Video Tag Impacts and Solutions

Award Winning Community Climate Leaders

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...

Local Government Taking Climate Action

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...

Urban Heat Islands: A Climate Action Primer

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…

Climate, Crisis Preparedness, and Public Health

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...

The Heat is On

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...

Hot Communities, Cool Projects

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...

Disabilities & Disasters: A Path to More Inclusive Climate Solutions

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...

Nature vs. COVID-19: Security, Love, Restoration

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...

Motherhood in a Changing Climate: Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes

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...