What can you do in your local community to significantly reduce climate warming emissions? Consider composting! Food waste accounts for emissions equivalent to 42 coal fired power plants...
Nurses are the most trusted profession in the country and see the effects of climate change on their patients' health every day...
Featuring a conversation with John Auerbach, President & CEO, Trust for America’s Health and Delegate Robbyn Lewis, District 46, Baltimore City, Maryland House of Delegates.
For decades, public health professionals have advocated for...
Young people are leading the climate movement. They have the most at stake, but also the greatest vision for what is needed to secure their future. I recently sat down for a talk with Hannah Barg (Climate Program Manager at The Wild Center) and Tahm Loyd (Youth Environmental Activist with Climate Generation) about two initiatives to support youth climate action: The Wild Center’s “Youth Climate Summits” and Climate Generation’s “Teach Climate Network”. Both were finalists in this year’s American Climate Leadership Awards!
Over 60% of Americans have a chronic disease, with 40% having two or more chronic diseases. This is directly related to a diet that is also unsustainable for the environment. Hear from Dr. Ali Saad, board-certified neurologist...
May is National Bike Month, so dust off your favorite pair of wheels and join in! In this episode of Let’s Talk Climate, we talk about the joys of active transportation, helping new riders gain confidence, the equitable infrastructure needed for greater ridership, and the role of bikes in the just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
Community Health Centers are a service and resiliency hub for tens of millions of Americans. During a climate-related disaster — whether that's hurricanes, wildfires, the grid shutting down...
The effects of climate change on health, infrastructure, and communities continue to grow. Local governments are taking action to build new programs and resources that serve their population...
Clinicians and public health workers are in the front lines of the climate crisis, seeing the real impacts on patients and communities. But it can be difficult to engage with others about these facts...
Climate change causes more intense heat waves and in many cities, urban design traps heat disproportionately in communities of color. Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao leads a primer on urban heat impacts, their health effects, and what you can do about…
Featuring Seema Wadhwa, Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship, Kaiser Permanente.
As the impacts of climate change on human health grow and grow, health care systems are taking action. Join us to find out how Kaiser Permanente has become a national climate leader...
Featuring Diana Hamer, Director for Climate and Crisis Preparedness, National Network of Public Health Institutes in conversation with Ben Fulgencio-Turner, Director, Climate for Health.
Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves. As we enter Preparedness Month this September...
Featuring Sergio Rimola, MD FACOG, DC Metro Co-Chair, National Hispanic Medical Association in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica.
It’s summertime and the heat is not just uncomfortable, it’s dangerous...
Featuring Janice Hawkins, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, Clinical Associate Professor, Old Dominion University School of Nursing and Sarah Brown Blake, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, Chico State School of Nursing in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica...
Featuring Cathy Jordan, PhD, Director for Leadership and Education, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica.
Adverse birth outcomes and mental health challenges are two of the most critical...
Featuring Katherine Catalano, MS, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association; Karly Hampshire, Founder and Co-Director, Planetary Health Report Card Initiative; P. Qasimah Boston, DrPH, MPH, Co-Founder, Tallahassee Food Network...
Kip Pastor, Founder + CEO of Pique Action
Skye Flanigan, Program Manager, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE
Science communicators are making original, entertaining, and educational content that’s reshaping the climate narrative and empowering people
Cecilia Sorensen, M.D., Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine...
Featuring a conversation with Marie Studer, PhD, Senior Program Manager, Planetary Health Alliance, and Melody Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduate and 2020 Planetary Health Campus Ambassador.
Just in Q4 of 2021, we saw the launch of the Sao Paulo Declaration on Planetary Health, The...
Featuring a conversation with Santosh Pandipati, MD, Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at O’Connor Hospital and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California San Francisco.
We are seeing the impacts of climate change all around us...
Featuring a conversation with Lisa Patel, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Interim Director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
Featuring a conversation with Dr. Eric Balaban is a young physician undergoing formal training in a Climate and Health Policy Fellowship who is uniquely positioned to comment on the role doctors can and should play in treating climate change, and Sarah McWilliam, a medical student...
Hannah Wilkerson, Program Associate, Children’s Environmental Health Network Children’s Environmental Health Day is the second Thursday of October, and is a great opportunity to amplify climate advocacy.
Featuring a conversation with Linda Mendonca, ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellow 2019-2020 and President of National Association of School Nurses, Andrea Lapuz, ANHE Student Nurse Committee, and active member of National Student Nurses' Association, and Guest Host: Katie Huffling, Executive Director of...
Featuring a conversation with Dr. Elena Craft, Senior Director of Climate and Health. This special episode digs into research from the Environmental Defense Fund that explores the local impacts of air pollution, and the resultant health disparities. Dr. Craft outlines…
Featuring a conversation with Steven Konkel, PhD, MCP, Principal of Konkel and Associates; U.S. Fulbright Professor of Environmental Health & Public Policy and Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Division of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville...
Featuring a conversation with Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate, California Institute of Technology and Freelance Science Writer and Dr. Adriane K. Griffen, Senior Director of Public Health and Leadership, Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD).
In a recent article, Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate...
Learn about the latest tools and resources for climate action! From webinars, to training, guides, action sheets and actions, we will share a breadth of resources for you to use to inspire your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues or fellow congregants.
Featuring a conversation with Tracey Holloway, Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison,
Veronica Butcher, Executive Director, Mothers & Others for Clean Air, and LaTisha Harris, Community Organizer, Mothers Out Front.
Listen to your mother! The age-old saying...
Featuring a conversation with Angela M. Chalk, Executive Director, Health Community Services, Past President Louisiana, Public Health Association, Mariah Norwood, Infectious Disease American Indian Liaison, Minnesota Department of Health, and Jaylan Jacobs, Co-President, Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team...
Featuring a conversation with Michelle Mabson, Staff Scientist, Healthy Communities Program, Earthjustice.
Featuring a conversation with Cheryl Holder, MD, FACP, Co-Chair, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action and Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, Dean and Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Rear Admiral (retired), US Public Health Service...
The Climate for Health Ambassadors Program trains and supports health professionals in their climate action and advocacy. In this episode, we chat with Dr. Neelu Tummala, an ear, nose, and throat...
Featuring a conversation with Linda Rudolph MD, MPH, Senior Advisor on Climate, Health and Equity, Public Health Institute and Adrienne Hollis PhD, JD, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists.
Earlier this year, polling found that climate change was second only to healthcare issues...
Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Vice President at the Metropolitan Group and environmental justice advocate, in conversation with former Climate for Health Director, Rebecca Rehr.
The conversation covers a number of topics...
Bruce Bekkar, Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Climate Activist
Santosh Pandipati, Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and MFM Director at a local hospital in San Jose, CA
Nsedu Witherspoon, Executive Director of the Children's Environmental Health Network
Climate change has motivated action...