In this episode Mario Molina, the CEO of Protect Our Winters, starts off the episode by sharing the unique experience that made him fall in love with the mountains, and inspired him to pursue a life centered around the environment. Throughout the episode Mario explains how Protect Our Winters work to solve climate change, their mission, and how he sees the current state of our nation in regards to solving climate change. We also talk about what it takes to successfully achieve a cultural shift, and how BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by the negative effects of climate change. This is a really fun, educational, and inspiring conversation. I hope you all enjoy!

POW helps passionate outdoor people protect the places and lifestyles they love from climate change. To learn more about POW, go to their website here. 

Here are the key points this episode touches on:

• Turning passionate outdoors people into effective climate change activists
• Solving climate change from a non-partisan viewpoint through showing the mutuality of what we are trying to protect.
• Democracy is not a spectator sport
• We don’t have a technology problem, we have a time problem. We know the technologies and we have them to solve climate change. We need to implement them. 
• You can pass all the legislation that you want, but if you want it to solve things, the culture has to change 
• Before this election in 2020, climate change never made it into a presidential debate as more than a passing note. And in this election it was a critical discussion point. 
• The overlap between social injustice and climate change: BIPOC and underserved communities have been disproportionately impacted by fossil fuels and climate change. People in Florida who can’t afford to move when their neighborhood is flooded.

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