Today was my first day participating in Cohort 5 of the Climatebase Fellowship. I’m really excited to take advantage of this opportunity and to meet all of my fellow Fellows (no pun intended).
Today featured a Keynote from Dr. Jonathan Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown (I encourage anyone interested to check out Project Drawdown below; their work seems to be extremely meaningful and uniquely impactful).
One interesting takeaway from Dr. Foley’s talk was that for so many of us (those of us not living in swing states), our vote in national and even statewide elections is usually of negligible impact. Of course, I implore everyone reading this to continue to vote, but would also urge you all to focus more of your pre-election day research on local elections, which may be less of a foregone conclusion and may also have an equal or greater impact, especially on your day-to-day lives! I recently voted in the California primary, and while I know that my vote made a negligible impact on the widely publicized national and statewide tickets that I was voting on, I wish I had been better educated about the local elections that, to be honest, I was woefully under-prepared to vote on.
Huge gratitude to Evan Hynes & the team for organizing this Fellowship for the fifth time! I’m really looking forward to what’s to come.
(Also shoutout to Louis Potok for inadvertently alerting me to this opportunity; anyone who wants to be inspired by someone doing great things in climate should go check out Recoolit, a company that I believe was, like this post, partially prompted by Project Drawdown.)
#thinkglobalactlocal #climatesolutions #yourvoicematters #ClimatebaseFellowship
