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Willow Beck
June 23, 2025
Welcome to the week.
It’s officially summer! Get outside, touch some grass, enjoy the sunshine (well, actually maybe just hide in the shade), and then maybe go to your local leaders to advocate for a heat action plan in your municipality because god damn is it hot out there.
Me all summer
Ok, let’s go.
This Week
And more.
Have a great week,
— Willow
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Last week, we asked: Do you know how your business affects ecosystems?
You said:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes (45%)
“We are a food coop developing a sustainable climate resilient full cycle food hub model and are exploring ways to reduce packaging, food waste, restoring soil and reducing GHG’s in the food cycle and urban ag.”
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Kind of (20%)
“I work for a food company. We're very conscious of how our suppliers' agricultural practices affect the environment: it's a key benchmark for us. Probably less conscious of how distribution (via air and road) affects things. ”
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Not really (25%)
“I’m a middle manager in an SME, I’m kept very busy and we only publish what I think our CSR policy expects us to publish. So I doubt very much that we look into the wider impact.”
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ No (10%)
New Shit Giver Emily is here because “I want to live my life and raise my kids in a way that prioritizes meaningful relationships over stuff, time outside-ish (we are not an outdoorsy family) over screens etc., and the happiness and fulfillment of me and my husband as well as the kids. It's the holy grail of parenting in this era, and yet, so many ways to be wrong.
I can't quantify exactly how worrying about climate change fits in, but it is obviously an existential problem, and is so tied up with our fucked up system of government/economics... There's endless inter-connections, I guess just so many things to fret about.“
So many things, and they are all connected, which is why we get so excited about solutions that solve many problems at once. Welcome!
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