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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

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 Episode 5, Dame and Kiss head east to talk Detroit with the inimitable Monica Lewis-Patrick. Known as the "Water Warrior," Monica is the cofounder of We The People Detroit, a community-based grassroots organization aiming to inform, educate, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights, land, water, education, and the democratic process. She talks about the links between water access and austerity, the gender-based violence of water shutoffs, the regional coalition of water organizing across the Great Lakes, how her mother called her to action, and much more. SHOW NOTES Support We The People Detroit - https://www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com Gloria House - https://snccdigital.org/people/gloria-house/ Rev. Dr. JoAnne Watson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_Watson ALEC - https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed Charity Hicks - https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/commoner/remembering-charity-hicks Prof. Gwen Winston - https://anchor.fm/onesongplaylist/episodes/Monica-Lewis-Patrick--Gwen-Winston-Motown-Matriarchs-Part-1-e10jmdk We the Youth Detroit - https://www.wethepeopleofdetroit.com/youth-leaders The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water - https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274 Water Shutoffs During COVID-19 and Black Lives: Case Study Detroit -https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0064#.YPwWWm4u4S8.facebook Clean Water and Reproductive Justice - https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/repro/clean-water-and-reproductive-justice.pdf Water insecurity and psychosocial distress: case study of the Detroit water shutoffs - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32930795/

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 this episode, the guys are joined by Neil Whitegull. Neil is the Executive Director of the Ho-Chunk Housing and Community Development Agency, a nonprofit organization on Ho-Chunk sovereign land in Wisconsin. He breaks down the history of trust responsibilities between the federal government and indigenous people, the contradictions and opportunities of federal funding, Ho-Chunk stories that go back three ice ages, the film Ice Age, and much more. SHOW NOTES Learn more about the HHCDA: https://hhcda.com/ Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clim…rs/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

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 this episode, the guys chat with Leanna Petrone, who is the Executive Director of Portland, Oregon based organization Latino Built. She breaks down how the organization provides support to Latino contractors and construction business owners, how she works to break cycles for her people, and the specifics of white supremacy in the Pacific Northwest. SHOW NOTES Learn more about Latino Built: https://latinobuilt.org/ Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clim…rs/id1503392646 Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

On this episode, Damon and Daniel have the honor of talking with two of the leading voices in the fight to save the lives and communities of Centreville, Illinois, a community that has been living in raw sewage for decades. Nicole Nelson is an attorney with Equity Legal Services, where she litigates on behalf of and works with Centreville residents, and Valerie Marion is a lifelong Centreville resident who is one of the founders of Centreville Citizens for Change, a community group that provides bottled water and other resources to their neighbors. The duo talks about how their town was structurally neglected, the physical and emotional toll of the struggle for justice, and what you can do to support. SHOW NOTES Donate to the Home Repair Community Fund - https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/centreville-citizens-for-change-home-repair-community-fund Learn more and dive deeper into the fight - https://floodedandforgotten.com/

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. The season kicks off with Marnese Jackson, an advocate, organizer and mother from Pontiac, Michigan whose work lives at every scale from the personal to the global. She is a member of Michigan's State Climate Solutions Board, on the leadership team of the Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition, and a facilitator of BIPOC leadership programs in the climate justice movement. She talks about getting white folks to be self-reflective, bringing together multiracial coalition, and much more! Subscribe to, rate, and review Climate Changemakers on your podcast app: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-changemakers/id1503392646

We're very excited to announce that Climate Changemakers is returning for Season 2, and this year we're going cross-country! To get the podcast juices flowing, we've compiled our Season 1 guests' responses to the question "What should Elevate and its peers be doing differently to move the work forward?," and are sharing their reflections with you today! Stay tuned for a new episode every month featuring a conversation with an Environmental Justice worker from across the U.S. who is leading the fight against climate change and environmental racism, and make sure to rate and review Climate Changemakers!

