On Thursday, May 19, we stood proudly with the many other member organizations at Common Good Missoula’s founding event at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The weather conspired toward cold and windy, but nearly 420 people showed up anyway. It was a phenomenal event realizing years of work to bring together a broad base of community organizations to work for the common good.

These resources from Our Kids’ Climate help teachers, parents, and caregivers meaningfully and effectively communicate with young people about climate change. They provide top tips for helping children and young people deal with emotions and questions related to the climate crisis.

Given the huge impact of energy emissions on our changing climate, NorthWestern Energy has a unique responsibility, and opportunity, to help mitigate severe climate risks, and help protect all of our families, present and future.

Ask NorthWestern to get on board! Add your name as a parent, caregiver, businessowner or organizational leader, to this letter from Families for a Livable Climate and supporters asking NorthWestern to support our shared future.

On April 1, Families for a Livable Climate stood with 350Montana, Gallatin County Sunrise Movement, and Montana Sierra Club (with guest speakers from MT Women Vote) to begin calling NorthWestern Energy to account for their plan to build gas-fired power plants (and other regrets solutions) to fuel our shared future here in Montana. The upshot? NorthWestern’s “net zero” plan is not acceptable.

How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming – and its consequences.

Watch this panel discussion on Zero Waste Schools to learn about how plastic and waste contribute to the climate crisis, the role schools play in building a Zero Waste community, and Zero Waste efforts and opportunities in Missoula schools and beyond. Also, stay tuned to our upcoming events by joining our email list for more plastic-focused workshops!

Check out Project Drawdown’s new guide to bring climate action into any workplace.

Bringing back passenger rail service = climate solutions across differences in Montana. Watch this very inspiring presentation by County Commissioner Dave Strohmaier on the collaborative, cross-county movement to bring back passenger rail across southern Montana.

Seventy-one percent of Americans say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming, and 35% say they are “very worried.” But 61% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends (see Yale’s Six Americas). How can we build overwhelming support for climate action if most of us don’t talk about it?