Climate Check: Stories and Solutions

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Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, is a podcast that brings climate activists and experts together to break down the climate crisis and discuss local strategies and solutions. Climate Check is a part of 350Brooklyn, a grassroots, community organization of ordinary people who come together to fight the fossil fuel industry, promote sustainable energy and green jobs, and work for climate justice. Join host Eva Dean, a Brooklyn-based choreographer, climate activist, and member of 350Brooklyn as she leads discussions that span the climate change spectrum.

  1. 12/17/2025

    Climate Resilience and Compost: North Brooklyn Mutual Aid

    Our host Audrey is joined by Erika Jozwiak and Katie Zwick, admin members of North Brooklyn Mutual Aid. North Brooklyn Mutual Aid is an entirely volunteer-run collective of neighbors helping neighbors and working to create a more equitable neighborhood. Their efforts began with a focus on access to food and medical supplies during the pandemic, partnering with local food pantries and soup kitchens, housing complexes and cooperatives, senior centers, and hospitals. North Brooklyn Mutual Aid WebsiteNorth Brooklyn Mutual Aid Community Initiatives

    32 min

  2. 09/17/2025

    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 the tropical Andes, and mapping surface airflow of high-intensity tornadoes. For the National Center for Atmospheric Research, he serves on the steering committee of the Community Climate Intervention Strategies group, which works to develop interdisciplinary research on climate interventions – technologies to reverse climate change – to achieve a sustainable climate. A National Geographic Explorer and six-time grantee, Anton is active in science education, developing content for the Society’s education, television, print and web media, and also served a juror for the New York WILD Film Festival. And for the graduate program in Environmental Policy at Bard College, he strives to make global climate change understandable in Hudson Valley contexts in his climate science classroom.  Anton’s National Geographic page

    36 min

  3. 06/18/2025

    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 and Policy (MPA-ESP). Abby has extensive field science education and environmental stewardship experience. Having lived through the devastation of Hurricane Sandy when she was 18, Abby is deeply passionate about climate education and coastal resilience. Through volunteering, she started to heal her trauma from the storm, helping build oyster reefs with the Billion Oyster Project, planting beach grass to fortify sand dunes with RiSC, and running emergency preparedness workshops with NYCEM.  She is currently the Climate Education Program Manager at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), helping to run their NYC & NYS climate science education programs for high school and middle school students. Fun Fact: She is an avid open-water swimmer and free diver who loves swimming in the ocean all year. Resilient Schools and Communities (RiSC) Program Climate & Resilience Education Task Force Youth Steering Committee (CRETF YSC)Documentary: "Where It Floods: Planting Hope in Coney Island"

    35 min

  4. 05/20/2025

    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 save energy and money if properly sorted and processed. Educating everyone from toddlers to large businesses about NYC’s climate champions in uniform is the mission of her team. Listen to fascinating anecdotes about truck routing, waste audits, free Yankees tickets, and yes...rats. ●     Sanitation Foundation https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/ ●     DSNY https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/ ●     Trash Academy https://academy.sanitationfoundation.org/ ●     Annual waste characterization https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/resources/statistics/total-annual-collection-diversion.page ●     Youth Education Team https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/youth-education ●     Food Waste Fair https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/fwf ●     Big Spring Clean https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/nyc-big-spring-clean ●     Summer Sports Clean Up https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/upcoming-events/2024-bronx-series-yankee-stadium ●     Adopt Your Spot https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/adopt-your-spot-nyc ●     C is for Compost https://form.jotform.com/243037900359153 ●     Employee Engagement https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/corporate-membership-copy ●     311 complaint line if landlord notcomposting https://portal.311.nyc.gov/sr-step/?id=010817c7-4a2d-f011-9d48-7c1e529c7bcd&stepid=6244a302-8d58-e811-a836-000d3a33b56b ●     Smart Compost Bins https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/collection/residents/food-scrap-drop-off.page ●     Follow Your Waste game https://www.followyourwaste.nyc/

