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Will Heegaard

Will Heegaard

Operations Director at Footprint Project, a nonprofit delivering clean energy solutions to disaster-affected communities; former paramedic with expertise in disaster response and off-grid solar deployment.

Jun 1, 2026

Climate Correction™ Podcast

Climate Correction™ Podcast

When the Grid Goes Down: Decarbonizing Disaster Response

Jun 1 · 31m

Shannon MaganiezinHOST
4:12
Can you tell me about what is Footprint Project, its mission? What does it do? Tell me everything.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:16
Yeah.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:16
[laughs] Everything.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:18
Sounds good.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:19
Yeah.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:20
So Footprint Project is a small but growing, I'd say, nonprofit now.
Will Heegaard
Will HeegaardGUEST
4:26
We founded in 2018 with a very, you know, focused kind of mission statement to help communities build back greener by mobilizing, developing, deploying green energy infrastructure, cleaner energy solutions to communities in crisis.

16 MINS LATER

speaker_2UNKNOWN
20:43
Can you share one or two, uh, very personal experiences from disaster to relief?

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