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FIGHTING FOR GREEN EQUITY, ONE POST AND JOB AT A TIME

KRISTY DRUTMAN WAS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT in New Jersey in 2013 when she heard the news about Super Typhoon Haiyan’s devastating impact on the Philippines, her mother’s home country. The typhoon, one of the worst the world has ever seen, killed more than 6,300 people. “It was my wake-up moment,” recalls Drutman.

She awoke to the havoc that a changing climate is starting to have on the world, and the ways

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