Someone who knows I'm a local advocate asked to connect me to someone who's doing some kind of coalition building in my district. I'm waiting to hear back, but I'm hoping to take the opportunity to connect some of the local groups and folks who are involved in various ways in the community.
Very small (or at least effortless) thing: I use Ecosia as my default search. They are not Google, and they plant trees around the world with the money they raise. They seem to be getting it right about putting the right trees in the right places, rebuilding entire ecosystems, and working with communities and local people, and then caring for them; not just planting willy-nilly where they can get paid or sell carbon offsets or whatever. At one point, their page estimated how many trees I'd planted with my searches. At about 45 searches per tree, I made it to over 100 trees before the counter vanished.
