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Is Climate Change to Blame for Food Inflation?
…I’ve seen similar signs and similarly vacant egg coolers at a variety of grocery stores around town. Bird Flu! Is bird flu a consequence of our changing climate? In part, yes, and we should expect continued fluctuations in grocery prices because of it…
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Empowering Youth Leadership: Our New Partnership with Project Green Schools
We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Project Green Schools, an organization dedicated to developing the next generation of environmental leaders…
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Sparking Climate Conversations: The “Climate at the Dinner Table” Skit Kit
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the ‘Climate at the Dinner Table’ skit kit! Are you looking for ways to talk about climate that are positive and engaging? Our new skit toolkit is for you and anyone passionate about using the power of performance to move climate action forward…
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Recording Available: “Replicate This: Build on Other’s Successes to Activate Your Community”
Our most recent Let’s Talk Climate episode “Replicate This: Build on Other’s Successes to Activate Your Community” featured two finalists from the American Climate Leadership Awards. Our guests Aniya Butler (Youth Vs Apocalypse), Hannah Estrada (Youth Vs Apocalypse) and Dr. Missy Stults (City of Ann Arbor) joined us to discuss what made their programs successful…
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Greening Our Faith Communities Summit
Guest blog by NC Climate Ambassador, Rev. Amy Brooks It is amazing that all faith traditions teach some version of this truth: that the earth is a sacred gift and that humanity is expected to take care of this gift. Sadly though, when we look around we realize we must do a better job, not…
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Earth Day Wisdom
Happy Earth Day! In honor of the wisdom of all community members, I am sharing some great comments that came through my social media feed today. I believe we are stronger together, and each of us has the ability to bring forward climate solutions and systemic change for the better. We each have an authentic…
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Utah’s Success Story: the Path to Clean Energy
This week we had a conversation with two leaders from Utah Clean Energy, who have been instrumental in guiding the progress of conservative Utah toward wind and solar energy. Fossil fuel producing states around the country are struggling with ways to frame the need for a clean energy transformation in the face of a changing…
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A Conservative Approach to Solving Climate Change
The deepening partisan divide in the United States has been harmful in many ways. One of the most glaring issues where it has hurt us all concerns the public support of climate solutions. In a recent webinar, former South Carolina Congressman Bob Inglis laid out some great solutions that conservatives can support. Our communities’ partner…
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This or That Challenge – Climate Change Edition
Guest blog by Marissa Spraker, FGCU student and SWFL Climate Ambassador, originally in Growing Climate Solutions We all know that climate change has become a huge topic of conversation in the past decade, and even more so in the last three years. We also know that the changing climate causes a lot of environmental problems…
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Racial and Climate Justice – Now is The Moment
I remember an interview I had once, when I was Mayor of Charlotte, when a reporter came to question me about the city’s violent crime and murder rate. Doubtless it was a story fanned by my opponents’ claims that murders were up and I was to blame. From my perspective, no matter what that number…
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Climate Solutions Benefit Us All
This is a guest blog from Climate Ambassador Ed Maxwell, written in response to an op ed printed in the Port Charlotte Sun entitled “Let’s Call the Climate Change Bluff” As a Southwest Florida resident and business owner who is actively engaged in climate issues, I want to point out that [Dr. Doner] made some…
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Clean Energy Can Also Power Racial Equity in North Carolina
Guest blog from Ethan Blumenthal and William Barber III: As [North Carolina]’s economy looks to recover from COVID-19, the clean energy industry provides an opportunity to both hasten our recovery and address other urgent challenges North Carolinians face, including racial inequity, job growth, job quality, and climate change. That’s a lot to ask of a…
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Power to the People: Climate Ambassadors
In order to move more communities to climate action, citizens have been showing up (virtually at this time) at their city council and state legislature meetings. Around the country, cities have been putting climate solutions on the ballot in response to demands from their citizens. On November 3 an overwhelming majority of these initiatives passed,…
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Climate Voters: What’s Next
Like many people in America, I woke up today to the reality that we do not have a decisive presidential outcome from yesterday’s election. This was not unexpected; many predicted this, and many messages in social and other media revolved around the need to be patient in this election. There has been so much back…