On this eighth and final episode of Climate Changemakers, Dame and Daniel are joined by Olga Bautista of the Chicago Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke. In response to decades of pollution and environmental destruction by industry in her home neighborhood on the Southeast side of the city, Olga banded together with other community members to fight for environmental protections from and cleanup of Petcoke, a toxic byproduct of oil refinement that was poisoning the air she and her family were breathing. The coalition successfully fought the Koch brothers, who were forced to dispose of the petcoke in a less destructive manner. She talks about the devastation of industrial pollution, learning to collect the necessary data herself, the unique challenges of having a set at the redevelopment table during a pandemic, and much more. SHOW NOTES Exit Zero - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24898568-exit-zero COPD - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/copd/symptoms-causes/syc-20353679 NRDC - https://www.nrdc.org/ Nancy Loeb - https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/NancyLoeb/ Invest South/West - https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/invest_sw/home.html Great Cities Institute - https://greatcities.uic.edu Poor People's Campaign - https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

On the penultimate episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel talk with artist, community builder, and Chicago gem Tonika Lewis Johnson. A lifelong Englewood resident, she helped co-found the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E), whose mission is to “mobilize people and resources to force positive change in Englewood through solution-based approaches." She is also a lead co-founder of the Englewood Arts Collective, established in 2017 to help artistically “reframe the narrative” of Englewood. Her Folded Map Project, which brings together "map twins" from opposite sides of the city, has been widely acclaimed as both an artistic project and a flashpoint in the fight against structural racism. She talks about the ways that the project has evolved, what she's learned from it about our collective relationships to land, what she imagines in the demolished spaces across her neighborhood, and much more. SHOW NOTES Cooked Survival by Zip Code - https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/cooked-survival-by-zip-code/ Open Lands Tree Stewardship project - https://www.openlands.org/trees/ Go Green on Racine - https://gogreenonracine.com/ Folded Map Action Kit - https://www.foldedmapproject.com/submit

Climate Changemakers is back, baby! AirGo returns to partner with Elevate for another three conversations with some of Illinois' most impactful environmental justice and sustainability movement workers, showcasing their work and sharing what lessons they've learned. This episode is with Ramon Etc. aka Radius, the cofounder of the Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid network that sets up community-run, free-food fridges across the city of Chicago. He talks about how the network emerged, his relationship with food, and how we can build a more embodied and sustainable relationship to our food system. SHOW NOTES: Check out Ramon's music - SEEN (Etc Records/ARR sound) https://radiusetc.bandcamp.com/album/seen Sense x Radius (Etc Records) https://senseradius.bandcamp.com/album/the-live-archive-2-era-of-the-tec Partner Organizations - eric aka manny is on the team and runs flatlands press https://www.instagram.com/flatlands_press/ lisa armstrong is a head/og designer https://www.instagram.com/lisastrongarms/ charlotte cohen is main web related designer/etc https://www.instagram.com/charlottecohen/ Feed The Crib/Del dia chicago https://www.instagram.com/feedthecrib/ https://www.instagram.com/deldiachicago/ Grocery Run Club https://www.instagram.com/groceryrunclub/ grow greater englewood https://www.instagram.com/growgreaterenglewood/ bronzville kenwood mutual aid https://www.instagram.com/bk_mutualaid/ stephanie dunn/starfarm https://www.instagram.com/stephaniedunn8318/ Gotham Greens https://www.instagram.com/gothamgreens/ Urban Growers Collective https://www.instagram.com/urbangrowerscollective/ Thankful For Chicago https://www.instagram.com/thankfulforchicago/ Chef Chanell https://www.instagram.com/chefchanell/ Back to school boxes https://www.instagram.com/backtoschoolboxes/ Bobcat eats https://www.instagram.com/bobcateatsfoodwasteprogram/ kitchfix https://www.instagram.com/kitchfix/ Moms Chicago https://www.instagram.com/momschicago/

On this final episode of Climate Changemakers, Damon and Daniel are joined by Lissette Castañeda. A lifelong Logan Square resident, Lissette is the Interim Executive Director of LUCHA, an organization working to advance housing as a human right by empowering communities– particularly the Latino and Spanish-speaking populations–through advocacy, affordable housing development, and community building. She talks about the ways in which her work is connected to the Puerto Rican diaspora, how COVID is impacting the fight for housing as a human right, and much more.

Climate Changemakers is a 5-part podcast series, showcasing and celebrating leaders in equity work and climate action across Illinois, presented in celebration of the 20th anniversary of nonprofit organization Elevate Energy. This month's Climate Changemaker is Patricia Abrams. Pat is the Executive Director of the Renaissance Collaborative, a social impact organization that has provided affordable housing, workforce development, employment, and educational services and solutions to over 1,000 individuals annually in Bronzeville and its adjacent communities for the past 27 years. She talks about how environmental sustainability became an important piece of her work, the transformation of the historic Wabash YMCA that houses the organization's office and housing, and how we can move forward in a more human direction. Learn more about the organization: https://www.trcwabash.org/about-us.html Learn about Elevate Energy and their 20th anniversary: www.elevateenergy.org/ Learn more about podcast hosts Damon and Daniel: http://airgoradio.com