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 Navajo 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 Biodiversity Index, healthy soils, and wildlife corridor conservation initiatives, launch the Good Food and update the environmentally preferable purchasing policies, and establish the world’s first Climate Emergency Mobilization Office. 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. Andy has two kids and his primary mission in life is to seed their pathways to a safe, healthy, and equitable year 2100.