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When we think of this summer's deadly heatwaves and each rollout of temperature projections, it's hard to argue that there's anything more obviously horrifying.
So we wanted to go back through some heat-centric conversations from our archive. They're not not sad, but they all circle around the whys and hows of getting here and being here and going forth. We'll hear about migration histories, participatory design, Indigenous knowledge, and how heat interacts with carceral structures, like prisons.
A future for Las Vegas, part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ufBmcqampB8wIpGswddpQ?si=0b580da9d34e402e
Building resilience through parks, part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AEA7QXcLRqHHk7CGOYQjb?si=11f5294b83044e4f
The fire season is far from over, part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VdidRKyRAQ0OgEc3Jqwv6?si=18c2387714cf4b4f
Prison Ecology: the law and beyond: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UJl8w739LifH2MvQbH5cu?si=3b4de8a4152149b9
We do have the technology," Shanti tells Jim in this interview. "What we need to do now is to put in place the policy to enable reaching these goals."
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran is the author of America’s Energy Gamble: People Economy and Planet and works at University of Pittsburgh to analyze the economic, legal, and political barriers and opportunities for the energy transition to renewable energy and for economic diversification of fossil fuel-reliant communities in the United States and globally.
Saunders, Laura , Shanahan, James, Filippelli, Gabriel, Miles, Emily
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The people who form Appalachians Against Piplelines have been resisting the Mountain Valley Pipeline and other extractive, environmentally dangerous projects since 2018, continuing the long tradition of care for the earth and all beings among the mountains.
In this sound-rich audio documentary about AAP's work, Appalachian-grown filmmaker Laura Saunders brings together the stories of folks who have dedicated years of labor, risked arrest, and continue to fight for the wellbeing of their communities.
The ITC team is deeply grateful to all of the storytellers who shared their time, energy, and selves in this episode. See links at the bottom of the show notes to learn more about them.
Thanks also goes to IU's Environmental Resilience Institute for offering High Impact grant funding to pay storytellers like the ones you hear in this episode — those working on the ground toward environmental justice. While our High Impact funding has now come to an end, we at ITC are always happy to collaborate in telling generative environmental justice stories that feel true and useful to the people living them. If you're interested in working together, email itcpod@iu.edu.
AAP Twitter: https://twitter.com/stopthemvp
AAP Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/
AAP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/
Laura Saunders: http://www.saundersdocumentary.com/
Over the past three years (150 episodes!) of In this Climate, some themes and lessons have emerged. One of those is the necessity of more sustainable food systems.
So, this episode, we're pulling interviews from different moments and tying them together for a multidimensional look at how we grow and distribute and consume. We'll hear about Californian water use, local nutrient cycling, unfair coffee trade, and Panamanian campesino land defenders.
Camille Pannu: https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/lecturers/pannu/
Jason Bradford: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1OBMe3A8erIUcLXCd5TDXZ?si=99d4fadb103d4504
Jessica Eise: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gLExd4TnGgaRmhKlskcOh?si=75904fcd93f7477d
Marvin Wilcox: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xj8w9PljHE0z8oUf8Cl3c?si=ab64598768524a49
The 2017 and 2024 solar eclipse paths cross over Carbondale, Illinois, a college town in a largely rural region with the highest poverty rate in the state. For some here, in the midst of intensifying climate change and ongoing environmental racism, this moment between eclipses is an opportunity to focus on building dynamic resilience and nurturing community care networks. One element of this resilience is food autonomy, which hinges on a group of community gardens and chicken coops affiliated with Carbondale Spring.
In this episode, we explore the plants, critters, and distribution channels involved in Carbondale Spring's Food Autonomy initiative.
Partisan Gardens: http://www.partisangardens.org/podcast/december-2020-carbondale-spring/
Chicken Tenders (documentary about Carbondale Spring’s chicken coop project): https://vimeo.com/499285968
The Brownfield Between Us (documentary telling the environmental justice story of the tie yard plant in Carbondale Illinois, and its impact on the health and land of local black families): https://carbondalekoppersjustice.com/documentary/
The 2017 and 2024 solar eclipse paths cross over Carbondale, Illinois, a college town in a largely rural region with the highest poverty rate in the state. For some here, in the midst of intensifying climate change and ongoing environmental racism, this moment between eclipses is an opportunity to focus on building dynamic resilience and nurturing community care networks. One element of this resilience is food autonomy, which hinges on a group of community gardens and chicken coops affiliated with Carbondale Spring.
In this episode, we learn about how Carbondale’s community gardens have come to be and how they nourish a diversity of beings.
Partisan Gardens: http://www.partisangardens.org/podcast/december-2020-carbondale-spring/
Chicken Tenders (documentary about Carbondale Spring’s chicken coop project): https://vimeo.com/499285968
The Brownfield Between Us (documentary telling the environmental justice story of the tie yard plant in Carbondale Illinois, and its impact on the health and land of local black families): https://carbondalekoppersjustice.com/documentary/
This series of episodes grew out of our January series on year-round local food, in which Stewart from Cedar Valley Permaculture suggested we can meaningfully shift our food system by growing more of our own food.
