Elizabeth Sawin

15 Questions with Tori Tsui

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Tori Tsui, a UK-based climate activist, speaker, and author, can claim an impressive career centered around climate justice, policy, action, and organizing. In this video, Tori answers a series of questions about her career, the ways that climate anxiety and environmental injustice are related, and the importance of intersectionality in the larger environmental movement.

Citizen Engagement & Mounting a Proper Government Response to the Climate Crisis

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Environmental journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald interviews Melissa Hoffer, the first ever Climate Chief for the state of Massachusetts. Rachel and Melissa discuss the role of government in changing the energy landscape, from relying on fossil fuels to widespread adoption of renewable sources and how to overcome the status quo championed by powerful corporations and national interests.

Community- and Justice-Centered Climate Action with Johanna Bozuwa

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Journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald interviews Johanna Bozuwa, Executive Director at the Climate and Community Project, where she directs a network of researchers and experts to develop crucial and justice-based climate policy. Rachel and Johanna discuss community-based projects, policies aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation, and the political requirements of an equitable energy transition.

Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution

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Almost everything we’re doing to cause climate change involves technology. So, predictably, we’re looking to alternative technologies to solve what is arguably the biggest dilemma humanity has ever created for itself. What if more technology will actually worsen the problem in the long run? In this article we will see why trees, soil, and biodiversity are our real lifelines.

The Addiction Afflicting Billions—A Conversation with Chellis Glendinning on Ecopsychology and Addiction Recovery

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Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow and author Richard Heinberg interviews Chellis Glendinning, activist, social critic, and author of My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization, as well as eight other books. Chellis shares with Richard what we can learn from events in our planet’s history – particularly the rapid global temperature increase of about 7ºC roughly 56 million years ago – to better understand and prepare for a rapidly unraveling climate system.

Getting Off the Sidelines: Climate Activism and Civil Disobedience with Peter Kalmus

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Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus sits for an interview with Post Carbon Institute’s program director, Rob Dietz. Peter covers how his scientific understanding has changed his life, explores the difference between climate anxiety and climate grief, discusses the ins and outs of civil disobedience and getting arrested, and describes a hopeful pathway for responding to the climate emergency.