WCID: Rebellions are built on hope

Plus: regenerative ag, walkable cities, and healthcare for all

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Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.

Writing this with the Rogue One soundtrack on in the background, as you do when you’re spending your days fighting fascists for the future of the galaxy.

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Let’s go!

— Quinn

My guest for this week’s The Most Important Question convo was Anthony Myint, celebrated chef and restauranteur, and founder of Zero Foodprint.

We’re excited to work together and help fund local regenerative agriculture projects.

  • Organize: Accelerate regenerative agriculture by using Zero Foodprint's Champion Toolkit to get restaurants and food industry businesses in your community on board! (go)

  • Learn: Find restaurants participating in opt-out programs to finance regenerative agriculture, and take part in rebuilding the food system one transaction at a time. (go)

  • Learn: Obviously couldn’t leave you hanging without yet another valuable tool to fight misinformation, this one from FactCheck.org — so fun, the internet. You know? Read this guide to spot bogus news stories when you see them. (go)

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Captured in a metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia primary school, this photograph depicts a scene common to school cafeterias, focusing on the lunch line operated by cafeteria custodians. Here, students would enter a line, and be guided by a turnstile down a buffet-style lunch counter. They would then request items served by custodians from a wide range of healthy food offerings, including these sweet potato fries, and steamed broccoli, as well as items not pictured, in order to provide a well-rounded menu. In this particular view, a young boy selected some sweet potato fries, which he was placing a
  • Learn: For the 2nd week in a row, we’re all thinking about border crossings. Great great. Stay up to speed on your rights to data privacy when crossing the border with this pocket guide from EFF (go)

  • Learn: How is your supermarket measuring up when it comes to reducing emissions (like the super pollutant used in refrigeration, HFCs)? (go)

  • Donate: Put food on the table for every person and family in the US, and help the Food Research and Action Center fight for better food policy (go)

  • Learn about meaningful careers remains in the lead, and thank god for that. Pivot to a career in climate, public health, water security and more (go)

  • Get help with anxiety because everything is a lot all of the time and we all need help managing it all, especially as we pivot to those aforementioned meaningful careers and start changing the world! (go)

  • Donate to disaster relief. Help folks recover and build resilience from disasters all over the world. Just because a disaster is no longer making headlines, doesn’t mean relief isn’t needed (go)

  • Be heard about global health. Everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, no matter where they’re from! If we could do that, and also prevent the next pandemic, that would be so great, thanks (go)

Exploring what it means to “let loose” and simply create.
  • Buy: Kids books that introduce huge, complicated topics that even adults have trouble understanding, but in a fun and accessible way. Foster curiosity in your kids with some of our favorite kids books (go)

  • Learn: Girls (and everyone else) only want one thing, and it’s a walkable city with mixed use development! Show the tools from Close City to your local officials so they can plan healthier, safer, better neighborhoods, that are easily walkable/bikeable/accessible with public transit (go)

  • 🌎️ Donate: Unlock clean energy markets all over the world by donating to RELP, which finances and scales renewable energy deployment in emerging economies by partnering with local governments (go)

The time to fight is now! Let’s do this.

Remember — you can save actions for later with an WCID profile!

Thank you as always for giving a shit.

Quinn

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