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We Don’t Talk About Doom, No No No No
Read more: We Don’t Talk About Doom, No No No NoLately, my social media algorithms are showing me a new theme: college students talking about teachers and classes that transformed their passion for environmental activism into anxiety, fear, and apathy. Many said the same thing: “For the sake of my mental health, I changed my major.” For easily the first 25 years of my life,…
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No Justice, No Sustainability
Read more: No Justice, No SustainabilityA local organic farmer, Ed Perkins of Sassafras Farm, invited us to write a guest article for his sustainability column in the Athens Messenger. The following is an adaptation of the piece that ran in the newspaper on July 30, 2022. Nonprofits can’t back political candidates, but we can champion causes. Arguably, that’s the very…
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Purple for the People!
Read more: Purple for the People!My high school commencement speaker told my graduating class that high school was the last time in our lives when we’d spend so much time co-mingling with people from every social status and sector of society. Look to your left, look to your right. Here sit the grocery store workers and the attorneys, the teachers…