Month: December 2020

This is the finale to season 2 of The Coolest Show! There is no guest, it’s our host, Rev Yearwood, sharing his reflections on this season. It’s been quite a year and we’re so honored to have been able to continue this show through the pandemic, through the increasing climate disasters we are working so hard to stop, through the 2020 election, and most profoundly, through our society’s largest-scale reckoning on racial justice in decades.  This season of The Coolest Show wove together all these intersecting events through the voices and expertise of  our guests, who were mostly women of color, and importantly, primarily Black women. As Rev Yearwood shares, “For too long, the climate movement has benefited from the people who are most vulnerable and most at risk… Those same people should be the ones telling their stories.” Climate justice is racial justice. Racial Justice is climate justice. Thank you for experiencing this season with us. We’ll be back soon for Season 3! In the meantime, catch up on episodes you missed at TheCoolestShow.com and sign up for our email list so you are the first to know when Season 3 comes back.  Follow @Think100Climate and @RevYearwood. #BlackLivesMatter  #ClimateJustice  #Think100

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Philanthropy operates in fundamentally unjust, oppressive systems. In order to be effective, grassroots work must be funded with unrestricted money, offering core support with grassroots intermediaries who know the work. The CLIMA Fund is led by Kate Kroeger, the Executive Director of Urgent Action Fund, Laura García, President and CEO of Global Greengrants Fund, and Solomé Lemma, the Executive Director of Thousand Currents. We caught up with them to discuss racism in philanthropy, moving money to BIPOC with intentional outreach, and the misconceptions of grassroots organizations not being able to handle large amounts of money. Listen now! More at TheCoolestShow.com and @Think100Climate. #GrassrootsSolutions  #ClimateJustice  #Think100

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We continue the discussion in this 2 part series recorded live in November 2019 from Media Impact Funders in Boulder Colorado. Thomas Lopez Jr. is an activist, water protector, defender, and the Partnerships Coordinator for Future Coalition. We caught up with him to discuss tokenization, cultural assimilation of Indigenous people, and how assimilation affected the lost in values and traditions for the next generation.

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In this 2 part series recorded in November 2019, Rev. Yearwood travels to Boulder Colorado to host a town hall at Media Impact Funders. He is joined by co-host Vic Barrett from Our Children’s Trust. Kaitlin Yarnall is the Chief Storytelling Officer at the National Geographic Society. We caught up with her to discuss the importance of comprehensive storytelling, how National Geographic has played a role in informing people about climate change, and her role in that process. Listen now! More at TheCoolestShow.com and @Think100Climate. #ClimateStories #MediaImpact #Think100

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