Sharing climate facts, hopes, and visions for the new year

Progress on cleaning up our energy

Flora Cardoni is PennEnvironment’s Field Director and Climate Campaign Director. She is also a member of Pennsylvania’s Climate Change Advisory Committee. Here we discuss EPA’s new methane rule, an innovative way to stop ‘super emitters’ and the COP28 methane resolution. We also talk about effective ways to make change for the better happen.

The role of the arts in addressing the climate crisis

Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou is an artist, block captain and licensed massage therapist based in West Philly. As the organizer of Walk Around Philadelphia, JJ has circumnavigated the entire perimeter of Philadelphia on foot 12 miles and facilitates programs around the city’s edge that connect participants to their own bodies, their neighbors, and the landscape of the region. He’s walked the full perimeter of Philadelphia twelve times. (Each time is ~100 to ~120 miles)
Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Ph.D.,Is the Founding Faculty Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Associate Professor of German Languages and Literature. She regularly teaches seminars in environmental humanities. She is also Co-President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and a member of the editorial board of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
Stefanie Kroll, PhD (SUNY-ESF, NY) is a watershed ecologist who aligns data collection and communication with nonprofits’ work. She runs Riverways Collaboration, a coalition of urban boating and youth education groups in Philadelphia and Camden. For 9 years her lab at Drexel University studied anthropogenic impacts on freshwater systems.
Laran Kaplan is a social movement activist and photographer focused on climate change. She is affiliated with several Philadelphia-based and national organizations who target climate offenders. Laran is a Philadelphia resident who proudly composts and is working on a series of compost images.
Peter Winslow is a long-term advocate for the environmental and social justice community in the Philadelphia region and has talked to us regularly about city environmental justice issues. Peter has worked on a Port Development Plan and on projects for the Department of Defense among others. He also is the President of the Evolve Foundation and the Founder/President of the FLAG (the Free Loan Association for Germantown Philadelphia).
Rachael Warriner is a freelance photographer based in Philadelphia. I’m passionate about using photography to tell stories of social movements and of people owning their power to advocate for themselves and their neighbors. Her work has been featured in TIME, Teen Vogue, The Nation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Al Dia, Grid Magazine and others.