A healthier climate starts with connected neighbors and empowered communities.
Who We Are
The South Seattle Climate Action Network is a community of concerned citizens who seek to elevate the importance of climate justice via community building, educating our elected officials, and partnering with allied organization. We are a grassroots, all-volunteer organization that seeks to develop strong relationships with our South Seattle legislators to support meaningful environmental and climate legislation, and to promote a sustainable and equitable future for our people and the planet.
We’re ordinary people, just like you. We are juggling jobs, kids, and relationships. We have bills to pay, children to love, friends and family to support. We don’t feel like we have all the answers. But the urgency of the climate crisis leaves us with no other option but to act for our planet, our communities and our families.
Learn more: SSCAN Legislative Priorities 2025
Featured Event
Join us for the next SSCAN mtg March 6, 6PM
What’s wonderful and winnable in Olympia this year? We are so, so lucky to have climate-friendly elected state leaders in our Washington. Join us to strategize about bills that could become law by April.
Featured
Meaningful Movies discusses Occupation of the American Mind
Meaningful Movies discusses Occupation of the American Mind, Sunday, February 23, 12:30 pm Mount Baker Meaningful Movies and the First Church MM group invite you to a discussion prompted by The Occupation of the American Mind, a documentary that shows...
350 Washington CAT’s Legislative Work
Sign up for the 350 WA Civic Action Team (CAT) Action Alerts. CAT invites us to support sound and just climate policy.
Poem for these times
"Change " Sunshine and soft wind draw me out of the house and down the path to the beach, past the fire weed with stems standing brown and mottled in the gully bottom, past the brilliant yellow of new gorse flowers splashed high on...
What We Do
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY
SSCAN leaders and volunteers advocate for public policy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State and prepares our communities, especially the most vulnerable, for anticipated climate change effects.
MT BAKER MEANINGFUL MOVIES
The South Seattle Climate Action Network works with the Meaningful Movies Project to coordinate monthly screenings of social justice documentaries in South Seattle.
EARTHCARE NOT WARFARE
SSCAN works on anti-war legislation because our military is the largest producer of greenhouse gases and because many SSCAN members are in the 9th Congressional District. Congressman Adam Smith is the chair of the House Armed Services Committee.
URBAN AGRICULTURE
SSCAN leaders and volunteers organize and/or support several community-driven urban agriculture projects including the Mt Baker Food Is Free Community Giving Garden, Bradner Garden Pea Patch and the Shark Garden..
Upcoming Events
At SSCAN’s monthly meet-ups and Meaningful Movies events, we host speakers who provide educational presentations on topics relevant to climate change and environmental protection. We also coordinate semi-regular meetings with our legislators at all levels of government.
SSCAN Action Meeting
February 6 at 6:00PM
We will be discussing the 2025 state legislative session.
350 WA CAT Outreach
Sign up for the 350 WA Civic Action Team (CAT) Action Alerts The 350 WA Civic Action Team
Write letters to the Editor
Write letters responding to climate stories to the editor of your local papers e.g. Seattle Times: mailto:letters@seattletimes.
Start with a mention of a recent climate article, then call for green policy action. Keep it short-less than 200 words. See this example:
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make