By Michael Charles, COP23 Delegate Navigating today’s education system is not an easy task. I have at many points found myself wondering how I got where I am. As citizens of the Navajo Nation, my siblings and I represented the entire American Indian demographic for our school throughout our early…
Today we mourn the lives of our friends, families, and future generations threatened by Trump’s reckless choice to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. While the Agreement is far from sufficient, it represents a necessary lowest bar that has fundamentally shifted what’s possible as we transition away…
By Allie Rosenbluth and Jon Kirsch, COP23 Creative Challenge participants In a spectacular display of activism and solidarity, young Americans all over the country signed and shared a letter to President Trump this week, urging him to uphold the United States’ commitment to the Paris Agreement. Mr. Trump is widely…
By Dineen O’Rourke and Karina Gonzalez, SustainUS COP23 Delegation Leaders As the results of the 2017 U.S. election were called on November 8th, the sun was beginning to rise over the city of Marrakech, Morocco. Our COP22 delegation had been spending the entire night preparing for an action at the…
By Beverely Harp, Ryan Camero, and Niria Garcia We have recently returned from a weekend gathering, where 20 SustainUS members came together at the Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts. We traveled across the country in different states of mind, the movements we are a part of all coming…
