Just drove from 45th at Speedway, down 45thto Airport to 51st to the AISD PAC and didn’t encounter a single working traffic light til Lancaster / Mueller 👀
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Anne Hebert
@annehebert
Marketing strategist, content creator and storyteller. Long-time Austinite and native Texan. I like people who do good things. GOTV.
Austin, TXJoined November 2008
Anne Hebert’s Tweets
"We’re in this for the long haul. There's a lot of really great, profoundly empowering work to be done.”
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The cold snap that froze Texas late last month resulted in the release of more than 1,000 metric tons of excess pollutants into the atmosphere bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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"Although construction continues in flood-prone places, every dollar invested in buying undeveloped land for water’s ebbs and flows can save $2 to more than $5 in avoided flood damages."
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"What scientists are most concerned about, though, is the potential for this regional, ecological tipping point to produce knock-on effects in the global climate."
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"If moving away from dirty energy is like rerouting a giant ship, then this could be the year when world leaders started to turn the tanker around." nytimes.com/2022/12/25/opi by
Great story by about the power of local meteorologists/ weathercasters to change minds. And in a town like Bryan? Kudos, . In Austin, my fave has done a good job of this for years. #climatestripes #showyourstripes
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If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:
At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
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“Congress just ... failed to provide a penny to meet our commitments to the Green Climate Fund — a step that would truly help us defend our country and our planet from chaos and instability."
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Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature
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Texas Republicans are laying the groundwork to move quickly on a number of new changes to the state’s voting laws, including a proposal to create an election police force like the one Florida enacted before the 2022 midterms.
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"failing to address biodiversity loss carries enormous financial risk"
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“With a bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction.”
Big announcement out of #cop15 - Canadian government support for four major Indigenous-led conservation projects across the country covering nearly one million square km. So glad is partnering in this work!
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Climate Justice Alliance Answers This Question: What Does a Just Transition Really Mean? triplepundit.com/story/2022/cli by via
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"ultimately delaying our transition to renewable energy delays our response to climate change, which endangers all Americans, but particularly Texans" texasstandard.org/stories/texas- interview on by
The United Nations “must require that any proposal for partnering with Indigenous people begins with recognition of our land rights, transparency about project details and a consultation process with communities,” writes Levi Sucre Romero.
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Mass shootings, where four or more people — not including the shooter — are injured or killed, have averaged more than one per day so far this year.
Not a single week in 2022 has passed without at least four mass shootings.
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We protect standing tropical #rainforests by working directly with local and indigenous peoples to create sustainable sources of income and community-led conservation projects.
rainforestpartnership.org
linkedin.com/company/rainfo
instagram.com/rainforestpart
facebook.com/rainforestpart
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“Forests like the 3.2 million-acre Broadback are at the center of a growing battle to save the world’s largest carbon sinks, from the rainforests in the Amazon to the peatlands of Indonesia & Central Africa to Canada’s 1.4 billion acres of boreal forests.”
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It’s not an “event” - it’s a mass school shooting.
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For family and friends with questions about the event, @UVA has established an Emergency Hotline at 877-685-4836
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"Exit polling suggests that young voters aged 18 to 29, many of whom likely factored climate change among their top concerns, stood in the breach of a Republican red wave that never materialized."
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“a project designed to reclaim power from the scorched earth policies of billionaires on a warming planet. We are building the world that needs to exist because there is no time to waste.”
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The only Twitter list I’ve been building for a few years is one of climate experts/journalists, so I’m very interested in seeing where this goes… I'm #18229 on the Project Mushroom waitlist 👉 tryprojectmushroom.com/?ref_id=F3YQNF
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For those keeping tabs, the same judge who just concluded that disarming domestic abusers violates the Second Amendment concluded in September that disarming those under indictment violates the Second Amendment.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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How about this one? Yesterday, a TX federal judge ruled that because "the historical record does not contain evidence sufficient to [disarm] domestic abusers," it violates the Second Amendment to take guns from those subject to a domestic violence restraining order.
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And this doesn’t count the countless absentee ballots that were never received by voters in the first place.
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Just got this text from a friend. One of many many many college students who didn’t get to vote absentee in Texas. This one received his ballot yesterday
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We need to focus on these counties to get registration + turnout to Travis County levels.
Beto's Margin of Victory
Harris - 102,348
Dallas - 166,728
Bexar - 88,077
Travis - 215,222
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From the @nytimes a comparison of O'Rourke versus 2020. Most of the state moved right, except the RGV. I think a lot of this was GOP who voted against trump.
nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Expanding protection for lands with high concentrations of irrecoverable carbon, & supporting Indigenous & community-led conservation measures, is crucial for countries to meet their climate & biodiversity goals, led study finds. #COP27
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"[climate change] appears only minimally in many state middle school science standards nationwide. Florida does not include the topic and Texas dedicates three bullet points to climate change in its 27 pages of standards."
A state record 9.6 million registered voters did not vote, breaking the previous mark of 9.3 million set in 2014.
Combined with the estimated 1.4 million Texans who are eligible to vote but aren't registered, almost 11 million Texans who could have voted didn't.
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“Courageous leaders are never silent about hard things.” goes straight for the elephant in the room - difficult conversations about the election - at the #TXConfWomen
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“Don’t look around the room. Sometimes YOU are the answer. Understand the complexities. Embrace adaptation, and the world will change dramatically and completely.” #TXConfWomen
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“If we are going to solve the world’s problems, we need to listen to the people we are trying to help.” So wonderful to hear from today #txconfwomen
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"While young voters should be able to cast a ballot as easily as any other voter, as the newest members of our democracy, our paths to voting are riddled with some of the most difficult and unique barriers to registration and voting there are."
Your voice matters. Showing others that you voted matters. And I'm more committed than ever to engaging young voters!
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Hey students! I am so proud of you for showing up and waiting in long lines to vote. And for taking pictures with our “I Voted/Yo Voté” sticker signs to send to your moms! We are all very proud of you. 🥰🗳
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