On Feb 17 & 18 the Breathe Again Collaborative, a group of 7 organizations including ECA, held a 2-day event to talk about air pollution, our health and climate justice. In this train-the-trainer event we offered tools and resources for hosting your own event, discussed local action strategy and took collective action. If you missed the sessions catch up now with the recordings, to Thursday’s Session and Friday’s session and the Breathe Again: Healthy Air is Health Care Resource Toolkit which includes information and links to a slide deck, graphics, factsheets, sample scripts, and more!
And use this template to send at Letter to the Editor (LTE) to your local newspaper to tell them about this event and why taking action on air pollution and climate change is important to you.
Thursday Session | Friday Session |
Don’t forget the Breathe Again Resource Toolkit!
Next Steps:
- Contact your legislators and let them know that it’s time to take climate action! Use this link to take action: https://p2a.co/otrf4cx. You will have the option to email, call and post on social media. Please do all three! AND please share this link with friends and family or at your next event!
- Submit a Letter to the Editor (LTE) to your local newspaper to tell them about this event and why taking action on air pollution and climate change is important to you. You can find a sample LTE script about this event here.
- Plan your own event!
ECA will be hosting a number of upcoming events in 2022 related to air pollution, heath, and climate justice as well as developing additional tools and resources. Please stay tuned!
We encourage you to join other Breathe Again Collaborative Organizations:
Alabama Power & Light
Elders Climate Action
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light
Mothers and Others for Clean Air
North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
The Peoples Justice Council
United Methodist Women
