Our Mission: We seek to restore and sustain the health of our climate and our democracy. We work with other local, national, and international campaigns engaged in similar efforts. We also collaborate with TA Central’s national campaigns, such as Banking on Our Future, Safeguarding Our Democracy, and Power up Communities! Whenever possible, we also team up with like-minded civic, environmental, and non-profit organizations.
Our Goal: We strive to educate and organize diverse citizens about current threats to the future of democracy and the Earth’s climate. In collaboration with other organizations, we strive to influence those in power through protest, OpEds, endorsement of legal strategies, lobbying, and other forms of collective action.
Our Policies: We are an inclusive and democratically-organized Working Group, an arm of Third Act Central that engages in transparent and egalitarian decision making.
How to Get Started with Third Act Educators
We invite you to join our monthly Working Group Zoom meetings, which enable us to create a community of purpose and solidarity. The monthly meetings include presentations by scholars and activists as well as breakout sessions for our Project Teams. As a member of the Working Group, we welcome you to submit ideas for future action projects that coincide with our stated goals. Please use the following form to submit your ideas: Third Act Educators Project Team Proposal Form.
Resources
Climate Change Resources for Educators
Click on the following link for an extensive list of resources that can be helpful in your climate education efforts:
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1suubzoR7otnpfPahcBYV3bp2fwZVodYF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118043343982561864995&rtpof=true&sd=true. To make corrections or suggest additional sites or categories, contact Alice Freund (alicefreund@outlook.com) or David Reinking (dreinkin@gmail.com).
Please also see the list of resources that members of Third Act Central have compiled. We invite TA Educator Members to suggest additions to these resources. Please send your suggestions to thirdacteducators@gmail.com.
Our Current Campaigns and Actions
Our Working Group includes three project teams that are engaged in the following campaigns:
Democratizing Energy
- Third Act Educators IRA Project Team: Citizen Education and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
- To join the IRA Project Team email: jkgoodmajk@gmail.com
- Third Act Central: Democratizing Energy Campaign
Climate Education Actions
- Third Act Educators Project Team
- Climate Change Education Resources
- View our Campaign Visual Map
- To join the Climate Education Action Project Team email: david.reinking@uga.edu
Safeguarding Democracy
- Third Act Central: Safeguard Democracy Campaign
- TA Educators Project Team: Safeguard Democracy.
- To join the Safeguarding Democracy Team email: deborah.popper3@gmail.com