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Climate Change Conversations

ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: HOLDING OUR FEET TO THE FIRE, THE ICE, THE WATER, AND THE WEATHER

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish school girl who sparked a global movement, challenges adults, “Our house is on fire. You are stealing our future. And you do nothing!” Our own Whidbey Island students demonstrated about climate change on Friday September 20, 2019. 

We’ve structured an event to respond to that challenge. We bring leaders, generations, and options together to focus on Whidbey Island’s climate footprint and where the leverage is. 

  • Listen to Maggie Nattress & Annie Phips, Whidbey Island next generation climate leaders.

  • Dr. Richard Gammon, climate scientist: how will climate change impact us here? 

  • View a “Poster Festival” of Whidbey Island environmental groups and opportunities.

  • Hear from and discuss with local government leaders and public service providers about their specific climate change mitigation aspirations and goals. Do they know their carbon footprints? What are their plans? How will they get there? How will they measure progress?

A City of Langley presentation.

TICKETS

$12 All Seats | ages 18 and under free

Earlier Event: November 13
Brew Ha Ha
Later Event: November 16
Cythara 2

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.