Dear Climate Restoration Supporter,

The Climate Restoration Fund supports critical climate restoration programs to restore a safe climate for our children by 2050 and give them a livable planet.

Our newsletter is designed to keep you up to date on our progress and to keep those of us who care about our mission aligned together in a powerful community.

As you recall, OIF (Ocean Iron Fertilization) is about replicating a natural CO2 removal process by intentionally addition of small amounts of iron to the ocean surface to promote phytoplankton blooms.

Before launching a full-scale OIF project, we are planning a small experiment in California to test the measuring equipment. This involves deploying 3 buoys equipped with sensors connected via satellite.

The buoys will be deployed 60-70 miles off shore, and float around for about a month while we track their position and CO2 levels at their location.

Climate Restoration Congressional Resolution Update

Here is an update from Jim Wilson, tirelessly working with a group of empowered students and Congressman Thompson to introduce the Climate Restoration Resolution into Congress in the upcoming months. It goes next for legislative council approval, a process that can take two weeks or more.

The Resolution ends with:

“… Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that Congress formally recognizes our obligation to future generations to restore a safe climate, and declares climate restoration, along with achieving net-zero and net-negative CO2 emissions, to be a climate policy priority; calling on the President, Secretary of State, and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to pursue a climate treaty that will restore and stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations to preindustrial levels as our common climate goal.”

What a major achievement that will be!

More updates soon…

The Climate Restoration Alliance

The Climate Restoration Alliance connects and empowers people and organizations committed to restoring a livable planet. We aim to achieve carbon dioxide levels close to pre-industrial levels by 2050 and restore our natural ecosystems to allow humanity to flourish.

The Climate Restoration Alliance invites communities, organizations, companies, faith leaders, First Nation leaders, and the general public to endorse Climate Restoration as an idea whose time has come, and commit to achieving it by 2050.

We partner with First Nation leaders, faith leaders, corporate leaders, heads of organizations, and the general public through our Ambassadors Program.

Ambassadors invite their communities and followers to commit to climate restoration as the climate goal we all want.

Thanks to our incredible Climate Restoration Ambassadors, the following organizations recently adopted the Climate Restoration Resolution:

• CNY Rotary District
• Citizen Climate Education New Orleans
• Citizen Climate Lobby New Orleans
• Institute of Utopian Hospitality
• Temple of Utopian Hospitality
• Fulton Sunrise Rotary Club
• Rotary District 7190
• Rotary District 7170

You can see the full list and signed resolutions here (scroll down).

Climate Restoration Ambassador of the Month:
Judith Owens-Manley

I just spent last week with six grandchildren, ages 4 to 8, and there is no doubt at all about how important it is that we protect the world we need to leave for them. Their glorious enjoyment of the parks and playgrounds, clean sparkling waters to swim in, kayak, and sail, and small, friendly, shore towns–we want that to go on forever!

This is the environment I want to leave behind and why I encourage you to reach out to your family and friends to understand climate restoration and to endorse the Climate Restoration Resolution!

As I’m writing this, I’m also making plans to go back to Anchorage, Alaska, which I do every year about this time. I know, people think it’s crazy to return to Alaska for the winter. But not if you’re cross-country skiers, where we ski for five months a year, easily. Everywhere you live, you have the pristine environments that you care about, whether it’s your lakes, your mountains, your prairies, oceans, deserts, etc. We all want our children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the outdoors as we have–without extreme heat, extreme storms, flooding, and the inevitable losses and migrations that will come with the climate crises that we’re experiencing even now.

Please join us in making your concerns active!

I contribute to The Grandparent’s Fund on a regular basis as one expression of my caring, and I take every opportunity that I have to make a difference by bringing up the conversation about my concerns for our climate.

It’s individual for each of us why we care and how we will take action. But please do act with your children and grandchildren in mind and for all children, even if you don’t have children or grandchildren!

Please sign the resolution (or click my link below) and make a monthly contribution to express your commitment to future generations:

https://donorbox.org/gcrfund

If you’d like to learn more about being a Climate Restoration Ambassador please reach out to us!

Warmly,

Judy Owens-Manley
Climate Restoration Ambassador
https://climaterestorationalliance.org/ambassadors/judith-owens-manley/