First things first, Earthlings 🌎, a CALL TO ACTION:
VOTE CLIMATE ✅
Election day is November 4th. For the love of all that is good, please vote. Check details for your polling place and what’s on your local ballot at iwillvote.com. There are so many important local positions and initiatives. Do your research, share useful info with friends & neighbors.
And be sure to research the climate platforms of all candidates. Duh. See Lead Locally’s endorsements here and Working Families Party’s endorsements here.
Then, hit the phones ☎️: Phone bank with Environmental Voter Project and Lead Locally. (And listen to WIWGIR Season 1, Episode #2: Vote Climate for my conversation with the founders of those organizations.) Your efforts matter hugely in local elections. The conversations you have in the next 11 days could truly help change the outcomes.
Until we Earth-lovers become a formidable voting block, politicians won’t prioritize climate policy. So GOTMFV!
This week on the pod — Sabotage: The Splat 🥫🖼️
Almost exactly three years ago (Oct 14, 2022) a couple of climate activists hurled tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers.” It got a whole bunch of press. Do you remember this? Did you ever look into who did it and why?
Well, this week on the What If We Get It Right? podcast, we’re gonna get to the bottom of it. I’m sharing the first episode of the climate podcast Sabotage: “The Splat.” Season 1 of this fascinating investigative show, tells the story of the people behind the climate activism group Just Stop Oil. Co-hosted by Alessandra Ram and Samantha Oltman, the show asks: How radical is radical when it comes to climate activism right now? And it all starts with the splat heard round the world — that tomato soup splashing all over the painting’s glass and frame and the wood floor in London’s National Gallery.
I hope you enjoy this episode of Sabotage as much as I did. Subscribe! Their season 2 is dropping soon... I can’t wait. And I’ll be back with a brand new interview episode next week.
Also, BOOKS! 📚
Three amazing humans I’m proud to know published books this month. Get off the internet and read:
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy - Julia Ioffe. “The story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.” I’ve started reading this and it’s INCREDIBLE.
We Survived The Night — Julian Brave Noisecat. “A profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son.”
Barre Fight - . The 3rd in a trilogy of romance novels about ballet that acknowledge climate change as the context, from wild fires to public transit. We love a diva who rides the bus!
And if you missed last week’s podcast episode, run it back. Because there’s some serious stuff going on with our legal system that you need to know about. So grateful for the work of Abbie Dillen and the whole crew at Earthjustice.
What now for climate law? ⚖️ Abigail Dillen has answers.
This week I’m chatting with environmental lawyer Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, an incredible nonprofit law firm whose tagline is “because the Earth needs a good lawyer.” Indeed, it does.
Okay, TGIF, y’all. Be a good citizen and neighbor and friend and Earthling this weekend (and always). Don’t do anything bonkers and un-American like destroying an entire wing of the White House or opening 1.56 million acres of wildlife refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling! 🌎 xo
