Climate Check: Stories and Solutions 350Brooklyn

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 campaigns to stop fossil fuel projects in New York and advancing clean water protections. His work includes organizing in New York City and the Hudson Valley, including stopping fracked gas infrastructure like the Danskammer and Gowanus powerplants and keeping radioactive waste out of the Hudson River. Prior to Food & Water Watch, Santosh was a union organizer at SEIU and graduated from Gettysburg College with a BA in Philosophy.

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Find more information about Food & Water Watch here: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/who-we-are/
Urge Governor Hochul and state legislators to oppose the Project Maple: https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/act/stop-project-maple 
Tell Gov Hochul and the DEC to reject the Iroquois Pipeline Expansion: https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/act/stop-iroquois-pipeline-expansion-project 
Food and Water Watch can also be found on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodandwaterwatch/

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 buying a home that was leased to a gas company, that she became directly involved in climate and energy advocacy. Since then, Lisa has been at the forefront of advocacy for building energy efficiency and heat pump adoption policy at the state level where she advocated effectively for bringing affordable, equitable building electrification to scale through education and outreach, messaging, lobbying, and building grassroots pressure on elected officials and state agencies.

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Take Action with Renewable Heat Now - ⁠https://linktr.ee/renewableheatnow
Renewable Heat Now - https://renewableheatnow.org/
Informative Video on NY HEAT ACT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXxDXfsewA 
NYSERDA’s Regional Clean Energy Hubs: https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Regional-Clean-Energy-Hubs

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 hard for people to ignore toddlers protesting outside their homes!



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Climate Families NYC - ⁠https://www.climatefamiliesnyc.org/
Instagram - @ClimateFamsNYC
March to End Fossil Fuels -
https://www.endfossilfuels.us/

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 & Climate Initiative and in her capacity as artistic director, has spearheaded local and global initiatives for over a decade, getting the theater and educational communities, as well as audiences in the U.S. and abroad, to engage in climate action through programming that includes live events, talks, publications, workshops, artists convenings, and a worldwide distributed theater festival. She is working on a series of eight plays that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight Arctic states. In 2019, she was named one of “8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine.

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,

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 environmental justice to carbon capture of forests to subsidies for the petro industry.



https://www.endfossilfuels.us/

event website