About SolveClimate

America knows what needs to be done to solve the problem of global warming and can easily afford the solutions.

SolveClimate’s mission is to offer the proof and to shine a spotlight on our leaders to make them accountable for solutions.

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David Sassoon
In the early 1980’s, I spent a number of years in Kathmandu, Nepal as a UN Volunteer and as a photographer working in the black-and-white documentary tradition. What attracted me there was curiosity about its "sacred geography," which was largely intact,  undisturbed by modern media culture or a dependence on fossil energy. It left an enduring imprint, and since returning, I've never quite recovered from the culture shock.

My re-entry was sudden. Two weeks after landing back in New York, I registered at Columbia University's School of Journalism. Though I had been washed clean of cultural reference points from my long sojourn abroad -- and thus essentially bewildered -- I still managed to earn a masters degree to add to a BA from Harvard. So, well-equiped with these credentials, I put down my cameras (I was truly tired of leading the life of a heavily laden voyeur) and started slapping the keyboard.

For the next decade, I worked in the non-profit arena with organizations promoting social development, human rights and cultural preservation. In that stretch I founded and published a quarterly tabloid called Action for Children, which UNICEF distributed worldwide in three languages. (I once got fan mail from a prisoner in a Nigerian jail.) The next decade found me in the private sector publicizing emerging science for multi-national communications agencies. (That's code for "public relations.")

I can now say that experience was a valuable detour, because in 2003, I lucked out. I jumped on opportunities to work in support of solutions for global warming, largely for non-environmental organizations, and to help articulate the urgent social and economic case for climate action.

SolveClimate is an extension and amplification of that effort, and a digital experiment in advancing the common good.

Stacy Feldman
Feldman’s first foray into the world of journalism was in 1998, in a tiny village in Ghana, where she worked on a small-scale documentary on the economic development struggles of the area. Still interested in visual media, she took a job in television in Austin, Texas when the Africa project came to a close. Following her short-lived stint in broadcast news, she got a break writing for the Jerusalem Report magazine in Israel. From there she spent some time in India before moving to New York to attend Columbia University, where she earned a masters from the School of International and Public Affairs.

For three years after her studies, she worked for a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing equity into the public school system. Her next job was for an environmental organization. It became her window into the world of the climate change issue, and helped to plant the seeds for her work at SolveClimate.