Sarra Tekola
Sarra Tekola, messaging research intern, will be working on sustainability and climate change messaging strategies. Sarra graduated from the University of Washington, where she studied environmental science and terrestrial resource management. She has conducted three research projects specifically on climate change communication, ranging from surveying to find the perspective of communities of color and those with low-incomes in South East Seattle with Got Green, to working with conservatives in rural communities in Indiana through Purdue University. She is on the climate justice steering committee of Got Green and also works part-time in Councilmember O’Brien’s office. In her free time she likes to scuba dive in the cold Puget Sound. In one year she will start her Ph.D. program in Sustainability at Arizona State University.
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New Divestment Campaign Targets the Gates Foundation
Bill Gates told Rolling Stone that “climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.” Yet the foundation that bears his name---the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation---has invested $1.4 billion of its endowment in fossil fuels.
A Seattle campaign has just launched to change that. The Gates Divest campaign is asking the world’s largest charitable foundation to make another contribution beyond its valuable grants and charitable activities: to act in accordance with its values and fully divest from fossil fuels. The move comes on the heels of a March 2015 call by The Guardian newspaper, in partnership with 350.org, to “Keep it in the Ground,” a campaign that also called on the Foundation to divest. Already that campaign has garnered over a quarter of a million signatures and brought significant attention to the divestment movement. Now, with a local campaign ramping up in the foundation’s home town of Seattle, will the Gates Foundation go along?
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Latino Voters, Environmentalists at Heart
Editor’s note July 2016: It’s Latino Conservation Week, and to celebrate, we’re re-posting this favorite article from last year. Did you know ...
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