Ah, Thanksgiving. A time of shared food, drink and merriment among loved ones––and uncomfortable conversations. We know how it goes. While you’re deflecting the casual ‘when are you going to settle down’ questions and giving desperate glances at the kids’ table you’re...
5 trainings 4 states 204 volunteers trained 497 training hours At POW, we love stats, and we’re psyched to conclude 2019 with almost 500 training hours! Hosted by our advocacy coordinator, Lindsey Halvorson, our volunteer trainings inform and activate volunteers in...
What Are Lobby Days? If you’ve been with us for a while, you might be familiar with our annual pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. And if you’re just starting out with the POW Action Fund, you might be a little confused as to why an organization born and bred in the...
Remember back in February when International Ski Federation (FIS) president Gian Franco Kasper went on-the-record denying human-caused climate change and the science that supports it? After seven months and more than 9,000 letters sent to FIS from the outdoor...
Old Town Road? More like Old POW(n) Road August was a busy month for the POW team! In between prepping for our annual D.C. lobby trip through our sister org, the POW Action Fund, gearing up for 2020 elections and doing summer activities like mountain biking and...
The Toughest Test We’ve Taken Since O-Chem Okay, that headline might be a slight exaggeration, but this test is seriously tough. Sure, we know that remembering a reusable coffee cup has less of an impact when it comes to solving the climate crisis than, say, passing...
