What can you do in your local community to significantly reduce climate warming emissions? Consider composting! Food waste accounts for emissions equivalent to 42 coal-fired power plants in the United States...
The Blessed Tomorrow Capacitación Para Facilitadores/as Sobre el Cambio Climático trains and supports people of faith in climate action and advocacy...
Nurses are the most trusted profession in the country and see the effects of climate change on their patients' health every day...
Creating a sustainable way of life for all is central to our faith. Our work must be in partnership with our neighbors who have been marginalized and must begin within each of us and our relationships...
Protecting and caring for the ocean is an expression of reverence and how we are called to live out our faith. And, a healthy ocean is humankind’s most effective ally for climate action...
Young people are leading the climate movement. They have the most at stake, but also the greatest vision for what is needed to secure their future...
Over 60% of Americans have a chronic disease, with 40% having two or more chronic diseases. This is directly related to a diet that is also unsustainable for the environment. Hear from Dr. Ali Saad, board-certified neurologist...
There is no force more powerful than a mother protecting her children. In honor of Mother’s Day, join 2023 American Climate Leadership Awards runner-up, Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front...
May is National Bike Month, so dust off your favorite pair of wheels and join in! In this episode, we'll talk about the joys of active transportation...
Community Health Centers are a service and resiliency hub for tens of millions of Americans. During a climate-related disaster — whether that's hurricanes, wildfires, the grid shutting down...
Join Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos, a chemist turned ELCA theologian, to discuss how we can accelerate action on climate by working better together...
ecoAmerica’s Let’s Talk Climate webcast, Award Winning Community Climate Leaders, featuring Joshua D. Dedmond, Program Director, Cooperation Jackson, and Doug Siglin, Policy Advisor, Chesapeake Climate Action Network...
In this research episode, we take a look at our American Climate Perspective Survey titled: Americans Feel Most Comfortable Talking About Climate Change With Friends and Family, with report co-author, Nicole Hill, MPH...
The effects of climate change on health, infrastructure, and communities continue to grow. Local governments are taking action to build new programs and resources that serve their population...
All injustice is interconnected. We cannot have climate justice without racial justice. Join us as Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus encourages and challenges us with...
Climate change is daunting. What are the solutions and what can you do about it? Communities around the country are stepping up, taking action, and making a difference...
In this research episode, we take a look at our American Climate Perspective Survey titled: Climate Change: The More You Know, The More You Care with report co-author, Nicole Hill, MPH...
Clinicians and public health workers are in the front lines of the climate crisis, seeing the real impacts on patients and communities. But it can be difficult to engage with others about these facts...
Communities in the global south have been impacted by climate change for many years. The film, The Ants & The Grasshopper, follows Malawian farmer Anita Chitaya as she navigates...
For two weeks in November 2022, Heads of State and negotiators, along with climate activists and faith leaders met in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the 27th Conference of the...
Climate change causes more intense heat waves and in many cities, urban design traps heat disproportionately in communities of color. Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao leads a primer on urban heat impacts, their health effects, and what you can do about…
Featuring Seema Wadhwa, Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship, Kaiser Permanente.
As the impacts of climate change on human health grow and grow, health care systems are taking action. Join us to find out how Kaiser Permanente has become a national climate leader...
Featuring a conversation with Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, MSW, LCSW, Director, AME Social Action Commission; Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, Board Chair, Interfaith Power & Light; and Brian McLaren, American pastor, author, and activist.
Climate change is impacting every justice issue we care about...
In this special research episode, we take a look at our American Climate Perspective Survey titled: American Voters Support Climate Candidates in 2022 Midterms with report co-author, Nicole Hill, MPH.
A large majority of US voters plan to cast their ballots in the midterm elections...
Featuring a conversation with Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Missioner for Creation Care; Creation Care Advisor, Episcopal Diocese of Western MA + Southern New England Conference, UCC; Episcopal Diocese of MA.
In 2000, St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Adelaide, South Australia celebrated...
Features a conversation with Nancy Metzger-Carter, Schools for Climate Action/ Sonoma Academy.
