by Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
I spent the summer of 2015 knocking on doors across Cincinnati. As a rising college sophomore, I’d joined a group called Ohio Citizen Action to canvass for my community and the planet. That year, the Ohio River was the most polluted body of water in the nation. Named...
by Nick Schutt | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
My name is Nick Schutt. I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers, bad for rural communities, bad for all...
by Virginia Meyer | Mar 26, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Rural
I’m from Lone Tree, Iowa - a town of about 1,300 in the eastern part of our state. Our Senator, Joni Ernst, has attacked the Green New Deal multiple times. She says it’s “radical,” “It will destroy jobs,” “It will hinder our strong ag industry,” and “It’s a far-left...
by John Sarbanes, Michael Brune | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Politics
For decades, majorities of Americans have favored swift, meaningful action on climate change. They understand that we must transition away from dirty fuels and toward clean, renewable energy. Yet despite this overwhelming support, Congress has repeatedly failed to...
by Jessica Juarez Scruggs | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Election, Protest
My name is Jessica Juarez Scruggs, and I recently joined the Sunrise Movement and a courageous group of young Kentuckians who took over the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to demand he stop playing political games and take real action to address our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 13, 2016 | Climate, The Trump Swamp
The two latest Cabinet nominations announced by President-elect Donald Trump are the equivalent of a middle finger to the planet. It would be almost impossible to come up with a more offensive combination of epithets shouted in the face of those of us who care about...
