Abolition and Resistance: In the Grassroots with Kobi Naseck
Season 4: Episode 4
Series 1: Lifestyle as Systems Change
The guests in our lifestyle series are all “walking the walk.” They have integrated climate consciousness into their everyday lives and ways of being. For these experts, climate action is not a discrete choice, but an intrinsic part of their lives. From them, we can learn how to transform our own practices and mindsets to be mores sustainable and future-focused.
In this episode, Kobi Naseck shares with Eric his journey as a climate activist and community organizer and how all of us can find a place in the climate justice movement. He discusses his work with VISIÓN (where his goal is to end neighborhood oil drilling), why abolition and climate justice are intertwined, the current state of climate justice in California, why our elected officials won’t save us, and how to measure success in the climate justice movement.
About our guest
Kobi is a 2014 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin as a part of the Plan II Honors Program, an honors, interdisciplinary liberal arts program, and the Business Honors Program (BHP) in the McCombs School of Business. Kobi is currently a VISIÓN Coalition Director at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment in San Francisco. He is interested in climate resilience, sustainability, solar-friendly policy initiatives, disaster capitalism, and energy efficiency.
Links mentioned in this episode
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Music in this episode
Nature sound effect by bbc.co.uk – ©2023 BBC
Climify Theme Song by Casual Motive
The Season 4 Climify Team
Eric Benson (Host)
Cam Burkins (Producer)
Bhavna Bhavanishankar (Experience Researcher and Multisensory Educator)
Adam Dziaba (Designer)
Jacqui Himmel (Multimedia Journalist and Scriptwriter)
Abigail Zhuk (Design Researcher)
Climate Design Assignments
At the end of each episode, we ask our guests what their ideal climate design project would be. They have four weeks with a class full of design students. We translated their response into a project brief that you can use for your class.
