Environmental activist Lauren Kuby, a Democrat running for the Arizona Corporation Commission, kicked off the first Discussion for Democracy program, presented by the Pima County Democratic Party. Our host, Larry Bodine, President of Democrats of Greater Tucson, interviewed Kuby about efforts to increase sustainable energy sources. Lauren Kuby is a two-term Tempe council member, former vice mayor of Tempe, and a senior sustainability scientist at Arizona State University. She is an advocate for fair, equitable worker protections as well as social, economic, and environmental justice. She led Tempe’s Dark Money ballot initiative and created the Tempe Sustainability Commission.

The co-leaders of the Tucson chapter of the Citizen's Climate Lobby, Ed Beshore and Jane Conlin, addressed a Democrats of Grater Tucson Salon, held on April 28, 2022. For further research: A comparison of carbon pricing proposals (Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy) https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/pictures/CGEP_BipartisanEnergyInnovationandCarbonDividendAct_FINAL_NOV18.pdf Household Impact Study (Kevin Ummel) https://citizensclimatelobby.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ummel-Impact-of-CCL-CFD-Policy-v1_4.pdf Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act https://energyinnovationact.org Resources for the Future Carbon Price Page https://www.rff.org/topics/carbon-pricing/ Luntz survey looking into support for a carbon dividends plan https://www.clcouncil.org/media/Luntz-Carbon-Dividends-Polling-May-20-2019-FINAL.pdf How to talk about the climate with others https://preserve.nature.org/page/85597/data/1?locale=en-US Dr. Jennifer Carman | Yale Climate Connections https://youtu.be/olylv8Cn8N0 Border Adjustments (Niskanan Center) https://www.niskanencenter.org/border-adjustments-in-a-carbon-tax/

Contribute to Sandra's Clean Elections Re-Election: Campaign:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ken... Sign Sandra's Petition and Contribute: https://go.azsos.gov/q6mjhttps://go.azsos.gov/q59v Turning Arizona Green Sandra Kennedy, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, said the agency is getting Arizona off fossil fuels. She spoke at the December 22, 2021, meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. Solar panels Kennedy said she spoke to Tucson City Council members, asking, "Can you encourage new developers to put in solar panels and battery back up? If you are doing new development, can you encourage the developers to put in battery backup or some renewable energy so that people can benefit from it?" [...]

Dr. Michael Mann, a renowned climate scientist, spoke at a recent event by the Pima County Democratic Party focusing on climate change. Dr. Mann showed us how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change. We heard his battle plan for how we can save the planet. Sandra Kennedy of the Arizona Corporation Commission, spoke about her agency's actions to fight climate change. In May, the commissioners voted to advance and amend Arizona's energy rules that will move the state to 100% carbon-free energy by 2070. Learn more at [...]

Scientist Michael Mann has a four-point battle plan to fight climate change. Today, fossil fuel companies are using disinformation and deceptive tactics to block actions against climate change – and keep their profits flowing – according to a leading climate scientist. They are harnessing the anti-science playbooks of the tobacco and gun industry playbooks. Michael Mann, a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, reveals that fossil fuel companies, right-wing partisans, and oil-funded governments have used "an array of powerful Ds: disinformation, deceit, divisiveness, deflection, delay, despair-mongering, and doomism." Meanwhile, "A clean energy revolution and climate [...]

Kevin Dahl, an environmental activist who spent his career protecting National Parks, said that Ward 3 voters asked him to run for City Council to focus on climate change in Tucson. "We need to protect those most at risk," he said. "Parts of Ward 3 are seriously affected." Ward 3 is bounded by River Road to the north, Swan Road at the East, Grant Road to the South, and Silverbell Road to the West. He spoke at the February 15, 2021 meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. "Climate change is a horrible threat to our Saguaros and the [...]