Abigail Mnookin
CommentatorAbigail Mnookin is a former biology teacher interested in issues of equality and the environment. She is currently organizing parents around climate justice with 350Vermont, and lives in Brattleboro with her wife and their two daughters.
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Walkers came from around the state and stretched across age brackets: families with strollers, young children on bikes, teens, college students, partners,…
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Last Friday morning, my family stood in front of Brattleboro Union High School for one of the local youth-led climate strikes. This strike drew a crowd of…
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A few days ago, my child came home from school dismayed that two kids from her class had made fun of her doing the floss.For those unfamiliar with the…
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When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its special report detailing massive action will be needed if we’re to prevent catastrophic…
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I’m a white person living in a predominantly rural, white state, and a queer mother, doula, writer, organizer, educator, and facilitator living in…
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It was a wet, spring evening when my six-year-old and I set out to help salamanders and frogs cross the road a few miles from our Brattleboro home.With…
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Recently, my family joined dozens of others from Mother Up!: Families Rise Up for Climate Action, a project of 350Vermont, to make a presentation to the…
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I just biked after the first snow on our family’s electric cargo bike, and I’m planning to continue to ride through the winter with my kids.Additional…
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Cross Class Dialogue Circles are designed to bring together community members with a diversity of class experiences to look at how class and economic…
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Now that many in the federal government have become engaged in climate change denial, real climate leadership will have to come from somewhere else - like…