    32 min

  5. 04/15/2025

    Apr 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 to learn about the history of the neighborhood and what its residents’ needs are. Jaqi’s time at TSTC began when the pandemic decimated ridership and is currently in the exciting infancy of congestion pricing, two unprecedented milestones in transit.  ●     TSTC https://tstc.org/ ●     TSTC gala on May 9th, 2025 https://tstc.org/gala2025/ ●     NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign https://www.nypirg.org/straphangers/ ●     New York State Transportation Equity Alliance https://nystea.net/ ●     Congestion Relief Zone https://congestionreliefzone.mta.info/ ●     Cross Bronx Expressway project https://www.crossbronx.info/ ●     Bronx River Alliance https://bronxriver.org/ ●    Transportation Alternatives https://transalt.org/ ●    Riders Alliance https://www.ridersalliance.org/

    28 min

  6. 03/18/2025

    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 community organizer for climate & housing justice issues in Harlem with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. NY Renews website: https://www.nyrenews.org/ NY Renews Mailing List: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-us-to-fight-for-climate-jobs-and-justice NY Renews Fund Climate Campaign: https://www.nyrenews.org/fcc New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Report on Affordability of Cap-and-Invest: https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/analyzing-affordability-supporting-households-under-new-yorks-cap-trade-and-invest-policy/ WE ACT Climate Justice Working Group: https://www.weact.org/home-3-2-2-2/getinvolved/membership/cjwg/

    30 min

  7. 02/26/2025

    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 with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Climate Change, Public Health and the Law (Cambridge U Press, 2018). He is a regent and fellow at the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a member of the Advisory Council at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Advisory Board of Urban Ocean Lab. He is also of counsel at the boutique environmental law firm Sher Edling LLP. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law website: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/ New York City Climate Law Tracker: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/nyc-climate-law-tracker CLCPA Scoping Plan Tracker:  https://climate.law.columbia.edu/Scoping-Plan-Tracker Climate Backtracker:  https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/climate-backtracker Climate Attribution database: https://climateattribution.org/

    33 min

  8. 12/17/2024

    Dec 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 pressuring the New York Power Authority, which is required by the Build Public Renewables Act to generate more of its electricity from renewable sources. The complex interplay of faculty, staff, students, administrators, city and state government, and the utility is capably explained by Nancy, a professor for 42 years.   Links: ●      PSC EJWG https://psc-cuny.org/environmental-justice-committee/ ●      Build Public Renewables Act, highlights https://publicpowerny.org/legislation/ ●      New York Power Authority https://www.nypa.gov/ ●      NYPA strategic plan (draft) https://www.nypa.gov/-/media/nypa/documents/document-library/renewables/NYPA-Renewables-Draft-Strategic-Plan ●      350 Brooklyn’s guide to commenting on NYPA plan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oirScRCVEKeAsE9IxWQ8xOpWWG383QIioj0ZVQmsOPw/edit?tab=t.0 ●      NYPIRG https://www.nypirg.org/ ●      Sunrise https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ ●      TREEage https://www.treeageteam.org/ ●      United Federation of Teachers https://www.uft.org/get-involved/uft-campaigns/carbon-free-and-healthy-schools ●      New York Renews https://alignny.org/campaign/new-york-renews/ ●      Climate Works for All https://www.nyclimateworks.org/ ●      Public Power New York https://publicpowerny.org/

    29 min
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Climate Check: Stories and Solutions, is a podcast that brings climate activists and experts together to break down the climate crisis and discuss local strategies and solutions. Climate Check is a part of 350Brooklyn, a grassroots, community organization of ordinary people who come together to fight the fossil fuel industry, promote sustainable energy and green jobs, and work for climate justice. Join host Eva Dean, a Brooklyn-based choreographer, climate activist, and member of 350Brooklyn as she leads discussions that span the climate change spectrum.

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