NH Climate Health Action Talk
February, 2025
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A Call to Action in 2025
Opportunities for Advocacy
EcoAmerica’s Climate Leadership Award
2024 Annual Fundraiser Thank You
Upcoming Webinars
Climate and Health Training Opportunities
A Call to Action in 2025
As healthcare professionals committed to reducing the health impacts of climate change on our communities, we are deeply concerned about recent actions at the Federal level loosening environmental protections. The United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization threatens to seriously undermine global progress to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. The USDA has been ordered to scrub climate change from websites, obscuring action in this important sector and raising concern what this may mean for other Federal agencies. And, with declaration of “an energy emergency”, fossil fuel extraction has been amped up across the U.S.
Here in New Hampshire, we see the health impacts from climate change, we understand the data and the risks, and - most importantly - we know that action at local and state levels can make a real difference.
In this context, NH Healthy Climate is gearing up for our most impactful year yet. We are committed to using our trusted messenger status as healthcare workers to provide science-based education, build resilience, and empower advocacy in our state.
Please join us to act locally this year. Together we will continue fighting for a healthier New Hampshire for generations to come.
Opportunities for Advocacy
Join the Environmental Voter Project to turn out low propensity environmental voters in New Hampshire ahead of their March 11th Municipal General election, and phone bank on Thursday, February 27th from 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET. Register Here.
Review the NH Network’s Bills of Interest this week to submit your position on NH bills.
Review a recording of the NH Association of Conservation Commissions’ webinar program, “State of the State, Clean Energy in NH” (Passcode: sa*q!*M0).
Join our next interdisciplinary Policy & Advocacy Working Group meeting via Zoom on Tuesday, February 25th from 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET. Contact Emily for the link.
EcoAmerica’s Climate Leadership Award
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as a 2025 American Climate Leadership Awards Semifinalist!
This recognition highlights the hard work and dedication of the Climate Informed Pediatric Care team to inspire climate solutions and make a lasting impact.
This is NH Healthy Climate’s second year in a row achieving this award, having been a semifinalist last year for the CHICKs project. Thank you to EcoAmerica for this incredible honor!
Many thanks for your help in our 2024 Annual Fundraiser
Thank you all of who donated to NH Healthy Climate’s 2024 Annual Fundraiser. With your collective generosity, we raised $38,681, exceeding 2023's total of $31,171. A special thank you to our anonymous donor who provided a matching grant of $10,000 to kick start our 2024 fundraising efforts.
These funds are vital to supporting our operations throughout the year, in particular, our dedicated and hard-working Executive Director, Emily Thompson. We would not be a leading voice in New Hampshire at the intersection of Climate and Health without her steady guidance and your generous support.
Included in this generosity was $7,015 earmarked for the CHICKs Fund to support the expansion of our unique programing for children through the Climate Health Initiative for Caregivers and Kids, lead by the incredible Director of CHICKs, Maria Finnegan. However we still need additional funding to sustain the CHICKs program and we are actively working to secure this funding. You, our members and friends, can help us achieve this goal by also donating to this new, important fund.
Remember, for those of you who have Required Minimum Distributions (RMD) from a pre-tax portfolio (such as an IRA), NH Healthy Climate can accept contributions as a 501c3 corporation without triggering a tax liability to you in the form of a Qualified IRA Disbursement. Please consider donating to NHHC directly from your IRA.
- Joan Widmer, Treasurer, Board of Directors
Upcoming Webinars
NH Healthy Climate is scheduling out our interactive webinar series through 2025 with local and national experts in climate and health. Check out www.nhclimatehealth.org/our-events to register for each event.
Climate and Health Training Opportunities
The Climate Advocacy Lab’s Climate + Health Northeast Peer Learning Circle Application is now open!
The Climate Advocacy Lab’s Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle is a free training program for experienced leaders at the intersection of climate and health. Combining in-person workshops and virtual sessions, this initiative fosters peer learning, collaboration, and skill-building. Participants will enhance their leadership, gain community engagement strategies, and connect with a network of accomplished peers to drive systemic change.
This program equips participants with tools and strategies to lead transformative climate action through:
Evidence-based techniques like sharing climate stories and reframing narratives.
Practical methods for motivating sustained climate engagement in communities.
Expert-led collaborations to tailor climate communication strategies.
A dynamic peer network for idea-sharing and overcoming challenges.
The Climate + Health Northeast Peer Learning Circle is for U.S.-based health professionals, including doctors, nurses, mental health therapists, public health experts, and community health workers, who:
Reside or work in one of the Northeast states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, or Vermont.
Identify as a health professional (this may include but is not limited to health educators, health scientists, nursing, medicine, public health, behavioral and mental health, social work, veterinary medicine, and other clinical and health-related fields)
Are at least 18 years or older
Have a campaign—failed, ongoing, or proposed—that they can actively apply the program’s content and strategies to during the cohort
Join (virtually) the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health from March 1-4, 2025, for Our Planet, Our Health: 2025 Climate Action Convention, a pivotal gathering of leaders, experts, and educators committed to driving progress toward a healthier, more sustainable, and just future. The CHICKs program will featured in a panel presentation on Sunday, March 2nd at 3:30pm!
Through a series of dynamic sessions — offered in person and online — we will examine the state of our planet’s health and the necessary steps to achieve a sustainable future. Attendees will gain insights into cutting-edge research on the links between ecological drivers and health outcomes, explore strategies for building resilience and equity in the face of climate challenges, and learn how to build capacity for science-informed policymaking. Up to 13.75 CME/CE credits are available.