Ready, set, replicate! Learn how you can replicate the success of extraordinary programs that are mobilizing Americans for just and equitable climate solutions...
Featuring Diana Hamer, Director for Climate and Crisis Preparedness, National Network of Public Health Institutes in conversation with Ben Fulgencio-Turner, Director, Climate for Health.
Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves. As we enter Preparedness Month this September...
Featuring a conversation with William Morris, Co-Chair, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, Zavia Jenkins, Community Fellow, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and Cesar Almeida, Program Coordinator, Faith in Place.
Low-Income urban neighborhoods in the United States are more likely to have...
Featuring a conversation with Roseann Bongiovanni, MPH, Executive Director, GreenRoots, Inc.
Ready, set, replicate! Learn how you can replicate the success of extraordinary programs that are mobilizing Americans for just and equitable climate solutions. Hear directly from...
Featuring Sergio Rimola, MD FACOG, DC Metro Co-Chair, National Hispanic Medical Association in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica.
It’s summertime and the heat is not just uncomfortable, it’s dangerous...
Featuring a conversation with Roseann Bongiovanni, MPH, Executive Director, GreenRoots, Inc.
Ready, set, replicate! Learn how you can replicate the success of extraordinary programs that are mobilizing Americans for just and equitable climate solutions. Hear directly from 2022 American Climate Leadership Award finalists...
Featuring a conversation with Rev. Dr. Loida I. Martell, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean and Professor of Constructive Theology, Lexington Theological Seminary
Climate Scientist Gus Speth said, “The top environmental problems are...
In this special episode we take a look at American Public Health Association’s and ecoAmerica’s latest American Climate Perspective Surveys titled "Are Americans Making the Climate and Health Connection?"...
Featuring a conversation with Huda Alkaff, Founder and Director, Wisconsin Green Muslims.
In 1991, over 1,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. from 50 states for the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. The Summit, hosted by...
Featuring Janice Hawkins, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, Clinical Associate Professor, Old Dominion University School of Nursing and Sarah Brown Blake, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, Chico State School of Nursing in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica...
Featuring Cathy Jordan, PhD, Director for Leadership and Education, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica.
Adverse birth outcomes and mental health challenges are two of the most critical...
Featuring a conversation with Justin Goldstein, Co-Founder and Scholar-in-Residence, Yesod Farm+Kitchen and Raphaela Gold, JYCM College Cohort Fellow, Jewish Youth Climate Movement.
Learn why a teenager took a gap year before college to work on organic farms...
Featuring a conversation with Nana Firman, Senior Ambassador, GreenFaith, and Dahlia Rockowitz, Washington Director, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action.
For the first time since 1991, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Baha’is, Hindus, Buddhists and
Featuring Katherine Catalano, MS, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association; Karly Hampshire, Founder and Co-Director, Planetary Health Report Card Initiative; P. Qasimah Boston, DrPH, MPH, Co-Founder, Tallahassee Food Network...
Erin Huber Rosen, Executive Director + Founder, Drink Local Drink Tap
Climate justice and water equity. Water is considered one of the first indicators of climate change –there is either too much
Nicole Hill, MPH, Research and Marketing Manager, ecoAmerica in conversation with Jennifer Giordano, Vice President, Marketing, ecoAmerica
ecoAmerica’s latest survey finds that almost half of Americans are very concerned about climate change...
Karyn Bigelow, Co-Executive Director, Creation Justice Ministries
Racism is pervasive in the agricultural and food systems in the United States. Farms are on the front lines of climate change...
Kip Pastor, Founder + CEO of Pique Action
Skye Flanigan, Program Manager, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
Science communicators are making original, entertaining, and educational content that’s reshaping the climate narrative and empowering people
Cate Mingoya, National Director of Climate Resilience and Land Use, Groundwork USA
The climate crisis threatens to make our communities hotter and wetter than they have ever been before, but
Featuring Wilson Dickinson, Director, The Green Good News and Sarah Spengeman, Board Member, Interfaith Power and Light, and Host of Hot Mamas, the Podcast.
