Recorded live at DUMBO House for Climate Week NYC, Jamila welcomes back her first ever repeat guest, Christopher Griffin, aka Plant Kween, educator, storyteller and author of You Grow Girl.
Between them they've been to a lot of events this week, and they've pulled out the three conversations they kept hearing everywhere.
Nature as infrastructure, not decoration. Street trees placed where they'll cool treeless neighbourhoods, Staten Island's Bluebelt wetlands soaking up stormwater, beavers stopping floods near Greenford station in London, and the Billion Oyster Project cleaning up the Hudson. Plus a detour into why Mamdani's comms team is the envy of London.
The trust gap. Big corporate pledges for 2030, and not much to show for them right now. Spotify's Nature as an Artist programme, ChatGPT taking influencers beekeeping, and why groups like ClientEarth and Earthjustice might be what finally makes regulation mean something.
Climate comms getting personal. Climate change isn't coming, it's here. So the messages that land now are about the people we love, our health and our money: insurance letters, food prices after a summer of heatwaves, and people ditching polyester for reasons that have nothing to do with the planet.
They finish with small things anyone can do: eat your leftovers, rewear your clothes, eat more plants, and say no to the plastic straw.
","author_name":"Jamila Brown"}