Hello and happy Friday. That first week back from break was a doozy (as evidenced by my teeny tiny linking mistake in last week’s edition that only one of you called me out about [H/T Larry H]) but now we are back in full swing. And I’m back on my game.
Anyway, that mistake that got me thinking, in case you’re new here or relatively new here, this might be a great time to share a bit about what we do.
I’m Chelsea Henderson. I write this weekly newsletter, affectionately referred to by the team as WER, which highlights the climate goings on in the EcoRight and adjacent information. I also host our podcast, the EcoRight Speaks, which is currently in pre-production for our 12th season, dropping February 3rd. I’m also a published author (Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics) and I love to speak at events. Here I am at Planet Forward in 2025, speaking to the audience with not only my voice, but my hands.
Our small and scrappy team is led by our founder, executive director and former Congressman Bob Inglis. Bob is making it his mission to talk to anyone center right who might be convinced that climate change can be solved in a way that aligns with conservative principles. He believes in the power of free enterprise and after talking to him, you will too.
While mostly Bob travels to speak at/host events in our target states of Utah, North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Georgia, Iowa, and Florida, he can zoom anywhere. If you’re interested in having Bob appear (IRL or virtually) at your event, the person to contact is our outreach director Wen Lee.
Which brings me to Wen! In case you didn’t connect the dots, she manages our outreach, primarily in these target states. She’s always looking for events and opportutites for us to spread the message about the free market and climate change.
Angela Larck is our engagement director and also, the new ideas generator for the team. She challenges us to break outside our comfort zone and I’m so grateful we have her guiding our team toward greatness. She puts the “engagement” in her title by finding creative ways to interface with our community (that’s you) so next time you get a poll, take it. Sign up for a webinar; even if you can’t make it, you will get the recording!
(Below, check out Wen and Angela hard at work on behalf of free enterprise solutions to climate change.)
And now, our regularly scheduled programming…
Quote of the week:
“Government policies in rich countries are still critical because unless innovations reach scale, the costs won’t come down and we won’t achieve the impact we need,” Bill Gates, in his annual look-ahead letter.
This week’s must listen: Benji Backer wants to make nature nonpartisan
We know you miss the podcast (coming to you February 3rd) so in the meantime, take a listen to Nature Is Nonpartisan founder Benji Backer on Resources Radio.
Key quote: “Our goal, as an organization, is to work on culture and policy; to move the public narrative; to show leaders that there’s bipartisan, and nonpartisan, buy-in for conservation; and to push the policymakers. We’re going to go wherever the juice is going to be worth the squeeze.”
For real this time…register for our January webinar
If you clicked on the link I included in last week’s newsletter, you may have quickly noticed that neither it nor the image pertained to our first webinar of 2026, a tea-spilling conversation with Bob Inglis. Call it post-vacation brain… but here we are, with the real link this time. No topic is off limits! With your help (send me your burning questions) I will prod Bob to share all his secrets (j/k!) or rather, his thoughts, feelings, predictions on the climate year ahead.
Follow this real link to really register for this webinar/conversation.
And now, go enjoy your (hopefully long) weekend!