So how are people making this happen? How are people already coming together to grow both food and new food systems?
Throughout this series, we’ll look at a couple helpful Midwestern stories — one in Carbondale, Illinois and one in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, they reveal a breadth of approaches to community gardening that have taught me a heck of a lot and that I hope will inspire you.
This episode, we’re in conversation with Kirk Jones of Project Grow.
Partisan Gardens - Carbondale Spring: http://www.partisangardens.org/podcast/december-2020-carbondale-spring/
Chances are, you've heard the famous call of the loon. In this special release, we introduce the work of Indiana University student Mackenzie Bowlen, who has spent the past semester researching the complex vocalizations of loons.
With agriculture accounting for 10 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, it's easy to argue that farmers need to be involved in our work to mitigate and adapt to intensifying climate change. Hot Farm, a new podcast from the Food & Environment Reporting Network hosted by Eve Abrams, travels across the Midwest, learning from farmers about what they're doing, or could be doing, to improve our relationship with the earth and fellow inhabitants.
Listen to Hot Farm: https://thefern.org/podcasts/hot-farm/
How are Hoosier forests shifting, and what can we do to ensure our cities maintain healthy canopies? In this episode, Jim talks with Burney Fischer, former state forester and co-lead of the Bloomington Urban Forestry Research Group, about the dynamics of urban forestry.
In this show, taped live at Hopscotch Coffee, we talk with Jane Martin, Anagha Gore, and Amy Thompson about the work of ERI and how we can coordinate to improve our relationships with each other and our environment.
ERI Crowdfunding Campaign: https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/climate-change-internships
Recommended Indiana-Native Plants for Attracting Pollinators: https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/publications/POL-6/POL-6.html
Bridging spiritual ecology with urban forestry, we find themes of emergence and the voice of Kyle Lemle. In this episode, he tells us about fasting in the desert as a teenager, turning guns into shovels, supporting community forestry in Bhutan, and training people of many faiths to know and build collective power. Through these stories and more, he helps us understand how land stewardship and social justice work can be acts of love.
Here in Indiana, we talk often about wind and solar, but what could renewable marine energy development mean for people from the Hoosier State to small remote island?
Andrea Copping, a scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Marine Sciences Laboratory, helps us understand the science, collaborations, and potential of several varieties of marine energy.
If you like this, you might want to listen to Just Energy: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IkLxMbUL3EeYTWPjnDlt2?si=2b904bd5d59a414a
Host Gabe Filippelli talks with Paul Harvey about his book and project Plasticology, microplastics in the environment, and how we can deal with our legacy of plastics pollution—which, like most things, is a climate problem.
Naidu, Ravi , Shanahan, James, Filippelli, Gabriel, Miles, Emily
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In this episode, host Gabe Filippelli talks with Laurate Professor Ravi Naidu at the University of Newcastle about environmental contamination, emerging issues, and how to work with industries in a constructive way to help solve environmental problems.
As institutions of higher education aim to prepare students of sustainability and support environmental research, what are we missing? And what does it take to turn our knowledge of chemistry and physics into new ways of relating with the earth? In this episode, Lissy Goralnik and Laurie Thorp of Michigan State University share what they've learned through teaching with contemplative practices.
We've been talking a lot about ecological anxiety and grief, vague and muddy feelings that they are. In this episode, climate emotions researcher Panu Pihkala helps us name and explore what these wide terms hold.
An insightful episode from Panu's new podcast: https://climatechangeandhappiness.com/episodes/episode-03-eco-anxiety-demystified
We talk with Ashlee Cunsolo, founding dean of the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at the Labrador Campus of Memorial University, about the connective capacity of grief, the role of land in Inuit mental health research, and the relationship between agency and letting go.
Ashlee's site: https://ashleecunsolo.ca/
What if the science story and the emotion story are the same story? What could we do if we were to deconstruct the dualism of feeling and acting? In this episode, Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson walk us through their research on and experience with climate feelings, from grief to guilt to hope. We work on understanding how we can engage with emotions together to help us get into ever-better relationship with each other and the earth.
Sarah Jaquette Ray's reflection on The Unbearable Whiteness of Climate Anxiety: https://gendread.substack.com/p/sarah-jaquette-ray-on-the-unbearable?utm_source=url&s=r
Jennifer Atkinson's Facing It podcast: https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/facing-it
In this episode, Jim talks with Michael Hamburger, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, about the letter that Concerned Scientists at Indiana University-Bloomington recently sent to University administrators. It includes requests for a formal climate action plan and an implementation planning task force of diverse stakeholders.
