Climate Changemakers

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we're centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

Kate Levy - Episode 6

Kate Levy is Detroit and NYC-based filmmaker who has produced films, storytelling platforms, and multimedia installations about water, education, immigration rights, police violence and environmental racism. Her feature, Whose Water?: The People's Movement for Safe, Affordable Water and Sanitation in the United States, was released in Fall 2022.

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

➡️ Website: https://www.ElevateNP.org

About Elevate: We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we're centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

AirGo - Episode 5

Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger are the co-hosts of AirGo, a weekly podcast and cultural media hub in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond. They are currently working on producing Help this Garden Grow, a podcast documentary about Hazel Johnson, the “mother of the environmental justice movement.” 

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

➡️ Website: https://www.ElevateNP.org

About Elevate: We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we're centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

Resita Cox - Episode 4

Resita Cox is a director whose documentaries center on Southern, Black communities and use them as a lens to examine topics ranging from environmental justice to racial justice. She is the director of Freedom Hill, a documentary about the environmental racism that is washing away the first town chartered by Black people in the nation, with which she was named a 2021 Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator Fellow.

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

➡️ Website: https://www.ElevateNP.org

About Elevate: We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we're centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

Judy Natal - Episode 3

Judy Natal is a Chicago-based artist, author, and Professor Emeritus of Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Her recent project, The Weather Diaries, is a body of work based on the 33 video interviews Judy conducted in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Hawai'i, with a particular focus on Traditional Indigenous practices (TEK). It has turned into a book project accompanied by an immersive exhibition with sonic, craft, still photography, video, archival materials, and story components.

https://www.judynatal.com/

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

➡️ Subscribe: Elevate

➡️ Website: https://www.ElevateNP.org

About Elevate: We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we’re centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

Candace Hunter is a self-sustaining visual artist residing in Chicago and calling the world home. Her touring solo show, DUST IN THEIR VEINS: A Visual Response to the Global Water Crisis, illustrates the plight of women and children who are confined by water woes. See more of Candace's work: https://chleeart.com/2019/01/22/dust-...

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

About Elevate:

We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most.

Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series highlighting leaders in equity work and climate action. For season three, we’re centering artists and creators producing content about the environment and climate crisis in innovative ways. By passing the mic to them, we can together explore how to expand this important conversation through art and media, bringing in people who might not otherwise have participated.

UZMA NOORMOHAMED – EPISODE 1

Uzma Noormohamed is the Program Director at the Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation in Chicago. Uzma has over a decade of experience working on climate and energy issues and is most recently proud of leading E(art)H Chicago, a grant program supporting the use of art and stories to stimulate community engagement on climate change, natural resource use, and environmental justice in Chicago neighborhoods.

This episode was recorded in the "Elevate Cafe" at our Green Street headquarters in Chicago.

Website: https://www.ElevateNP.org

About Elevate: We design and implement programs that reduce costs, protect people and the environment, and ensure the benefits of clean and efficient energy use reach those who need them most. Elevate seeks to create a world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water in their homes and communities — no matter who they are or where they live. Making the benefits and services of the clean energy economy accessible to everyone is how we fight climate change while supporting equity.

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.

On the final episode of Season 2, the guys head to the Bronx to talk with Diana Hernández. A professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Diana digs into her process of moving from advocating solutions to building deeper understanding of the problem, how her childhood in the South Bronx built her understandings of health and community, the complexities of fighting for quality housing for all, and much more. Plus, a cameo from her six month-old daughter!

SHOW NOTES

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51537.Amazing_Grace

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Jonathan Kozol - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20809880.html

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.

On Episode 5, Dame and Kiss head east to talk Detroit with the inimitable Monica Lewis-Patrick. Known as the "Water Warrior," Monica is the cofounder of We The People Detroit, a community-based grassroots organization aiming to inform, educate, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights, land, water, education, and the democratic process. She talks about the links between water access and austerity, the gender-based violence of water shutoffs, the regional coalition of water organizing across the Great Lakes, how her mother called her to action, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Support We The People Detroit - https://www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com

Gloria House - https://snccdigital.org/people/gloria-house/

Rev. Dr. JoAnne Watson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_Watson

ALEC - https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Charity Hicks - https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commoner/remembering-charity-hicks

Prof. Gwen Winston - https://anchor.fm/onesongplaylist/episodes/Monica-Lewis-Patrick--Gwen-Winston-Motown-Matriarchs-Part-1-e10jmdk

We the Youth Detroit - https://www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com/youth-leaders

The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274

Water Shutoffs During COVID-19 and Black Lives: Case Study Detroit -https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0064#.YPwWWm4u4S8.facebook

Clean Water and Reproductive Justice - https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/repro/clean-water-and-reproductive-justice.pdf

Water insecurity and psychosocial distress: case study of the Detroit water shutoffs - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32930795/

Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.

On this episode, the guys are joined by Neil Whitegull. Neil is the Executive Director of the Ho-Chunk Housing and Community Development Agency, a nonprofit organization on Ho-Chunk sovereign land in Wisconsin. He breaks down the history of trust responsibilities between the federal government and indigenous people, the contradictions and opportunities of federal funding, Ho-Chunk stories that go back three ice ages, the film Ice Age, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Learn more about the HHCDA: https://hhcda.com/

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Climate Changemakers is back for Season 2! And this year, hosts Damon and Kiss are reaching beyond Illinois and talking with environmental justice movement workers from across the land about what ideas guide their work, which strategies have been effective, and what advice they have for Elevate as the organization works to put people and the planet first in the fight to build equity through climate action.

On this episode, the guys chat with Leanna Petrone, who is the Executive Director of Portland, Oregon based organization Latino Built. She breaks down how the organization provides support to Latino contractors and construction business owners, how she works to break cycles for her people, and the specifics of white supremacy in the Pacific Northwest.

SHOW NOTES

Learn more about Latino Built: https://latinobuilt.org/

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