MISSION

Have an idea to encourage a local business, school district or faith community to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy? The 100% Committed Campaign Committee is here to help! 

 A successful campaign includes research, identifying and meeting with stakeholders and decision makers,  building political will, identifying solutions, public outreach, and social media campaigns. Our committee can shepherd you through the process. Reach out today; email laclimatereality@gmail.com to learn more and join the effort!

LEADERSHIP

B Shores

I grew up on an organic vegetable farm and attended alternative schools as a young person, which is where I began my love of nature. I didn’t begin my environmental activism until high school where I was voted “most likely to end up on a Green Peace ship.” I continued my activism into college where I formed my school’s first Student Environmental Action Coalition club. I went on to protest the removal of the last 3% of the old growth forest in Northern California where I eventually graduated from Humboldt State University with my degree in Biology. I later became a science teacher in Los Angeles and have continued for the last 21 years. I have been a member of Climate Reality LA since 2018, after I was trained with Al Gore at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In addition, I have been a fan of An Inconvenient Truth since 2006 and have been showing it to my students each year. After joining Climate Reality LA, I have been involved with the 100% Committed Campaign, the Youth Action group, and the Climate Curricula committee and am currently involved with the Rainforest Protection committee.

Lucy Garcia

I taught science in a Title I public high school for eighteen years. The best thing I did for those students was to love them. The second best was to teach the process of science.

For climate, I would have my students organize a community conference on climate change, which morphed under their guidance into the annual Green Festival—with 80+ poster presentations by students, science fair style; speakers, tables, and workshops from local agencies and organizations; and best of all, food, games, music, art, contests, etc. All of this, plus conference organization of set-up, registration, translation, childcare, extra credit, crowd-control, security, and clean-up was done by students.

I sponsored the Heart of Nature Club who organized with a non-profit to lobby the City Council to get off coal (successful) and gas (ongoing). They organized presentations by the Alliance for Climate Education. They spoke to every teacher about recycling in the classroom. They started and maintained for years both a native plants and a food garden.

I was trained at the first online Climate Reality training in July 2020 along with 6000+ others from around the world. I helped organize to get a boost in classroom speaking engagements and then stepped up to organize the Climate Curricula Committee. You too can join and pull together committees!