Season 1, Episodes 8 and 8.5: Bracken Hendricks

 
 

Aug. 21, 2020

The man with the climate plan.

Bracken is America’s leading policy expert on solving the climate crisis. He co-wrote the climate plan for Governor Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign, which became the go-to plan for all Democratic candidates running for president. That plan has been updated and now lives on as the Evergreen Action Plan, a comprehensive set of policy solutions for the climate crisis that Bracken and colleagues have made available to all political candidates at the national, state and local level. None other than Joe Biden now has adopted large parts of the Evergreen Action Plan in his own climate plan.

We spoke with Bracken both before and after Biden announced his climate plan and we are releasing these conversations in two episodes. In Episode 8.0 (August 20, 2020), Bracken gives us a frank and insightful assessment of how Biden’s plan stacks up to what the science mandates we must do to avoid climate chaos. In Episode 8.5 (August 27, 2020), Bracken explains the key policy pillars of standards-plus-investment-plus-justice of the Evergreen Action Plan and why this plan is vital to our future. And he inspires us with a vision of America that leads the world into a clean green future, invests in all her people with a broad range of policies to revitalize rural and urban areas, ensures that fossil fuel workers and their communities are not left behind, welcomes everyone into the middle class with good jobs, provides opportunity for young people during an economic crisis, and ensures climate justice for people of color and frontline communities.

Yes we can do all this -- tune in to find out how.

headshot of Bracken Hendricks
What we are sitting on the precipice of is either a catastrophic global climate crisis or the mobilization of resources, political will and common purpose to build something profoundly exciting.
— Bracken Hendricks

Show Notes