New Jersey Data Centers Map
Are data centers coming to your NJ community? South Jersey Climate News says there are more than 80 data centers in New Jersey with more planned or under construction. Explore the map, which is continually updated. You can help keep it up to date by adding information about your community. Send updates or corrections to contact@sjclimate.news. There is also a table listing all data centers by county with status and links to more information.
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/new-jersey/
Yale Climate Opinions Map
This interactive tool maps “climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support across every state, county, congressional district, and metro area in the U.S.” The 2025 update adds four new measures: “support for local solar farms (57% nationally), support for local wind farms (53% nationally), opposition to fossil fuel drilling and mining on public land (54% nationally), and preference for candidates who support action on global warming (57% nationally).”
https://mailchi.mp/yale/updated-yale-climate-opinion-maps-for-2025?e=a213745252
Sustainable Energy in America 2026 Factbook
This downloadable factbook tracks market and policy trends, giving valuable insight into the energy transformation in America.
https://bcse.org/market-trends/2026-factbook-download/
Climate Smart Insurance Directory
Green America’s Climate Smart Insurance Directory helps you find insurance providers in your state that don’t insure or invest in fossil fuel projects.
https://greenamerica.org/climate-smart-insurance-directory
Yale Climate Connections Newsletter
“Editor-in-Chief Sara Peach will catch you up on the latest climate news in five minutes or less every Tuesday and Friday morning and share inspiring solutions from around the world.”
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/newsletters/
Climate Action Now (CAN) Action Carousel
Looking for more ways to take action in 2026? This tool from Climate Action Now helps you take regular action on climate issues. The Action Carousel remembers previous actions you’ve taken and recommends new actions when you return.
Revised Solar Schools Toolkit: A Guide to Help Pennsylvania Schools Go Solar
The Philadelphia Solar Energy Association (PSEA) has updated its Solar Schools Toolkit “just in time to support the second round of Solar For Schools Grant applicants.” Both proformas and the model Request for Proposal have been updated. “This Version 2.0 includes all the changes and new requirements to qualify for the federal tax credits.”
R.A.F.T. Advocacy Resource: Publish Letters to the Editor | FCNL
Use this guide from Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) to write engaging Letters to the Editor that: Respond to Recent Events, Ask for Action, Find the Facts, and Tie in Your Personal Story.
https://www.fcnl.org/resources/publish-letters-editor
Step-by-Step Guide for School Bus Electrification | The World Resources Institute (WRI)
WRI provides this detailed guide to the “things to know, steps to take, stakeholders to consult, and questions to ask for a successful and equitable transition to electric school buses.”
SubjectToClimate | Talking Climate
Want to help children learn more about climate change? In a recent Talking Climate newsletter, Katharine Hayhoe wrote about this “amazing nonprofit that curates and hosts a wealth of free K-12 lesson plans developed by teachers about climate change.” Parents, you can share these lesson plans with your child’s school or teachers. There are also “self-paced courses for educators” to help them prepare to teach about climate change.
“Where Do Emissions Come From? 4 Charts Explain Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector”
World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate Watch platform publishes comprehensive emissions data for all countries, sectors, and gases, offering insight into the root causes of the climate crisis and where the world must take action to solve it.
Guide to Quaker Lobbying | Indiana Friends’ Committee on Legislation gives practical advice for lobbying at the state level on issues Friends care about.
https://quakerifcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IFCL_GuideToQuakerLobbying_2020.pdf
Creating a Playbook for Climate Action | PYM
This Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) guide is intended to help meetings develop a customized playbook to support individuals, households, and their meeting address climate change.
https://www.pym.org/sessions/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/11/Playbook-10-26-2023-6.pdf
Climate Witness Stewards on the PYM Website
The Climate Witness Stewards (CWS) were established to support the Yearly Meeting and hold it accountable to its climate change witness. You can read their full charge and find bios of the individual stewards at the CWS page of the PYM website. They are here to help!
https://www.pym.org/witness/climate-witness-stewards/
eClimate Action Packs for Busy People Like You | Soapbox Project
Youth! The Soapbox Project’s Changeletter archives has Read, Watch, Act, and Reflect modules for past topics ranging from Food Waste to Rethinking Mass Incarceration. Find ways to address the issues that matter to you.
https://www.soapboxproject.org/actions
Energy Stewardship for Friends’ Institutions | EJC
This EJC series consists of four workshops designed to help stakeholders at Friends meetings, schools, retirement communities, and other institutions make their facilities more sustainable. The link will take you to the PYM YouTube channel, where you can select individual videos (Saving Money on Your Commercial Electric Account, Solar Schools and Nonprofit Toolkit, Options and Funding for Electrifying Your HVAC Systems), or you can select “Play All.”
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXjmlBQqsGhOYF0QVFXM-uuW-mgaydILv
“Greening” Sacred Spaces” | EJC & Climate Action Working Group, Concord QM
Here are the recordings from three Greening Sacred Spaces webinars that EJC and the Climate Action Working Group (CAWG) of Concord Quarterly Meeting hosted to inspire and assist Friends meetings and institutions to make their property management policies more supportive of all of Creation.
Greening Sacred Spaces #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozYdJYQPM
Greening Sacred Spaces #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUF2sZMHcA
Greening Sacred Spaces #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgTfk6CWso
Clean Energy 4 PA: 30 X 30 and Community Solar
On September 18, 2025, Quaker Action Mid-Atlantic Region (Quaker Act) hosted an action workshop concerning how much of Pennsylvania’s energy comes from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal. Watch a video of the presentation by Liz Robinson (CPMM) and Bruce Birchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06jsiTlZ_TQ
Climate and Money: A Guide to Fossil Fuel Divestment and Reinvestment
This guide was developed by Friend Jennie Ratcliffe and fellow members of Durham (NC) Meeting’s Earthcare Witness Committee. It provides information about the what and the why of divestment, which banks or funds to divest from, and how to divest and reinvest in a more livable world. The guide is available at the website of Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW).
https://quakerearthcare.org/climate-and-money-a-guide-to-fossil-fuel-divestment-reinvestment/
