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In this extended Air Check, political scientist Thea Riofrancos joins us to discuss the historical context of Chilean lithium mining and how it relates to the global movement for a renewable energy...
Listeners, we have a question. How are you feeling about climate change, about the environment? You can let us know by emailing us at itcpod@indiana.edu.
In this episode, we examine just that—the ...
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In our first episode covering this season's Australian bushfires, we speak with Arabella Douglas. She is a traditional owner who belongs to the Currie family of the Yugambeh and Bundjalung ...
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Long-time residents of higher-elevation Miami neighborhoods have anticipated for decades an influx of wealthy people retreating from flood-prone areas. Then, as it finally began to happen, ...
As early as the 1930s, lakes in the Adirondacks began registering fish loss. By the 1980s, visible forest dieback turned the attention of the United States to the acid rain crisis. Today, scientist...
Observing art can help us relate to environmental issues and move us emotionally, but what happens when we take the next step and begin creating art? In this episode, we look at the multi-level pot...
This video is an overview of 200 years of change in the lives of Hoosiers with disabilities, produced by the Indiana Disability History Project. A very broad survey starting in the 19th century, th...
"I train psychiatrists, psychologists, police officers, and correctional officers." Ray Lay is an Indiana Certified Recovery Specialist and Veterans Administration Peer Support Specialist. He descr...
The legacy of environmental (in)justice stretches beyond the commencement of the industrial revolution, and according to long-time community organizer Peggy Shepard, it remains among the greatest c...
In the second episode of our post-election series, Claudia Jimenez discusses how participatory design has led to sustained community investment from Colombia to the Bay Area. As a new Richmond City...
In this bonus episode, IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs professor David Konisky helps us understand the modern environmental justice movement in the context of its history.
According to UK-based Global Witness, 14 land and environment defenders were killed in Honduras over the course of 2019, three years after the murder of celebrated Indigenous land defender Berta Cá...
Brondizio, Eduardo; Goyes, David Rodríguez ; Santana, Stella Emery
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In the third and final episode of our land defender series, we talk with Eduardo Brondizio, David Rodríguez Goyes, and Stella Emery Santana about the international systems that have long exploited ...
Machine learning's potential to assist in climate change mitigation and adaptation is vast, but as with any developing technologies, so are the challenges. In this episode, we talk with journalist ...
In this Air Check, Senator-Elect DeAndrea Newman Salvador joins us to talk about North Carolina's 39th District, which she flipped in the most recent election. As the founder of Renewable Energy Tr...
Positioned in the driest desert in the United States, Las Vegas is one of the nation's fastest-warming cities. In our third episode on its past and future, we focus on the time from 2000 to present...
This summer, people in United States and beyond took to the streets to demand racial justice. One of the loudest calls was to defund and abolish the police, but not just the police. Abolitionists h...
When we learned about the storm-resilient Hunter's Point South Park, we immediately took interest in the resilience potential of urban public space. Then came the questions. How can we manage publi...
We voted, and we hope you did, too! On this election night Air Check, we only prognosticate a little bit. We otherwise discuss climate ghost towns, climate refuges or "havens," and the columns on E...
Milks, Kirstin; Scribner, Adam; Hamburger, Michael
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In this bonus episode, we talk with organizers and participants from the award-winning Educating for Environmental Change program. Kirstin Milks, Adam Scribner, Michael Hamburger, LaStelshia Speaks...
In the first episode of our post-election series, we go live with Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic, Yessenia Funes of Atmos Magazine, Britt Wray of Gen Dread, Dharna Noor of Earther, and independent ...
Oliver Thompson (Boise, Idaho)
Oliver Thompson started playing classical violin as a kid and progressed to bluegrass, blues and rock, and finally jazz when he earned a B.A. in Music from San Jose ...
Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused.
His traumatic ...
Hasu Patel (Cleveland, Ohio)
Hasu Patel is a composer, performer, and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Baroda, India, Hasu plays sitar in a style known as Gayaki Ang (vocal style), and ...
Jea Street, Jr. (Wilmington, Delaware)
Jea Street, Jr. is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. Jea has sung professional operatic and Broadway roles, produced a hip-hop al...
John Stevens (Swoyersville, Pennsylvania)
John Stevens is an accordion player and polka musician based in Swoyersville, Pennsylvania. In 1995, he founded the John Stevens Polka Band. The band has...
