Thanks for the opportunity to volunteer with Our Climate these past seven years
Our Climate has been important to me because low-income and disenfranchised people will be the hardest hit by climate change. I feel strongly about this because of my 29 years of international and domestic anti-poverty ...
Same organization. New horizons
Image: Our Climate's first salmon mosaic, advocating for a price on carbon in Oregon (2015) In the past five years that I’ve been at Our Climate, the organization has flourished from a young organization focused on ...
Not just in coalition, but INTER-coalition
The rich climate justice ecosystem in Massachusetts is a blessing and a curse. With hundreds of organizations and more than 5 climate coalitions, we are certainly equipped to cover the countless aspects of climate justice ...
Our MA Lobbying Escalation Arc Peaks in Jan ‘22!
As Our Climate Massachusetts gears up for a Fall full of testifying at hearings that will culminate in a largest ever lobby event next January, it can help to look back on how we build ...
TFW a science education star testifies with us for a bill we wrote
Did you know that Our Climate is actually listed as the non-profit sponsor for a bill on the MA State House Website? It’s true. Check out H.614/S.311.We partnered with the fully youth-led and founded Massachusetts ...
My First Rally was MYCC’s First Rally
Exhilaration pumped through my veins as I rode the T into the city, my homemade sign in hand. Off the train, up the stairs, across the park... I made my way over to the meeting ...
We are Running Out of Time
We are running out of time. As a young girl from rural South Carolina, the extreme weather patterns produced by climate change have been increasingly normalized. I remember the first “giant flood” that we had ...
If passed, the Build Back Better Act would be the largest climate investment in American history
My name is Sachin Shenoy, and I am a 17 year old high school student from Overland Park, Kansas. As a National Field Representative for Our Climate, I have had the privilege to learn and ...
Across the country, climate change is an infrastructure crisis
From coast to coast, recent disasters have proven to us that the climate crisis is a pressing infrastructure emergency. Marginalized communities are on the frontline and feel these effects first and worst. We need bold climate ...