Note to readers: when the doctors say rest, usually they mean it. Hopefully that is what we all have in store for the weekend ahead.
This week’s must read: Clean energy policies benefit everyone. Just ask red states like Florida (Tampa Bay Times)
ICYMI as a blog post for C-Change Conversations, Bob Inglis recently wrote about the economic edge Inflation Reduction Act and other clean energy investments are having in red states. His piece was recently published in the Tampa Bay Times.
“Solar has its own happy story,” he wrote; “As of 2023, nearly 280,000 Americans were working in the solar industry at more than 10,000 companies in every state, generating over $60 billion of private investment in the American economy. Again, two Republican-led states, Texas and Florida, are among the top three solar-generating states in the United States.”
Hats off to Angela Larck for connecting me to this week’s delightful guest!
Shannon Fitzgerald O’Shea is a global communications and advocacy leader who is passionate about storytelling with authenticity and purpose and who believes in the power of communications to build trust and move minds. She has worked extensively across both the public and the private spheres; serving as a thought partner, advisor and writer for leaders ranging from Heads of State to C-suite executives. After a two decades-long career with the United Nations where she was centrally involved in the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a trusted advisor to governments on implementing the SDGs, she is now working with some of the largest companies in the world on successfully communicating their sustainability goals, actions and results to their key stakeholders from the local to the global level.
She was recently published in the Harvard Business Review with the article, A Bad Communication Strategy Around Sustainability Can Leave You Legally Exposed.
Take a read and take a listen!
From the EcoRight: Energy potential is immense in Montana and Wyoming (Ranger Review)
So happy to see our community members Madeline Dalrymple and Alex Amonette co-author this piece in a local media outlet.
“Fossil fuel prices vary wildly, but because wind and solar fuel is free, they are the U.S.’s cheapest sources of new renewable energy. Although intermittent, wind is the cheapest source of new electricity in the U.S. and has been so for a decade. Our two states could reduce their electricity prices by installing more wind farms,” they write, quoting from Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, who says, “Republicans are paving the way for affordable, reliable American energy production. America is an energy superpower. We need to act like it.”
I’m so honored to be featured in Joan Michelson’s latest Forbes piece on bridging the climate divide.
From the op-ed:
“I think the first step is just saying it’s okay to say that climate change is real and happening, because as you and I know, it is real and it is happening,” Henderson explained in an exclusive interview on Electric Ladies Podcast recently.
“I love to quote Dr. Katharine Hayhoe on this matter. She’s like, gravity doesn’t care if you believe in it or not. If you jump off a cliff, you’re going to go down. Same with climate change. Whether you believe in it or not, that hurricane might hit your town.”
You can listen to more in the Electric Ladies Podcast episode!