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Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse
Pub. 2019
“Impressively researched, unflinchingly honest, and at times deeply moving.”
Buy the book: bit.ly/38Kz1Cl
#50YearsofPowells #50Books50Years
ALT "Impressively researched, unflinchingly honest, and at times deeply moving, Steven Greenhouse’s Beaten Down, Worked Up is a valuable resource both for those looking to learn about American labor history and for those looking to learn from it. Through case studies of pivotal workers’ rights campaigns and intimate portraits of the people who waged them, Greenhouse shows the trajectory of the labor movement from its heyday to the present day and gleans much-needed inspiration for its future. An engaging, informative, and ultimately hopeful read." —Powell's Bookseller Tove H.
BIG NEWS in Congress today for #CleanRide4Kids!🚌⚡ The House Committee on Energy and Commerce just introduced the CLEAN Future Act which includes a👏🏽$25 BILLION👏🏽investment over the next decade to electrify our school buses. This is the investment we need! #ActOnClimate
Climate Parents retweeted
The #ArcticRefuge is vital to the survival of the world’s most imperiled polar bear population. Fossil fuel development could eradicate polar bears from this unique wilderness. Tell @USFWS to scrap dangerous plans for harmful exploratory testing: sc.org/polarbears
ALT polar bear cubs in snow. Photo credit: @usfws
"We may also remember 2020, however, as the year the world started to reverse centuries of damage to the climate." 🤞💙🌎
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Climate Parents retweeted
A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior.
Growing up in my mother’s Pueblo household made me fierce. I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.
I am honored and ready to serve.
Climate Parents retweeted
The climate team @JoeBiden and I introduced today is ready to confront the climate crisis head-on with our allies around the world.
"I felt the need to come back to government because like so many Americans, and so many people around the world, I have children and I have grandchildren." - Soon-to-be Climate Envoy John Kerry ❤️
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🔥BREAKING 📰!!!🔥: "John Kerry will fight climate change full-time as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and will sit on the [National Security Council (NSC)]," the Biden transition team said in a news release: businessinsider.com/biden-pi…
In news we love to see: "This week, [The Farm Bureau] announced that it had formed a coalition that plans to push the government to adopt dozens of policy changes that would make it easier for farmers to reduce emissions from agriculture." From NPR: npr.org/2020/11/20/936603967…
Great news!!!
In Batesville, Arkansas they found that solar on just one high school would save $2.4 million over 20 years. They hope some of the savings will go towards teachers' salaries. What a great win-win.
energynews.us/2020/10/16/sou…
Full-hearted, and profoundly true.
“It’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters."
Van Jones reacts after CNN projected Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. cnn.it/2Id1pmU
A win for the people! A win for the promise of climate, racial and economic justice! A win for the children we hold dear! #Celebrate #Organize #Love
"Biden Takes Leads In Pa., Ga., Putting Him On Cusp Of Electoral College Win"
Big news for families and the climate!!! 🌎✊ npr.org/2020/11/06/932028484…
Climate Parents retweeted
"That we live in a post-truth society today, and that we don't care, that we have lost empathy. We have stopped thinking long-term and sustainable. And that's something that goes much deeper than just climate crisis deniers."
Long interview in @NatGeo
nationalgeographic.com/envir…
Climate Parents retweeted
To be fair, I don't have any "views on climate change" either. Just like I don't have any "views" on gravity, the fact that the earth is round, photosynthesis nor evolution...
But understanding and knowing their existence really makes life in the 21st century so much easier.
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