Sometimes I feel like my organizing all centers around an abstract plane of numbers. I can’t touch a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050. Of course, I still know in my gut that setting the mandate for reductions is the crucial first step to fighting climate change, and watching the news with any kind of awareness brings me back to reductions targets time and again (see Wilkins Ice Shelf for a recent and scary example) (oh, and this just in, about the Arctic melting past the point of no return). But sometimes I want to focus on something a little more concrete, like shutting down coal plants – or supporting the creation of more public transportation.

In my part of Maryland right now, it’s the Purple Line.