Connecting Movements

Sharing tools that harness the power of data and stories to activate communities

In September we hosted Getting From Point A to Point Clean: The Community Movements Powering The Clean Transportation Revolution online at Climate Week NYC. With collaborators from our clean transportation civic engagement campaign, including the American Lung Association and The Greenlining Institute, we screened our Community Power film series and hosted a roundtable discussion We also participated in a Plume Labs and AccuWeather session on storytelling with data.

Engaging environmental voters in the 2022 midterms with SundanceTV

With the 2022 midterms on the horizon, we teamed up with SundanceTV to release a PSA and share short films from our Power the Vote series. Our efforts reached more than 325 000 people, while the films themselves garnered more than 600,000 impressions and nearly as many plays. This initiative is part of our larger body of civic engagement work, inspiring communities to become more engaged and shifting perceptions on what it means to be an environmentalist and a voter.

“A lot of times we watch films, especially documentary films, and they make you feel horrible about the world. You leave the theater in tears, thinking ʻoh man, the world’s in such a bad place.’ But I try to do the opposite in my films. I try to show the power that we do have, the change that we can make and show the possibilities, show what we can about these situations, and inspire people to do something about it.”

Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi