Starts With Us

OUR MISSION, VISION, PURPOSE

MISSION:  To educate our community about solutions to the climate crisis, advocate for policies that fight climate change, and take action to create resilience and inspire hope for an equitable future. 

VISION: To mobilize our community and ensure a livable world for our children and future generations. 

PURPOSE: We embrace our responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, protect the natural environment, promote water stewardship, and address threats from wildfire, flooding and drought.

JOIN US ON JULY 7, 2025 FOR A CLIMATE ACTION EXPO and COMMUNITY ORGANIZING OPPORTUNITY!!

Healdsburg, California –On June 14, 2025, residents of Healdsburg joined over 2000 cities in the national No Kings Protest cosponsored by Climate Action Healdsburg and Indivisible Healdsburg. The Healdsburg Tribune estimated between 1000-2000 people lined Healdsburg Avenue from Highway 101 to the Roundabout to protest the authoritarian take over of our democracy.

We are inspired by the 3.5% principle: it only takes 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained, strategic, non violent protest against authoritarianism to achieve significant political change. More than 3.5% of the population of Healdsburg came out on June 14.

The big question is: What comes next?

Climate Action Healdsburg will continue its organizing efforts in order to fend off authoritarianism and protect the interests of all. We must keep climate action alive at the local, state, and national levels. As singer Joan Baez suggests, “Action is the antidote to despair.”

To that end, we will host a Climate Action Expo and Community Organizing Opportunity at the Abel de Luna Community Center (formerly the Healdsburg Community Center) on July 7 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. It will focus on how members of the community can get more involved and keep up the momentum generated on June 14.

We need help planning upcoming local campaigns and events for the fall and spring. We are forming coalitions with other local non profit and immigrant rights groups. There is definitely strength in numbers.

Trump has decimated climate protection by withdrawing from the Paris Accords and freezing billions in clean energy projects. He has declared a “national energy emergency” and wants to increase coal production and drilling for oil and natural gas. He has defunded scientific research about climate change. This jeopardizes our collective future.

We come together in a strong, intersectional and intergenerational movement calling for:

• An end to the billionaire takeover and corruption under the Trump administration that takes dollars away from programs meant to ensure a livable future for those in the United States and others around the world.

• Support for communities of color who are impacted most directly by the climate crisis, an immediate halt to attacks on immigrants, and the end of ICE raids in Sonoma County and across the country.

• Protection and expansion of climate legislation at the state and national levels to address the climate crisis.

• Full implementation of the City of Healdsburg’s Climate Mobilization Strategy and Active Transportation Plan.

Locally, here are a few of the projects we need assistance with. There are many others that will be showcased at the Expo:

• Plan for more local events and/or protests including a Sun Day Event on September 21, 2025. Sun Day is a national day of action celebrating solar and wind power, and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind.

• Learn how to get trained as a legal observer to protect vulnerable residents of Healdsburg if ICE comes to our community.

• Make Healdsburg public transit more responsive to the needs of our community and connected to other parts of Sonoma County.

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions through various projects like our anti idling efforts, planting more trees and native plants, restoring beavers on the Russian River, expanding composting and moving Healdsburg toward zero waste.

Food and raffle prizes will be offered to those who attend. Activities for children will be a part of the event.

Free countertop compost containers will be distributed to those who need them courtesy of SB1383 and the City of Healdsburg Public Works Department.

OUR HISTORY

Four years ago on March 21, 2022, a group of motivated Healdsburg residents joined by some allies across Sonoma County came together on the steps of the Downtown Plaza.  We imagined what Healdsburg might look like in 2030.

On April 21 of that same year, twelve local Healdsburg residents representing various service and non-profit organizations in Healdsburg came together in a local backyard for the inaugural Healdsburg Earth Day Summit.   Four years later, we have over 400 people on our mailing list and have made connections across Healdsburg and Sonoma County.

During these three years, we advocated for the development of a Climate Mobilization Strategy for the City of Healdsburg.  Begun in December 2022, it was approved in 2023 and we are currently committed to helping city staff implement that Strategy.  We also sponsored various events including two wildly successful Climate Fests in 2023 and 2024. With our educational booths, we attracted over 5000 local participants to the Healdsburg Plaza.

After our first meeting in a back yard, we have held regular meetings at Craft Work, the Community Center and The 222.  Topics have included fire safety, zero waste, tree ordinances and protection, regenerative agriculture, idle free schools, the circular economy, clean energy, public transit and bike and pedestrian safety, and earth friendly food preparation.

Due to our advocacy and the filing of an appeal about a Planning  Commission decision in 2024, the removal of an oak woodland at Montage was averted. The plan for an expanded parking lot was withdrawn..

We have been active participants in the development of Healdsburg’s Active Transportation Plan through our action group, Move! Healdsburg..

What will happen next? Please join us to plan in these difficult times!

Currently, we are fiscally sponsored by 350BayArea and a part of 350Sonoma.