Project Footprint is a nonprofit providing clean energy to organizations.
Powering Up
Footprint Project is a nonprofit with a mission to power communities still struggling to recover after hurricanes and other natural disasters. Right now, the group is in western North Carolina where they are installing solar panels to get power to homeowners still waiting for electricity after Hurricane Helene hit the state in September. Correspondent Jessica Gomez follows workers trying to help those in need. Watch here.
“I’m the eternal optimist.”
Tampa’s mayor Jane Castor is now in her second term and has big plans for her city. She sits down with Soledad to talk about how she’s approached challenges in the past and her hopes to help her city endure climate change. Watch here.
Strength in Numbers
Being a mayor is not easy, and sometimes the only people who understand are other mayors. That’s why they are gathered at the 100th annual National League of Cities in Tampa. Clarence Anthony, a former mayor of South Bay, Florida, is the CEO and Executive Director of the organization. He talks to Soledad about the unique challenges mayors are facing across the nation. Watch here.
Up in Smoke
A neighborhood in Tampa, helped the city earn one of its nicknames, “Cigar City.” At one point, Ybor City and other parts of Tampa were home to about 200 cigar factories, making it the cigar-producing capital of our nation. Over time, many of those factories closed up shop, except one: the J.C. Newman Company. Producer Tara Cleary takes us inside the last operating cigar factory in the entire nation. Watch here.
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