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I chatted with my friend and climate champion Hilary Ego. Hilary is one of the most multidimensional climate people I know. She manages the environmental programs in the City of La Mesa, wrote and drew a children’s book and loves making food for people. We dive deep into her role of helping the City of La Mesa implement its climate action plan and the community outreach and relationship building it (and everything in climate, basically) requires to succeed. Hilary also shared why she decided to publish a children’s book and how to start doing something for our community, for our planet and for ourselves.

Things we mentioned in the episode: 

• Hilary Ego’s children book: How I Save the Earth


• City of La Mesa’s Climate Action Plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXua3GbmrUQ


• California Senate Bill 1383: Organic Waste Reduction and edible food recovery law 


• California Assembly Bill  341: mandatory recycling law


• California Assembly Bill 1346: ban the sell of gas powered small engines  

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This podcast was created by the youth group of Climate Reality DFW in 2021, and is currently a joint project by the DFW & Portland Chapters produced by Li-Ya Mar. Comments, feedback or share your stories with us, email us at ⁠thegreenpathsgang@gmail.com⁠.

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