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What can you do to heal the climate crisis?

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Environments and weather patterns are continuing to get more hostile to life itself as AI, war, and genocide are allowed to continue polluting our home and killing us. What’s something you can do today to stop this and help heal our planet?

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🩺 Group 1 ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚

King of Swords - You have great insight and knowledge, and it’s time for you to share that with the public. You might be in academia, a lawyer, a doctor, or hold a level of authority and power in your current position. If you’re young, you might be class president, on student council, a team captain, or hold a leadership position in a sorority or fraternity. Own your power, share your ideas, share what you know. Tell people about the gravity of the situation at hand and the opportunity to fix it, strategize, make and act on plans for both the future and right now. Talk about how acting now it troubleshooting and preparing for the possible future hardships. Don’t scare people. Empower them and organize. Be open to the fact that you don’t know everything and expertise can come from people you least expect. Learn how to handle frustrations in a solution oriented way, if you were to belittle and insult someone (even if you think you’re in the right to do so) what’s the most likely outcome of that? Is that the outcome you need? Play chess, not checkers. When bigots and far-right people try to mess with you and smear your groups campaign, don’t get messy back. They want your attention to be pulled away from your plans and work. Address them only when absolutely needed, keep your and your group’s attention on your work. You have a good head on your shoulders, trust yourself, you got this!

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6 of Cups - Your work or calling seems to be centered around children, our past childhoods, and childhood / childcare of the past. A lot of research about what was childhood like for other people from different times and cultures. You are a nurturing, warm, caring, and protective person who might think a lot about how our children are being raised now and the future children to come. You’re not thinking about your own family, you’re thinking of every child on Earth. Your heart is with everybody. You might be wondering what this has to do with the climate crisis? Well, frankly, a lot. When reviewing what children of the past had, that means we’re talking about what we’ve lost, and are losing. We’re talking about what we need to protect, create, restore, and heal. We’re talking about how to create sanctuary and safety for all, because if it’s safe for a child, it’s safe for everyone. That automatically means we need clean water, clean air, safe housing, safe food, access to proper healthcare, beautiful green spaces, and peace / no war. This naturally heals Earth. When researching past childhoods and childcare methods from your own culture or other cultures, take care to not romanticize it. Just because it might be better than what we have not doesn’t make it perfect. Apply critical thought to everything you learn and share, even the amazing stuff. In the meantime, get the kiddos you take care of outside to hang out and play (even if they’re playing on their Nintendo Switch or big screen time kids, tell them they can use it on the picnic - it’ll probably help them get use to being outside and they’re more likely to put the device down).

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🫂 Group 3 ✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚

Judgement reversed - With peace and love, girl, wake up!! Reassess your life and lifestyle, your values and beliefs, for real. You put yourself in a self imposed la-la-land to ignore and deny something that actually deeply bothers you. It bothers you for a reason! Don’t waste your precious time on this escapism. I know it’s scary. Trust me, I know. You might feel like you can’t do anything, the problems are too huge, so you want to hide in your cave and pretend that things aren’t how they are. It’s time for you to learn how to hold the weight of the world’s problems without letting it collapse onto you. How can that be done? By letting the rest of us hold it with you. You have immense inner strength and resolve, and it’s time to build those inner spiritual muscles. Start with the small stuff as you learn self reliance and face what’s been turning your stomach into knots. When you begin volunteering, learn from the leaders and elders around you and follow their guidance.

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[queerbrownvegan]

Kindness will not dismantle white supremacy. There is no getting around the demanding and delivering of justice that will ensure the liberation of our communities. What happened in Colorado is yet another horrific reminder of how the ongoing slaughter, displacement, and violence on Queer / Trans communities directly resulted from white supremacy attempting to eradicate us for our existence. My heart is so heavy right now after reading the horrific news. I couldn’t stop thinking that the very few limited safe spaces within a heteronormative society are constantly under attack by right-wing conservative groups. These hateful ideologies are spread by misinformation and other tactics used to invalidate our existence. It’s not enough to say you are an ally for our communities. It’s the bare minimum to not be silent on acts of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. As someone has experienced gun violence, it changes the way you navigate the world, the way you speak to people, and the constant threat of having to turn around in case someone walks behind you with an armed gun. Our existence is more than enough in the fight for Queer and Trans liberation where we are constantly being attacked, criticized, or even met with death because of the way we live. Say it for what it is and that dismantling white supremacy is environmentalism. I want it all gone, not just for me but for all those who are constantly under the threat of being met with violence for their identities. My Queerness is a heritage that cannot be taken away and I will not lose hope in this battle against white supremacy.

