Theme #1: You are making your everyday work-and that of your team members-more efficient and sustainable. Here are some highlights from what you all have shared:
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We were inspired by what we heard, and reminded that it is workers themselves who are best positioned to lead us into the future because they are closest to the issues and they know best how to implement solutions. Last week, we asked Project Drawdown newsletter subscribers to share how they are taking climate action at work. This Labor Day, we’re taking a moment to celebrate those who are bringing climate solutions into the world and their work, transforming the existing system from the inside. Worker power-whether it’s security to ask for safer, more sustainable working conditions, tools to take climate action at work, or solidarity in holding employers accountable-is core to the work of Drawdown Labs. Within every sector, every trade, and every business, workers must be protected, equipped, and supported in building the world of the future and transitioning us away from the polluting businesses and industries of the past. We need all people engaged from wherever they stand. The phrase “every job is a climate job” is not hyperbole. Employees across every business and every department can apply a climate lens to their job to help their company advance their climate work more expediently and expansively, and hold their employer accountable to their climate promises. Businesses, especially large, multinational corporations, are disproportionately responsible for the planet-warming emissions that cause climate change, and they have a grave responsibility-as well as the resources-to address it. We also need people in desk jobs transforming the existing system from the inside. In other words, Labor Day celebrates the power of the worker to transform the world. That will take massive numbers of skilled workers building a future replete with heat pumps, mass transit, electric vehicles and chargers, solar panels, and much more, all aimed at permanently and comprehensively displacing the polluting industries of the past. Because to solve climate change, we need to dramatically scale up climate solutions, and fast. Today, for a world in the throes of an increasingly unstable climate and with a vanishing window of time to slash the greenhouse gas pollution that is causing it, the holiday is particularly meaningful.
It’s a time to acknowledge the people who build and maintain the foundation our country rests on-the people who, often without being noticed, enable us to power our lives, move from place to place, access food and shelter, and much more. The United States recently observed Labor Day, a celebration of the contributions of the American worker.
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