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We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Clean Water Action

32 episodes

7 months ago

This episode features an interview with Omesa Mokaya who leads Clean Water Action’s Youth Action Collaborative in Massachusetts. Omesa grew up in the Kisii highlands in Western Kenya where he witnessed firsthand the devastating impacts of climate change and made it a personal mission to help communities adapt to and enhance their resilience towards those impacts. Omesa’s work with the Youth Action Collaborative aims to empower the next generation of environmental leaders by providing them wit...

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This episode features an interview with Omesa Mokaya who leads Clean Water Action’s Youth Action Collaborative in Massachusetts. Omesa grew up in the Kisii highlands in Western Kenya where he witnessed firsthand the devastating impacts of climate change and made it a personal mission to help communities adapt to and enhance their resilience towards those impacts. Omesa’s work with the Youth Action Collaborative aims to empower the next generation of environmental leaders by providing them wit...

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Episodes (20/32)

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Climate Change & Sparking Change: Empowering Youth with Omesa Mokaya

This episode features an interview with Omesa Mokaya who leads Clean Water Action’s Youth Action Collaborative in Massachusetts. Omesa grew up in the Kisii highlands in Western Kenya where he witnessed firsthand the devastating impacts of climate change and made it a personal mission to help communities adapt to and enhance their resilience towards those impacts. Omesa’s work with the Youth Action Collaborative aims to empower the next generation of environmental leaders by providing them wit...

1 year ago

40 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

A Conversation About Water with Mari Copeny, 16-Year-Old Activist and Philanthropist

This podcast episode features the incredible youth activist and philanthropist Mari Copeny - aka Little Miss Flint - who is on the front lines of tackling America's water crisis head on and helping kids to embrace their power through equal opportunity. When the Flint Water Crisis began instead of feeling helpless Mari decided to use her voice to help her community and to fight for the kids in Flint. Since then, she has expanded her efforts to help communities across the nation dealing with to...

1 year ago

32 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Women Leading the Way – The Fight for Safer Products, Safer Chemicals, and a Healthier Future for All featuring Mia Davis and Cindy Luppi

In this podcast episode, Jenny Vickers interviews Mia Davis and Cindy Luppi, two environmental advocates working to keep toxic chemicals out of everyday products. They discuss their backgrounds in environmental activism and what drew them to this work. They also talk about their experiences working on the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, the importance of transparency and disclosure in the beauty industry, and the need for safer alternatives to toxic chemicals. They also touch on the issue of PFA...

1 year ago

51 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Celebrating Black History Month with Rev. Vernon K. Walker

In recognition of Black History Month, we are featuring the stories of Black leaders in the environmental movement. Today, we chat with Reverend Vernon K. Walker, MA Climate Justice Program Director at Clean Water Action. Reverend Walker has over a decade of social justice organizing experience in the Boston area with a focus on the intersections of racial and climate justice. Rev. Walker currently is a graduate student at Tufts University pursuing a Master's in Public Policy degree with a fo...

1 year ago

29 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Victory for Environmental Justice: Minnesota's New Cumulative Impacts Law

Today's episode features two incredible Environmental Justice organizers: Sasha Lewis-Norelle, environmental health and justice organizer for Clean Water Action, and Carolina Ortiz, associate executive director for COPAL, an organization that leads social impact initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latin American families. Sasha and Carolina discuss Minnesota's new Cumulative Impacts law and the critical work they are doing to protect frontline communities from harm. www.cleanwater....

2 years ago

32 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

PFAS Victory in Minnesota Featuring the Mama Bears!

In today’s episode, we feature the story of three incredible women who not only stood up against powerful industry but challenged the status quo in politics - working tirelessly across party lines and refusing to play partisan games - to pass one of the strongest laws in the nation to protect people from PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in Minnesota. You’ll hear from three incredible advocates who call themselves the Mama Bears: Avonna Starck, Clean Water Action’s Minnesota State Director, Andrea Lov...

2 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Get To Know Clean Water's New CEO! Jeff Carter

In this episode, we are pleased to have Clean Water Action's new CEO & President Jeff Carter! Prior to joining Clean Water, Jeff led Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a physician-led organization in the US working to protect the public from the threats of nuclear proliferation, climate change, and environmental toxins. Our conversation with Jeff covers his vision for Clean Water, his background and success stories with PSR, and why every community has a right to safe, clean and ...

2 years ago

41 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Episode 27: Women in Water

“No water, no life. No blue, no green.” - Sylvia Earle. We are excited to feature a special Women in Water podcast in celebration of Women's History Month! Hear from three incredible leaders in the Clean Water Movement: Deirdre White of ASDWA and Source Water Collaborative, Lynn Thorp of Clean Water Action and Source Water Collaborative, and Jennifer Peters of Clean Water Action. They chat about their passion for water, current work, and advice for women thinking about a career in water...

2 years ago

33 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Episode 26 - Black Leaders in the Clean Water Movement

Clean water is a human right - not a privilege. We are excited to feature Black leaders in the Clean Water movement in honor of Black History Month! Hear from two incredible environmental leaders: Kjia Rivers, Policy Advocate at Community Water Center and Ngodoo Atume, Water Policy Analyst at Clean Water Action. Both are doing innovative and impactful work in the field of groundwater and nitrate management, while ensuring Environmental Justice communities most impacted have a voice and ...

