Audience: Environmental 'Base'

This has been a challenging weekend (and month) for communities around the country for a whole host of reasons. As you read this week’s feature, written by Maliyah, I ask you to reflect on the strength our communities already hold, especially through the data, stories, and lived experience that too often get talked about but not truly listened to.

Maximize impact this legislative session with the Lab’s training on the most effective evidence-based ways to influence legislators and other policy makers.

Maximize impact this legislative session with the Lab’s training on the most effective evidence-based ways to influence legislators and other policy makers

Understanding and adapting to obscure technical changes, often without in-house IT support to help, can seem overwhelming when you’re also trying to edit a funny-but-action-driving video for 3 different channels, track ad ROI, and write 3 fundraising emails. But you’re not alone in this moment. Join the Climate Advocacy Lab (the lab) and The Movement Cooperative (TMC) for a webinar designed to strengthen your understanding of the technical and strategic dimensions of email and SMS deliverability.

Recent acts of violence and injustice—here in Minneapolis–St. Paul and in communities across the country—are not only social and political crises; they are health crises. As we navigate ongoing harm and uncertainty, it is essential that we care for ourselves and one another.

With energy costs on the rise, I have been scouring trusted sources for answers on the best ways to talk about the energy affordability crisis. Let me point you to three grounding strategies that have helped me figure out how we can make the energy affordability case.

For this newsletter, I wanted to share some of our favorite reads of the year; I hope they will keep you company in the coming winter months.

I think it’s clear our democracy is not in a good place. While it has never been perfect (to say the least), I know many of us are increasingly worried about its fate. Based on key indicators of authoritarian behavior, like selective prosecution of opponents, the Trump administration has become increasingly autocratic.

This tipsheet gives a definition of mutual aid, shares examples of mutual aid for the climate crisis, and shares resources for finding your own local mutual aid networks.