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By Kendra Roedl, Minneapolis

It was at Power Shift 2013 that I first felt a strong, noticeable call to action as an activist and organizer. As a sophomore in high school, I attended as a member of my school’s environmental club, where I had been taking on more responsibility for projects like improving the recycling system in our cafeteria and getting more people to compost.

Minnesota youth and students gather at the beginning of the MN Youth Forward summit

Today Abercrombie & Fitch publically announced its quarterly earnings  -- but it failed to mention the scandal hidden behind its recent profits. 

Currently, the clothing company stocks almost 300 items that use fabrics made from trees -- like rayon, viscose, or modal. These fabrics are driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia, global climate change, and threatening the livelihoods of Indigenous and frontline communities.

Abercrombie may have made money last quarter, but it did so while ignoring the rights of communities, and by putting rainforests at risk. This isn’t acceptable.

Is large scale renewable energy as sustainable as you think?

There are four overlapping types of sustainability: Social, Economic, Political and Environmental. The success of a renewable energy project depends on delivering value in each of these spheres, and by no means are they mutually exclusive.

I can feel a change in the air when it comes to renewable energy in Kentucky, and it’s pretty damn exciting.