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SOCAN 2022 Candidate FORUM Videos

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October 4th:  Jackson County Board of Commissioners, Positions 1 and 3; Congressional District 2.

October 18th:  Oregon Legislative Senate District 3, House Districts 5, 6.

SOCAN Monthly Meetings 2022

• August 2022 Youth v Gov: Updates from Our Children’s Trust (Phil Gregory, Our Children’s Trust)
• July 2022 Hydrogen: Useful Tool or Fossil Industry Ruse? (Ken Dragoon, Obsidian Renewables LLC)
• June 2022 Interfaith Work on Climate Change (Cherice Bock, Creation Justice Advocate, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon AND Oregon Interfaith Power & Light)
• May 2022 Climate Justice 101 (Rodrigo Narbona, Northwest Workers’ Justice Project and Anahi Cervantes & Jose Antonio Bucio, Unite Oregon Climate Justice Committee)
• April 2022 Funding Healthy Soils: An Oregon effort to find the money (Mike Badzmierowski, Ph.D., Soil Health Specialist, Oregon Department of Agriculture)
• March 2022 Addressing the Climate Crisis in Oregon: 2022 Legislative and OCAP Progress (Hogan Sherrow & Alan Journet)
• February 2022 Can We Improve our Regional Energy System? (Shannon Souza)
• January 2022 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Ocean Perspective (Bill Gorham)

SOCAN Monthly Meetings 2021

• November 2021 Master Climate Protectors Taking Action (Erin O’Kelley Muck, Cynthia Holm, Flavia Franco)
• October 2021 Grassroots Community Solar Projects You Can Plug-in To (Ray Sanchez-Pescador, Solarize Rogue & Jim Hartman, Ashland Solar Cooperative)
  • NewsWatch 12, Tyler Ridgle Coverage
• September 2021 Businesses Taking Action: Who should we support? (Gabriela Safay, SOCAN Intern, Project Designer; Constance Palaia, Co-Owner, Motel del Rogue; Anne Carter, General Manager, Medford Food Co-op; Erin Douglas, Social & Environmental Responsibility manager, Banyan Botanicals)
• August 2021 Impact of Climate Change on Species of Concern (Michael Parker, Biology Department at Southern Oregon University, and John Villella, Siskiyou BioSurvey LLC, Eagle Point)
• July 2021: Preparing for Wildfire (Alexi Lovechio, KS Wild National Forest Organizer) and Rich Fairbanks, Retired USFS Firefighter and Local Fire Professional)
• June 2021: Climate Change Communication: Challenges & Opportunities (Jennifer Marlon,  Research Scientist with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication)
• May 2021: The Water Smart Generation: Love Your Water – Use It Wisely  (Julie Smitherman, Water Resources Coordinator, Medford Water Commission)
• April 2021: Climate Action in Oregon: Legislative & Executive Order 20-04 Updates (Senator Jeff Golden, SOCAN Co-Facilitator Alan Journet, Representative Pam Marsh was on the House floor and unable to attend)
• March 2021: Bringing Social Equity to Climate Advocacy (Cecilia Estolano, CEO and Founder, Estolano Advisors & Asma Mahdi, Policy Director, Better World Group)
• February 2021: Climate Conscious Fire Recovery: The Role of Local Cities & Oregon’s Energy Trust (Michael Hoch, Sustainability and Parks Coordinator, City of Talent & Karen Chase, Southern Oregon Outreach Manager with the Energy Trust of Oregon)
• January 2021: Climate Action in 2021: Obstacles and Opportunities as viewed through the lens of the 2020 Election (Hogan Sherrow & Alan Journet)

SOCAN Monthly Meetings 2020

• July 2020 Monthly Meeting: Digging In: Master Gardener Meets Master Climate Protector (Rhianna Simes)
• June 2020 Monthly Meeting: Socially Responsible Investing (David Savage)
• May 2020 Monthly Meeting: Oregon Climate Action Plan (Alan Journet, Caren Caldwell, Pam Marsh)
• April 2020 Earth Day Wake Up Call: A SOCAN Celebration From Home (Directed by Barret O’Brien)

