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• Child Care Professionals Are on the Front Lines as Climate Change Risks Children's Health and Development

  Amid a changing climate and federal rollbacks to disaster relief and preparedness, early educators face an increasingly untenable child care landscape that will require state and local action. Young children and the people who care for them face particular challenges due to the historically underfunded early education system,5 affecting child health and safety as well as community recovery.  Tune in as we speak with Dr. Hailey Gibbs with the Center for American Progress about how policymakers at all levels of government, child and public health advocates, and other community members must act to ensure that children are protected, to strengthen the early learning workforce, and to rally public support for the early childhood system as critical infrastructure that can help protect children against the effects of climate change and aid broader community recovery from natural disasters.  

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• Change the Air Foundation

  Indoor air quality is a public health issue hiding in plain sight. Tune in as we talk with Kendra Seymour, Vice-Chair & Co-Founder of Change the Air Foundation (501(c)(3)), about empowering families and schools to breathe safer indoor air through education, policy advocacy, and small-scale research. 🔗 Listen live on Oct. 10, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern: https://www.youtube.com/@VoiceAmericaVariety/streams 🔗 Listen on demand starting Oct. 11: https://www.voiceamericamedia.com/show/go-green-radio-1/

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• Why Environmental Justice Is Educational Justice

  Climate change is amplifying existing inequities that disproportionately affect students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and students with disabilities. What's more, these students — many of whom lack consistent access to clean air and water and safe housing — are at greater risk of exposure to pollution that can worsen asthma and other health issues. They're increasingly and understandably anxious about the climate crisis — as the stakes are high and they will likely bear the brunt of it — and want to know what they can do about it. Join us as we speak with Dr. William Rodick and Rev. Terrance McKinley about this important issue.

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• Protecting Children from Extreme Heat in Schools

  Schools in many parts of the U.S. are ill-equipped to deal with record-breaking heat during the school year, and that is adversely impacting student health and learning. Tune in as we speak with Autumn Burton, Senior Associate of Climate, Health, and Environment at the Federation of American Scientists, and Hailey Gibbs, Ph.D., associate director of Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, as we discuss how to protect children from extreme heat in schools.

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• Here Comes the Sun, a new book from Bill McKibben

  From the acclaimed environmentalist, Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind—and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. From the everyday citizens who installed solar panels equal to a third of Pakistan's electric grid in a year to the world's sixth-largest economy—California—nearly halving its use of natural gas in the last two years, Bill McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy. And he shows how solar power is more than just a path out of the climate crisis: it is a chance to reorder the world on saner and more humane grounds. You can't hoard solar energy or hold it in reserves—it's available to all.

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