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18 Dec

December 2025: Climate Resilience and Compost: North Brooklyn Mutual Aid

Our host, Audrey, is joined by Erika Jozwiak and Katie Zwick — two incredible administrative members of North Brooklyn Mutual Aid. 💛 North Brooklyn Mutual Aid is a fully volunteer-run collective built on one powerful idea: neighbors helping neighbors. The group first came together during the pandemic, focusing on getting food and medical supplies to […]

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1 Oct

September 2025: The Climate Science Behind Extreme Weather

Our host Eva is joined by Dr. Anton Seimon, climate scientist. From a home base in the Hudson Valley, Anton leads research programs on diverse themes in the atmospheric and environmental sciences. Current projects include classifying a new type of windstorm and developing warning systems for it, monitoring climate change impacts in alpine watersheds of […]

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18 Jun

June 2025: Planting Hope in Coney Island

Our host Eva is joined by Abby Jordan, Climate Education Program Manager at the National Wildlife Federation. Abby Jordan is a Brooklyn native, the daughter of immigrants from El Salvador who settled in Brighton Beach. She was an Environmental Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Climate School, where she earned her Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science […]

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20 May

May 2025: Talking Trash with the Sanitation Foundation

Brynn is joined by Julie Raskin, Executive Director of the Sanitation Foundation, the official nonprofit partner of New York City’s Department of Sanitation. We all touch trash every day, but do you know what happens after you put it in the bin? Julie explains how our waste is actually full of valuable resources that can […]

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15 Apr

April 2025: Winning the Fight for Sustainable Transportation

Audrey is joined by Jaqi Cohen, Director of Climate and equity Policy at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. TSTC advocates for increased mobility in the greater NYC region. Its priorities are expanding public transit, creating safer streets, transitioning away from fossil fuels, and fighting for equitable funding of transportation projects. Their approach is talking to communities […]

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18 Mar

March 2025: NY Renews’ Call to Legislature to Fund Climate

Our host Eva is joined by Rachel Coyle, Coalition Organizing Fellow at NY Renews. Rachel is a climate advocate and activist based in NYC. She holds a bachelor's degree from Fordham University and, prior to joining NY Renews has worked as a sustainability consultant supporting businesses with carbon accounting and decarbonization efforts and as a […]

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26 Feb

February 2025: Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School

Our host Eva is joined by Michael Burger, Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-at-Law at Columbia Law School. He is a co-author of Urban Climate Law (Columbia U Press, 2023), and an editor or co-editor of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA Publishing, 2023); Combating Climate Change […]

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17 Dec

December 2024: Renewable CUNY

Eva is joined by Nancy Romer of the Professional Staff Congress, the 30,000 member labor union of faculty and staff of the City University of New York. She chairs its Environmental Justice Working Group that is leading the effort to cut fossil fuel use at the 25 campuses of CUNY. Key to their efforts is […]

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19 Nov

November 2024: Plant Based Treaty

Our host Eva is joined by Kimmy Cushman of Plant Based Treaty. Kimmy Cushman is a scientific advisor and campaigner at Plant Based Treaty, a global grassroots organization working to bring the food system to the forefront of climate change policy. While studying physics at Yale University, Kimmy became an organizer for the graduate student […]

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29 Oct

October 2024: FABSCRAP: A Call for Fashion Industry Reduction

Audrey Stanton is joined by Jessica Schreiber of FABSCRAP. Jessica explains how her established nonprofit collects and recycles the unending stream of fabric waste generated by the fashion design industry. Textiles experience the typical issues of any kind of waste, but have unique sources and solutions that FABSCRAP has pioneered. The organization utilizes a crew […]

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24 Sep

September 2024: The Climate Change Prophet

Our host Eva is joined by Sameer Ranade, the ‘The Climate Change Prophet.’ Sameer is a climate justice activist and spoken word rhyme artist who believes social progress can be made through art, education, organizing, & inclusivity. Sameer has dedicated his career and artistic endeavors to the cause of social justice and climate protection. Instagram: […]

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25 Jun

June 2024: Covering Climate Change in the Changing Media

Guest host Brynn Fuller-Becker is joined by Andrew C Revkin of the Sustain What webcast and revkin.substack.com newsletter. Andy discusses his 41 year career as a journalist covering environmental stories, including climate change. In that period he has lived the news media’s transformation from a few institutional giants to numerous smaller outlets. Andy articulates his […]

