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4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Guests: Sandra Kwak, CEO and Founder, 10Power Donnel Baird, CEO, BlocPower Andreas Karelas, Author, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide in America Summary: As the spring of 2021 arrives, it would be hard to design a more challenging — or more promising — moment for implementing climate solutions. Americans are reeling from an economic shutdown that’s pushed many out of the workforce, and widened the gap between the wealthy and the poor. In this brave new post-Covid world, can President Biden step up where Obama couldn’t? “I'm delighted about what I'm seeing from the Biden-Harris team,” notes Donnel Baird, CEO of BlocPower. “Climate justice and racial equality are wedded together alongside employment, alongside public health and working our way out of these kinds of four simultaneous crises we’re dealing with.” From big tech to clean energy, what are the opportunities for scaling new solutions — and where do inequity and politics continue to set us back? Related links: 10Power BlocPower Climate Courage Re-volv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.3	and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, people who are in power and people who are
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0:53.3	Despite the Trump administration's efforts to divide Americans, we actually are united when it comes to wanting a greener way of life.
1:00.6	85% of Americans agree that we would love to see 100% clean energy in this country.
1:08.0	85% of Americans.
1:10.0	How many issues do 85% of Americans agree on?
1:13.9	Andreas Corellis is founder and executive director of Revolve, an organization that helps
1:18.6	non-profits across the country go solar. He recently authored the book, Climate Courage,
1:23.7	how tackling climate change can build community, transform the economy, and bridge the political divide in America.
1:29.3	In the book, Corellis breaks down how the right conversations about climate change can lead people feeling empowered rather than skeptical or hopeless.
1:37.3	If you point someone to the reality of climate change and do not point to the solutions
1:44.6	that they can be involved in,
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