Generation Green New Deal
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 416 ratingsA new generation has pushed the climate crisis to the center of American politics. Generation Green New Deal tells the story of this youth movement: who they are, what they’ve accomplished so far, and where they go from here. Hosted by filmmaker Sam Eilertsen.
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The Life (And Death?) of 'Build Back Better'
February 10, 2022 15:06 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBIn this episode we examine the life (and death?) of President Biden’s centerpiece legislation: the “Build Back Better” plan. We’ve been getting the inside scoop from Lauren Maunus, Sunrise Movement’s Advocacy Director over the last six months as she’s lobbied congress to help push for what would be the biggest climate investment ever made by the US government. You can help push Congress to pass Build Back Better by joining us in making calls here: https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/call/...
"What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better"
October 13, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBRead Jacobin's "What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better" article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/sunrise-movement-green-new-deal-left-politics-local-organizing Support GenGND & Get Extended Bonus Pods on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript & more available at: www.generationgreennewdeal.com Take our season-one listener survey: https://forms.gle/c99rJdUHUok3j4pd9
Maine's Green New Deal Champion
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBOn this VERY special crossover episode of Generation Green New Deal & INHERITED, we're taking you on a trip up to Maine to meet an inspiring young leader, striving for change, who is leading the fight for a Green New Deal, and equitable climate solutions in her neck of the woods. Maine State Senator, Chloe Maxmin. GenGND & INHERITED spent Election Day 2020 with Chloe and her Campaign Manager, Canyon Woodward, on their final push to elect Chloe to the State Senate, after getting elected a...
Stop Line 3! with Winona LaDuke
August 19, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBGeneration GND speaks with Winona LaDuke, founder of Honor the Earth & Indigenous Water Protector & an important leader of the #StopLine3 movement, about the criminality of the Canadian multinational, Enbridge, that owns the pipeline, the story of the Anishinaabe people who call Northern Minnesota home, and the need to end the fossil fuel economy. Support Indigenous activists fighting on the ground against Line 3: https://www.stopline3.org/ https://www.honorearth.org/ Follow: https:/...
Stop Line 3! With Jackie Fielder and Alec Connon
July 19, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBJackie Fielder and Alec Connon of Stop the Money Pipeline join producer Nate Birnbaum to discuss the fight against construction of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota, and how pressure on banks and financial institutions from movements can be used to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Join Stop the Money Pipeline's Line 3 Campaign: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/line3/ Support Indigenous activists fighting on the ground against Line 3: https://www.honorearth.org/ https://www.stopline3.org/...
GenGND Conversation with Kaniela Ing
June 24, 2021 15:44 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this conversation our host, Sam Eilertsen, speaks with climate-organizer Kaniela Ing. Kaniela is a Native Hawaiian, a former State Legislator in Hawaii, and the current Climate Justice Campaigns Director at People's Action. Kaniela and Sam discuss Kaniela's conservative upbringing in rural Hawaii, Kaniela's vision of what a Green New Deal for Hawaii could look like, the gridlock around President Biden's American Jobs Plan--and why Progressives need to keep fighting to make sure climate st...
Green New NEWS
May 13, 2021 15:14 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBThere's been A LOT of Green New Deal news over the last month. From the reintroduction of the Green New Deal Resolution itself, to the introduction of the THRIVE Act, the debates swirling around President Biden's Infrastructure plan, the Green New Deal for Cities, the Green New Deal for Schools, the Green New Deal for Public Housing, and the Civilian Climate Corps Act, it's been hard keeping track of everything! That's why, on this special bonus episode, we asked Sunrise Movement's Press S...
Storytelling and the Green New Deal at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival
March 31, 2021 05:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBIn this special conversation with Generation Green New Deal host Sam Eilertsen and writer, activist and newest member of the GenGND creative team Nikayla Jefferson, recorded live at the 2021 D.C. Environmental Film Festival. Sam and Nikayla discuss how climate storytelling has shifted in recent years, and how the Green New Deal and environmental justice have helped create a new paradigm for communicating climate solutions. Check out highlights from the 2021 D.C. Environmental Film Festival:...
S1 Ep 10 | The Decade of the Green New Deal Has Begun
February 16, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutesIn this season one finale of Generation Green New Deal, host Sam Eilertsen reflects on how far the climate movement has come over the past few years, and what the coming years might look like with best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein, Sunrise Movement Co-Founder and Executive Director Varshini Prakash, and renowned writer and Co-Founder of 350.org Bill McKibben. They discuss how they’re feeling after the first month of the Biden Administration, and the path to making the 2020s the ‘De...
S1 Ep 10 | The Decade of the Green New Deal Has Begun
February 16, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBIn this season one finale of Generation Green New Deal, host Sam Eilertsen reflects on how far the climate movement has come over the past few years, and what the coming years might look like with best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein, Sunrise Movement Co-Founder and Executive Director Varshini Prakash, and renowned writer and Co-Founder of 350.org Bill McKibben. They discuss how they’re feeling after the first month of the Biden Administration, and the path to making the 2020s the ‘D...