2 years ago

36 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Celebrating 50 Years of the Clean Water Act

For the past 50 years, Clean Water Action has worked to uphold and strengthen the Clean Water Act and make sure the Act works the way it’s supposed to. Clean Water Action works every day to ensure everyone has access to safe water for drinking, fishing, and swimming and to help improve water quality and make sure our most vulnerable communities have access to clean water as well. That’s why your support is so critical right now. As a non-profit organization, Clean Water Action relies on...

2 years ago

29 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Planning for the Worst: How to Keep Our Communities Safe From Toxic Spills

Right now, the majority of the country has no plan in place for storm related toxic chemical leaks. Luckily, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new regulation called the Worst Case Discharge Rule to require chemical storage facilities to create a plan for discharges that are created by storm events. Today to discuss this topic, we are joined by Maya Nye, Federal Policy Director for Coming Clean, and Sean Jackson, Water Programs Coordinator for Clean Water Acti...

3 years ago

29 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Sustainable Investing: Save Money & Save the Planet

Whether you're currently an investor or looking to invest, learn how sustainable investing can help you fight climate change and protect clean water, while also earning you money. Today's podcast features a conversation with Zach Stein, Cofounder of Carbon Collective, Vicki Benjamin, President and Co-founder of Karner Blue Capital and Jon Scott, Director of Corporate Relations and Legacy Gifts at Clean Water Action. Clean Water Action recently launched a new member benefit, a sustainabl...

3 years ago

38 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

PFAS: How to Tackle Forever Chemicals

Today we are joined by Cindy Luppi, New England Director of Clean Water Action, and Sarah Woodbury, Director of Advocacy for Defend our Health, to discuss how we can tackle PFAS chemicals and protect our families. PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of chemical compounds also known as 'Forever Chemicals' because they really never go away. Found in everything from pizza boxes to firefighting foam, PFAS are resistant to heat, water and oil. With an ability to move through the...

3 years ago

56 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Environmental & Racial Justice with Maurice Sampson of Clean Water Action

Black History Month is every month at Clean Water Action. That's why we are excited to feature the stories of Black leaders in the environmental movement. Today, we chat with Maurice Sampson, Clean Water Action's Eastern Pennsylvania Director. Maurice is a life-long environmentalist, Philadelphia’s first recycling coordinator, a national recycling advocate, and Delaware Valley entrepreneur. He served on the National Clean Water Action Board of Directors for 25 years before becoming our Easter...

3 years ago

31 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Black History Month: The Environmental Justice Movement with Vernice Miller Travis

In recognition of Black History Month, we are featuring the stories of Black leaders in the environmental movement. Today, we chat with Vernice Miller Travis, the Executive Vice President for Environmental and Social Justice at Metropolitan Group and Vice Chair of Clean Water Action’s Board. Vernice is the co-founder of WeACT for Environmental Justice, and a national environmental justice champion who lifts the voices of those most impacted by environmental harm. www.cleanwater.org/podcast Su...

3 years ago

35 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Give the Gift of Clean Water: Why Your Support Matters

Give the gift of Clean Water this holiday season! Your support matters. Listen to a very special #WeAllLiveDownstream podcast featuring two incredible supporters of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund: Marilyn Allan and Ali Dysard of Mom's Organic Market. They talk about the issues they are passionate about and why it's important to support Clean Water now and for the future. www.cleanwater.org/donate --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/messageSupport o...

3 years ago

22 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

GreenLatinos - Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes and Ean Thomas Tafoya

In today’s episode we chat with Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes and Ean Thomas Tafoya two incredible environmental activists with Green Latinos, a national non-profit which convenes a broad coalition of #Latino leaders committed to addressing national, regional and local #environmental, natural resources and #conservation issues that significantly affect the health and welfare of the U.S. #Latinx community. cleanwater.org/podcast #WeAllLiveDownstream --- Send in a voice message: https://an...

4 years ago

40 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Agriculture, Water & Health

In today's episode, we discuss the impacts big agriculture has on our water, health, environment and communities - and what we can do to support more sustainable practices, enact stronger clean water policies, and hold the industry accountable. We’re covering the country from the East Coast to the West Coast with three special guests: Emily Ranson, Clean Water Action’s State Director in Maryland; Steve Schultz, Clean Water Action’s Water Program Coordinator in Minnesota; and Ngodoo Atume, Cle...

4 years ago

52 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Children at the Center: Nse Witherspoon of Children's Environmental Health Network

This year’s pandemic and climate-related crises illuminated the gaps in our nation’s public health system, environmental justice issues, and the racism that persists in our structures and systems. All of these issues are intertwined. In today’s podcast, we chat with Nse Witherspoon, the Executive Director for the Children’s Environmental Health Network, about how we can create real systemic changes for a healthier, safer future for our children. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/...

4 years ago

34 minutes

We All Live Downstream: A Clean Water Action Podcast

Lead and Drinking Water: Protecting Communities From Harm

In today’s episode, we talk about the toxic legacy of lead and about lead in drinking water in America – and what we can do to protect our communities from harm. You’ll hear from drinking water and public health advocates Lindsay McCormick, Program Manager for Environmental Defense Fund’s Health Program, and Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director for Clean Water Action, who discuss innovative approaches to replacing lead service lines across the country. www.cleanwater.org/podcast #WeAllLive...

4 years ago

32 minutes