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The Coolest Show + tornado relief: Project Mushroom latest

The Coolest Show Hey shroomies! "Advocate for people and planet" and our friend, Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, guest hosted environmental justice icon, Reverend Yearwood’s, “The Coolest Show” at the end of last year. Toles O’Laughlin was joined by Melanie Allen, co-director of the Hive Fund, and Tracey Lewis,

IPCC breakdown + Third Act: Project Mushroom latest

Everyone, Everywhere, Right Now. Hey shroomies! The IPCC’s summary for policymakers came out this last week, followed very quickly by a rush of all the climate feels from everyone who cares (and that’s a lot of people). I spoke to Ketan Joshi, author of Windfall and renewable energy

Reproductive justice = climate justice: Project Mushroom Latest

Happy Equinox, Project Mushroom Today I want to talk about Andrea Grimes and the abortion news updates she shares in Project Mushroom every Friday. Reproductive rights fall under the big intersectional umbrella of climate justice — Grimes covers the continuing rise of what she terms “anti-abortion fascism.” Her work is important,

Climate Toolkit for the Tired + Philly Thrive: Project Mushroom Latest

Climate Action Toolkit for the Tired Hey shroomies! I spoke with authors and activists Kate Schapira and Shannon Brescher Shea about, Climate Action Toolkit for the Tired, their resource for anyone looking to become involved in the climate justice movement. Kate and Shannon want to help folks plug into climate

Early marriage and climate + NY Cares: Project Mushroom Latest

“Marriage becomes a form of climate adaptation” Early marriage has become climate adaptation in South Asia, says Founder of Climate Brides ProjectEarly marriage is a crisis in South Asia and is worsened with climate change. Severe weather events impact women disproportionately.Currently Weather ServiceAnna Abraham Hey shroomies! This week in

Particles for Justice + Oil drilling in Alaska — Project Mushroom Latest

Particles for Justice Hey shroomies! Chanda Weinstein-Prescod shared, in Project Mushroom, an open letter signed by herself and other physicists denouncing the attacks on Black and LGBTQ+ Visibility. These include book bans in schools and a “moral panic” around critical race theory as a lens for understanding the world. You

COVID justice + climate solidarity: Project Mushroom's latest

What's happening in  Project Mushroom? 🍄 COVID Justice is Climate Justice Hey shroomies! This week, Lucky Tran, organizer of the March for Science and public health advocate, published a rebuttal in the Guardian to the most recent anti-masking article from the New York Times. Tran was an early supporter of Project

Bird Glamour and Fridays for Future: Project Mushroom Latest

What's happening in Project Mushroom?🍄 Hey shroomies! Today in the Project Mushroom community, I’d love to introduce you to Lisa Buckley’s Bird Glamour. Lisa is a Vertebrate Paleontologist who uses makeup to teach us about birds. If you ask her what her favourite dinosaur is, she’ll tell

Pride in STEM, Collective Ownership, #BlackClimateWeek: Project Mushroom Latest

What's happening in Project Mushroom?🍄 Hello Shroomies, The Project Mushroom newsletter is curated every week by myself — Meg Ruttan, Director of Community Engagement and Organizing. In addition to my work at Currently and Project Mushroom, I’m a climate organizer (and mom! and cat lover!) from southern Ontario. It’s

The latest from Project Mushroom 🍄 🍄 🍄

Micah Herskind sat down with our Director of Community Engagement and Organizing, Meg Ruttan, to talk about abolition, climate justice, and how they come together around the “Cop City” proposed by police services in Atlanta. Herskind is an abolition activist and organizer who advocates in Project Mushroom and Spore. He

🍄What's happening in Project Mushroom?🍄

Hey shroomies! It’s hard to believe, but just three months ago, Project Mushroom didn’t exist. Now, Project Mushroom is the largest climate project on Mastodon and our affiliate newsletters and podcasts will begin sprouting up any day now. Starting today, we’re delivering this newsletter (the flagship Project

Our resolution for 2023: Build a safe place to change the world

Make your New Years resolution now: No more giving power to people who platform racists, white supremacists, and climate deniers. 2023 will be the year that Project Mushroom builds a critical mass of justice-focused creators across our very own collectively-led ecosystem working for the greater good. With your support, we