S1 Ep9 | Charles Booker for Kentucky
January 26, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBIn 2019 Charles Booker, a 35-year-old Kentucky state representative decided to challenge Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican Senator, by running for Senate on a Green New Deal. But the Democratic establishment already had a preferred candidate, Amy McGrath. As the campaign got underway Booker looked like the longest of long shots. And while he did not ultimately win the primary, Booker shocked the world by very nearly defeating the best funded Senate candidate in history, winning 4...
Patreon Preview: Ed Markey Full Interview
January 19, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.9 MBGenGND host Sam Eilertsen's full interview with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, from December of 2020. This is a preview of the type of bonus content we'll be releasing for our Patreon subscribers, for more exclusive interviews, subscribe now at Patreon.com/GenerationGND. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Watch The #GreenNewDealmaker: https://twitter.com/EdMarkey/status/1293986122318610435 Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscri...
S1 Ep8 | Markeyverse, unite!
January 12, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBWhen former Rep Joe Kennedy decided to launch a primary challenge against Senator Ed Markey, pundits began writing Markey’s political obituary. He was trailing badly in polls and a lot of his own constituents had never heard of him. But Markey is the co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, and the GND movement mobilized to his defense. Along the way the 74-year-old Senator acquired a large fanbase of Very Online Teenagers, and Markey’s victory helped convince Democrats that climate actio...
S1 | GenGND Conversation, Part 2 w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua
January 05, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBIn this conversation (the second of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimagining, which tries to look beyond the potential dystopias in our future and instead look at the ways in which a better world is possible, and look for communities where it is already starting to emerge. ...
S1| GenGND Conversation, Part 2 w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua
January 05, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutesIn this conversation (the second of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimagining, which tries to look beyond the potential dystopias in our future and instead look at the ways in which a better world is possible, and look for communities where it is already starting to emerge. I...
S1 | GenGND Conversation (w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua)
December 29, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MBIn this conversation (the first of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimagining, which tries to look beyond the potential dystopias in our future and instead look at the ways in which a better world is possible, and look for communities where it is already starting to emerge. T...
S1 Ep7.5 | Biden's Climate Team
December 22, 2020 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBIn this **SPECIAL** holiday-bonus pod, we run through the nominees rolled out last weekend, including the ground-breaking Rep. Deb Haaland for Secretary of Interior, and Gina McCarthy who will hold the new office of National Climate Advisor at the newly formed Office of Domestic Climate Policy, fulfilling a key demand of progressive climate activists. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episod...
S1 Ep7 | Now What?? Climate in the Biden Administration
December 15, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBWe’re now more than a month removed from the 2020 elections, and a little more than a month away from President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris officially taking office...So, what do we know about their plans for tackling the climate crisis? What’s been happening on that front during these last five weeks? And, most importantly, what could happen over the next four years? Well, quite a lot, actually... In this episode, co-hosted by Sam Eilertsen and oral historian Mag...
S1 | Gen GND Conversation with Jamie Margolin
December 08, 2020 12:59 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBJamie Margolin is a climate organizer from Seattle and freshman in college. As a 14 year old high school student, she co-founded the youth climate activist group Zero Hour and went on to help organize and lead the massive Youth Climate Strike in the fall of 2019. Jamie was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the 2020 Democratic primary, and is also a plaintiff in a climate lawsuit against her home state of Washington. Jamie also recently authored an amazing new book called “Youth to Powe...
S1 | Gen GND Conversation with Eric Holthaus
December 01, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBMeteorologist-turned-climate-writer Eric Holthaus is an outspoken advocate for climate justice. He’s also the first parent we’ve had on GenGND Conversations, raising his two young children in Minnesota, one of the fastest-warming states in the U.S. In our interview with Eric, we’ll hear about his path from studying climate-change as a meteorologist to writing about it as a journalist, his thoughts on the prospects for climate action during the incoming Biden-Harris Administration, and the c...
Special Episode: Political Climate on Biden's Climate Mandate
November 17, 2020 15:04 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBYoung Americans voted in record numbers during the 2020 election and played a key role in tipping the scales to Joe Biden. The Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups mounted extensive campaigns to register and mobilize voters to oppose President Trump and vote climate champions into office. Biden’s climate platform isn’t the Green New Deal plan that many climate activists called for, and Democrats will have a tough time passing progressive climate policies unless they win both Sen...
S1 | GenGND Conversation with Leah Stokes
November 10, 2020 13:55 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBUniversity of California at Santa Barbara Political Science professor Leah Stokes is a renowned expert on U.S. energy & climate Policy—and she’s also a young person, living through climate change in California. Hear about Leah’s journey to becoming one of America’s most outspoken climate-academics, as well as her thoughts about the historic 2020 election, and the prospects for climate action and the Green New Deal under the incoming Biden-Harris administration. Support GenGND: https://ww...
