Leading, Convening and Influencing with Barbara Buffaloe

03/23/23 • 28 min

Living Change: A Quest For Climate Leadership

Columbia Missouri Mayor Barbara Buffaloe started her political career with the idea that if you love where you live, it’s a joy to serve there too. In this lively conversation with Andrea, she shares insights that many other city leaders can learn from, including why and how to build quiet influence and the beauty of peer learning communities. Of course, there is an emphasis on the freedom of riding a bike for transportation.

Urban Sustainability Directors Network: https://www.usdn.org/index.html#/

United WE: https://united-we.org/

National League of Cities: https://www.nlc.org/

Urban Sustainability Directors Network: https://www.usdn.org/index.html#/

United WE: https://united-we.org/

National League of Cities: https://www.nlc.org/

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Hollywood Goes Paperless with Steve Vitolo

As ever, Andrea has a lively conversation with this week's guest, Steve Vitolo, as they dig into the glaring paper waste he saw during the script revision process on set, and how witnessing that daily process compelled him to be the solution and found Scriptation – a script revision app now used by industry leaders from Game of Thrones to SNL. Find out why this television writer/producer decided to create massive change in his industry, and how that led to an Emmy Award.

Scriptation: https://scriptation.com/

Valerie Weiss, Director: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1401177/

Mixtape Film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587420/

Earth Angels: https://www.earthangelsets.com/

Hollywood Paperless By 2030 Pledge: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bradley-whitford-rachel-bloom-pledge-hollywood-sustainability-paperless-1235093156/

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Robbyn Lewis on Transit, Democracy and Coalition Building

Carfree herself, Baltimore Delegate Robbyn Lewis sees transit as a public good and a lynchpin of democracy. She talks with Andrea about how there’s more to it than simply painting the bus lanes, and how improving transit is absolutely a social justice issue. How do these things get addressed in today’s city? Delegate Lewis makes a great case for really understanding the tools of community engagement and coalition building. If you are looking for smart, bold, and progressive, climate-acting local leaders, start here.