Climate Changemakers

Elevate

5.0 (3)
Society & Culture

Climate Changemakers is a podcast series, showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action, presented by Elevate and hosted by AirGo. In season one we highlighted leaders across Illinois, and in season two we will be featuring leaders nationwide!

12/01/2022

Episode 3.6 - Kate Levy

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.

23 min
11/17/2022

Episode 3.5 - AirGo

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.

22 min
11/03/2022

Episode 3.4 - Resita Cox

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.

27 min
10/13/2022

Episode 3.3 - Judy Natal

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.

22 min
09/29/2022

Episode 3.2 - Candace Hunter

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.

29 min
09/15/2022

Episode 3.1 - Uzma Noormohamed

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.

10 min
11/04/2021

Episode 2.6 - Diana Hernández

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

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Climate Changemakers is a podcast series, showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action, presented by Elevate and hosted by AirGo. In season one we highlighted leaders across Illinois, and in season two we will be featuring leaders nationwide!

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Elevate
Years Active

2020 - 2022
Episodes

7
Rating

Clean
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