Sometimes, the body wins
"Everybody in the Pool" is on an involuntary summer break due to illness. Catch up on these recent highlights, though!
My friends, ugh, I miss you. The body is a funny thing sometimes. It can go and go and go. It can grieve the loss of a parent, pull off the first holidays without her, criss-cross the country to visit colleges with your only child, PRE-grieve his leaving, graduate him from high school, celebrate your 50th birthday, work, play, exercise, and rest. It can do all that while working every day to keep believing, evangelizing, and uplifting the hope and the creativity and the ingenuity it will take to slow the rate of human-caused global warming and find solutions and ways to adapt to and survive the climate crisis.
And then sometimes, it calls a hard stop. That’s what’s happened to me these last two weeks, with a cold so bad it literally stole my voice, which I’m trying not to see as a metaphor for anything right now.
So we’re on a bit of a forced hiatus over here, but I’ll be back as soon as humanly possible, whenever I can croak out an introduction to one of the many amazing episodes I have recorded and ready to be edited for you.
In the meantime, please please don’t miss our latest two episodes, and I want to particularly highlight Episode 91, with Harvard data scientist Jonathan Gilmour, about saving federal environmental data and tools from wholesale deletion under the Trump administration. This data underpins federal, state, and local policy, nonprofits and researchers rely on it, insurers use it for underwriting, and yes, startups may also rely on it to build solutions just the way Uber couldn’t have existed without GPS and federal mapping data and the government built Internet (and roads, for that matter). Jonathan and the Public Environmental Data Partners are working to preserve, archive, and replicate as much data and tools as possible, and could use your support.
In Episode 92, I spoke with Josh Dorfman, the dynamic co-founder and CEO of Supercool, a media company dedicated to highlighting climate solutions that cut carbon, boost business, and enhance modern life. Yes, in fact, we’re doing something quite similar to each other — because the more voices lifting up solutions and great ideas, the better. You can listen to that one here.
And do not despair (although I occasionally have these last two weeks). We’ll be back so soon, with episodes on recycling materials that are critical to building batteries, storytelling about climate change with Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus, investing in tech to protect and understand our oceans, and you know I love a series — I’ve got a miniseries about modernizing the grid on tap, as well.
Rest & recoup and feel much better soon.
Bittersweet takes on such a truer meaning when they launch.
Well done and hang in there!