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Uptown Chats
By Jaron Burke, Lonnie Portis, WE ACT for Environmental JusticeSociety & CultureBusinessEducationNon-Profit
Uptown Chats episodes
- Uptown Chats Book Club: Powerless (Part 1)
Energy insecurity is real! Join Jaron and Lonnie for their first Uptown Chats Book Club featuring a discussion with Dr. Diana Hernandez about her new book, Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy. No reading required!
Note: This is a two-part episode. Stay tuned for the rest of the interview in our next episode!
Check out this Uptown Chats Book Club read: Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy
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40 min - Renewable Energy of the Future
Welcome to the future! Join Jaron and Lonnie to learn about some emerging renewable energy technologies ranging from totally plausible to way out there with help from Jama Joseph, WE ACT's Communications Associate. Be warned - this one may get a little silly!
DISCLAIMER: This episode is for entertainment and educational purposes only. WE ACT does not endorse any of the technologies discussed in this episode. Discussion of investments in any of the aforementioned technologies is fictitious and does not reflect any investments of real monies by WE ACT or any affiliated parties.
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37 min - Right Direction Reflection
That’s a wrap! Join Jaron and Lonnie as they reflect on lessons from their Right Direction mini-series and share some of their highlights.
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27 min - Geothermal Energy and Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
This episode is a TEN out of TEN! Join Jaron and Lonnie to learn about geothermal energy and thermal energy networks, also known as TENs, with help from Jon Furlong, Clean Buildings Campaign Manager at New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV).
Extra Resources:
- Overview of Thermal Energy Networks (TENs)
- Examples of Thermal Energy Networks
- Geothermal Energy Basics
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33 min - Wind Energy
Are you a big fan of wind energy? Join Jaron and Lonnie to learn more about the growing offshore wind industry in New York and the workforce development that is needed to support it with help from the City University of New York’s Offshore Wind Advisory Network. Special guests include Robert Zandi (Kingsborough Community College) and Alexander Seki (LaGuardia Community College).
Extra Resources:
- Learn about the offshore wind industry in New York through CUNY’s Bridges to Offshore Wind program.
- Career Skills & Workforce Training at LaGuardia Community College
- Offshore Wind 101
- Renewable Energy Generation in the U.S. (2023)
Wind Energy in the News:
- In Reversal, Trump Officials Will Allow Huge Offshore N.Y. Wind Farm to Proceed
- Governor Hochul Announces Executed Contracts for 26 Large-Scale, Land-Based Renewable Energy Projects
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33 min - Heat Pumps
Pump it up! In this episode, Lonnie and Jaron are joined by Jordan Bonomo from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to talk about how they have been piloting heat pumps in their buildings to reduce their energy usage and improve the comfort of their residents.
Extra Resources:
- Heat Pump 101
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37 min - Solar Energy
Solar energy is everywhere! Join Jaron and Lonnie to learn about how New York State is using the power of the sun to help meet its climate goals with help from Stephan Roundtree, Deputy Program Director for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic at Vote Solar.
Extra Resources:
- Learn more about Vote Solar!
- Check out the Manhattan Clean Energy Hub!
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35 min - Just Transition
Lonnie and Jaron are kicking off their Right Direction mini-series by exploring what it means to promote a just energy transition with special guest Shalanda Baker, Vice Provost for Sustainability & Climate Action at the University of Michigan, and former Director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the Department of Energy.
Resources:
- Just Transition: History, Principles, and Examples
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31 min - Announcing Right Direction Mini-Series
Starting on April 14th, Jaron and Lonnie will be launching a new mini-series where they’ll be joined by some incredible guests to take a look at technologies, like solar, wind, geothermal, and heat pumps that can help support environmental justice. They will also talk about what’s going on with these technologies here in the United States and how the ever-changing political landscape impacts our ability to bring them to our communities. Sound interesting? Stay tuned to learn more!
3 min - PFAS
PFAS - only four letters, but it includes 15,000 chemicals that are found in products we use every day. Join Jaron and Lonnie to learn more about what New York and other states are doing to ban these chemicals with help from Kate Donovan, Director of Northeast Environmental Health at NRDC.
Extra Resources:
- Visit pfasfreeny.org to learn more about the PFAS-Free NY campaign.
- Check out PFAS Free NY on Instagram @pfasfreeny
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About Uptown Chats
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Join Jaron and Lonnie as they explore issues in their community through the eyes of everyday people, and discuss how environmental justice is showing up in the news. It’s not just for experts, it's for everyone!
The podcast is officially 1 year old! Now that we're older and wiser, we're releasing episodes twice each month - on the second and last Monday of each month.
Uptown Chats is the official podcast of WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WE ACT was founded in 1988 and has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. You can find us online at weact.org.