Molly Kawahata’s (unapologetic) climate optimism

“The beauty is there is so much opportunity in solving the climate crisis. Let’s give more people access to the climate movement and make the movement fight for everybody.”Molly is a former policy advisor for energy and climate change at the Obama White House where she helped implement President Obama's energy agenda and Climate Action Plan. Since leaving government, Molly now helps leading companies, nonprofits, activists, influencers, and communities create more effective climate communication and advocacy. An unabashed idealist - Molly’s optimism is infectious. Because it's only by understanding the climate opportunity for ALL of us - especially marginalized communities - that we're going to create systemic change. Greening your life is great, but engaging people - and registering them to vote - will make a bigger difference. Molly’s ultimate goal is to give everybody access to the climate movement, making the movement a fight for everybody. We also talked about her family’s (interned) American heritage, acceptable Hawaiian slang, not thinking about elephants, voter outreach via online dating, and ice climbing frozen waterfallsLEARN ABOUT MOLLY Mollykawahata.com instagram.com/mollykawahata // twitter.com/MollyKawahata WhenWeAllVote.org MENTIONS ORIGAMI CRANES AD - youtu.be/v6NeJltgXEw JAPANESE INTERNMENT PLACE: Topaz, UT - wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_War_Relocation_Center BOOK: They Called Us Enemy (George Takei) - goodreads.com/book/show/42527866-they-called-us-enemy BOOK: Displacement (Kiku Hughes) -.goodreads.com/en/book/show/46223303-displacement ARTICLE (Mashable) “The carbon footprint sham” (Mark Kaufman) - mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham ARTICLE (Vogue): “Meet the Women Using Dating Apps to Reach Undecided Voters in Battleground States” - vogue.com/article/dating-apps-undecided-voters ORG: FriendsVoteTogether.org BOOK: Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Denis Johnson) - goodreads.com/book/show/35135343-the-largesse-of-the-sea-maiden BOOK: Lost Connections (Johann Hari) - goodreads.com/book/show/34921573-lost-connections PERSON: Silvy Khoucasian (Attachment Theory): instagram.com/silvykhoucasian See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.