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1. Natural Gas: Oral History of a Fracking Boom Town (25:52)

Date:
2021-01-25
Main contributors:
Anselmi, J.J,, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
What does a fossil fuel boom town feel like for those living in it? And what's possible once the coal's burned and the wells are dry? In this episode, Rock Springs-raised J.J. Anselmi shares what he's seen and heard in collecting oral histories of the Wyoming boom town. J.J.'s piece in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/160689/rise-fall-fracking-boom-town-oral-history

2. Toward Resilient Critical Infrastructure with Hiba Baroud (40:45)

Date:
2021-09-03
Main contributors:
Baroud, Hiba , Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Hurricane Ida knocked the main New Orleans transmission tower into the Mississippi River, spurring a long-term power outage. Since then, persistent heavy rains have flooded New York subway stations and cascaded to reveal countless vulnerabilities in our critical infrastructure systems. To explain these vulnerabilities and how we can grow in resilience, we talk with Vanderbilt University infrastructure, risk, and resilience expert Hiba Baroud.

3. Air Check: Crazy Town and Ecoliterate Agriculture (25:48)

Date:
2021-04-02
Main contributors:
Bradford, Jason, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Dr. Jason Bradford, board president of the Post Carbon Institute and co-host of the Crazy Town podcast, joins us to talk about their third season and his work in/around sustainable agriculture. We discuss humor's role in dealing with environmental harms, hidden drivers like discount rate, and what it'll take to get more of us involved in local sustainable agriculture. Crazy Town podcast: https://www.postcarbon.org/crazytown/

4. Emergent Strategy with adrienne maree brown (33:33)

Date:
2021-08-27
Main contributors:
brown, adrienne maree, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Season 3 of In This Climate is right around the corner! In anticipation, we're sharing one of our favorite interviews from spring 2021. It's a wide-ranging conversation with person-of-many-hats adrienne maree brown. We discuss connection with place, love, just transition, and more.

5. Collaborative leadership with Laura Calandrella (25:48)

Date:
2021-04-14
Main contributors:
Calandrella, Laura, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
When you hear the word leadership, you may think about hierarchy. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this episode, Laura Calandrella, author of Our Next Evolution: Transforming Collaborative Leadership to Shape Our Planet’s Future, helps us understand the importance of connection and relationship, dialogue and consensus. Her strategy is attentive to history and power dynamics. You know. The sort of long-term principles we need as climate change intensifies and demands greater collective resilience. Laura's website: https://www.lauracalandrella.com/

6. TTG Asks Aaron Carroll (25:48)

Date:
2021-03-11
Main contributors:
Carroll, Aaron, Shanahan, James, Monaghan, Elaine
Summary:
Will IU have a giant vaccination pod in a couple months’ time? Will vaccinations be required for students to come back to campus in the fall? What WAS that lingering cough I had right before the outbreak? Sounds like the kind of thing you’d ask Aaron Carroll. We did! After two semesters of answering every question the IU community could think of in weekly webinars, he gamely came on the show to answer Dean Shanahan and Professor Monaghan’s burning questions as we round the corner toward mass vaccinations and a hopeful return to on-campus life.

7. Maintaining Agile and Flexible Infrastructure With Mikhail Chester (1:00:00)

Date:
2021-09-20
Main contributors:
Chester, Mikhail, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, we dive deep into the history of infrastructure to uncover elements of both hardware and knowledge systems that hold us back from resilience to climate change. Guest Mikhail Chester provides theoretical insight and lots of tangible examples of people who are figuring out how to improve infrastructure for a world of decreasing stability. Dr. Chester's book: The Rightful Place of Science: Infrastructure in the Anthropocene NYT article on Room for the River: To Avoid River Flooding, Go With the Flow, the Dutch Say

8. What's in the Build Back Better Bill for Ag? (24:49)

Date:
2021-12-22
Main contributors:
Clayton, Chris, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
A discussion with Chris Clayton of Progressive Farmer/DTN about ag and climate provisions in the Build Back Better bill. What is the future for those provisions?

9. Mental Health: Live (27:45)

Date:
2021-03-12
Main contributors:
Clayton, Susan , Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
We kick off our mental health series with Dr. Susan Clayton, professor of psychology and environmental studies and chair of the psychology department at the College of Wooster. Together, we work to complicate our understanding of emotional engagement with climate, within and beyond the frame of grief and anxiety. Watch the conversation on Facebook: https://fb.watch/4bJ0fGhrqe/

10. AAAMC Speaks with Dr. Tyron Cooper (29:27)

Date:
2021-02-23
Main contributors:
Cooper, Tyron, Shanahan, James
Summary:
IU Archives of African American Music and Culture Director Tyron Cooper has an insider’s view of Black music and the culture behind it, much of which goes back to the Black church. He says that’s part of what makes AAAMC different: it looks at the broad context and origins of Black music, and makes it accessible for both scholarship and casual listening. Cooper joins Dean Shanahan on Through the Gates to tell us more about the archives and share AAAMC Speaks, a documentary series hosted by the archives in partnership with the Office of the Provost. The series brings the archives alive in a series of interviews with industry executives and performers in various genres of Black music. The first episode on Eddie Gilreath shows one of the first Black professionals to work at the executive level in the music industry. Coming up are features on AAAMC founding director Dr. Portia Maultsby and the foundational jazz musician Reggie Workman. Go to aaamc.indiana.edu to learn more about the archives.

