This project.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my project on climate activism. The simple goal of this effort is to share the perspectives of younger climate activists and everyday folks who are working on our generations’ biggest challenge: climate change. A larger goal is to help improve understanding of how climate activism has evolved so that we can continue to grow our movement.

If you’d like to submit a blog post or share ideas, please reach out. This site will continue to evolve.

About me.

I feel fortunate that my journey into climate activism started young, though it also came with a host of challenges. In 2007, when I was 13, a devastating wildfire ripped through my small hometown in the So Cal mountains. The neighborhood I played in every day became a charred landscape with missing homes, melted cars, and devastated families. Both the inequities and the importance of community in a warming world were also suddenly made clear for me. Our neighbors without insurance or the means to recover leaned on our community to help rebuild. This isn’t unique, but an increasingly common story across the world. That shock and new, privileged understanding led me down a path that I’m still on today, and one that I want to help fellow activists along on.

These days, after spending nearly 10 years living, studying, and working in Washington, DC, I’m back in California working to accelerate and build community solar and fight for the policy change we need to rapidly decarbonize.

While this project started years ago, this research was advanced through my Master’s program in Energy & Sustainability at George Mason University, my two-time alma mater and employer for 8 years.

– Colin Nackerman