Coastal SOCAN Monthly Meetings

• May 2022, Electrify your Home (Brian Stewart)
• August 2021 Climate Action: Federal and State Perspectives (Alan Journet) Chat from Zoom Session
• July 2021 Eat Locally to Fight Greenhouse Gas Pollution (Kathleen Dickson)
• June 2021 Opportunities in Climate Change (Bill Gorham)
• May 2021 Efforts of Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative in Support of Climate Change Reduction (Jacob Knudsen)
• April 2021 Recycling in Curry County and Beyond (Candie Wilk)
• February 2021 Regenerative Agriculture: Growing Soil for a Healthy Planet (Ann Schmierer)
• August 2020 Renewable Hydrogen Overview (Ken Dragoon)
• July 2020 The Principles of Permaculture (Mark Gautreaux)
• June 2020 Coastal SOCAN Monthly Meeting: Cap, Tax, or Executive Order GHG Emissions? (Alan Journet)
• May 30, 2020 Forest ecology and management and under changing climate and disturbance regimes (Bill Kuhn)
• January 22, 2020 Understanding and Dealing with Climate Change (Ann Schmierer)
• October 23, 2019 The Future of Our Natural Resources; What’s Happening to our Oceans and Forests (Tom Suchanik)
• July 24, 2019 Conservation and Net Metering (Jacob Knudsen)
• June 26, 2019 Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change Through Energy Security (Shannon Souza)

Ashland Climate Action Project – Zoom Conversations

• May 2022 The Future of Water in the Rogue Valley (Co-sponsored by Jefferson Center, SOCAN’s Ashland Climate Action & Ashland Climate Collaborative)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• April 2022 Future of Natural Gas
• March 2022 Electrify Your Home
• February 2022 Health Impacts of Gas Appliances
• December 2021 After the Summer of ’21: Checking in With Local Growers
• November 2021 Community Driven Leadership
• September 2021 Collaborative Conservation:  What Successful Forest Restoration Can Teach Us About Climate Action
• August 2021 Rethinking Streets: Lessons for Ashland
• July 2021 Electric Landscaping Tools: All you need to know
• April 2021 “Natural” Gas: The Fossil Fuel You Came to Love (Part 1) 
• April 2021 “Natural” Gas: The Fossil Fuel You Came to Love (Part 2)

Other Recorded Presentations

• Focus on Climate Actions A 30 minute video in Wand Borland’s ‘Focus on….’ series in which Alan Journet discusses the cause of global warming and actions we can undertake individually and collectively to address the problem.
• Interview with SOCAN co-facilitator Alan Journet on The Age of Adventure (KSKQ) with host Rick Vann (August 6th 2021)
• Cultivate Oregon: Enabling Regenerative Agriculture:  Getting Paid  for Improving Soil Health – A Virtual Symposium. (November 10, 2020) Presentation by SOCAN co-facilitator, Alan Journet  The Positive Interface between two major forces: Climate and Agriculture. 
• 350.Deschutes 2020 Go Clean Energy Conference. (October 10, 2020) Keynote Address by Alan Journet: Oregon Climate Plan: Why we need an Everything Strategy. 
• Jackson County Library Services,Medford Branch. (Summer  2020) Presentation Series: Climate Science for the non-scientist (Alan Journet)
  • The Basics of Global Warming (June presentation)
  • Climate Models, local projections and why we care (July presentation)
  • Individual and collective response (August presentation)

2020 Election

• 2020 Ashland Climate Voter Project – Candidate Forums
  • Mayor: Julie Akins, Tonya Graham
  •  City Council  Position 1: Andrew Card, Paula Hyatt
  •  City Council Position 3: Julian Bell, Kelly Marcotulli, Shaun Moran, Gerardo Padilla
  •  City Council Position 5: Gina DuQuenne, Jessica Kensinger
• August 2020 Candidate Interviews: Candidates for Oregon Senate Districts 1, 2, and 28; House Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 55; and County Board of Commissioners in Jackson and Josephine Counties.