Invoking the Pause Grant Partner, HighWaterLine, has traversed the ocean to the UK where it began its chalk line visual message of the potential risks of rising sea levels for two coastal towns. From September 9-21, 2014, residents from along 32 miles of waterfront in Bristol and Avon Mouth, UK will be drawing their HighWaterLine.  Read the article that ran in Guardian here.

And for more information on the drawing of the line, or to join in, visit the webpage or join the Facebook page.

Bob Keefe, E2 Executive Director, gives Invoking the Pause an update on their latest quarterly clean energy jobs report, which really illustrates how E2 continues to use what has become one of their signature advocacy tools to drive smart policies that will cut carbon pollution, increase renewable energy/energy efficiency and address climate change.
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On July 26 – 30, the Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments (www.enviRN.org) convened a retreat to explore the value of marrying artists and activists in an effort to strengthen climate change campaigns while building a more comprehensive, progressive movement that seeks environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment.  In attendance were artists who work in a variety of media (poetry, performance, film), environmental activists, health professionals, and community organizers.  Care was taken to amass as diverse a group as possible in terms of age, sex, race, and so on.  » Read More

Award winning journalist and 2014 Invoking the Pause Grant Partner Mark Herstgaard reports on the highly controversial drilling method known as fracking and its environmental impacts in the state of California and our future.

Fracking is the new front line in the fight against climate change, and with the help of Invoking the Pause my journalistic colleagues and I recently provided important new ammunition.  Focusing on the debate over fracking in California, we produced deeply reported, eyewitness accounts that appeared in print and online in The Nation and on public radio in the Bay Area first on KALW’s “CrossCurrents” program and soon nationwide on the NPR program, "Latino USA."  I collaborated with Lisa Morehouse, a freelance radio producer in San Francisco, melding our skills as journalists and learning from one another’s respective areas of expertise—she as a stellar sound hound, me as a veteran print guy.  You can find links to our stories here: first, The Nation story then the two radio stories:  http://kalw.org/post/fracking-california-view-kern-county/ and here:  http://kalw.org/post/fracking-california-can-jerry-brown-be-climate-leader-if-he-does-not-oppose-fracking/.