The Lab - Climate policy institute
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance is an accelerator and investor network led by the Climate Policy Institute, focused on designing and launching new financial instruments to mobilize large-scale private investment towards climate solutions and sustainable development. Every year, they publish a call for proposals from organizations and universities. The chosen participants receive assistance in developing their ideas and finding investors for them.
From 2019 to 2022, I helped produce more than 20 explainers covering each of the instruments featured in each yearly cohort. I developed the visual direction of the videos (animated logo, L3rds, backgrounds, etc), sourced b-roll, edited the footage, and animated charts and graphics. I also helped wordsmith the script in pre-production, and recorded remote interviews on Riverside.Below are some of my favorite videos from that effort:
Building Energy Exchange
The Building Energy Exchange (BE-Ex) is a non-profit org based in New York City that acts as a hub for architects, developers, and building owners to learn how to decarbonize their buildings (and comply with NYC’s local climate laws).Since building operations constitute the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in NYC, educating this demographic and making it as easy to decarbonize as possible is hugely important, so I was happy to be part of this educational process.
In 2024, I reworked a video highlighting one of their partner's thermal network projects. I did all the animation and most of the editing.
In late 2025, I helped develop a video series promoting their Strategic Decarbonization Framework website. For all these projects, I was in charge of all the animation, and a good amount of the editing and b-roll sourcing.
In 2024, I reworked a video highlighting one of their partner's thermal network projects. I did all the animation and most of the editing.
In late 2025, I helped develop a video series promoting their Strategic Decarbonization Framework website. For all these projects, I was in charge of all the animation, and a good amount of the editing and b-roll sourcing.
Energetic
City Atlas' Energetic is a cooperative board game that teaches the complexities of building a clean energy grid, with in NYC as the example/subject. It gives everyone the chance to see the scope of the work needed to decarbonize our energy system in time to meet goals for the Paris Agreement.It's hard to win; sobering and motivating at the same time.
Energetic is used at 30+ schools and colleges across the city and the country.
In 2022, I edited various demos and interviews, with the main promo shown below:
In more recent years, I have become a volunteer program coordinator for the project, organizing and leading workshops to spread its use amongst teachers, students and the general public.
Learn more about it here.
Earth Day 2022
Barnard College
Cornell University
Cornell University
NYC Public Schools Climate Institute 2023
NYC-dsa ecosocialists
After passing the Build Public Renewables Act in 2023, the Public Power NY coalition had a new mission - to hold Gov. Hochul and the NY Power Authority accountable in following the law. The law compels them to build publicly-owned renewables, as well as close polluting peaker plans, within the decade.For that purpose, in 2024 and 2025, I edited a few reels as part of Ecosoc's social media efforts
Ecosoc Smash the Stacks Reel
2024
(Edited and animated in After Effects)
Link to the original Reel
I also made the piñata.
March Reel
2025
(Edited and animated in Capcut)
Link to the original Reel
In addition to the social video (and pinatas) above, I contributed with a few other cute projects:
I designed a short comic posted on socials that colorfully tells the story of the campaign with a kaiju twist. Unfortunately it got cut off in the post, so I uploaded a higher quality version here
I also created a microsite making the case for closing them down, with an embedded ActionNetwork form for the viewer to quickly email the governor and sign up for events. It never got used but it came out so good I had to share it somewhere.
350NYC.org
In my early days as a climate activist, in the height of the Green New Deal hype, I was part of 350.org's NYC chapter. I shot, interviewed and edited an intro video for a project called The People's Green New Deal, what later became the Climate Policy Digest. It highlights some achievements of the movement and paints a path forward for building a national climate coalition.
Personal apps
With the advent of vibe-coding, I made a few apps in the spirit of climate education.
hotter.fyi allows you to compare your current temperature to the historical averages of past decades. Next time someone asks "how's the weather" you can always say it's hotter (than before)
Climate Taboo is a digital version of the famed game where you have to get your teammates to say the word on the card while avoiding any of the forbidden words it has listed.