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Meeting the Moment: COVID-19 Pandemic

We find ourselves anxious, challenged and resolved. As the COVID19 crisis builds, let's build community. Stay tuned here for what we're thinking, reading, and listening to, as well as ideas on how you can join. 

Social Distancing Bingo for the Climate Activist

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Sometimes the remedy for an anxious mind is action, and even in this time of great uncertainty, there are still things we can do.

Our approach at Climate Smart follows two tracks: on one hand, we are responding to the immediate needs in our community, through mutual aid efforts and supporting organizations serving those hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis, such as the Missoula Food Bank and Community Center, United Way of Missoula's COVID-19 response fund, the Poverello Center, and others.  At the same time, we continue our work to build a future that is just and sustainable.

In that spirit, we hope you will join us in playing BINGO, customized for the climate activist who is responsibly social distancing. Click to download (we'll be posting more as time goes on), and we hope you'll tag us as you complete your bingo journey and send us pictures of your completed card.


Each person who completes bingo (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) will be entered into a raffle. The prize? We'll donate to the food bank in your honor! 

Not sure where to start? Ideas for action

What We're Reading and Listening To:

  • ​Grow food and support local agriculture. Garden City Harvest offers community garden plots, CSAs, and online rdening workshops.  Missoula County Extension has a local garden scheduling guide and lots of other resources. And local farms are taking CSA subscription signups. Here are just a few that serve the Missoula area: 
    • Western Montana Growers Cooperative
    • Missoula Grain and Vegetable Co
    • Harlequin Produce
    • ​Red Hen Farm
  • Donate to the United Way, Poverello Center, or Food Bank 
  • Get inspired to write your own Dear Tomorrow letter by reading letters from the Missoula community
  • Read and comment on the Montana Climate Solutions Council draft report
  • Virtual tours of National Parks
  • Become a citizen scientist with BudBurst or discover a new world of birding with eBird​​
  • Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams, for a reminder about the importance of public lands to our well-being 
  • We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer, on what we can do every day in face of the climate crisis
  • Devotion​ by Mary Oliver, for countless poems on nature 
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, for a funny and enjoyable series of essays that make the connection between writing and life 
  • Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
  • A helpful guide for caring for your mental health during the coronavirus crisis from Mayo Clinic

Climate Change + Coronavirus

We're reading lots of interesting articles about the parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, as we consider how we as a community, state, and nation can respond to both challenges equitably and in ways that build resilience. 
  • Six lessons coronavirus can teach us about climate change (Earthday.org): Helpful ideas as we think about the upcoming 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and how to continue advocating for a just and sustainable future for all.
  • Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But True Climate Success Looks Like More Action, Not Less (TIME Magazine). "This pandemic ought to inspire a fundamental rethinking of the role of science and knowledge, the importance of competent leadership including global cooperation, and how the fate of the most vulnerable anywhere affects the fortunes of everyone everywhere. If it does, its true benefits to the climate will last well after the world gets back to work."
  • A just and sustainable economic response to the coronavirus, explained (Vox) - one of our favorite climate writers and thinkers, David Roberts, sketches the big picture then dives deep into the details. 
  • What a Coronavirus Recovery Could Look Like (Citylab): Ideas about how to build resilience in cities. 
  • ​It's important to keep talking about climate change now (Outside Magazine): "Is it tone-deaf to talk about climate right now? Or is this an opportunity to tackle major global problems in tandem?"

For more from Team Climate Smart as we weather the crisis and build community...

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