Hi John,

Have you listened to EDF’s podcast, Degrees? This week Degrees reached the top 50 in the Apple podcast career charts. Degrees is the first podcast to focus on planet-saving careers, to inspire more people to use their jobs to make an environmental impact. 

Hosted by EDF’s own Yesh Pavlik Slenk, Degrees engages everyone from National Geographic storytellers to songwriters, city leaders to finance leaders to sustainability gurus and former White House staffers to learn about their efforts to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental problems!

Tune into our latest episode today and hear from an Olympic athlete turned eco-entrepreneur, BJ Johnson! Find out how he’s using his engineering degree and smart economics to tackle the diesel problem impacting Americans nationwide.

In this episode BJ provides illuminating lessons on why entrepreneurship is a viable planet-saving career, while highlighting the challenges of being one of the few Black men in his field.

“Now is the time, let's quit delaying. This notion of, oh, well it's okay, five-year-olds in L.A. today have asthma because we'll have electric school buses in 2040—we need to reject that type of thinking and start asking, ‘No. Why can't we start making this better today?’”

- BJ Johnson, Co-Founder ClearFlame Engine Technologies

This is just the latest example of the amazing guests and conversations Yesh brings to listeners around the world! We hope that, by hearing their stories, you’ll find advice and inspiration to guide you on your own purpose-driven journey.

If you want real talk about planet-saving careers look no further! Stream now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts. Please rate and review the podcast and share with your friends and family members who want to use their careers to make a difference!

Thanks for tuning in!

Wes Rogerson
Manager, Grassroots Organizing & Activism