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Alaina Wood
Sustainability Scientist; Climate Communicator; Founder, The Garbage Queen
Alaina Wood is the founder of the science education platform The Garbage Queen and a host for the climate-solutions media company Pique Action. A sustainability scientist with a background in waste and water, she was previously an environmental planner for the State of Tennessee and an environmental compliance officer for a private landfill firm now owned by Republic Services. Wood became a climate communicator at the beginning of the pandemic and focuses her work on addressing climate anxiety through producing videos on climate solutions, activism, and science.
Previously
![The Climate Solutions in Stories](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/caeeac7a-1560-4a37-ad51-e0f44626303a/52735727204_179dbe4dd8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C358%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
The biggest story of our time is unfolding and there is no right way to tell it. Each of these storytellers is telling it differently—using journalism, photography, television...
![Plenary](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/5af2edcb-483e-4738-b8e2-c52b88a177ec/52733856343_976493faed_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C858%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
An entrepreneur talks reseeding forests with drones, and the Editors-in-Chief of the Washington Post and The Guardian explain how their newsrooms are pioneering the future of...
![Climate Change and You](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/dd182fc3-96aa-4494-8315-199e1ffffc0e/52178749159_42e6923fa8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=13%2C768%2C6771%2C3802&w=400)
How do you impact climate change? How does climate change — and the fraught conversation about it — impact you? Are feelings of climate doom even justified? What are the best...