A player on Italy’s Olympic women’s hockey team is also a climate scientist — and is using her platform to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change
Jacquie Pierri is a climate scientist with a master’s degree in sustainable engineering. She’s also competing in this year’s Olympic Games on Italy’s women’s hockey team — a sport whose arenas are no friend to the climate crisis.
The refrigeration systems needed to keep ice rinks both cold enough to not melt the ice and warm enough to be comfortable for spectators do a lot of environmental damage.
So, while she’s competing on the sport’s biggest stage, Pierri will also be raising awareness about the impacts of climate change alongside a coalition of her peers called EcoAthletes.
Why is this good news? Athletes have incredible influence and have long lent their voices and platforms to important causes — but as EcoAthletes shares, climate hasn’t really been one of them. Pierri and EcoAthletes have the opportunity to change that.
After all, there’s no hockey on a planet that can’t sustain it.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans have now been trained as constitutional observers
Two months ago, the federal government began “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis. In that time, the Immigrant Defense Network has gathered more than 100 organizations to support vulnerable families and defend human rights.
In January alone, it trained an average of 2,000 volunteers a week to be constitutional observers — members of the community who observe and document federal law enforcement activity. In total, they’ve trained nearly 30,000 people in 77 of Minnesota’s 87 counties — an “unimaginable” scale.
Another 6,000 volunteers are registered to help deliver food, give at-risk families rides, go to court hearings, translate documents, and more. The volunteers are helping “around the clock, seven days a week,” responding to cases “every six minutes.”
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