ENCORE: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia on Bringing Joy to Climate Action

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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When individuals want to take action on climate, it’s often in the form of electrifying a home, voting, or maybe even traditional activism. Those are very important, but we often overlook how individual skills and talents can also make a difference. This week we’re highlighting creative forms of climate action. Pattie Gonia is a drag queen, environmentalist and advocate for inclusivity and diversity in the outdoors who struts their message through national parks, in Pride events, and through the halls of Congress. Mike Roberts and Will Hammond Jr. wrote a sultry R&B song that will change the way you think about heat pumps… and an equally stimulating song about the power of geothermal energy. Together, they remind us that we don’t always have to take ourselves too seriously in order for our work to be meaningful and have impact. This episode originally aired on February 7, 2025. Guests: Pattie Gonia, Drag queen; Environmentalist Mike Roberts, Musician; Climate advocate Will Hammond Jr., Educator; Musician Pattie Gonia image credits Mitchell Overton and Maxwell Poth. On July 31, Climate One is hosting Premal Shah and Kinari Webb for a live episode recording! With years of experience navigating the global climate movement, the two are sure to offer unparalleled insights during their conversation with Co-Host Greg Dalton. Tickets for the show, which will be held at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, are available now through our website. Support Climate One by going ad-free! By subscribing to Climate One on Patreon, you’ll receive exclusive access to all future episodes free of ads, opportunities to connect with fellow Climate One listeners, and access to the Climate One Discord. Sign up today. For show notes and related links, visit our website. Ad sales by Multitude. Contact them for ad inquiries at multitude.productions/ads Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	On the show, we've talked about lots of practical ways you can address climate in your own life,
1:06.0	from things like electrifying your home to building a strong local community.
1:11.6	This week, we're excited to feature a couple of people who confirmed for me that creativity and self-expression are also important avenues for climate action.
1:21.6	Absolutely. Two of our guests today, Mike Roberts and Wilhelm and Jr., make amazing music videos about things like heat pumps and geothermal energy.
1:32.9	And honestly, I have heard some bad climate songs in my time.
1:36.8	Oh, yeah.
1:37.5	These are not. These are great. They're funny and smart and sultry.
1:42.9	So we'll get to listen to those a bit later on.
1:45.2	Funny, smart, and sultry. I am very excited for that. And when I think about Mike Roberts and
1:50.7	William and Jr. and the path they've taken, I can't help but think of my own path. It's kind of
1:56.3	the reverse of theirs. I went to school for music production and wanted to work in the industry
2:01.1	as a composer and a producer. But after realizing that I wanted to do work that has more of an
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