Andy’s shoot sprang up from families of farmers in Indiana and Kansas. His parents cultivated him in Northern Arizona, where he loathed the Navajo Generating Station coal plant that loomed over Lake Powell and polluted Diné and Hopi lands. Little did he know he would one day get to help shut it down. He spent nearly two decades working in the entertainment industry and quit screenwriting to fight climate change with Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz. He is best known for his efforts to move LA beyond coal and natural gas power on a path to 100% renewable energy, ban neighborhood oil drilling, launch the building decarbonization and zero waste efforts including the plastic bag and Styrofoam bans, create the LA Biodiversity Index, Regenerate LA (healthy soils), and wildlife corridor conservation initiatives, launch the United Nations “Future Policy” award-winning LA Good Food Purchasing Policy, improve the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy, and establish the world’s first Climate Emergency Mobilization Office, which is centered on environmental justice. He also staffed the Councilmember for two years on the Metropolitan Water District Board and was instrumental in creating “watershed approach” turf removal rebate guidelines. Now via his consultancy, 2100iff Strategies (2100 “if and only if”), he guides organizations and agencies on state and local climate, energy, biodiversity and healthy soils legislation, zero waste efforts, climate action plan implementation, and high profile campaigns. His Southern LA County Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Master Plan was recently fully funded by the state’s Wildlife Conservation Board. He represents the City of Petaluma on the RCPA CAAC (Regional Climate Protection Authority Climate Action Advisory Committee). Andy has two kids and his primary mission in life is to seed their pathways to a safe, healthy, and equitable year 2100.