In their latest gambit to maintain powerful sway over Montana’s energy economy and jobs, and most Montana families’ pocketbooks, NorthWestern Energy is attempting to withhold an important stockholder proposal from its spring 2020 shareholder meeting proxy materials.
Read More“(It) is so evident that through our greed and unawareness that your future, the future of the children everywhere, as well as the natural world is in peril…It is a deep heartbreak – so deep and dark that is aches through my limbs.
“And yet I know that letting myself feel into this heartbreak is an important step. It is from this further opening, this letting myself break open that I can find my clarity, my efficacy, my way into what little me can do in this most important time. I can be brave enough to wake up.”
Read MoreHappy New Year! Thank you for taking action on climate in 2019! All of our volunteers at Families for a Livable Climate are grateful to be connected with you in this work. Together, we are organizing families and connecting in community to build political will for strong climate action in Montana.
Read MoreI am inspired tonight by a post on Facebook from Sunrise Movement Gallatin County that asks us to honor Greta Thunberg by watching (or re-watching) her powerful TED Talk from November 2018 (just three months after she began striking).
Read MoreWe can no longer plan our backpacking and camping trips for August without wondering whether we will be smoked out, or whether the forests will be closed due to extreme fire danger. The abrupt switch from clear summers to smoke in 2000 was shocking, although in our mobile society I’ve found that many people who live in Missoula now don’t realize summers were not always this way.
Read MoreI am eleven years old, hopefully I have much longer to be left on this planet. I don't like to see my planet dying, so we need to save it from climate change. I first became involved in activism when I watched the film “Chasing Ice,” which made me very upset. I dictated a letter to my parents and they mailed it to our state senator, Jon Tester. This all happened at the age of three.
Read MoreToday, Families for a Livable Climate joined 228 parent-led climate groups from 28 countries in a joint letter to delegates at the UN climate negotiations demanding ambitious climate action. As parents we demand a safe future for our children - for all children - and call upon parents everywhere to join us. Plea.parentsforfuture.org
We are proud to stand with families around the globe demanding livable future for us all.
Read MoreFamilies for a Livable Climate empowers Montana families to advocate for their future in the age of climate change. We do this work by offering free community climate conversations, hosting Fridays for Action working groups across Montana, sponsoring community events (such as DearTomorrow Missoula), and working on Montana voter education. In 2020, we will also organize the Montana Community Climate Summit for families across that state.
On #GivingTuesday, we are kicking off our first fundraiser. Learn more and support out work!
Read MoreTo make the deep systemic change needed to address the climate crisis, we need a movement that channels the energy of these big gatherings into day-to-day action.
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