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🏫 ELI Summer School Series (Tuesdays, June 4 - July 30, 12-2 pm ET)
The Environmental Law Institute is holding its yearly summer seminar series that offers an introduction to the legal and policy foundations of environmental protection in the United States. The series is complimentary, and all are welcome to join. Some sessions will be available in person in Washington, D.C., and all sessions will be available virtually.

🌱 Events from ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
The American Bar Association’s Environment, Energy, and Resources Section is hosting a number of webinars this summer on topics such as ocean and coastal environmental law, wildfire litigation and settlement, and a superfund year in review.

📣 Uptown Chats Podcast
In New York’s first community-based environmental justice podcast, staff from WE ACT for Environmental Justice explore community issues “through the eyes of everyday people. It’s not just for experts, it’s for everyone!”

🔌 Recharged with the State Impact Center
Our podcast, Recharged with the State Impact Center, highlights emerging issues related to state action on climate, the environment, energy, and environmental justice. We have a number of exciting new episodes on the docket, so stay tuned!

🖼️ Climate Art 101
This virtual, self-paced course covers how to use art as a tool to simplify topics in climate change. Artist Nicole Kelner also occasionally hosts free virtual workshops, so be sure to sign up for her newsletter!

🌐 Global Solutions Diary from Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown’s recently-launched Global Solutions Diary is a community-generated video library of everyday stories about climate change solutions. You can share your own climate story, or browse the beginnings of the solutions diary, which will be fully launched later this year.

🖍️ Drawings from the National Wind Energy Children’s Art Contest
KidWind and the Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office called upon Kindergarten–8th grade students from around the nation to create artwork about the theme Beautiful Wind Energy. Check out the submission from this year’s winners!

⏰ The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet
“An exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.” While you wait for the book, check out this interview with the book’s author, Carlos Moreno. Recommended by: Tatiana Zapata, Our Legal Fellow

🍄 The Mushroom at the End of the World
In this investigation of one of the world’s most valuable mushrooms, anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing “presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.” Recommended by: Megan Abron, Our Associate Director for Operations

📌 Related recs from Megan: Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era | The Extractive Zone | Ecology Against Capitalism

⛰️ Amity and Prosperity
This Pulitzer Prize-winning book by poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the true story of “the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.” Recommended by: Jessica Bell, Our Energy Director & Deputy Director

🌲 Prodigal Summer
This novel by author Barbara Kingsolver “weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.” Recommended by: Megan Abron, Our Associate Director for Operations