We are producing live podcast events in early 2027 that will examine and explain underlying challenges and vulnerabilities with our climate, environment, politics, and vegetation.
The Cost of Paper advocates for arts and letters as a civic force: an intellectual commons where writers support writers and where ideas are treated as catalyst, not commodity.
Using creativity as a catalyst for conservation, we hope artists will inspire change through a national landscape art exhibition and contest celebrating the outdoors.
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Past Forward is a national nonprofit dedicated to educational accessibility through broadcasting, publishing, and awarding creative work in service of civics and culture.
"If you think about preserving history, or you think about preserving culture, or uplifting culture, to a very large extent, you are talking about memory, you are talking about preserving memory."
"Fire is just immensely complex and managing it requires a lot of complex, thoughtful policy and a lot of agility. These are not things that institutions are known for."
Nick Mott and Justin Angle The Fire Problem, EP525
"I came of age during the Asian American, the Black, the students of color movements. I came into this field with that burning mission to raise up underutilized or underserved people and voices."
"I think we have to be able to think broadly enough and deeply enough to say what is it about a place and a people that will allow atrocious villainy to go on for hundreds and hundreds of years.
"Environmentalism and civil rights in 1979, two separate tracks. In some cases it took almost a decade, in some cases two decades to get the two movements to converge, and it's called environmental justice."
