Friend,

Make a Real Contribution.

Those are the words inscribed on the pocket knife my grandfather, Robert Neville Ricketts, gave me when I was a kid.

I was thinking of him a lot over Father's Day weekend. In the 1930s, he was one of millions of people who served in FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps, working on trail restoration and natural resources conservation in the Pacific Northwest.

Right now, there's a growing movement to launch a Civilian Climate Corps—a more inclusive, climate-centric version of that life-changing New Deal program.

The CCC would prepare millions of people (of all races and genders) for good-paying careers in the clean economy. We've got to get the news out about the CCC: Will you share this post right now to tell your friends and family about the Civilian Climate Corps?

My grandfather turned 18 in 1936, right in the middle of the Great Depression. His father (my great-grandfather) had died years earlier, and the CCC was a lifeline for him as he got started on his career. (He would go on to build airplanes at Boeing for nearly four decades, and served his community as a water district commissioner.)

A new Civilian Climate Corps is our opportunity to create transformational experiences for this generation of Americans. It would:

• Put 1.5 million people to work in their own communities building clean energy infrastructure
• Provide a living wage, health care, child support stipends, and other benefits to corps members
• Start people on the path to new careers in the clean energy economy
• And more!

Yes, the Civilian Climate Corps is ambitious. But it's the kind of thing America has done before. My family's legacy is living proof.

Share this post with your friends and family on Facebook so they know: It's time to launch the CCC so millions of Americans can make a real contribution to ending the climate crisis.

Thanks for reading my family's story—and urging this movement forward,

Sam Ricketts
Co-Founder, Evergreen Action