Making A Difference Where You Are – Laur Hesse Fisher, MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative

Electric Ladies Podcast

“There are those individual actions that we can take. But if I can work with my community or work inside of my company, or if I can work inside of my house of worship and we can build some community and some action that way, it will have a much bigger impact than anything that I can do as an individual… The communities that they're already a part of, whether they're residential, like in their neighborhoods, or it's the nonprofits that they're a part of, or the places where they have other kinds of communities like religious communities, and start conversations there. What could we do as a community? What could we do as an organization?” Laur Hesse Fisher on Electric Ladies Podcast

There are steps each of us can take individually to help avert climate change, but if we can leverage the larger entities we are a part of, then we can have a much larger impact. How?

Listen to Laur Hesse Fisher of MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative and TIL Climate podcast, in discussion with Electric Ladies host Joan Michelson, explain ways you can leverage the places you already go and people you currently encounter to reach people who might not get the climate message elsewhere.

You’ll hear about:

• Why reaching people outside the climate-tuned bubble is critical.
• How important the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment Act & CHIPS and Science Act are to addressing the climate crisis and in an equitable way.
• How we can leverage the relationships we already have, the local media, and local events to make a bigger difference than we can make on our own.
• Why voting is so crucial this year – and not for the reasons you might have heard
• Plus, insightful career advice, such as…

“My advice would be, as you're thinking about where you want to go, talk to people about that. So you might not know where you want to go, in which case I recommend informational interviews. Those are great for learning about other people's career paths, what it took for them to get there, what did they learn along the way? I mean, people are really open to having a half an hour conversation.”

Laur Hesse Fisher on Electric Ladies Podcast

Read Joan’s Forbes articles here too.

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• Jill Tidman, Executive Director of The Redford Center, environmental storytelling through media, film, series and documentaries.
• Polly Trottenberg, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation, on the transportation revolution taking place.
• Judith Pryor, Vice Chair & First Vice President, Export Import Bank of the U.S., on leveraging exporting and trade for energy, climate and sustainability, as well as economic development.

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