POCACITO conversations

Hello and welcome back to another edition of the POCACITO conversations. Today’s episode takes us to Jamaica Bay in New York City and was recorded on Sunday, February 8, 2026.  This is part two of two of recordings around Jamaica Bay. I am Max Gruenig, your host for today and I met with Terri Carta, the Executive Director at Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy, as well as Elizabeth Stoehr, Depu...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the POCACITO conversations. Today’s episode takes us to Jamaica Bay in New York City and was recorded on Sunday, February 8, 2026.  I am Max Gruenig, your host for today and I met with Elizabeth Stoehr Deputy Director with the  Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy and her colleague Anil Pasram Stewardship Programs Manager with the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Park...

Today we have the second in our four-part series of 2024 conversations with community organizers and activists who are doing the work of environmental and climate justice … sometimes in acutely critical conditions, as we heard in our last talk with Kostia Krynytski of the Ukrainian NGO EcoAction. At other times, it’s about building a global mass movement, as we’ll hear in this episode. We go back...

Our first conversation is with Kostiantyn Krynytskyi from the Ukrainian NGO EcoAction .  In the years preceding Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kostia worked with the country’s eastern coal regions for a just transition of the energy system. Since the invasion, his work has shifted, with a focus on the resiliency potential of distributed renewable energy. Max talked with Kostia at th...