Many thanks to everyone who spoke with me for this project. I feel incredibly grateful for the opportunity this piece gave me to connect with and learn from people whose work I deeply admire and am inspired by. Explore below to learn more about each of their work, stories, how you can get involved, and to read excerpts from our interviews that didn’t make it into the piece [coming soon]. Or for more information about the piece, click here.
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Deema Assaf
Urban Rewilding
Videos:
The World Around: Rewilding the World
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Pamela Elizarraráz Acitores
Documentary Photographer and Explorer
focused on climate justice and gender equalityPamela EA
Climate Words, co-founder
Latinas for Climate, co-founder -
Anna Gilmore
Stream & Wetland Restoration Ecologist
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Mary Hostetter
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Namra Khalid
Karachi Cartography, founder & director
Video:
The World Around: Young Climate Prize - Namra KhalidArticles by Namra Khalid:
Karachi Flooding and the Infrastructural Mayhem
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Alice Kilduff
California Electrical Grid
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Byron Kominek
Agrovoltaics
Jack’s Solar Garden, owner & manager
Colorado Agrovoltaic Learning Center, executive director -
Etta Madete Mukuba
Architect, Affordable Sustainable Housing
Zima Homes, co-founder & director
BuildX Sudio, affordable housing leadVideo:
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Janneke Petersen
Symbiotic Schoolyard
Youth Ecology Education through Restoration (YEER)Video:
YEER ProgramMany thanks also to Janneke’s team of middle school ecosystem restorers whose voices you can hear in the final movement of the piece.
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Emily Quinn
Sustainable Biomaterials
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Marilita Quintana Molina
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Jared Sanchez
Bicycle, Sustainable Transportation, and Climate/Environmental Justice Policy
California Bicycle Coalition (Calbike), policy director
Articles:
Complete Streets
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Bren Smith
Regenerative Ocean Farmer
Greenwave, co-executive director & co-founder
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Judy St. Leger
Solar Shepherd, Regenerative Farmer,
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Gina Talt
Sustainable Composting Research at Princeton
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Anonymous
Doctor, Guerrilla Ecosystem Restorer
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The World Around
The World Around
Young Climate PrizeThank you to The World Around for connecting me with Deema, Aziba, Pamela, Namra, Etta, and Marilita and for introducing me to so much amazing climate work happening around the world.