How can we raise resilient, hopeful children when...
Cecilia Sorensen, M.D., Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine...
Featuring a conversation with Marie Studer, PhD, Senior Program Manager, Planetary Health Alliance, and Melody Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduate and 2020 Planetary Health Campus Ambassador.
Just in Q4 of 2021, we saw the launch of the Sao Paulo Declaration on Planetary Health, The...
“Mental Health and Our Changing Climate – In Context, Part 1, we focus on putting the report in context and how mental, physical, and community health are impacted by climate change and linked to inequities. We wrap up by sharing…
Featuring a conversation with Joe Fitzgerald, Water City Program Manager, Milwaukee Water Commons.
“Healthy forests are our most efficient, inexpensive, and natural systems to combat climate change,” as American Forests remind us. Find out what you can do...
A discussion with AGU's Thriving Earth Exchange, featuring a conversation with Angela M. Chalk, Executive Director, Health Community Services, Natasha Udu-gama, PH.D., Manager, Community and International Relations, Thriving Earth Exchange, and Eric Goplerud, Chairman, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions....
Featuring a conversation with Santosh Pandipati, MD, Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at O’Connor Hospital and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California San Francisco.
We are seeing the impacts of climate change all around us...
Features a conversation with Rev. Dr. Leah Schade, Author of Creation Crisis-Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit, and Rabbi Yonatan Neril, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development.
What would happen if every member of clergy...
Featuring a conversation with Michael Robinson, Co-Founder, Rust Belt Riders.
Local climate solutions are evolving and expanding, and include how we grow, manage and dispose of food. Join us to learn about these solutions in conversation with Michael Robinson from Rust Belt Riders...
Featuring a conversation with Lisa Patel, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Interim Director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
Features a conversation with Vance Blackfox, Desk Director for American Indian Alaska Native Tribal Nations, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Tracey DePasquale, Director, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania; Ruth M Ivory-Moore, Program Director, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility...
Featuring a conversation with Dr. Eric Balaban is a young physician undergoing formal training in a Climate and Health Policy Fellowship who is uniquely positioned to comment on the role doctors can and should play in treating climate change, and Sarah McWilliam, a medical student...
ecoAmerica’s latest survey finds that severe weather events are making Americans more concerned about climate change. Already in summer 2021, the Pacific Northwest has experienced extreme heat reaching record temperatures, while floods have drenched areas across the country...
Featuring a conversation with Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director, Climate Resolve.
Many cities and towns are seeing the need for equitable solutions to the climate emergency, particularly amidst record-breaking heat. They want to take more ambitious...
Hannah Wilkerson, Program Associate, Children’s Environmental Health Network Children’s Environmental Health Day is the second Thursday of October, and is a great opportunity to amplify climate advocacy.
Featuring a conversation with Linda Mendonca, ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellow 2019-2020 and President of National Association of School Nurses, Andrea Lapuz, ANHE Student Nurse Committee, and active member of National Student Nurses' Association, and Guest Host: Katie Huffling, Executive Director of...
Featuring a conversation with Rev. Carol Devine, Minister for Green Chalice, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri, Associate Minister for Green Chalice, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), David Bell, Minister for Indigenous Justice at the Center for Indigenous Ministries...
Featuring a conversation with Dr. Elena Craft, Senior Director of Climate and Health. This special episode digs into research from the Environmental Defense Fund that explores the local impacts of air pollution, and the resultant health disparities. Dr. Craft outlines…
Featuring a conversation with Aniya Butler, Hip Hop & Climate Justice Coordinator, Youth Vs Apocalypse, Hannah Estrada, Education & Organizing, Youth Vs Apocalypse, and Dr. Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Manager, City of Ann Arbor.
Join us to hear from a few of the...
Featuring a conversation with Avery Davis Lamb, co-Executive Director, Creation Justice Ministries.
Chances are your faith community has been involved in disaster response, whether as an impacted community or in service to others. But is your faith community...