Your three-step plan to leave Twitter (in less than 5 min)

Project Mushroom exists to help us take back power from the billionaires — and collectively build an ecosystem of creators working together for justice. To make that dream happen, we're asking everyone reading this email to do a few steps to help accelerate Project Mushroom today: Step 1: Sign up for

We did it!!! Here's Project Mushroom's next steps. 🍄

We did it!!! Last night, Project Mushroom fully-funded our Kickstarter. With your support, we are now well on our way to building Project Mushroom into a safe place for people who want to change the world. If you didn't have a chance to contribute to the Kickstarter before it closed

LAST DAY: 24 hours to go on our Kickstarter + a brand-new onboarding tool!! 🍄

I'm going to keep this short and sweet because hopefully this is the last fundraising email I'll ever have to write: Today is the last day to support Project Mushroom's Kickstarter, and we still need all the help we can get. We still have about $15,000 left to go

Project Mushroom's newsletter service signup form is live!

Sign up as a Project Mushroom creator - and migrate your newsletter for free This morning, Twitter announced they are shutting down their newsletter service, Revue. This comes after Elon Musk — formerly the world's richest person — announced he was openly considering buying Substack. Also — today, Post News, a recent publishing

FINAL PUSH: 48 hours to go on our Kickstarter — and a $20,000 matching fund!! 🍄

48 hours left on Project Mushroom's Kickstarter! 🍄 Our Kickstarter only has 48 hours left, and we've just had a major breakthrough! An anonymous backer just pledged a $20,000 matching fund — which will double everyone's contributions over the next 48 hours and will be enough to take us all the

Your invite link for Project Mushroom expires in 24 hours! 🍄 (and an update on federation)

🍄 Support our Kickstarter! 🍄 Your Project Mushroom invitation is waiting for you, and it expires soon! Get a Project Mushroom account right now by following this link. (This link expires TOMORROW December 13th.) 🍄 Join Project Mushroom 🍄 If you join today, you'll be one of the first 10,000 to join our

How does amplifying the voices of marginalized people achieve climate justice? 🍄

There are just four days left in Project Mushroom's Kickstarter, and we have just 57 enamel pins left — donated to us by the fantastic Christine Liu of Two Photon Art. All backers at $75+ will receive one of these pins + an original piece of custom art that Christine is making

We are building Project Mushroom for creators 🍄

Huge news! As of this morning, every person on the Project Mushroom waitlist has been sent an invitation to join our platform!! 🍄🍄🍄 If you haven't received your invite yet, please send me an email: eric@currentlyhq.com Project Mushroom is a creator platform designed to change the world 🍄 The name

Welcome to Project Mushroom! It's your turn on the waitlist!! 🍄🍄🍄

You've been patiently waiting, and now the time is here! Everything you need to know to get set up in Project Mushroom is in this email — we can't wait to say hi! From the very beginning, we've promised Project Mushroom to be a safe place on the internet. We are

Revealed: Our Project Mushroom sticker contest candidates!! 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! We've done something amazing this week. I got a little worried the other day — OK, terrified — that we were Since then, y'all have truly come through. We've raised $45,000 for Project Mushroom's Kickstarter in just 48 hours — by far the most momentum since we launched. And

New merch! Project Mushroom enamel pins!! 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! The past 24 hours have been the most successful of this entire Kickstarter campaign so far, with more than $30,000 raised from 180+ backers — we'd love to keep up that pace during our entire last week! We have six days to go — about about $72,000

This is truly an all-or-nothing moment 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! I'll be honest with you: There's not a clear path forward for Project Mushroom without Kickstarter funding. If folks have friends/family that could put $75 into the Project Mushroom Kickstarter, we need 1,000 of those folks and we're there — and we'll have a collectively-run resource

Elon Musk wants eco-apartheid. Project Mushroom wants justice. 🍄

Support our Kickstarter! Project Mushroom now has 1,500 Kickstarter backers who have pledged a total of $97,000. We have just eight days left to double our total amount pledged. If we don't hit our goal of $200,000, according to Kickstarter rules, we'll get $0 — and Project Mushroom