In line with Crowdsourcing Sustainability's monthly theme of organizing for climate action in your community, we recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jessyn Farrell!

Jessyn brings a unique and helpful perspective to community climate action as she has been involved with it from several different angles - first as an advocate, directing a transportation-focused nonprofit, then as a lawmaker for the state of Washington’s House of Representatives, and now as the Director of Seattle’s Office of Environment and Sustainability.

We covered a lot of ground in this interview including:

• The most effective ways for people to influence local politicians.
• How policy actually gets written (for better or worse).
• Advice for anyone running for office.
• The importance of meeting people where they are, listening, and addressing injustices.
• A story about the time she prevented fossil fuel lobbyists from destroying a multi-billion dollar bill by hiding in the bathroom…

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Crowdsourcing Sustainability is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider supporting us so we can keep educating, inspiring, and empowering more people to act on climate where they live and work! https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org/donate 

And a huge thank you to Diego Rentsch as always for editing!!

This episode is thanks to the good people over at Brighter Future who recently reached out to interview me (hi, Ryan here 👋) for their Origin Story series which, in their words, is about "highlighting the path that planet-driven leaders walk on their journey to create a Brighter Future".

So I had the tables turned on me in this one and had a fun convo with Sandra Gouveia!

Figured I’d share it here for those of you who want to hear more about my story and some of the thinking behind Crowdsourcing Sustainability. Hope you enjoy - let me know what you think :)

You can find the lightly edited text version of the interview here.

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Crowdsourcing Sustainability is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider supporting us so we can keep educating, inspiring, and empowering more people to act on climate where they live and work! https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org/donate 

And a huge thank you to Diego Rentsch as always for editing!!

In this panel discussion, we talk about why equity is critical to decarbonization and ways to center it! 

If you'd like to learn more about the panelists and the great work they're doing you can find them/check out their work below:

- Jamal Lewis - Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification, Rewiring America
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/about#leadership 
- Johanna Bozuwa - Executive Director of the Climate + Community Project
https://www.climateandcommunity.org/
- Carolina Paes - Geologist & Sustainability and Circular Economy Consultant
https://www.systemiq.earth/paris-effect/
- Dion Richardson - Founder & President of Community Dreams Foundation
https://cdreams.org/


Here are the resources that were discussed and shared throughout the panel:
- EU Corporate Responsibility Reporting: https://finance.ec.europa.eu/capital-markets-union-and-financial-markets/company-reporting-and-auditing/company-reporting/corporate-sustainability-reporting_en
- Climate + Community Project's report on Achieving Zero Emissions with Less Mining: https://www.climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-less-mining
- Rewiring America's IRA Calculator (figure out how much money you can get to electrify!): https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator
- Report on coalition-led low-carbon economies in the Amazon: https://www.systemiq.earth/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Amazons-Report.pdf
 

Crowdsourcing Sustainability links: 
- Sign up for the Crowdsourcing Sustainability newsletter! https://crowdsourcing-sustainability.ck.page/c34a46ed01 
- Join the Crowdsourcing Sustainability Community! https://crowdsourcingsustainability.community/
- CS Website: https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org 

Crowdsourcing Sustainability is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider supporting us so we can keep educating, inspiring, and empowering more people to act on climate where they live and work! https://crowdsourcingsustainability.org/donate 

And a huge thank you to Diego Rentsch as always for editing!!