Our friend Alex Flint penned this insightful piece that should be required reading not only for everyone identifying as EcoRight, but also our allies, especially those who understand the need for bipartisan cooperation on climate change.
Kicking things off for us is the President of Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), Dr. Nat Keohane. C2ES is a widely respected, nonpartisan non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works with policy makers and leading businesses to accelerate the transition to a thriving, just, and resilient net-zero-emissions economy.
Last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly.
“Climate change is real,” Graham wrote in a 2009 op-ed that kicked off his direct engagement in climate solutions.
Those who worked with him and his office started to go down memory lane a bit. I recall being in a meeting with him back when I was with the National Wildlife Federation, which was courting him to take the climate mantle from Senator John McCain. Later, on staff for Senator John Warner, we had hoped to get his vote on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. He eventually joined Senator Joe Lieberman’s decade-long quest for comprehensive climate legislation (which failed) and in more recent years, teamed up with Senator Bill Cassidy on the Foreign Pollution Fee Act.
If climate change summers are going to be longer and hotter, we need more pastimes. Baseball? Ice cream eating? Going to a double feature in a cold, dark movie theater? I really struggled last week when temps were in the 100s (and the “real feel” staggeringly higher) to come up with things to do that were not just sitting on the couch binging TV. If this is a taste of summers to come, I’m going to need better things to do!
It’s so weird that typically federal holidays fall on a Monday (yay three-day weekend) but in the last two weeks, we’ve had two fall on Friday, thus Week En Review is once again coming to you on Thursday.
Are those of you sweating it out in the heat dome (like I am) planning on any fireworks or parades? Or is it all indoor activities with AC on full blast?
What ever your plans, I hope you are staying cool and hydrated!
They say it rains all the time in the PNW and I’m sure that’s the case, but the 10 days I got to spend in Oregon were some of the nicest summer weather I’ve ever experienced. It was a rude awakening to come home to the DMV and it’s humid, rain-soaked days. (I know, we need it… my garden tells me so.)
What a lovely week, kicked off with the college graduation of my baby. To have raised two full-fledged adults is really something, if I do say so myself. The ceremony may have been large, but the speeches meaningful and the traditions moved me. Plus, I can’t hear Pomp and Circumstance and not get teary.
This weekend in Chelsea’s adventures finds me off to Eugene for the University of Oregon’s Commencement for the Class of 2026. I’m so proud of my baby for graduating with distinction from the Honors College and the School of Business.
Somehow we are here, at the end of season 12. This was perhaps my favorite season of the history of our show. The guests were informative and inspiring. Mostly we stuck to schedule. And I feel like I made some new friends along the way. In fact, I had been envisioning, in lieu of the recap show, a reunion episode featuring a few of my favorites we featured this season. But schedules being schedules, it was hard to get together so instead, in this episode, you will hear me wax poetic about some of these guests.
If you’re a super sleuth, you can probably guess by today’s opening imagery to figure out where I am… that’s right, in the land of lobster, blueberries, and L.L. Bean boots. This is not my usual summer vacay though, but a quick trip for the weekend for my nephew’s high school graduation. I have 8 meals in Maine and hope to have lobster at as many of them as possible!
Former Congressman Carlos Curbelo was first elected to Congress in 2014, serving on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Education and Workforce Committee, the Small Business Committee, as well as the Committee on Ways and Means, where he co-authored the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. While in Congress, he was a key leader on climate policy and also co-founded and co-chaired the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.
And here we are again, but I sort of feel like this weekend should be Memorial Day weekend! Right? Why can’t every weekend be a three-day weekend?
My goal is to get a hike or a bike ride in on Sunday. I need to get outside and see some nature.
What is your favorite weekend leisure activity?