Featuring a conversation with Steven Konkel, PhD, MCP, Principal of Konkel and Associates; U.S. Fulbright Professor of Environmental Health & Public Policy and Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Division of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville...
ecoAmerica’s latest survey finds the overwhelming majority of Americans agree we have a right to live in a healthy environment with clean air and water. Health and nature are motivators for climate solution support — consistent among rural, semi-rural, suburban, and urban Americans...
Featuring a conversation with Rev. Michael Malcom, MDiv MBA, Founder/Executive Director. The People's Justice Council, Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee, Executive for Economic and Environmental Justice and Climate Justice Lead, United Methodist Women, and Chandra Farley, Just Energy Director...
Featuring a conversation with Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate, California Institute of Technology and Freelance Science Writer and Dr. Adriane K. Griffen, Senior Director of Public Health and Leadership, Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD).
In a recent article, Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate...
Featuring a conversation with Becky O'Brien, Director of Food and Climate, Hazon and Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll, Sr., Founder and CEO, Green The Church.
Our homes serve as an important place to model our faith, pursue justice, and live our climate values...
Learn about the latest tools and resources for climate action! From webinars, to training, guides, action sheets and actions, we will share a breadth of resources for you to use to inspire your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues or fellow congregants.
Featuring a conversation with Tracey Holloway, Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison,
Veronica Butcher, Executive Director, Mothers & Others for Clean Air, and LaTisha Harris, Community Organizer, Mothers Out Front.
Listen to your mother! The age-old saying...
Featuring a conversation with Eboné Lockett, Founder and Executive Director, Harvesting Humanity.
How does citizen engagement help move communities forward on natural climate solutions? People know how important green spaces are for our children to play...
Featuring a conversation with guest co-host Anabell Castro Thompson, MSN, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, FAANP, Senior Vice President of Health Equity, Equality Health, Steffany Moreno, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Candidate, 2024, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Medical Students for a Sustainable Future and...
Featuring a conversation with Taiwo Jaiyeoba, Assistant City Manager and Director of Planning, Design & Development, City of Charlotte and Terry Lansdell, Director, BikeWalk North Carolina.
Cities have a new concept for urban living: the 15-minute city! Cities that are walkable...
ecoAmerica’s latest survey finds “health” at the top of the list of motivations for climate solutions — raking even higher than “jobs”. Concern about climate change is on the rise, and so is trust in health professionals as sources of climate change information. Find out how health a major climate action...
Featuring a conversation with Meg Mall, Executive Director, Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions Jeff Levy-Lyons, Steering Committee, Jewish Climate Action Network NYC (JCAN NYC).
We've been talking about climate change for years. It’s now time to act, boldly. Taking climate-friendly steps...
Featuring a conversation with Angela M. Chalk, Executive Director, Health Community Services, Past President Louisiana, Public Health Association, Mariah Norwood, Infectious Disease American Indian Liaison, Minnesota Department of Health, and Jaylan Jacobs, Co-President, Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team...
Featuring a conversation with Josh Craft, Government Relations Representative, Utah Clean Energy and Sarah Wright, Executive Director, Utah Clean Energy.
Are you concerned about climate change and want to bring about solutions, but unsure of how to move forward in a conservative community? Hear from Utah leaders...
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder & CEO, Dayenu, Connie Burns, LPC, Sacred Paths Counseling, and James L Fleming, MD, Chair, Caucus on Climate Change and Mental Health, American Psychiatric Association.
Climate change is already impacting the mental health of communities nationwide...
Vanessa Hauc, Senior Correspondent, Noticiero Telemundo
Jamie Margolin, Founder, Zero Hour
Hoy mas que nunca personas de todas las edades, los países y generaciones están actuando y abogando por la protección de nuestro planeta...
Featuring a conversation with Michelle Mabson, Staff Scientist, Healthy Communities Program, Earthjustice.
Our health and our families' health motivate us to act on ambitious and equitable climate solutions. Health is also at the root of climate justice...
ecoAmerica’s latest survey finds that 84% of Americans believe climate change harms some people more than others — but some do not yet recognize that as a justice issue. Harm to the environment and nature motivates Americans to act more than harm to communities of color and low-income communities...
