Welcome to the CREATE Connections podcast! This podcast centers on the idea that no matter what roles you hold – elected official, parent, volunteer, student, or other – you are a crucial part of climate action in your community. We are all impacted by climate change and other environmental hazards, and we all have strengths and resources we can bring to make our community more resilient.

We will “CREATE Connections” as we interview a variety of guests to explore how they have found their place in the network of people and organizations working to build healthy, sustainable, resilient, people-centered places to live and work. Along the way, we will highlight opportunities for listeners to take action and form new connections throughout our region!

Listen to the most recent episode of the podcast below or check out a list of all episodes here!

Episode 6

CREATE Connections Episode 6 focuses on people-powered transportation, an important climate action that can help our community be more sustainable. It features Aaron and Lamont, students who are part of Community Bike Works in Easton, along with Nella Panella, the Easton shop’s program manager. We discuss what they love about biking, some of the obstacles that exist to getting more people out on bikes in a city like Easton, and the lessons they take away from their involvement in our local bike community.

Links and additional resources from the episode:

• Community Bike Works
• Coalition for Appropriate Transportation (CAT)
• THE LINK Trail Network – Find your local trail
• Spend a few minutes to learn how to signal and scan with this video from the League of American Bicyclists: https://bikeleague.org/videos/signaling-and-scanning/
• NNC’s Youth Climate Summit of the Lehigh Valley
• Sign up for the CREATE Connections Newsletter
• More about the CREATE Connections Project 

This podcast was prepared by the Nurture Nature Center under award NA23SEC0080002 from the Environmental Literacy Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the U.S. Department of Commerce.