Hi Friend,

On this day of remembrance for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all he stood for, a climate denier and serial liar who is wholly unfit to be president will stand on stage with his oil-drenched donors and lackeys to be inaugurated as the 47th president.

So, I am filled simultaneously with grief, and with a furious determination.

I am awash in grief—grief for all those powerful policies, investments, and commitments we fought so hard to secure and now may lose.

Grief for all the people living through wildfires, hurricanes, floods, heat waves, poisonous fossil fuel extraction…everyone living through the consequences of a too-long delay in climate action.

And grief for how far we still have to go to further MLK Jr.'s own tireless work for civil rights and economic justice. Climate action is not separate from those fights, and in fact we know humanity must rebalance the world toward a fairer and more sustainable future.

And even in my grief, I am more determined than ever to toil on, and to do what we must do next.

You see, it has long been true that most of the real progress on these issues does not come first from our federal government. The pioneering policies that led the way on investing in workers, addressing historic wrongs, cleaning up our air and water, and protecting our climate came first from states, counties, and cities—they came from us. From our neighbors and our communities, working together in solidarity.

I believe that we will now see a great uprising of historic state and local action on the climate crisis and the many intersecting crises which oppress our communities.

And Evergreen will be there. We're going to do what we do best, and make sure that decision-makers have the most ambitious and actionable policies and the political space to make those policies real.

Local action is the primary way we will keep making tangible progress. So I'm asking you to send a message to your state elected officials that our movement will not let up. Write to your state reps right now to tell them to prioritize climate. Do it today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

As the man himself said:

"Now let us begin. Now let us re-dedicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world."

Glad to be in this with you,

Evergreen is building the ambitious, actionable policy roadmap for an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change—and to create millions of jobs in a thriving, just, and inclusive clean energy future. None of this would be possible without your support.