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Marshall Saunders

Citizens Climate Lobby aims to price carbon, solve climate change, and to do it in a way that crosses Amer­i­can polit­i­cal bar­ri­ers. Founded by a Texan, after the creek behind his childhood home dried up.

Joel Towers

“We’re educating students who will go out into the world and have 60 years or more of productive and engaged life. What is the world going to be like 60 years from now?”

Michael Premo: the idea of home

Michael Premo, artist and activist, spoke to City Atlas about the power of sharing stories, the future of New York as a waterfront city and place for artists, and the importance of home.

Eddie Bautista

Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, has spent a lifetime committed to empowering New York’s low-income communities of color.

Curtis Ravenel

To really understand how a company is positioned for the future, you have to know how it’s managing its environmental impact.

Mariellé Anzelone

There are few places in Amer­ica where you can you lose your­self in a shaded for­est, take a twenty-minute break to enjoy empanadas at a Mex­i­can bodega, and then return to the wilder­ness to fin­ish your hike. That’s what we did with ecol­o­gist Mariellé Anzelone…

Claire Weisz

“…Our cities all over the country–from Detroit to New Orleans–present the best opportunity for lowering our carbon footprint…”

Pathways in Technology High School

“For every student who comes to P-TECH, they’re going to be a great leader in the city, in another ten years–and we’re so proud of them. But it’s also about the whole economic development of New York City… ”

Klaus Lackner

“And so, in essence, this is a CO2 pump: it takes CO2 from the air and pumps it and delivers it into this stream. This will work over and over for years and years.”