When: Thursday, June 27th, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Global Gallery - 3535 N High St, Columbus, OH 43214

Join us for a fun-filled evening celebrating the launch of the Green Champions Podcast, a collaboration with Green Drinks (hosted by us, Green Columbus)! This event is your chance to:

• Be among the first to hear about the new Green Champions Podcast.
• Meet the hosts and get to know some of the guests (aka local ‘Green Champions’)
• Network with fellow sustainability enthusiasts at a monthly Green Drinks event.

The evening will feature:

• Drinks & giveaways
• Live music
• Panel discussion with the Green Champions team and special guests
• Vendors showcasing local sustainability initiatives.

A portion of beverage sales from Global Gallery will go directly to Green Columbus, a non-profit promoting environmental awareness in our community.

The “ADVANCE Act,” a bill to promote nuclear power, was passed 88-to-2 in the U.S. Senate last week. The ADVANCE stands for “Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy.” The only senators voting against it were Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. 

It was approved in the House of Representatives in May, also by a lopsided margin:  393-13. And it now has gone to President Joe Biden,

After twelve years — including five years of solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison in London — Julian Assange is free. God bless America! He wasn’t extradited to the U.S. to stand trial, where he faced a sentence of 170 years in prison for violating the so-called Espionage Act.

Instead, he took a plea deal with the U.S. government, pleading guilty to one count of violating that act — you know, threatening America’s freedom — for which he had paid by his time already served. He was officially pronounced free at a U.S. federal court in Saipan, capital of the Northern Mariana Islands (a U.S. territory), after which he flew home to his wife and two children in Australia.

My emotional relief at his escape from the clutches of this government far outweighs my feelings about the broader implications of the guilty plea, which has justifiably stirred concern and controversy. The government got its little triumph: a “legal” acknowledgment of its right to keep monstrous secrets about what it does and punish any unauthorized spilling of the beans as “espionage.”

Introduction

We well know by now that Trump remains the undisputed leader of the Republican Party and seemingly has the unwavering support of an electoral base numbering in the tens of millions. His cult-like base seemingly accepts his statements as absolute truths, even when they contradict or ignore the relevant verifiable evidence. They believe his “big lie” that he won the 2020 presidential election, while the overwhelming evidence refutes it (https://thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadership/trumps-big-lie). They also believe falsely that global warming is a left-wing hoax.