climate," said...

Eleven of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the Held v. Montana case pose for a photo after Day 5 of the trial on Friday, June 16, 2023. Top row (left to right): Lander Busse, Badge Busse, Grace, Rikki Held, Olivia. Bottom row (left to right): Kian, Mica, Claire, Eva, Taleah, Sariel. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan) By Blair Miller, Daily Montanan, August 14, 2023 The State of Montana’s failure to consider greenhouse gas emissions from energy and mining projects violates the state...

By Vivek Shandas, Illustration: from article, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 3, 2023 I will never forget late June 2021 in Portland—not because it was filled with family time, trips to the Pacific coast or even because of the pandemic—but because of the extreme heat beating down on the region. A “ heat dome ” trapped hot air over my home state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, killing almost 1,000 people as temperatures soared to a whopping 120° F. Scientists have found that this...

Global map of GISTEMP June surface temperature anomaly relative to the 1951-1980 June baseline. Most of the world is “red” due to warm anomalies, with the highest anomalies around Antarctica and Canada. Credit: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies By NASA Global Climate Change, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, July 13, 2023 June 2023 was the hottest June on record according to NASA’s global temperature analysis . GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, is drawn from...

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Earth Photograph:( AFP ) To read more of the Seoul, South Korea's article, please click here. A new study has left scientists surprised and concerned after it was found that humans have pumped out so much groundwater in the past two decades that it has shifted the tilt of the Earth’s axis. According to the findings of the research published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal by the American Geophysical Union, the Earth has tilted as much as 80 centimetres (31.5 inches) between 1993...

Devon Parfait PHOTO BY BRENDON BOURG To read more of Zoe Dutton's article, please click here. Devon Parfait’s earliest memories are of the Louisiana bayou. He spent countless hours on his grandfather Pierre’s shrimping boat, hauling up freshly baited traps and hearing old family stories. His family, part of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, had lived off the water for generations. Now 25, Parfait is helping his community navigate a future made uncertain by climate change. Last year he...

PACEs Connection is excited to roll out our summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum dates. Members who complete the CRC will qualify for a fall 2023 fellowship program.

Go to the ITRC website to register for the June 7, 12 noon-1 pm ET, webinar: https://itrcoalition.org/current-events-and-news/ Join us to learn why and how the "Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023" will expand the US approach to mental health by using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for stresses & traumas. Accelerating global temperatures are producing cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social...

Go to the ITRC website to register for the June 7 webinar: http://itrcoalition.org Join us to learn why and how the "Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023" will expand the US approach to mental health by using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for stresses & traumas. Accelerating global temperatures are producing cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for basic needs. The...

NEWS RELEASE See Quotes Below from Congressional Co-Leads and National Mental Health and Human Service Organizational and Community Leaders The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC)* and 134 other national, regional, state, and local organizations strongly endorsed the landmark bi-partisan “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023” (CMWRA) introduced in the House by co-sponsors Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Don Bacon (R-NE),...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.