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Our Diverse Partners
Written by Dan Rejto, Outreach Coordinator, Team RICONN Race, religion, sexuality, socioeconomic status, home. Diversity, or lack thereof, was the elephant in the room for much of Climate Summer training. And everyone could see it. Among our 28 riders there … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn
Tagged 2012, action, Activism, climate summer, community, diversity, environmental justice, government, local business, Movement Building, new friends, RiConn
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Team RICONN meets Sheila Dormody, Providence’s first Director of Sustainability
Footage captured by Jayson Castillo, Video Coordinator, Team RICONN Team RICONN had the opportunity to meet with Sheila Dormody, the former director of Clean Water Action and Providence’s first Director of Sustainability . We met with Sheila one lovely afternoon in downtown Providence and … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn, Video
Tagged 2012, community, government, Providence, RiConn, transition, Video
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Team RICONN meets with Connecticut’s Neighbor to Neighbor
Footage captured by Jayson Castillo, Video Coordinator, Team RICONN Team RICONN headed to the Hartford, CT office of Neighbor to Neighbor, a nonprofit community savings program that helps make residents’ homes more energy efficient. Here is a piece of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn, Video
Tagged 2012, community, government, Hartford, RiConn, Video
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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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Pulling the Trailer
Written by Alivia Ashenfarb, New Media Coordinator for Team RICONN Although Google doesn’t recognize “Scottsdale, Connecticut,” (at least it didn’t when I searched it) I am 98 percent confident it exists because I remember biking into it. I remember pedaling … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team RiConn
Tagged biking, biking on the road, climate summer, government, Movement Building, RiConn, transition
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Hull, MA
Written by Aaron Morales, New Media Coordinator for Team Massachusetts The windmill spins like a mighty king welcoming his beloved soldiers. My team and I rode into Hull after a long day of wrong turns and hissy fits. As we … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Team Massachusetts, Video
Tagged #green, #local, bike trails, bikes, biking, biking on the road, Church, climate summer, energy, environmental justice, Food, government, Hull, JPods, Judeth, kindness of strangers, life changing, local business, LUV, methodist, new friends, transportation, use, vehicle, Will, windmill
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Extreme Weather Events & Climate Change
Written by Murtaza Nek, Program Coordinator, Team Massachusetts Things are getting really scary on this planet, and I think way more of us should be talking about it. These last few weeks have been pretty tough for the US. We’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Team Massachusetts
Tagged 2012, 350, 350.org, bikes, carbon, climate summer, CO, CO2, colorado, destruction, dioxide, environmental justice, epa, epa.gov, extreme, fires, government, heat, heatwave, hurricane, Movement Building, murtaza, nek, patters, record, rising, sea levels, summer, sustainable, transition, Waltham, weather, wildfires
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A Human is not a Chameleon: meditation on adaptations
Posted by Lisa Purdy I hadn’t thought that climate change could be made any more real to me, but one should never say never. No, it wasn’t word of the disastrous flooding in Korea, or even the endless three-digit weather … Continue reading
Posted in 2011, Team Massachusetts
Tagged adaptation, Boston, government, Mass Action
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Scrambled
Posted by: Sara Hopps Many months ago Marla asked curiously, “ WHEN you are tired and do not want to bike anymore, how will you deal with that?” At the time I answered with a generic answer for a hypothetical … Continue reading
Singing in Latin
By Eliza Sherpa While preparing for this summer I don’t think any of us expected it to be easy and without challenges, but I for one never would have anticipated some of the difficulties this summer would pose. For me, … Continue reading
Posted in Video
Tagged 2011, Boston, climate summer, government, Mass Acceleration, Movement Building, Video
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