WCID Wednesday: Take back your school board

Together With

• Learn: from and platform scientists and climate science, policy, and energy experts from the Global South and get a better understanding of how the rest of the world is adapting to climate change using the Global South Climate Database (go)

• Volunteer: as an advertiser, marketer, or PR professional and take the Clean Creatives pledge to stop working with fossil fuel polluters and participating in their greenwashing campaigns (go)

• Volunteer: Organize with people of faith around the world, regardless of your religion, by joining Green Faith group fighting for climate justice (go)

• Donate: to Circle of Blue and support award-winning nonprofit journalism, reporting on the frontlines of the water, food, and climate crises (go)

• Learn: As infuriating as it is that we still need to do this in 2025, you can use Skeptical Science to help debunk climate change misinformation and rebut “skeptics” (godspeed) (go)

• Learn: The climate is getting hotter, which means extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe. You know what else is hot? Being prepared. Get ready, and stay ready using this guide from Vox (go)

• Learn: Did your health insurer deny your claim? Use ProPublica’s Claim File Helper to get all the paperwork together to submit an appeal (go)

• Learn & Be Heard: about improving housing affordability in your community by bringing the policy suggestions from Local Housing Solutions to your local government (go)

• Donate: to disaster relief. Long after disaster coverage gets wiped from the front page, the people affected are recovering and rebuilding (go)

• Buy: bikes and e-bikes. We cannot rely on EVs alone to decarbonize transportation (go)

• Volunteer: for mental health. If January is any indication, it’s going to be a very, very long year. Show up for each other (go)

• Buy: an air quality monitor. Indoor air quality is integral to your health (go)

• Donate: to environmental justice. There are so many groups doing the work, on the frontlines, every day. Find and support them here (go)

• Volunteer: to run Run For School Board. It’s more accessible than you might think, and Run For Something will support you along the way. You can change the directory of education in the US, from fighting book bans to advocating for gun control (go)

• Donate: to Moms Clean Air Force, and make a real difference at the local level in improving air quality and the health of kids (go)

• Get Funded: Working on a climate solution and looking to scale? Climate Finance Solutions has got you (go)

We can only control what we can control, but every action, big or small, counts.

Thank you as always for giving a shit.

— Willow

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