1. 🚨 Announcement!

I, with everyone, have dedicated my last five years of time & money to crowd sourced projects digging into Republican finances, writing as much as possible, & working to topple the far-right agenda.

I will still do this, but I'm narrowing my messaging.

2. My personal platform is equality, safe access, and inclusion of marginalized communities to natural areas, making marganilized communities partners and stakeholders in the environmental conversation, & including unsafe & dirty living conditions as a mental health issue.
3. I will also teach & encourage everyone, especially children, to tell their environmental story from their backyards & communities by using very basic equipment (such as cell phones) and how to use these stories to gain public awareness & stop #EnvironmentalRacism
4. Environmental solutions aren't these big ideas which are only available to governments & corporations.

Environmental health, especially those in cities, include trash pickup, standing water, more sidewalks for both walking and bike riding, air & water quality, clean parks...
5. Bus stops in front of parks with wheel chair access, emergency call buttons in parks, security available in parks which represent all citizens, lighting in neighborhood parks, natural areas which double as educational resources, green spaces, urban gardening, and so much more.
6. We can help make changes at our local levels by combining are talents, money, and hard work to help our country become a healthier place to live for all!

If we can work this hard against the extreme far right, imagine what we can do for the environment in our communities!
6. I will be posting more on these subjects as we go forward, and I will ask for help and input from all who want to help! 🙂💙

Thank you for your continued support!

Together we can build back better! 🌍♻️🌎🙂📸🌻

#BuildBackBetter
#EnvironmentalRacism
#ParisClimateAgreement
7. This page will be for the politics of environmental work, but my other page, @TheNatureNut will be about environmental work outside of politics, plus some other fun stories. Please, check out that page to for other uplifting stories of people doing hard work saving the planet.
8. This tweet might be broken from the #thread, but also, you can see my photography over on instagram at AmandaBlountPhotography.
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