-qbv

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[sustainablesabs]

some friday evening thoughts on self-care...

Boy... I haven’t written a blog post in my minute. I feel like I’m imagining Carrie Bradshaw typing away in her (exceptionally large for a freelancer’s) Manhattan apartment. Except instead of Manhattan, I’m in Brooklyn, and instead of fashion, I’m writing about intersectional environmentalism. 

It's funny because I’ve had some form of a blog since I was a senior in high school. Technically since middle school - yes, my nerdy friends and I *did* try to start a fashion blog, but I digress - so getting into the habit of writing feels very nostalgic for me. 

So much incredible stuff happened at IE this week: we did an IG live with @WhiteHouse (!), said farewell to our TAZO interns + hit 250k followers. We’re not even eight months in + I’ve learned so much. Like truly, I never could have imagined creating my own dream company and job and it feels like a huge privilege to work closely with so many incredible minds. Changemakers, trailblazers, and organizers who are making shit happen. Every. Damn. Day. Seriously, how many companies have you heard of that everyone is both constantly inspiring + inspired by their teammates? 

(Okay Sabs that’s enough.) 😅

That being said, we also work our butts off + it’s been a stressful week. Between the amount of work we’re doing and me running my own passion projects on the side, I’m definitely starting to feel burnt out. Not like a fully charred piece of toast, but...on the way. I can usually tell I’m extra stressed when my hair falls out. Unfortunately my thick, Ashkenazi hair can’t keep up. 😭

So this weekend, I’m going to spend time away from my phone, and doing things that make me genuinely happy:

reading my book, going to the farmers market, skincare, taking care of my plants, smoking weed, gushing over this precious article, calling my friends and creating content.

I hope yall spend some time doing something this weekend for no reason other than that it making you happy. Let me know what that’ll look like for you in the comments ✨

Xoxo, Sabs

[glendasguidance]

if you’re anti-ai, you need to study ai

study ≠ use it

you can learn about what it is and how it functions without using it

YouTube had great webinars uploaded from universities on ethics, feminism, and ai. I’ll have to link some once I’m finished watching them

the data centers are horrible right now. there are programs and bots available to the public right now that are literally deadly. the cat’s out of the bag, and people won’t stop using it.

much like fire, which is hazardous, we didn’t stop using it. we learned how to use it safely. we made safety trainings, laws like fire codes, and firefighters.

if you’re anti-ai, it’s time for you to study it so that harms will be reduced as much as possible. you don’t have to be a researchers and code for ai companies. you can keep up with research and become a citizen lobbyist for regulation. you can become a watchdog activist. there’s so much you can do if you take the time to understand what ai actually is and does.

complaining online only gets you so far. fear mongering makes the situation worse.

if you don’t know how to research, the most anti big tech and punk thing you can do right now is learn how to research!

[queerbrownvegan]

Water is an ancient sacred and living system... It's the source of all life on our planet. Humans can only live for a few days without it. In the United States, we waste too much of it. As more and more places experience drought, I hope to see our relationship with water shift from being viewed as a resource to an ally or a spirit we treat with reverence and deep appreciation. Under capitalism, it's merely a means to achieve profit but the true value of water is something deeply indigenous to humanity. -qbv

[queerbrownvegan]

Let our eulogy be that we never became loveless in a land that is meant to love. From the systems that push us away further from our birthright to love, we have been harmed in various ways, whether through displacement, disconnection, or loss of the interrelated whole. As the current societal pressures to conform press down on our hearts heavily, our humanity to the living and non-living reminds us to build kinship. When have we sat down and listened to our collective needs rather than the individual's immediate needs? The landscape I stand on is unfamiliar to my heritage but known to those who are descendants of their ancestors. I pray for reverence rather than protection. We sometimes feel the need to be the sole source of solutions and it comes from a misunderstanding of kinship. Our hopes are spun together. It is no coincidence many people have chipped away little by little with whatever meager power they had. Though each thread may be thin, they can be twisted together to form a basket of hope. My friends, who are of Indigenous descent, are the ones who actively experienced landlessness yet remind me that their existence and our existence are a part of the land. Our existence is a part of the solution. Those who bare the highest pain of intergenerational trauma and actively struggle to define themselves in a landscape that continues to change rapidly hold the warmest solutions. Let us not believe the narratives that all hope is lost when those who have constantly struggled are still fighting for their rights. Let us validate one other and the struggle we face but let's not feel loveless in the moments of horror. Let us rebuild a landscape of kinship and love rather than terror and torture. -qbv