The scene:
We are sitting in the office that Mariel built in her garage when she gave up her car during the pandemic. She chooses to walk to work to improve her environmental footprint. She shares her passion and real-world solutions for local and global change. Join us for a touching dialogue on the state of humanity and our home.

Highlights:
+ The fossil fuel war

+ Going to bat with the governor in your state (New Mexico)

+ Going after the utilities that reinvest in fossil fuels

+ Oil, gas, coal, nuclear - the fortunes that undermine our democracy

+ The Public Regulation Commission

+ Environmental regulation

+ The enabling codependent relationship between government and the fossil fuel industry

+ Theories of change: focusing on what’s possible

+ SOLAR! New Mexico gets 330 days of sun per year

+ WIND! There’s also a lot of it here

+ There are fire refugees in New Mexico at the time of our interview from 3 massive forest fires

+ Creating community sufficiency

+ Electric car issues, the lithium valley in CA

+ Relationships are the hardest and most rewarding part of life

+ If you had only 15 minutes, what would you grab before leaving your home?

+ The cost prohibitiveness of solar

+ Historically, poor communities have paid for fossil fuels with their health/lives

+ Reparations are past-due

+ Community glue has been severed

+ Corporations and privatization are ruling

+ The ripple effect of small actions to create big impacts

+ Resistance movements need people in numbers

+ White people have gotten too comfortable

+ Decentralized community-owned energy is possible now

+ Being courageous in the face of fear and doubt (Nelson Mandela)

+ The dumbing down and emotional suffocation of our current society

+ The impatience of knowing the world is at a breaking point

+ Seeking friends with our same level of passion

+ Regrets about doing drugs...but not about having sex ;)

+ Self-awareness: taking accountability and using emotions for motivation

+ MLK movie: The Voice in the Wilderness

+ Do and say things that call out the truth

+ The responsibility of privilege

Taste:
“My mother said something to me so beautiful when she was dying. She died really young. She said, “I don’t really have any regrets” and “You (and my brother) turned out better than I ever have imagined.”

Quotes:
“Activism is the antidote to despair.”

“The great revolutionaries are driven by love.” - Che Guevara

Inspiring people:
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Brian Stevens, Naomi Cline

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Love, Sagewolf xoxo