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The Fight for Public Lands 🏕️, with Patagonia + Protect Our Winters (opens the original)
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We’ve got a double feature for ya today on the podcast, recorded live during NYC Climate Week in a Patagonia store. It’s about fighting to protect our public lands, leveraging outdoor athletes as effective advocates, and (once again) getting environmentalists to vote. Plus, the scoop on Patagonia’s get-out-the-vote project that will give you a $100 incentive for encouraging friends to vote. Today’s episode features:Erin Sprague, CEO of the non-profit Protect our Winters (POW). POW’s
Rewind: Connecting the dots on climate and democracy 🔄 with Stacey Abrams (opens the original)
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First, happy 2nd birthday to What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures (the book version). Thank you for welcoming it into the world so warmly (NYT bestseller! 10,000+ of you coming to book tour events!) that it continues on in podcast form. 💛✨ If you haven't yet checked it out, find the (massively updated) paperback edition at your local library or bookstore. The 20 interviews it contains with incredible experts (including, of course, our wise Bill McKibben , star of the “Divest and
Clean energy super PAC says “don’t mess with solar” ☀️💰, with Tom Matzzie (opens the original)
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The clean energy industry is getting aggressive, Super PAC style. And, honestly, it’s pretty exciting. Our guest this episode is Tom Matzzie , founder and CEO of Clean Choice Energy , an energy supplier whose mission is to make clean energy accessible to all. Highly relevant: he’s also a veteran political strategist. Clean energy entrepreneurs and advocates have largely relied on affordability, efficiency, and environmental upsides to make their case. You know, the facts. But elections aren’t de
The chaotic good that is NYC Climate Week 🫨 (opens the original)
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For those not yet initiated into/hazed by NYC Climate Week (Sept 20-27), allow me to peel back the curtain. In the past few years this has grown from a relatively small event, organized by nonprofit The Climate Group, into a week of ~1,000 registered events (and 100s more undisclosed ones) all across New York City. Many are free and open to the public. Many are virtual or hybrid, so you can tune in from anywhere. 📺 (And I highly recommend you do!) There’s a
How the climate movement can build political power 🌎💪🏽 with Nathaniel Stinnett (opens the original)
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The environmental movement has a voter turnout problem: 11.2 million environmental voters did not vote in the 2024 election. Over 11 MILLION! That’s over half of the people who say climate/environment is their #1 voting issue. On the one hand: Are you kidding me?! WTF 😖 — especially when elections are often decided by mere thousands of votes. On the other hand: So much room for improvement! So, what can we do about this? Enter Environmental Voter Project . Our guest for this episode is Nathaniel
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