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Showing Original Post only (View all)DUers of a certain age ARE concerned about climate issues... [View all]
(cross posted from Energy and Environment forum)
I've noticed an extrordinary out-pouring of posts that DUers in the older age group are making to let the world know that YES! we ARE concerned about climate change!
If any of us are looking for ways to make that known beyond the threads of DU, I proudly suggest you check out tonight's
Third Act All-In Call: September 2023
8:00pm eastern standard time
More info and link to register here: https://thirdact.org/events/all-in-call-september-2023/
About Tonight's Event;
Join us for our all-in event to hear more on our current work, upcoming campaigns, and more on our continued work and how you can plug in over the coming weeks.
Make sure to join Third Act’s all-in event with special guests, music, and movement highlights. We’ll share campaign updates, what’s up next, and how you can plug in over the coming weeks.
We’re excited to have Gina McCarthy on the line with us (former head of the EPA and White House National Climate Advisor) to talk about plans to supercharge a clean energy future. Gina’s just come on to co-chair America is All In, which will leverage historic funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to support cities, states, businesses, and institutions to scale climate action across the country.
We’ll hear about Third Actors who came out on Sept 17th for the March to End Fossil Fuels, Working Groups doing incredible things to register new and returning voters in key districts, about groups coming online this Fall, and a “did you know?” section about opportunities available for Third Actors who wanna roll up their sleeves.
And we’re beyond excited for Bill McKibben, Anne Shields from the Third Act Puget Sound Working Group, and our campaign strategist Deborah Moore to re-launch our campaign to help banks stop financing the expansion of dirty energy. This new work is hyper-focused and will be accessible for Third Actors far and wide to plug into over the coming months: join in for the big reveal!
Finally, we’ll talk about how we fund all this work and why we’re building it the way we are. We’ll pull back the veil about our approach to movement building and how we see grassroots fundraising as key to scaling up our base, our impact, and our ability to change the story about what elders in America can do when we work with joy and purpose.
Join us! https://thirdact.org/events/all-in-call-september-2023/
Make sure to join Third Act’s all-in event with special guests, music, and movement highlights. We’ll share campaign updates, what’s up next, and how you can plug in over the coming weeks.
We’re excited to have Gina McCarthy on the line with us (former head of the EPA and White House National Climate Advisor) to talk about plans to supercharge a clean energy future. Gina’s just come on to co-chair America is All In, which will leverage historic funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to support cities, states, businesses, and institutions to scale climate action across the country.
We’ll hear about Third Actors who came out on Sept 17th for the March to End Fossil Fuels, Working Groups doing incredible things to register new and returning voters in key districts, about groups coming online this Fall, and a “did you know?” section about opportunities available for Third Actors who wanna roll up their sleeves.
And we’re beyond excited for Bill McKibben, Anne Shields from the Third Act Puget Sound Working Group, and our campaign strategist Deborah Moore to re-launch our campaign to help banks stop financing the expansion of dirty energy. This new work is hyper-focused and will be accessible for Third Actors far and wide to plug into over the coming months: join in for the big reveal!
Finally, we’ll talk about how we fund all this work and why we’re building it the way we are. We’ll pull back the veil about our approach to movement building and how we see grassroots fundraising as key to scaling up our base, our impact, and our ability to change the story about what elders in America can do when we work with joy and purpose.
Join us! https://thirdact.org/events/all-in-call-september-2023/
About Third Act:
From: https://thirdact.org/about/
“Experienced Americans” are the fastest-growing part of the population: 10,000 people a day pass the 60-year mark. That means that there’s no way to make the changes that must be made to protect our planet and society unless we bring our power into play.
We’re used to thinking that humans grow more conservative as they age, perhaps because we have more to protect, or simply because we’re used to things the way they are. But our generations saw enormous positive change early in our lives—the civil rights movement, for instance, or the fight to end massive wars or guarantee the rights of women. And now we fear that the promise of those changes may be dying, as the planet heats and inequality grows.
But as a generation we have unprecedented skills and resources that we can bring to bear. Washington and Wall Street have to listen when we speak, because we vote and because we have a large—maybe an overlarge—share of the country’s assets. And many of us have kids and grandkids and great grandkids: we have, in other words, very real reasons to worry and to work.
As we begin this work, we’re eager to build a strong and healthy culture right from the start, one that makes Third Act productive and even kind of joyful for those involved. (The more fun it is, the more we’ll get done).
From: https://thirdact.org/about/
“Experienced Americans” are the fastest-growing part of the population: 10,000 people a day pass the 60-year mark. That means that there’s no way to make the changes that must be made to protect our planet and society unless we bring our power into play.
We’re used to thinking that humans grow more conservative as they age, perhaps because we have more to protect, or simply because we’re used to things the way they are. But our generations saw enormous positive change early in our lives—the civil rights movement, for instance, or the fight to end massive wars or guarantee the rights of women. And now we fear that the promise of those changes may be dying, as the planet heats and inequality grows.
But as a generation we have unprecedented skills and resources that we can bring to bear. Washington and Wall Street have to listen when we speak, because we vote and because we have a large—maybe an overlarge—share of the country’s assets. And many of us have kids and grandkids and great grandkids: we have, in other words, very real reasons to worry and to work.
As we begin this work, we’re eager to build a strong and healthy culture right from the start, one that makes Third Act productive and even kind of joyful for those involved. (The more fun it is, the more we’ll get done).
More info and link to register here: https://thirdact.org/events/all-in-call-september-2023/
(Pro-tip: Although Third Act promotes climate action among folks 60 and older, I joined Third Act when I was still only 59 and there was never any problem with that!)
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