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Highlights from Climate Summer 2014!
As we look towards Climate Summer 2016, we wanted to highlight a few of the posts from the 2014 cohort to give applicants a feel for the program. I’ve chosen a handful of my favorite posts from last summer (one from … Continue reading
Posted in 2013
Tagged #ClimateLegacy, #climatesummer, #EastMass, #NorthShore, #Team4theMAsses, #WestMass, applicants, better future project, bike trails, bikes, biking, biking on the road, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Movement, climate summer, community, recruiting
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A Bitter Reminder
Posted on behalf of Ariel Schwalb, Community Outreach Coordinator for Team North Shore Days ago, my North Shore team was conflicted. We had a true dilemma on our hands; we needed to leave Gloucester to start getting some important work … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team North Shore
Tagged #ClimateLegacy, #climatesummer, better future project, biking, biking on the roa, biking on the road, Climate Change, community, d, energy, explosions, interconnection, lighting, lightning, Natural Gas, on the road, risk, sacrifice, salem gas plant, thunder, tornado
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Carolyn the Helpful
Posted on behalf of Ariel Schwalb, Community Outreach Coordinator for Team North Shore The first time our team met Carolyn Britt, she was at the joint GASPP and Healthlink meeting on the first of July. We had a busy night … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team Massachusetts, Team North Shore
Tagged Activism, better future project, carolyn britt, Climate Change, community partners, electricity, gaspp, growth experience, healthlink, ipswich, learning, massachusetts, Movement Building, municipal government, new friends, organizing, zumis cafe
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Zen Rooms: Broken Assumptions and New Connections
Posted on behalf of Kelly Chen, Media Coordinator for Team North Shore The zen room surprised me. I admit that I am new to churches, so many of my expectations of spiritual places have been broken already. But an airy, … Continue reading
From Theory to Action: Trainings at Camp Wilmot
by Shreya Thatai, Team Leader for the North Shore Team I have spent the last year (and essentially twelve years) studying the movements of electrons within their orbital subshells, how to take the antiderivative of functions, the role of Hox … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Team North Shore
Tagged action, analysis, better future project, Camp Wilmot, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, climate summer, conversations, education, future, goals, history, learning, movement, Movement Building, passion, shreya, shreya thatai, strategy, theory, training
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Why I’m Fighting
Written by Shaun Carland, Outreach Coordinator, Team Maine August 9th, 2013 “Why do you continue working for climate justice?” If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me this question, I could single-handedly fund the Better Future Project. … Continue reading
August 4th is Not a Test
Written by Alivia Ashenfarb, New Media Coordinator, Team RICONN Something in the air has changed. And I’m not talking about the pollution. Or my team’s dirty laundry. No, I’m talking about the wave, the flow of excitement and purpose that … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn
Tagged 2012, better future project, change, climate summer, movement, Movement Building, RiConn, summer, transition
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Team RICONN meets John Hall, Middletown’s Main Man for Energy Efficiency
Footage captured by Jayson Castillo, Video Coordinator, Team RICONN Here is a video we took of John Hall, a retired clergyman, member of the Middletown, CT Clean Energy Task Force, and executive director of The Jonah Center for Earth and … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn, Video
Tagged 2012, better future project, community, Connecticut, Energy efficiency, government, Middletown, nonprofit, RiConn, sustainability, Video
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Photo Blog: Gardening
During our time at Star Island, we have spent a lot of time in the garden.
Posted in 2012, Team New Hampshire
Tagged #garden, better future project, climate summer, gardening, Star Island
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Lexington, MA
Written by Aaron Morales, New Media Coordinator, Team Massachusetts Lexington, MA is an amazing town with very powerful people. We were met with a potluck, which had so much food that we were able to pack it all and eat … Continue reading
Posted in Team Massachusetts, Video
Tagged 350.org, 350ma.org, better future project, carbon, Climate, climate summer, CO2, dioxide, eco-friendly, energy, Environmental, environmental justice, Farmer's Market, Food, fun, goats, happiness, hope, intern, internship, kindness of strangers, learning, Lexington, local business, MA, Maldives, Mass, nasheed, new world, power, rebuild, sequester, soil, solar, summer, sustainable, vegetarian, Video
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