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 New York
We work on energy literacy as a path to decarbonization. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and…
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?”
Rebecca Willis
“When politics becomes really dysfunctional, the temptation is to just be quite a cynical realist and say, That’s just how the world is now. But the more I think about it, the more I think that when you’re confronted with these problems, you actually need to double down on the idealism.”
Energetic links
“I kept thinking, ‘Oh, they thought of that? Wow, they thought of that!’” Sam Arons, Sustainability Director of Lyft, quoted in Grist 3/17/20 Energetic 2025 Instructions Energetic 2025 Educator’s Guide…
Stuart Capstick
“The focus on a number is less important than the real bottom line,trying to shape our societies, our economies, our lives in ways that enable as many of us to have a good life as possible, without wrecking the world.”