Featuring a conversation with Deeohn Ferris, President, Institute for Sustainable Communities.
The Environmental Justice movement is said to have begun in 1982 when African American communities in NC protested the state's decision to move truckloads of toxic...
Featuring a conversation with The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Stewardship of Creation, The Episcopal Church and Theo Brown, Director of Faith Based Programs, National Institute for Civil Discourse.
We need to work together on climate solutions, but we often don't know how to bridge the divide...
Features a conversation with Ruth Ivory-Moore, Program Director, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Kate Meis Wright, Executive Director, Local Government Commission, and Arthur C. Evans, Jr., PhD, CEO, American Psychological Association...
Featuring a conversation with Cheryl Holder, MD, FACP, Co-Chair, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action and Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, Dean and Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Rear Admiral (retired), US Public Health Service...
Featuring a conversation with Rob Moher, President and CEO, Conservancy of Southwest Florida and Dr. Ana Puszkin-Chevlin, Regional Director, Growing Climate Solutions.
As 2021 begins, America's communities are challenged by a pandemic, economic recovery, and an urgent need...
Biden & Trump Voters Alike Want New Administration to Prioritize Climate Solutions, features a conversation with report coauthor Nicole Hill.
Tune in as we share findings from our new research, fielded post-election. Learn the latest American perspectives on climate change, including on climate concern...
The Climate for Health Ambassadors Program trains and supports health professionals in their climate action and advocacy. In this episode, we chat with Dr. Neelu Tummala, an ear, nose, and throat...
Featuring a conversation with Linda Rudolph MD, MPH, Senior Advisor on Climate, Health and Equity, Public Health Institute and Adrienne Hollis PhD, JD, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists.
Earlier this year, polling found that climate change was second only to healthcare issues...
Featuring a conversation with Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director of Climate Resolve.
Los Angeles is challenged with record heat and wildfire activity. The city has had some success with mitigation of...
Featuring a conversation with Hon. Ralph Becker, 34th Mayor, Salt Lake City and Hon. Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor-President, Baton Rouge, LA, MRCTI Co-Chair.
Communities are dealing with the reality of climate impacts and the urgency for action is increasing...
Featuring a conversation with Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder & CEO at Dayenu and Rev. Brooks Berndt, Minister of Environmental Justice, United Church of Christ.
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at the March on Washington, he described...
Featuring a conversation with John Auerbach, President & CEO, Trust for America’s Health and Delegate Robbyn Lewis, District 46, Baltimore City, Maryland House of Delegates.
For decades, public health professionals have advocated for...
Featuring a conversation with Hon. Kevin Burns, Mayor, Geneva, IL and Hon. Hattie Portis-Jones, Councilwoman, City of Fairburn.
Cities, as providers of essential government services closest to residents, are leading during the COVID crisis and the climate crisis. We will hear from city leaders...
Features a conversation with Rev. Michael Malcom, MDiv MBA, Founder & Executive Director, The People’s Justice Council and Lindsay Harper, National Core Support Team Coordinator, Arm in Arm.
People of faith are called to do justice in the world. It is our moral responsibility...
Features a conversation with Sarita Turner, Vice President for US Programs, Institute for Sustainable Communities, and Domingo Garcia, National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens and former Texas State Representative.
Communities of color...
Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Vice President at the Metropolitan Group and environmental justice advocate, in conversation with former Climate for Health Director, Rebecca Rehr.
The conversation covers a number of topics...
Features a conversation with Richard Louv, Author, Last Child in the Woods, Lisa Renstrom, Former Sierra Club President, and Lise Van Susteren, MD, American Psychiatrist and author of Emotional Inflammation.
The psychological impacts of our compounding crises...
Bruce Bekkar, Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Climate Activist
Santosh Pandipati, Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and MFM Director at a local hospital in San Jose, CA
Nsedu Witherspoon, Executive Director of the Children's Environmental Health Network
Climate change has motivated action...
