Video Tag Local

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...

You Can Do This: Replicable Models for Local Climate Action w/ ACE

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...

Nurses Leading on Climate Locally

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...

Climate Action is Where You Are

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...

Tree by Tree: Community + Climate Solutions

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...

How to Tackle Climate Change with Better Food Systems

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...

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...

Climate Politics in Your Community: Make it Local

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...

Moving Your Community to Climate Action

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...

Communities, Climate, Equity and Policy

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...