Power Up

Are you ready to join the YAY-sayers? Subscribe to this newsletter for POSITIVE news about People-and-Planet. We are all in this together and we aren’t gonna listen to the endless yammering about how divided we are. Point in case: western Wyoming, where sits my own little cabin on the Pacific slope of the Rockies. Even from here, in only a click or two beyond an article in the High Country News I discovered today’s YAY, with a sweet connection to my own rural electric co-op and a local civil engineer with a passion for the cost savings, security and local economic opportunities of cleaner energy.

Max Moran

The new-to-me organization POW, or Protect Our Winters, described efforts to increase voter turnout for boards of directors at rural electric cooperatives (RECs) as a super power that helped bring new vision to a number of communities across Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. The Protect Our Winters folks includes an Athlete Alliance, with professionals like cyclist Sarah Sturm, climber Phil Henderson and snowboarder Sarah MacGregor. Their op-eds helped community members understand the data behind climate science and how that impacts everyone’s lives here in the U.S. West.

Skillet Glacier

Max Moran is the recently elected director at Lower Valley Energy, and with the famous Skillet Glacier on a Teton Range mountain that shares his last name, his interest in addressing climate challenges comes as no surprise. Grand Teton National Park is home to long-standing glacier studies that reveal the rapid increase in local glacial retreat. Around the world, people and so many of our ecosystems and co-inhabitants rely on cold fresh water that is sourced from glaciers, and the disappearance of that water could be catastrophic. The adventurers at the Athlete Alliance and the enthusiastic directors at our rural electric co-ops use their respective superpowers to engage people with available clean energy solutions so all of us can thrive into the future. Have you considered your own Super Power lately? Dust it off—the world welcomes your gifts.