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Hi
Vladimir,
After a
successful year of campaigning against runaway
plastic production and consumption, we’re
excited to share with you what our campaigns
team has planned for 2023!
The plastics
problem continues to be exceptionally and
uniquely emblematic of the downsides of the
take, make, waste economy. And, our Community –
that’s you! – have indicated that solving it is
a clear priority. So, plastics will be a central
focus of our campaigning next year, as we take
on various stages in plastic’s nefarious
lifecycle. In other words, we’ll tackle
extraction and production through our support of
grassroots groups fighting the petrochemical
buildout in the Gulf Coast and the Ohio River
Valley; recycling, through our work to modernize
the bottle bill in California and beyond; and
incineration, with our upcoming documentary
Burning
Injustice, in support of an
ongoing campaign to end state subsidies to
Modesto’s incineration plant and shut down the
facility for good. Will you
pitch in to help us field high-impact campaigns
in 2023 and beyond?
To top it all
off, we’ll be closely following the Global
Plastics Treaty negotiations, pushing for an
ambitious, binding agreement. And, we’ll bring
transparency to a typically opaque process, with
a video explainer to break it all down:
we’ll
assess which countries are on board, which need
to be pushed and the contours of their disputes;
we’ll discuss the role global corporations are
poised to play in the negotiations and the ways
in which advocates are pushing back; and we’ll
explore ways for ordinary citizens to hold their
leaders’ feet to the fire.
While telling great stories is at the
heart of everything we do, we also believe that
information alone won’t win the change we need.
So we couple our storytelling with citizen
action.
Our campaigns are meant to both have a strategic
impact on the way we make, use and throw away
Stuff as well as inspire our Community to learn,
participate and grow. 
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Looking ahead,
we’re especially excited to provide you more
opportunities to participate in changemaking.
Building off the citizen science project and
virtual sessions we held this year with members
of our California Community, we will continue to
develop webinars, trainings, and community town
halls that you can virtually join from anywhere
in the world.
Of course,
fighting plastics isn’t the only thing on our
Community’s agenda. We’ll continue to support
Right to Repair bills around the country and
this coming spring we’re hoping to ramp up our
support for the labor, environmental and other
networks putting the heat on Amazon. More on
that soon.
Likewise, our
ongoing campaign to Unbottle Water, with its
intersections at plastics, environmental justice
and climate change-induced drought, will
continue to be a focus into next year. While we
await the final ruling in our California Water
Board case against water bottling giant
BlueTriton, which continues to remove tens of
millions of gallons of water from the San
Bernardino National Forest, we’ll keep pressing
the U.S. Forest Service to explain why it gave
the company a new special use permit recently
despite the apparent lack of a complete
application!
As you can
see, we’ve got our work cut out for us, but
we’re confident you’ll have our backs – like you
have for the past 15 years! Pitch
in today and keep our engine of changemaking
going strong.
Thank you for
sticking with us,
Sam and The
Story of Stuff
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