Clean Trucks Coalition Puts Pedal to the Metal

04/10/22 • 28 min

Cool Solutions: Stories of climate action from the bottom up

Activists accelerate states' switch to clean big rigs. A story about the power of coming together and speaking out for climate and justice.

Activists accelerate states' switch to clean big rigs. A story about the power of coming together and speaking out for climate and justice.

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Old Docs Take New Patient: The Climate

Bill McKibben launches new climate group for seniors. Doctors devoting their retirement years to climate action talk about what motivates them and how they found their place in the movement. Their activities range from registering low income patients to vote to getting arrested over pipelines. Bill McKibben introduces Third Act, a new climate organization for seniors, and explains why this demographic is key to climate action.

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Inter-Tribal Electric Highway Greens Rural Charging Desert

The inter-tribal charging network will connect upper midwest reservations with jobs, opportunities, healing, and each other. Project leaders Robert Blake of Native Sun (Red Lake Ojibwe) and Joseph McNeill of SAGE (Standing Rock Sioux) talk about connections: to environmental and economic justice, clean energy, eagles, dreams, and more.

We explore other barriers to rural EV adoption with Matt Fitzgibbon of the Tri States Electrical Cooperative.