Jemar Phoenix (New Haven, Connecticut)
Jemar Phoenix is a musician and organizer born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a singer and acoustic guitarist specializing in genres ranging fr...
Keith Brintzenhoff (Kutztown, Pennsylvania)
Keith Brintzenhoff is an autoharp musician and school teacher by profession based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He studied autoharp with leading musicians...
Jrdarappr (Richmond, Virginia)
Jrdarappr aka JR is a rapper based in Richmond, Virginia. His debut album Highway To Hell was released in the spring of 2020 and explores subjects like police bruta...
Marika Hughes (New York City, New York)
Marika Hughes is a cellist based in Brooklyn, New York. Although trained in Western classical music, Marika has worked with a wide range of artists and mus...
Moises Nuñez (Portland, Maine)
Moises Nuñez aka Mosart212 is a DJ, producer, electronic artist, and educator based in Portland, Maine. His productions and DJ sets feature breaks, funk, bloops, bl...
Miss Kam (Baltimore, Maryland)
Miss Kam, born Kamaria Alexis, is a West Baltimore emcee. Miss Kam’s work moves between viral appeal on social media, freestyle series, and prolific collaborative e...
Nique Love Rhodes (Detroit, Michigan)
Nique Love Rhodes is a hip-hop artist and organizer/activist from Detroit, Michigan. As a performer, Nique leads a multi-faceted ensemble of musicians known a...
Morgan Morrison (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
Morgan Morrison is a musician based in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Morgan comes from a family of professional musicians across diverse genres. She...
Pablo Batista (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania)
Pablo Batista is a master percussionist based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He has performed, recorded and toured internationally since the 1980s with re...
Pepe Santana (Stanhope, New Jersey)
Juan Pepe Santana is a musician, educator, and instrument maker based in Stanhope, New Jersey. Born in Ecuador, Pepe moved to the U.S. in the 1960s, where he h...
Robertico Arias (Providence, Rhode Island)
Robertico Arias is a Dominican musician and leader of the Latin Music Group Alebreke, based in Providence, Rhode Island. He started his music education ...
Soni Moreno (New York City, New York)
Soni Moreno (Maya/Apache/Yaqui) is a vocalist, actress, composer, and poet, based in New York City. She began her career as a cast member in the original San...
Shannon Heaton (Medford, Massachusetts)
Deeply rooted in Irish traditional music, Boston-based flute player/singer/composer Shannon Heaton has appeared on stages with duo Matt & Shannon Heaton, a...
Sinclair Palmer (Durham, North Carolina)
Sinclair Palmer is a bass player, educator, and instrument maker based in Durham, North Carolina. They perform in a wide range of genres with multiple loc...
Qya Cristál (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Qya Cristál is a singer, musician, and drag performer based in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is former Miss Gay USofA Massachusetts 2018, and 4th Runn...
Keith Jones (Maywood, New Jersey)
Keith Jones is an artist and activist based in Maywood, New Jersey. As an artist, Jones is a rapper, musician, poet, and visual artist. In 1978, he began writing...
Lakota John (Pembroke, North Carolina)
Lakota John is a Native American artist, songwriter, producer, and musician from Southeastern North Carolina. Lakota John has toured nationally and internat...
Larry Lee (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands)
Larry Lee is a ukulele player and music educator based in Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands. Originally from Hawaii, Larry moved to ...
Layth Sidiq (Boston, Massachusetts)
Layth Sidiq is a violinist, composer and educator. Born in Iraq and raised in Jordan, Layth trained at the National Music Conservatory with Timur Ibrahimov, an...
Lezlie Webster (Concord, New Hampshire)
Lezlie Webster is a Scottish Highland piper and dancer based in Concord, New Hampshire. A native of Ontario, Canada, she began her training in Ontario and ...
Martha Redbone (Harlan County, Kentucky)
Martha Redbone is a Native and African American vocalist, songwriter, composer, and educator. Drawing on the tradition of her gospel-singing African Ameri...
Lu Fuki and Tazeen Ayub (Detroit, Michigan)
Lu Fuki and Tazeen Ayub are performing artists and community organizers based in Detroit, Michigan. Lu Fuki is a guitar player and composer, as well as...
Marlysse Simmons (Richmond, Virginia)
Marlysse Rose Simmons-Argandoña is a first-generation Chilean-American pianist, composer and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. She is the band leader, ar...
