From Keystone XL Pipeline to Inflation Reduction Act to road cleanups

User: adamjohnmeier@gmail.com

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 3450 - Advocate for Action on Climate

Advocacy on climate can occur at so many levels: global, federal, state, town, friends, and family. Over the years I've had the opportunity to engage in each and then some... advocating for academic programs to incorporate climate into public health curriculums, build courses on scope 3 emissions, and more. The first intentional climate advocacy I participated in was as part of Power Shift in DC in 2009. It was the first ever national youth conference to solve the climate crisis and we marched from the conference center to the coal power plant powering the halls of Congress, engaging in civil disobedience to convey the importance of leaders taking action on climate. That's one way to get started... dive on in. When the US's Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022, I reflected the ten-thousand peers who joined that conference and the tens and hundrers of millions of people who have been fighting for decades to see that mitigation and adaptation strategies are implemented and implemented equitably. Advocacy pays off, even if the results aren't linear.