🌞 3 Powerful Forces Energizing Autumn Wonderlands of Renewable Action
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: change is in the air— illuminating Sunny Climate News
Today I stand representing my people who for centuries have been subject to displacement contamination intimidation and assimilation
but we are still here standing proud bringing a message not of pain but of love for thousands of years we have lived in harmony with Mother Earth
understanding her cycles and her teachings her gifts and her needs
we have understood that Nature's wisdom is essential for harmony a wisdom that has been developed over millions of years through intricate processes
thus we have understood that we are on earth to take care of life, to learn, to build community, and to leave this earth better than we found it for the generations of tomorrow.
—Xiye Bastida, Youth Climate Activist at the UN International Forum for Peace
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Happy Monday! Here’s 3 powerful forces energizing Autumn wonderlands of renewable action with Sunny Climate News:
Diversity is Power: Honoring, Uplifting, & Empowering Hispanic Climate Leadership
Solutions Abound All Around: Spotlight on Climate Week (AKA Every Week)
Change, Change Change: The Only Way Out— to a Beautiful-Renewable Future— is Through
1. Diversity is Power: Honoring, Uplifting, & Empowering Hispanic Climate Leadership
11 Hispanic Climate Voices to Follow
Most U.S. Latinos say global climate change and other environmental issues impact their local communities
“Latino and Hispanic workers make up about 18% of the U.S. clean energy workforce” —Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, “Latino Power: The Future of the Clean Energy Workforce”
“Among the most prevalent occupations in the clean energy sector —building efficiency insulation workers and construction laborers — Latino workers already hold 25.7 percent and 31.5 percent of those jobs” —Diversity in Clean Energy Report
SURVEY RESEARCH: 11 facts about Hispanic origin groups in the U.S.
“Green energy is a vital part of our future, and we want our students to have the tools they need to pursue careers in this important sector,” Zuniga said. “We also want our community to benefit from the reduced pollution and cleaner air that green transportation will bring. We are grateful to Lalo and his team for helping us find a creative way to get this message out to the El Monte community.” —El Monte Union Partners with Award-winning Cartoonist to Promote Clean Transportation
Finding Climate Solutions in a Spanish Village
Latino activism leads in grassroots efforts on climate change
Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts
New investment in climate action can be a game changer for Latinos
2. Solutions Abound All Around: Spotlight on Climate Week (AKA Every Week)
Livestream Videos: Futerra’s Solutions House
ClimateCentral Tools: Climate Week, Climate Solutions
TIME100 Voices: We Need Climate Action Everywhere, All at Once
Celebrate the White House launching the American Climate Corps:
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic climate agenda, yesterday the Administration launched the American Climate Corps, a workforce training and service initiative that will ensure more young people have access to the skills-based training necessary for good-paying careers in the clean energy and climate resilience economy.
The American Climate Corps will mobilize a new, diverse generation of more than 20,000 Americans – putting them to work conserving and restoring our lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy efficient technologies, and advancing environmental justice, all while creating pathways to high-quality, good-paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs in the public and private sectors after they complete their paid training program.
A New Era in Climate Communications: A system change approach to communications
3. Change, Change Change: The Only Way Out— to a Beautiful-Renewable Future— is Through
Smart thermostats are helping Arizona’s grid ride out extreme heat
From Jane to the Octonauts, children’s TV is taking on the climate crisis
Electrifying a Fraction of Vehicles in the Lower Great Lakes Could Save Over a Thousand Lives Annually, Studies Suggest
“The environmental and climate justice movement today is intergenerational, and that’s exciting. I’ve been doing this for 40-plus years. I’m a Boomer and proud of it—still fighting and still standing. But the fact is, Millennials and Zoomers and Gen Xers combined outnumber my generation. We need to develop a strong intergenerational partnership so these younger people don’t have to hit brick walls.
We will get to the point where we will address all these challenges we have faced. Many are artificial barriers that we can break down to move more quickly toward solutions. We can take this quest for justice and pass the baton. That’s how we will cross the finish line.”
That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to harvest a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚
Stay clean-energy-cool & plugged-in:
Let us know what brightness you’re up-to beautifying our world:
Finally—THANK YOU, for all you do! For tomorrow, today— the future thanks you, too.
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Climate Poetry Corner
Add Your Name to a NASA Spacecraft (Plus, Yes— a Poem)
If you want to have your name on a NASA spacecraft flying 1.8billion miles to explore Jupiter's moons Europa, sign-on!
plus, our US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote this FANTASTIC poem that's included onboard the spacecraft.
"And it is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
O second moon, we, too, are made
of water, of vast and beckoning seas.We, too, are made of wonders, of great
and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
of a need to call out through the dark." —Ada Limón
What a cool way to ride the intergalactically-propulsive power of poetry to worlds beyond— reflecting our shared humanity while engaging us to get involved. Feel free to share!
“The water we drink, like the air we breathe, is not a part of our body but is our body. What we do to one—to the body, to the water—we do to the other.” —Natalie Diaz, THE FIRST WATER IS THE BODY
“The Earth Is Telling Us It’s Exhausted”: An Interview With Poet Natalie Diaz
Finally, a bonus beautiful Autumn poem for you: