There are chairs pushed tightly together around a long conference-like table.
Theres a PowerPoint already queued up on the warm projector.
His name is Adam Met, a professor of climate advocacy at Columbia.
Ryan, Jack, and Adam Met of AJR perform onstage during KIIS FM’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2023 Presented by Capital One at The Kia Forum on December 01, 2023 in Inglewood, California.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
And were at his climate workshop, a condensed version of the seven-week course he usually teaches every fall.
In fact, for Met, his work touring with AJR directly proved why his climate work was necessary.
And hes not opposed if some of that spark starts in his classroom.
This idea of in-person advocacy is so much bigger than the music industry, Met says.
And we need all of these different types of stakeholders engaged to make change.
Its never going to be just individuals, its never going to be just business.
Its never going to be just nonprofits.
