Newsletter #297: Your neighborhood's about to get much cleaner

This week:

• $1 billion for electric school buses
• A potential "tripledemic" sandwich (not as delicious as it sounds!)
• One person's (treated) wastewater is another person's drinking water
• Most pregnancy-related deaths in America are preventable
• Bumble goes public with their "Private Detector" code

Here's What You Can Do (usually more varied, but until November 8th, it's all hands on deck):

• Join our friends at Pod Save America or the Environmental Voter Project to call/text/donate and vote for people who will continue to build the foundation for a healthier world
• If you lead or even work at a company with paid leave, message every to stay home as much as necessary, and if you don't - Join our friends at Pod Save America or the Environmental Voter Project to call/text/donate and vote for people who actually learned something from the pandemic
• Join our friends at Pod Save America or the Environmental Voter Project to call/text/donate and vote for people who have lived experiences that reflect reality and will fight for a better water system
• Read the Momnibus Act, and then join our friends at Pod Save America or the Environmental Voter Project to call/text/donate and vote for people who understand all too well what it means to struggle for health care
• Use Bumble's easy tool to get your state reps to ban unsolicited nudes, and then (ding ding ding) join our friends at Pod Save America or the Environmental Voter Project to call/text/donate and vote for people who 1) actually understand the internet and 2) will help build one that's safer for women, LGBTQ+, and children.

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