Currently in Boston — September 26, 2023: Improving weather Tuesday

The weather, currently.

Rainfall has now ended for the most part and we are looking at slow improvement for Tuesday. Temperatures during the afternoon will only be in the lower 60s. This is below average for the time of year.

Sunshine will take a while to come out especially along the coastline and points south but eventually clearing should overtake the area. Wednesday and Thursday will feature temperatures in the '60s along with a blend of clouds and sunshine. It will be cool at night for good sleeping weather.

The next chance of precipitation may arrive Friday if a system gets close enough but there's also an equal chance that we miss it all together and end up into the weekend with a warming trend.

— Dave Epstein

What you need to know, currently.

There’s a new Green New Deal in town — this time, it’s for schools.

Over the past five years or so, the Sunrise Movement has led the push for a Green New Deal in the US — and has redefined what intersectional climate campaigns can look like. Now, the youth-led org has decided to focus on their peers — in an attempt to strengthen climate justice efforts in school districts across the country.

“We are prepared to do whatever it takes,” Portland, Oregon-based Sunrise Movement organizer Adah Crandall, 17, told the Guardian.

The new campaign focuses on electrifying school buses, providing sustainable and healthy food — for free — to all students, and providing pathways to climate-focused jobs after graduation, among other demands.

Earlier this summer, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child specified the obligation that countries have to protect children’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment — explicitly affirming the urgency to act amid the climate emergency, the collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution. In the US, a group of kids in the state of Montana won the first-ever state level constitutional lawsuit on climate change earlier this year.

The Green New Deal for Schools campaign needs help signing up new high schools, so if you’re connected to one, sign up here to help support the effort.

— Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

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