Generation Green New Deal

In this special GenGND Conversation Co-Creator and Producer Nate Birnbaum speaks with Maine's youngest State Senator, and architect's of one of the first state-level Green New Deal bills in the country, Chloe Maxmin, and her Campaign Manager Canyon Woodward. Chloe and Canyon just co-authored a new book about how they ran two successful, unabashedly Progressive, campaigns in the mos

In this episode, we speak with two Congressional staffers, Saul Levin (Rep. Cori Bush's legislative aide on climate) and Rajiv Sicora (Rep. Jamaal Bowman's legislative aide on climate,) who are helping to write, organize and fight for the various Green New Deal bills working their way thru the halls of Congress.

In 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.

This special roundtable discussion features Sam Zacher & Johnathan Guy, the authors of the "What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better" article in Jacobin Magazine, as well as Aru Shiney-Ajay & John Paul Mejia of Sunrise's internal 'Frontloading team'--a diverse group of Sunrisers from across the country which has spent the last year strategically addressing critiques of the Movement--bot

On 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 Campai

Generation 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.

Jackie 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 can be used to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

In 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

There'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 ha

In 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 par