S1 Ep6 | Joe Biden and The Green New Deal
October 27, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBThe 2020 Presidential Election Campaign has been unprecedented in a number of ways -- including how much it has been driven by the climate crisis. A look at how the Green New Deal has shaped this election and how the climate movement has pushed Joe Biden, who is running as a pragmatist, to adopt an ambitious, even visionary climate plan. Featuring Sunrise Movement’s Alex O’Keefe and Varshini Prakash, Saikat Chakrabati of Building the Dream, VOX’s David Roberts, and Joe Biden’s Director of C...
S1 Ep6 | Joe Biden and The Green New Deal
October 27, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesThe 2020 Presidential Election Campaign has been unprecedented in a number of ways -- including how much it has been driven by the climate crisis. A look at how the Green New Deal has shaped this election and how the climate movement has pushed Joe Biden, who is running as a pragmatist, to adopt an ambitious, even visionary climate plan. Featuring Sunrise Movement’s Alex O’Keefe and Varshini Prakash, Saikat Chakrabati of Building the Dream, VOX’s David Roberts, and Joe Biden’s Director of Cli...
S1 Ep5 | Detroit, Engine of the Green New Deal
October 20, 2020 10:52 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBDetroit is a microcosm of many of the issues the Green New Deal is trying to solve: it’s faced flooding and extreme weather and has suffered severe consequences of pollution, environmental racism, deindustrialization, and austerity. In the Green New Deal, many community activists in Detroit saw hope. Featuring Detroit activist Theresa Landrum and former Detroit health commissioner Abdul El-Sayed Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd
S1 Ep4 | Where Have the Adults Been?
October 13, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBAmy Westervelt of the DrillIed podcast co-hosts this episode as we delve into the question of why it's taken so much time, and a movement led by teenagers and 20-somethings, to push politicians to get serious about climate action. Featuring bestselling authors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd
S1 | GenGND Conversation with Nikayla Jefferson
October 06, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBWhat is it like to spend your whole life in California, only to have the state you love more deeply than anything turn into a hellscape of wildfire? Meet 23-year-old Sunrise Movement activist and writer Nikayla Jefferson. In this episode, she describes her life growing up in San Diego, experiencing the rise of wildfires, and how she found her voice in activism and writing. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd
S1| GenGND Conversation with Nikayla Jefferson
October 06, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesWhat is it like to spend your whole life in California, only to have the state you love more deeply than anything turn into a hellscape of wildfire? Meet 23-year-old Sunrise Movement activist and writer Nikayla Jefferson. In this episode, she describes her life growing up in San Diego, experiencing the rise of wildfires, and how she found her voice in activism and writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep3 | The AOC Effect
September 29, 2020 14:16 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBIn 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, and the Green New Deal became her signature policy. But how did a bartender end up defeating a powerful incumbent? Meet the group of former Bernie Sanders campaign volunteers who decided to shake up Congress, and recruited AOC and the #Squad to run for office. Featuring Alexandra Rojas and Waleed Shahid of Justice Democrats, and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saikat Chakrabarti. Suppo...
S1 Ep2 | Why Join a Movement?
September 22, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBWhat motivates young people to dedicate their lives to climate activism? Fear of the future under climate change is one motivation… Another is the opportunity to build a better future under the Green New Deal. Featuring Varshini Prakash and Alex O’Keefe of Sunrise Movement, and three of the young activists who had a viral confrontation with Senator Dianne Feinstein in early 2019. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd
S1 Ep1 | The Pelosi Sit-In
September 15, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBIn the past two years, climate change has gone from the backburner to the center stage. Why? It all started with a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office in 2018. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up with a then-obscure youth activist group called Sunrise Movement to launch the fight for a Green New Deal. It took a lot of planning, courage, and also luck to make it happen, and we’re bringing you the inside story. Featuring Varshini Prakash and Sarah Duckett of Sunrise Movement and Waleed Shahid of...
The Sit-In
September 15, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesIn the past two years, climate change has gone from the backburner to the center stage. Why? It all started with a protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office in 2018. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez teamed up with a then-obscure youth activist group called Sunrise Movement to launch the fight for a Green New Deal. It took a lot of planning, courage, and also luck to make it happen, and we’re bringing you the inside story. Featuring Varshini Prakash and Sarah Duckett of Sunrise Movement and Waleed Shahid of J...
Welcome to Generation Green New Deal
August 21, 2020 04:53 - 3 minutes - 3.49 MBIf you're suddenly hearing more about climate politics these days , that's no accident. A new generation of activists have pushed the issue to the top of voters' minds and politicians' platforms. This is the story of the people doing the pushing. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd