Mark Gongloff
Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.…
Georgia Silvera Seamans
Georgia Silvera Seamans is an urban forester who writes and teaches in New York City. She directs Washington Square Park Eco Projects, which includes Tree…
Sam Stephenson
“We need people to have a vision of that future and be able to discuss it, and argue it, and imagine it. And it’s only through this collective understanding and creation of the future that we can then go out and build it.”
Energetic in New York
Our mission is to make the world energy and climate literate. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly…
Pete Sikora
Pete Sikora 00:02 There is an implicit fear of politics and activism that is pervasive within American society. People are sort of taught that politics…
Ellie Johnston
“We’re in Asheville. This is a mountain community. We thought we were safe from hurricanes.” Ellie Johnston is the Director of Programs at Climate Interactive, an organization…
Adam Aron
Adam Aron is a professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego. In 2021, he ended his prominent career in cognitive neuroscience to…
Gail Whiteman
“I would actually start with saying, what are the things you love?” Gail Whiteman is a Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School,…
Mariana of Climáximo
Mariana is a teacher and an organizer with Climáximo, a climate justice direct action group in Portugal. Cindy Ye and Adeline Sauberli, seniors at Stuyvesant High…
Carolyn McGrath and Kate Schapira
“A lot of education…is predicated on the idea that things are going to stay more or less the same, and we’re already seeing the ways in which that is not true…”
Christopher Shaw
Dr. Christopher Shaw is a climate communications expert and the former Head of Research at Climate Outreach, where among the reports he worked on is a…
Energetic in India
From the fall of 2023 to the summer of 2024, through Deepak’s initiative, we have been testing ENERGETIC in cities in India to explore the…
Gianluca Grimalda
“The second thing that I promised to the 1000s of people that came to my research was…I promise I’m going to return to Europe without touching a plane…”
Gaya Herrington
“What humanity does in the next few years will determine our wellbeing levels for the rest of the century, which is quite incredible”
Alice Hu
“There’s a huge cognitive dissonance, right? People will be thinking about, well how can I make enough money so I can retire with the amount of wealth that I want? While also knowing logically that, okay, yeah, but like, by the time I’m at retirement age, what’s the world even gonna look like? You know, what am I even saving for?”
Teacher feedback
Letters of support from teachers. Survey results from NYC public high school students (255 completed surveys). Energetic in The Science Survey, the student newspaper of…
Julien Dossier
“What happens if, say the president of France is elected and has a mandate to cut carbon emissions by twenty percent in five years, and if emissions are cut by nineteen percent?
Has the person failed, or not? Given the amount of the challenge, 19 out of 20 could be seen, Wow, that’s good enough, that works! But what about 18? What about 17?”