Farmworkers are taking their campaign for heat protection and workers rights to the corporations who buy the food they pick

Today they arrived in Palm Beach for a festival that includes a 15 ft Farmworker puppet outside the chairman of Wendy’s mansion
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This is a big day for MethaneSAT. Potentially the biggest. This has been 7 years in the making and builds on more than a decade of EDF's methane work. As we await liftoff, these are must-read stories about the project: Nicolás Rivero @WashingtonPost:
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Read more about how farmworkers forged the
Fair Food Program, and in the process, paved the way for a new paradigm of securing workers' basic human rights in global supply chains. From an interview with Nicolás Rivero on Marketplace

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Miami-Dade County rejected heat protections for outdoor workers in November. Today, the Florida legislature made sure no local government in the state can create those protections.

Miami-Dade is set to re-discuss its landmark heat protections for outdoor workers (and, potentially, fines for law-breaking employers) next month.

But Tallahassee could pre-empt it before then, thanks to bills pushed by powerful business lobby groups.

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🇺🇸 These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules

▫A years-long push in Fla. forges workplace protections against sweltering conditions
▫Nicolás Rivero
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The strongest workplace heat protections in the US don’t come from federal or state regulators. They were created by Florida farmworkers, and this year they’re set to protect tens of thousands of workers in 21 states: washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Reporting this was a trip. I have to say, the clothes and fabrics that designers have made out of human hair look surprisingly normal. See for yourself: washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Why renewable energy could help oil-rich Texas weather the winter, via ⁦Nicolás Rivero⁩ washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Meet Miami's compost queen. She diverts tons of food scraps from landfills transforming it into dark, crumbly garden soil.

And, it's quite possible some of your leftovers may have ended up consumed by her worm force...

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Growing houseplants can, ironically, come at an environmental cost. Here's some advice from the head of the usbotanicgarden on how you can green your home or office more sustainably: washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…