A Passionate Team of Community Organizers
About The Kicking Gas Campaign
Kicking Gas is a grassroots, Whidbey Island-based climate justice organization working to help electrify homes and improve the health of our communities by increasing affordability and awareness of the health and environmental impacts of fossil fuel combustion and usage. In 2024-2025 our campaign is committed to helping 150 homes moves closer to “All-Electric Home” status!
Who is “Kicking Gas?”
A local campaign led by nonprofit For The People, with collaboration from Readiness to Learn, City of Langley Climate Crisis Action Committee, Salish Sea Cooperative Finance, Sno-Isle Sierra Club, and Island Ductless Heat Pumps.
Kicking Gas Campaign Team
Derek Hoshiko, Campaign Director
Natalie Lubsen, Campaign Manager
Annie Philp, Client Services, Coordinator
Terra Huey, Marketing and Communications Manager
Erika Lundahl, Campaign Manager
Ian Joseph Jackson, Health and Outreach Manager
Tom Zuvela, Grants Accounting Manager
Doug Indrick, Technology Advisor
Nathaniel Blair-Stahn, Chief Visioning Officer
Linda Irvine, Campaign Advisor
Kicking Gas Campaign Partners
About The Kicking Gas Campaign Partners
Island Ductless Heat Pumps (IDHP) is a trusted local installer of ductless heat pumps. David Gray and his team are based on Whidbey Island and active in the community. IDHP works with Kicking Gas clients to assess home needs, prepare quotes, install ductless heat pumps, and maintain service to create maximally safe and comfortable home environments.
Salish Sea Cooperative Finance
Salish Sea Cooperative Finance is a member-owned community-based lender supporting Kicking Gas clients with low-interest micro-loans to ensure that up-front costs and less-than-transparent banking practices are not a barrier to home electrification.
Readiness to Learn is a nonprofit providing coordinated services for children and families in Island County since 1998. They recently retrofitted their campus with ductless heat pumps and are supporting Kicking Gas through outreach to communities and families they work with.
Readiness to Learn benefits people/benefits children
Reduces child poverty
Warm comfortable space to grow, study and live
Clean air, safe from wildfire smoke
After declaring a climate emergency, the City of Langley formed a Climate Crisis Action Committee to advance climate action in the community. The City and Committee support Kicking Gas with outreach, communications to community members, and project development.