Your Vote, Our Planet: Power Up Climate Impact at the Polls🗳️

Newsflash: Voting is how you can make the most climate impact. This election is extremely critical for the climate movement and every vote counts. The results of this election could help fund more initiatives to decarbonize the planet and help during the green energy transition. Today we focus on local elections because they can truly move the needle, especially matter when pushing for decarbonization. Keep reading to meet a few climate champions running this Fall + how your vote actually matters.

Wildfires are Inevitable🌲

But wildfire disasters don’t have to be. For generations, fire was known as a natural part of the ecosystem and helpful for species regulations– this changed when we tried to control it. As we enter a period of accelerated climate change, every year we see new record-breaking wildfires devastating many U.S. states. We are facing the consequences of our own actions. Watch Episode 1 of Where the Internet Lives with Research Forester Mark Finney at Missoula Fire Sciences Lab to see how we can move toward a future where fire is part of a resilient ecosystem instead of a destructive force.

AI: Fossil Fuel-Driven Doomsday Machine or Climate Superhero? 👀

The conversation around AI is swirling with controversy and confusion. Focused on robots taking our jobs, energy demand spiking emissions, or gen-AI superhero selfies, we’ve overlooked the game-changing ability of AI and Big Data to tackle big issues that directly impact our communities like climate change, hunger, wildfires, and blackouts. We just produced a five-part docuseries about Google’s data centers and AI that explores all of those topics and it left us feeling optimistic. Continue reading to find out why. 📰

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