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Climate Chronicles: Empowering Voices in Urban Resilience
I’m thrilled to share a project that’s been close to my heart. For the past few months, I’ve collaborated with the City of District Heights Sustainability Committee to develop an inspiring initiative named “Climate Chronicles: Empowering Voices in Urban Resilience.” Now, we’re reaching out to you…
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Voting for Climate
From time to time, I get asked: what’s the most important thing I can do to address climate change? I always answer with two suggestions: talk about it and vote…
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Waiting for Your Gas Furnace to Break?
You might have heard climate advocates sing the praises of heat pumps. They’re incredibly efficient climate-friendly devices that can keep your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter. But replacing the heating and cooling system in your home can get expensive…
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A Time to Give Thanks
It is a month of Thanksgiving. In the realm of climate action, that means we need to acknowledge that a number of America’s cities are doing great work in stepping up to the plate on climate action. We are thankful that cities are moving forward, and are changing the way they grow and build, in…
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Surprising Successes in Utah
Last month, youth and community leaders from all over the world met in Salt Lake City to convene on Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and to agree on a resolution for UN member states to use as guidance to their future actions as part of its 68th Civil Society Conference. On climate, the resolution urges…
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When Politics, Science, and Faith Come Together
This blog is a collaboration between the National League of Cities and Path to Positive: For many world religions, a respect for nature and a desire to care for our planet lies at the heart of their practices and rituals. In 2015, Pope Francis surprised the world with Laudato Si, a papal encyclical on “care…
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Why Some Americans Don’t Worry About Climate Change
National polling data — including ecoAmerica’s — reveals that the vast majority of Americans are concerned about our changing climate. But there remain a staunch group of Americans who believe that the science is wrong, that the crisis is manufactured, and that we do not need to take action to change anything. The Americans who…
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Lessons from Glacier National Park, Montana
Because of our changing climate, there is now a new form of tourism – climate tourism. When you open up the Condé Nast Traveler article entitled “10 places to visit before they are lost to climate change,” the first picture shows Glacier National Park in Montana. My husband and I traveled there this month, partly…
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Hon. Jennifer Roberts at Virginia Housing’s Rethink the Box: Innovation at Work
I spoke recently at a Virginia Housing conference called Rethink the Box: Innovation at Work. There were over 400 attendees, focused on the same issue: affordable housing. Why, you might ask, as a Director at ecoAmerica focused on building public support for climate action and climate solutions in communities, did I agree to speak about…
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Time for Charlotte Buses to Go Electric: Compressed natural gas is not the answer
It has been 18 months since the Charlotte City Council passed a commitment to transition the city to reach zero carbon emissions by 2030. Meanwhile, the Char-Meck Climate Leaders, as well as dozens of stakeholders and citizens, have been meeting — voluntarily — to bring various areas of expertise to bear and strategize on ways…
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Youth Engagement with CivicSpark
CivicSpark is a California Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program, administered by ecoAmerica partner LGC (Local Government Commission), dedicated to building capacity for local governments to address community resilience issues such as climate change, water resource management, housing, and mobility. Community input is an important component of success in these issues. Our Path to Positive Moving Forward…
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Driving an EV Long Distance is Easy!
Lately, I have been listening to a lot of conversation about the ups and downs of electric vehicles. I have had a Tesla Model 3 for about 2 months, and it has been nice to be able to avoid inhaling the fumes at gas stations and to simply plug my car into my carport outlet…
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Growing Climate Solutions – Path to Positive Southwest Florida Partnership Launches
NAPLES, Fla. (April 22, 2019) – The Community Foundation of Collier County, Southwest Florida Community Foundation, Florida Gulf Coast University and Conservancy of Southwest Florida formalized a three-year partnership to align community resources in an effort to address issues related to our region’s changing climate. The founding group, Growing Climate Solutions – Path to Positive…
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International Women’s History Month (a personal perspective)
I participated in the Women’s March in January in Washington, DC, and was pleased to see many signs and placards that supported climate action. Signs like “100% Clean, Renewable Energy for All,” “Protect Our Planet,” and “There is no Planet B” reminded me that women have often been on the forefront of social change and…