It was an honor to share my thoughts on climate optimism at the Women x Climate event during Climate Week New York 2022. We covered what climate optimism is, how to show up as a climate optimist, and why taking action is so important.

On National Book Lovers Day, August 9, 2022, Anne Therese guests The Weather Channel’s climate program Pattrn to talk about her book, The Climate Optimist Handbook, and why it’s so needed in the world today.

When the Danish television show Den Grøne Optur came to NYC they chose to follow me a long for a day in the life of a sustainable influencer in the big city. Follow me to the farmers market, kitchen, and compost routine.

What is BMW doing to become more sustainable along the entire value chain? Climate optimist Anne Therese Gennari poses this question in introducing the new BMW podcast series. “Chasing the greenest car” is an eight-part audio documentary in English started on 21 October. The Swedish-born New Yorker visits a number of people who influence the manufacturing process of a BMW.

In this conversation with Jonathan Angel & Melker Larsson on The Decade Podcast, we talked about how to find optimism about climate change, what climate optimism is and myths around it, common barriers to action, and how science shows that optimism can serve as an antidote towards that inaction.

In July of 2022, Anne Therese Gennari hosted a masterclass on climate optimism in the food industry with Food Matters Live and Tetra Pak. This is a written article about the session with key takeaways, tips, and ideas.

To Anne Therese, Sustainability does not mean perfection, nor does it mean that it’s an easy” one and done” thing. Sustainability takes practice and just like working out, you need to be committed daily to making it work. Another belief Anne and I share is that sustainability is about a relationship to yourself and how you treat yourself.”