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Ready to engage on climate solutions now like Owiso Makuku of Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center? Join us February 1 in Montpelier. VBSR, Champion Members Seventh Generation and SunCommon, and VPIRG will host the annual Businesses for Climate Action Lobby Day at the Vermont Statehouse on Thursday, February 1 in Montpelier – REGISTER NOW: https://bit.ly/3S2wDym The day will include a morning press conference, coordinated meetings with legislators, climate-focused professional development, and a Networking Meetup at Three Penny Taproom. If you want to make a difference, bringing your voice to the Vermont State House is one of the most impactful things you can do. #VTbiz #VTpoli --------------------------------------- “I believe strongly in equity and social responsibility. And that those of us who are aware are obligated to speak out.   Legislative decisions come down to people and actions – the ‘easy way out’ is to do nothing, but we've come to find that our collective inaction has caused a greater imperative for action or reaction. We need to find ways to continue to engage, to continuously improve on our current solutions, to raise awareness and to keep our legislation actionable and equitable. 

 And as we're all aware from current weather patterns, we need to do it now.” – Owiso Maluku, CEO, Main Street Landing (excerpts from 2003 Businesses for Climate Action Lobby Day press conference)

💡How can businesses work together with environmental organisations to create a more resilient environment for them and their customers…whilst reaping all the other benefits of nature based solutions? Look at what they’re doing in Leeds… #collaboration #naturebasedsolutions #climateresilience

📣 The latest episode of Climate Proofers just dropped! 🌊 We talk coastal resiliency with Eugene Karl Montoya Alessandri, CECREF, founder of Sandmont Natural Capital and strategic advisor to the Waterfront Alliance, an organization engaging stakeholders on the use and protection of those areas where land and water meet. We cover: 👉 What “coastal resiliency” means 👉 The work of the Waterfront Alliance and the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines 👉 Financing for climate-resilient waterfront developments 👉 Technology’s role in resisting and readying communities for water risks 👉 What the deal is with blue finance! Listen/download online or via Spotify (links in comments)👇 #climatechange #climateadaptation #climaterisk #coastalresiliency #waterrisk #floods

The MCC keeps growing! It's exciting to see cities, orgs, and universities coming together to boost our region's capacity for innovation and action! The Midwest is where it's at!! #MidwestMatters #climatechange #climateleadership #climateaction #climatejustice

Check out david roberts latest podcast to better understand the role of urban land use policy on the climate and in the energy transition. It was an honor to represent RMI's work with Rushad Nanavatty. Thanks for having us David! As Rushad said, we'd love your support accelerating urban land use reform. It has been seriously under-invested in as a climate solution, and we are seeking philanthropic partners who understand the necessity behind zoning reform; without it, we have no pathway to staying on course with a 1.5 °C-- or even 1.7°C future. We had a great team behind the our most recent state land use analysis: Jacob Korn Raghav Muralidharan Jackie Lombardi Anna Zetkulic and Zack Subin. AND we have so many more leading the charge in this space: Benjamin Holland U. Bryn Grunwald Miguel Moravec Andrew Veysey Ryan Warsing Alisa Petersen Julia Meisel Julia Thayne -- list non-exhaustive!! #volts #landuse #climate #states #cities #climatesolutions https://lnkd.in/gm2J53xK

New video for our Just Solutions: Collective Stories series coming soon! In this interview we meet Jayeesha Dutta, a co-founding member of Another Gulf is Possible Collaborative and the Program Director for the Windcall Institute She talks about how Another Gulf Is Possible provides resources and support across the Gulf South, an area at the intersection of climate chaos conditions, through cultural organizing, healing justice, and community empowerment. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel so that you don't miss our video releases! #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #JustTransition #ClimateResilience #DisasterResilience #DisasterRecovery

More of THIS #leadership, plz! Such a huge fan of the Honnold Foundation. "That’s why, starting over a decade ago, I’ve been committing one-third of my #annualIncome toward #climateSolutions —specifically, getting more communities #access to #solarEnergy — through my foundation, the Honnold Foundation (HF). What started as a handful of projects each year turned into over 60 projects in 27 countries, territories, and U.S. #Tribal lands."

George Woodwell was among the first scientists to sound the alarm on climate change, long before the term entered the public conversation. In the 1980s he founded the Woods Hole Research Center, which was later renamed Woodwell Climate Research Center. The work of Woodwell, who died in June at the age of 95, resonated around the world. Few knew him as well as Richard "Skee" Houghton, whom Woodwell hired in 1966. Houghton is senior scientist emeritus at Woodwell Climate Research Center, and has served as its acting director and president. You can check out the conversation he had with WCAI’s Patrick Flanary here: https://bit.ly/3LjACm7 📸: George and Katharine Woodwell (center) with Skee Houghton (right), pictured in Woods Hole in the late 1980s. #ClimateCollaborative #GeorgeWoodwell #ClimateChangePioneer #WoodwellClimateResearchCenter #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateHeroes #RaisingAwareness #WoodsHoleResearch #GlobalWarming #CapeCodClimate #ClimateLegacy #ClimateResearch #EnvironmentalConservation #ClimateEducation #EcoPioneers #ClimateScienceHistory #PreservingNature #SustainabilityAdvocates #ClimateActionNow

Last month, we celebrated Junteenth, and I heard an interesting piece on NPR about how climate change impacts low-income and minority neighborhoods. It was a re-broadcast of a piece from 2020 that briefly discussed how redlining is still visible today, and not just in the ways you would think. To learn more about how we can use GIS to support communities, read my blog: https://lnkd.in/e59wPpmf #evareidconsulting #representingwomen #redlining #blackhistory #socialjustice #GIS

Working together between business and conservation media personalities is just what we need.