We reached out to IU Director of Media Relations Chuck Carney for comment and received a statement, which Jim reads at the end of the episode.
Stephanie Kaza—a long-time lover of trees, practicing Zen Buddhist, and environmentalist—walks us through some of the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism that can help us get into right relationship with the earth and ourselves, which as we learn, are not one and not two.
In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we ask James Keys about his experience and study of wonder, about the many ways we can access, experience, and use this emotion.
In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants?
In this episode, we talk with Lisa Sideris about wonder as it relates with science, religion, Rachel Carson, and policy change. We also return to a discussion on the importance of religious and ethical approaches to environmental issues.
In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we ask environmental ethicist and religious studies scholar Willis Jenkins about the significance of understanding religion in the process of building a better relationship with our environment. We talk about the Lynn White Thesis, Laudato si', understanding Yellowstone as sanctuary, and more.
Back in December 2020, we talked with environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin about the ins and outs of natural gas leasing. Like, how is it that a company obtains rights to drill in the middle of farmland? How do farmers feel about that? And as always, how does money flow and motivate and determine access to political processes?
More about Stephanie: https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/samalin/
More of her work: https://theconversation.com/profiles/stephanie-malin-318393/articles
There's a new podcast we think you'll want to hear! “Just Energy” is a collaboration between Sanya Carley, an energy justice professor at Indiana University’s O’Neill School, and her master of public affairs students. They explore what energy (in)justice is, its racial and social dimensions, and how to make future energy policy more inclusive by design. Because it’s never just about energy. It’s about people.
Here's a link to the first episode of the show: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7moq93E1leU1eq3c7x0pGK?si=4btlrDFkQT-8KXM60GiDew
Not all greenhouse gases work the same. While CO2 has a severe long-term effect on our climate, methane has much more significant warming power in the near term. And where does methane often escape? Along the natural gas supply chain.
In this episode, Jim talks with Environmental Defense Fund scientist Steven Hamburg about all things methane -- where we find leaks and how we can fix them while we move to renewables.
Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter.
This episode, we meet Lauren Volpp, who nurtures Three Flock Farm, the Plant Truck Project, the People's Market, and much more. She explains how these distinct farmers market cultivates collective confidence and stability that can build capacity for future winter harvests.
Visit the market website here: https://www.peoplesmarketbtown.org/
Another podcast explaining markets and food justice work in Bloomington: https://blackprogressivespodcast.buzzsprout.com/1806789/9060825-food-justice-locally-ep-5-part-1
What is the health impact of urban heat islands? Is climate change a "cause of death"? How good is med school training on climate issues? Gabe talks with Dr. Jay Lemery of the Univ of Colorado.
Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter.
In this episode, we join Stewart Hamilton and Kelsey Campbell for a Friday harvest and chat through lettuce bagging. They talk about the value of local, sustainably grown food and what needs to change in order to build capacity for local growing and eating in future winters.
If you haven't yet listened to our discussion with Darren Bender-Beauregard, we recommend you do that here! It provides context for Darren’s relationship with the land, how he grows Andean crops in Indiana, the sorts of grants that help his family experiment and educate, and more.
Then, listen to this tour for concrete insights into how Darren and his family channel and encourage ecological abundance.
More on the farm here: https://www.brambleberrypermaculture.com/
Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter.
First up, we sit down at Brambleberry Farm with Darren Bender-Beauregard to talk through his family's iteration of permaculture/homesteading, experimentation with unconventional crops, and how we can engage with the many systems of which we're part.
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?
A discussion about a proposed forest restoration project in the Hoosier NF.
2:23 Ranger Chris Thornton, HNF
24:00 Kyle Brazil, Central Hardwood Joint Venture
34:11 Steven Stewart, Save Hoosier National Forest
We talk with researcher Seth Wynes about how major league sport travel, affected by COVID, affects energy use. Also, does academic travel affect academic success?
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the 1990s, you could see one bumper sticker across the capital of Azerbaijan: "Happiness is multiple pipelines." Amid ever-complicating conversations about environmental resilience, the themes of diversification, redundancy, and (inter)dependence of energy infrastructure remain relevant.
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Adam Stulberg, Sam Nunn Professor and Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, about the history of conflict and collaboration surrounding natural gas infrastructure -- and how it all remains relevant today.
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
In this conversation with researcher, meteorologist, and science communicator Dr. Marshall Shepherd, we cover a lot of ground, connecting inequities in academia to environmental injustices associated with infrastructure and intensifying storms.
Did you know that a Koch-funded university think tank actually justified inaction on climate change by arguing that smog serves as a skin-cancer-reducing sunblock?
In this co-produced episode, the UnKoch My Campus team tells the story of working alongside students at George Washington University to push their school administration to address the Regulatory Studies Center, which has been linked to climate disinformation and deregulation — while the university attempts to tout a climate justice initiative agenda.
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.
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.
