Climate Action Party: Wastewater and the Climate Crisis

Please join two powerful environmental champions for a quick, free, 1-hour action party. You’ll learn about America's dirty secret -- the wastewater issue and how the climate crisis is exacerbating it, often in low-income communities and communities of color. Then fire up the Climate Action Now app and actually DO something about the problem!

About Our Featured Guest

Catherine Coleman Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. She serves as the Vice Chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for Environmental Health Advocacy, and was a member of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on Climate Change. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). Ms. Flowers serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Fund, The Climate Reality Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Geophysical Union. She is the author of the extraordinary, “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret”. In short, you don’t want to miss spending time with her!

About Our Moderators

Caroline Lewis is the Founder and Senior Advisor of the CLEO Institute, the only women-led nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in Florida exclusively dedicated to climate education, advocacy, and engagement. Her board positions and service roles include: the National Environmental Education Advisory Council; American Public Garden Association; Miami-Dade Executive Board for Science Curriculum & Instruction; the White House Summits on Climate and Energy and Women & the Environment; the Conservation Fund’s Advisory Panel on Children and nature; Miami-Dade County Living With Water Committee and others. In 2013, Caroline Lewis was nationally recognized as a White House Climate Resilience Champion of Change. In 2015, she authored Just Back Off and LET US TEACH. In 2018, Lewis was named by Time Magazine as one of 31 individuals making a difference in the South.

Tim Guinee, President of Climate Action Now, has been a veteran in numerous climate campaigns around the country, most notably as the Legislative Coordinator for the New York Climate Reality Chapters Coalition. Former Vice President Al Gore awarded Tim the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award for his work on the climate crisis.

About Our Action Parties

An Action Party is an online event that packs valuable information and concrete action into a 60-minute venue.

Each Action Party has an environment-related topic and a featured guest who is an expert in that topic. We begin with a 20-minute presentation by the featured guest, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A, and then 20 minutes of optional action-taking with the Climate Action Now app. The actions have been prepared in advance to help participants take the most impactful action in the shortest period of time. During the action segment, the party's moderator sets a goal for the number of actions to be taken and shows participants their progress towards that goal in real-time with an online, automated goal tracker. Participants can socialize during the action segment.

Action parties are free and open to all who seek a more just and sustainable world, but we welcome donations to help us continue our mission of creating a just and liveable planet for all.

How to Get the Climate Action Now App

If you want to participate in the action-taking segment, you can get the FREE Climate Action Now app by scanning the QR code below with your phone's camera OR by searching for "Climate Action Now" in your app store and downloading it to your phone. The app is currently available to users in the United States only.