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21 May

May 2024: Swimming Against the Plastic Pollution Tide

Eva is joined by Lynn Neuman of Artichoke Dance Company to preview a plastic-free summer. Four events in May and June 2024, highlighted by the Mermaid Parade, kick off the summer. In July individuals are asked to join a global pledge to reduce plastic use in their daily lives. Learn what actions you can take […]

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16 Apr

Apr 2024: Stopping Pipeline Expansion in New York

On today's episode, we're discussing Enbridge's proposal to expand the Algonquin Pipeline, also known as Project Maple. Our guest is Santosh Nandabalan.  Santosh Nandabalan is a Senior Organizer at Food & Water Watch. Alongside working on state and federal legislation to tackle climate change, Santosh has years of experience managing coalitions and building out strategic […]

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19 Mar

Mar 2024: All about the NY HEAT Act

On today’s episode, we’re discussing the New York Heat Act. Our guest is Lisa Marshall, Advocacy & Organizing Director of New Yorkers for Clean Power.  Lisa’s long-standing interest in climate change began decades ago when she wrote her first high school research paper on global warming. It wasn’t until moving to NY’s Southern Tier and […]

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20 Feb

Feb 2024: Climate Activism for Families with Young Children

Eva is joined by Liat Olenick, co-founder of Climate Families NYC. Liat explains that young children can understand that climate pollution is bad and they love to solve problems. She describes how the youngest members of our society can participate in actions targeting the adults who can change the course of the climate crisis. It’s […]

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19 Dec

Dec 2023: Engaging with Climate Action through Art

On today’s episode, we’re discussing how art can help deepen our understanding of the impact of climate change and empower us to take collective action. Our guest is Chantal Bilodeau. Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and climate change. She is the founder of the Arts […]

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21 Nov

Nov 2023: Faith Groups and the Climate Movement

Our guest is Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest and the executive director of GreenFaith. GreenFaith is a global multi-faith environmental and climate justice organization.  Fletcher is the author of GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Save the Earth. one letcher Harper,

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24 Oct

Oct 2023: Voices from the Climate Movement: The March to End Fossil Fuels

On September 17th 2023, 75,000 activists converged on New York City for the March to End Fossil Fuels. Eva takes to the streets to capture the concerns and hopes of people from as far as Peruand as close as New Jersey. Their voices range across the spectrum of issues affected by the climate crisis, from […]

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19 Sep

Sept 2023: Teach for Climate Justice

Eva is joined by Tom Roderick author of the new book Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education. Tom discusses his vision for radical transformative climate justice education, currently lacking in our schools. He believes K-12 students need to envision a positive future, determine how they can help, and then get to work […]

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20 Jun

June 2023: Skip the Stuff: No More Plastic Take-Out Waste

In our 19th episode of Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, Raine Manley tells the story of her journey from frustration to activism as she tackles plastic waste here in New York City. The outcome? NYC passed “Skip the Stuff," a law in NYC that requires restaurants and food delivery apps to leave out the single-use […]

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16 May

May 2023: People vs Fossil Fuels

Eva is joined by Molly Morabito of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity. Molly discusses the demands by People vs Fossil Fuels for the Biden Administration to address the climate emergency. With a UN summit on Climate Change taking place in NYC in September, hear what actions you can take further […]

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18 Apr

From Gas to Green: the NY HEAT Act

Most New Yorkers don’t know that they’re footing the bill for expanding the dirty gas infrastructure that runs all across our state. The NY HEAT (the New York Home Energy and Affordable Transition) Act would end this practice along with several others that are allowing New York's utility companies to stay out of step with […]

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4 Apr

Legislation Lightning Round: Dirty Water, E-bikes, and How Bills Get Passed

Today's episode contains more of the conversation between Eva and NYS Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, representative of Greenpoint and parts of Williamsburg. They discuss the Newtown Creek Superfund site, the Water Bill Fairness Act, and the Clean Rebate Program for electric bikes and scooters. Emily also gives us a quick civics 101 on how bills […]

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21 Mar

Greener, Cleaner Construction: The All-Electric Building Act

NYS Assembly Member Emily Gallagher is the sponsor of the All-Electric Building Act, legislation that would require all new buildings to forego fossil fuel heating and cooking systems in favor of electric. NYC passed similar legislation in 2021, but this bill would apply to the entire state. Eva and Emily discuss how this can become […]

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