11. Mental Health: Accessing Inherent Wisdom (24:30)

Date:
2021-05-11
Main contributors:
Dellman, Jess, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Jess Dallman introduces us to the transpersonal counseling dynamic and helps us take a look at how we can slow down and move intentionally with the earth. We explore how we can support each other in accessing our inherent wisdom through experience, and through connection with the natural world. Jess's site: http://www.naturalwisdomcounseling.com/jessica-dallman Joanna Macy: https://www.joannamacy.net/main Richard Louv: http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/ Queer Nature: https://www.queernature.org/

12. Reimagining Transportation: How We Got Here (55:21)

Date:
2021-11-05
Main contributors:
Fairfield, John, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode of our series on reimagining transportation, urban history expert John Fairfield helps us understand how our transportation infrastructure developed and what we can do to modify it in a sustainable direction. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

13. Air Check: Melting and Calving (16:12)

Date:
2021-03-03
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this Air Check, professor and biogeochemist Gabriel Filippelli joins us again to talk about ice, ocean currents, and what makes the Arctic so different from the Antarctic. We also briefly discuss lobsters. Listen to find out how it's all connected! Our next live show explores the intersection of climate change and mental health: https://fb.me/e/3zP82ubFf

14. Air Check: One Year Later (15:50)

Date:
2021-03-12
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this Air Check, professor and biogeochemist Gabriel Filippelli joins us again to talk about what a year in the pandemic has taught us about greenhouse gas emissions and our capacity to change systems. From the graphs to the big ideas, we cover a lot of ground in 15 minutes.

15. Air Check: Polar Vortices and Power Grids (14:07)

Date:
2021-02-17
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
What does climate change have to do with freezing temperatures, heavy snows, and overwhelmed utilities? Professor and biogeochemist Gabriel Filippelli joins us to explain. An Arctic Blast from the Polar Vortex | IUPUI Explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AcubjRHzwY

16. Redesigning Food Systems: Live (1:06:00)

Date:
2021-04-23
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily, Yazzie, Cherilyn, Sinha, Shreya , Williamson, Robert, Montaño, Victoria
Summary:
In this special Earth Day live show, we discuss food systems from the global to the hyperlocal. Hosts Gabe Filippelli and Jim Shanahan are joined by Cherilyn Yazzie, who helps run Coffee Pot Farms in Navajo Nation, agrarian political economy researcher Shreya Sinha, and Robert Williamson and Victoria Montaño, who work on the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust’s land team. Coffee Pot Farms: https://www.facebook.com/coffeepotfarms/ Shreya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/phirkie Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

17. Pakistan's Environmental Position With Imran Khalid (34:19)

Date:
2021-11-22
Main contributors:
Khalid, Imran, Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Gabe talks with climate and sustainability expert Imran Khalid about COP26, renewable energy, vehicle emissions, and more as they relate to Pakistan's position in a changing climate.

18. The Hoosier Environmental Landscape With Jesse Kharbanda (53:43)

Date:
2021-11-05
Main contributors:
Kharbanda, Jesse, Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Jesse Kharbanda sits down with host Gabe Filippelli to talk about the nuances, challenges, and opportunities in Indiana environmental legislation and action. Jesse built this knowledge over more than a decade of leading the Hoosier Environmental Council. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

19. Subtracting With Leidy Klotz (45:47)

Date:
2021-10-28
Main contributors:
Klotz, Leidy, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
When you come across a challenge, what is your first impulse? To add or subtract? And what does it really mean to subtract? In this episode, University of Virginia professor Leidy Klotz helps us understand the human tendency toward addition and what that means in the context of the relationship between humans and the rest of the earth. Also, the next event in our Resilience Speaker Series is Friday, November 12, 2021, featuring Dawn O’Neal, executive director of Audubon Delta. We're grateful to Wild Birds Unlimited for making events like this possible by supporting ERI's work and sponsoring this event. Dawn O’Neal talk: https://eri.iu.edu/news-and-events/events/environmental-resilience-speaker-series.html Wild Birds Unlimited: https://www.wbu.com/ ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

20.  Geoengineering: Live (51:21)

Date:
2021-02-11
Main contributors:
Kravitz, Ben, Gerrard, Michael, MacMartin, Douglas, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Jim Shanahan and guest host Ben Kravitz talk with environmental law expert Michael Gerrard and climate engineering researcher Douglas MacMartin about the ins and outs of geoengineering. See the video: https://www.facebook.com/thisclimatepod/videos/765649801024000