Crowdsourcing Sustainability Newsletters
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Want to switch to clean electricity? (upcoming webinar!)
I'm excited to announce that our next webinar will be focused on helping you go solar. It'll be on Wednesday, September 14th at 1 pm ET so sign up here if you'd like to join! We want to help make it as easy as possible for you to make the switch and start powering...
Meet our new Community Weaver!
As I mentioned last week, we just hired our second full-time employee - a Community Weaver! And I. Am. Stoked 🙂 Before you meet this amazing human (and before we ask you to help us by taking a quick survey), let me put this milestone into perspective with a quick...
Climate Action Planning for Your Community
Two things for you today: Exciting news for our CS community. Key takeaways on climate action planning for your town. We hired a Community Weaver!! This is a big milestone. For the first time ever, there will be two people working on Crowdsourcing Sustainability...
How to get your city to zero emissions ASAP
We recently had the pleasure of hosting a webinar featuring the two people in charge of the United States's most ambitious local climate action plan. Luis Aguirre-Torres and Rebecca Evans are designing and implementing Ithaca, New York's Green New Deal, which has two...
Helping your city reach carbon-neutrality (webinar) & electrifying everything
Just two quick ones for you today. Reminder: webinar on how to decarbonize your city On Tuesday, April 5th at 4 pm ET, we are hosting a webinar with two people who are in charge of the US's most ambitious local climate action plan - transforming Ithaca, NY to carbon...
How to decarbonize your city ASAP! (upcoming webinar)
Two quick ones for you this week! CS webinar with two people leading the most ambitious local climate action plan in the US (decarbonizing Ithaca, NY by 2030 with a Green New Deal!) Our first CS team podcast is now live. Upcoming webinar: How to decarbonize your...
Your climate journey & climate action guide
If you're reading this, odds are you're on a climate journey. I think of a climate journey as the unique path each of us takes over time as we learn more about the planetary emergency and decide what to do about it. I've been on my climate journey for nearly a decade...
Climate justice, activism, and revolutionary love
Hi y'all, Today I'm excited to share a wonderful podcast episode with a youth climate activist from the Philippines, Mitzi Jonelle Tan. "I grew up afraid of drowning in my own bedroom." - Mitzi Jonelle Tan Quick context: climate change and activism in the Philippines...
Top climate nonprofits & the state of climate philanthrophy!
There are SO many important causes to support (e.g. human rights, human health, ending poverty, education, racial/social/economic justice, ending world hunger, animal welfare, and many more). They're all 100% worth supporting. But we are at risk of losing all of the...
My Climate Story
Just a quick one for you today! The newsletter I was originally planning on writing got derailed because I got Covid earlier this week. (For those who want to know - I've been incredibly tired but I think it's a mild-ish case, I'm trending in the right direction, and...
Some quick food for thought
Quick one for you this week! I just finished recording a podcast with Jamie Beck Alexander who works over at Drawdown Labs. She shared lots of fantastic insights on the power employees have to help make their companies true climate leaders (getting companies to shift...
Align your company with a 1.5°C world!
Today's newsletter and podcast are for anyone who works at a company. Or knows someone who does that cares about the climate crisis. My hope is that this leads to more people taking steps to help get their companies in alignment with the Paris Agreement and a 1.5°C...
Most effective climate actions. And a directory to connect around them!
I just finished my 30th lap around the sun this week! And I'm trying to convince myself this will be the best decade. So if you have any sage advice on how to make that happen, please do share it 🙂 What I have for you today: Top 12 Climate Actions. We're launching...
“The greatest threat to global public health”
In an unprecedented move, 233 of health journals around the world simultaneously published a joint article last month calling continued inaction on climate "the greatest threat to global public health". I shared a link to this a few weeks ago. But I found it extremely...
Best Climate & Sustainability Documentaries! ???
I'm starting to put together a fairly holistic guide to climate action that builds on everything I've learned and created in the last 3.5 years since starting Crowdsourcing Sustainability. For it to be complete, I need to make a few more lists (so far I've done best...
Systems change, Multisolving, and the power to change direction
I think you are really going to enjoy listening to our latest podcast guest, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin. She's brilliant, thoughtful, and has been working on climate for decades. In my notes from re-watching our conversation, I jotted down "a beautiful mind". But before...
Drawdown Georgia – a community & localized roadmap for climate action!
If you've been reading this newsletter for some time you'll know I'm a big fan of Project Drawdown (aka "the world's leading resource for climate solutions"). I believe they've accelerated climate solutions and helped change the way millions of people see climate...
The 4-day workweek
From Iceland to Spain to Japan - from Microsoft to Unilever to Kickstarter - governments and hundreds of corporations are increasingly experimenting with and planning for 4-day workweeks (while keeping the same pay and benefits). And so far, the pilots and research...
Climate groups by profession/industry – get connected!
Before diving in, a quick heads up - Crowdsourcing Sustainability is looking for some new teammates to help with developing a new climate impact tool, SEO, and uploading content/social media. So if any of these feel like a good fit for you, please do apply (and let me...
Some super important things to understand ?
Today I'm sharing some key, high-level ideas and research that I've found to be extremely helpful in understanding where we stand and where we may be going. I hope it helps you to wrap your head around everything a bit more too! Big Picture: Where society stands The...
What’s the climate crisis like in Uganda? (hear from youth activist Nyombi Morris!)
Earth's climate has changed. And it will continue to change, making it harder to live until we make society transform its systems to reverse global heating. But the climate crisis is not affecting everyone equally. And we (in the US at least) rarely hear the stories...
Questions & quotes – I want to hear from you!
I don't know about you but I'm a little overwhelmed with everything happening (and not happening) in the climate space right now...not to mention the democracy space. You know, the little things. Anyway, you already know what I think about those. This week I want to...
The world that is…and what it *could* be (part 2!)
This is the second half of a 2-part newsletter (here's part 1). And it's the longest newsletter I've ever written. Turns out it takes a while to paint a picture of a totally transformed future world. So if you happen to be pressed for time now, I'd encourage you to...
The world that is…and what it *could* be (part 1)
I'm pretty excited about this one because I think it's super important for us to have a better understanding of the world as it is today and, critically, have a picture in our minds of the future world that we want to live in - the safer, healthier, and more just...
Sustainable investing, Green New Deal workshop, and big oil
I've got a few things for you this week: New video & podcast on sustainable investing Upcoming Green New Deal workshop organized by some awesome grandmothers Big oil: Some good & bad news But first, a huge thank you to everyone who donated after reading last...