Sandhya Sridhar (Nashua, New Hampshire)
Sandhya Sridhar is a teacher and performer of Carnatic music based in Nashua, New Hampshire. Growing up in Matunga, Bombay, she studied at the Shanmukhanan...
Shin-Yi Yang (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Shin-Yi Yang is a musician and educator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She plays both guqin and guzheng, and is the founder of the Boston Guzheng Ensem...
Sasha Renee (Louisville, Kentucky)
Sasha Renee is a rapper based in Louisville, Kentucky. Sasha Renee recorded her first song in 2010. By 2011, she was under the management of Double A Entertainm...
Rabbi Sandra Lawson (Elon, North Carolina)
Rabbi Sandra Lawson is a rabbi, activist, public speaker, and musician based in Elon, North Carolina. Known for teaching Judaism in unique ways, Rabbi S...
Tarik Shah (Delmar, New York)
Tarik Shah is a musician, bassist, music teacher, professor level martial artist, practicing Muslim, and student of knowledge. Born and raised in New York City, Shah...
Sugar Vendil (New York City, New York)
Sugar Vendil is a composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking/New York City, on stolen land of the Lenape people. She is a proud se...
Aurélien Barnes (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Aurélien Barnes is a New Orleans trumpet player steeped in the tradition of the city. Born in 1995, he is part of the young generation of musicians carryin...
Zion Charity (Surry County, Virginia)
Zion S. Charity is a bass guitarist and native of Surry County, Virginia. Inspired by his uncle, bassist Alvin Parker, Zion picked up the instrument and late...
Trina Basu (New York City, New York)
Trina Basu is a violinist, improviser, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Trina is trained in Western Classical music, later studying jazz and Carnatic...
Sophiyah E. (Detroit, Michigan)
Sophiyah E. is a producer, singer, and songwriter based in Detroit, Michigan. Her work with piano and technology explores genres that include house, electronic mus...
Thea Hopkins (Massachusetts)
A member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, performing songwriter Thea Hopkins calls her music Red Roots Americana. Thea has recorde...
Theresa May (Cleveland, Ohio)
Theresa J. May is a trumpet player and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her master’s degree in trumpet performance from the Cincinnati College Conserv...
Tchin (New Jersey)
Tchin (pronounced ‘chin) is a nationally known, multi-award-winning artist. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia and lived in rural Virginia and Rhode Island where he received his ...
Vince Reyes (Malesso’, Guam)
Vincent J. C. Reyes is a Master of CHamoru dance based in Malesso’, Guam. Vince serves as Director of the Inetnon Gefpå’go Cultural Arts Program for middle school stu...
Va-et-vient (Addison County, Vermont)
Vermont’s Addison County group Va-et-vient (“Come and Go”) celebrates the many colors found in music from several French cultures. They play repertoires from...
The Indiana University Digital Preservation Service Planning Project, a collaborative effort involving the IU Bloomington Libraries, the IUPUI University Library, and UITS, and was launched on July...
Join to hear an update on the new Archives Online service from Indiana University. With support from the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial and in close collaboration with the Archives O...
The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) was founded in 2008 with just over 2 million volumes in the collection. Today there are over 17 million volumes ranging from 6th-century psalters to 21st-centu...
Students are at the heart of a university campus. How students respond to local, national, and international events provides insight into student life and their socio-historical contexts that defin...
This brown bag documents the early stages of a community-engagement project with digital foundations. Our “History Harvest” is an ongoing invitation to community members to help shape an archive ab...
We live in an age when mobile touchscreen devices are customarily “on” and in-hand. As a consequence, we frequently engage in practices that involve documenting the self in motion, our geolocationa...
Andrea Ledbetter, co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses the potential for urban farming around the Chase Street Spring. She says, "we're thinking about doing a lot of creative placemaking proje...
Ledbetter, Judy (narrator); Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
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Judy Ledbetter, who has lived north of the Chase St. spring for 54 years, describes the sandhills that used to exist in the area. "This was all like sand dunes. It looked just like the beach," her ...
Kay Westhues interviews Alma Wilkes at her home in Gary, Indiana, on January 10, 2020. Wilkes is a retired high school teacher for the Gary School System. She taught Home Economics (Family and Cons...
Alma Wilkes, retired Gary School System teacher and nutritionist, discusses the vegetation around the Chase Street Spring. She notes that watercress grows around the well, and that it is still thri...
To gain information for the spring remediation project, United States Geological Survey (USGS) fieldworker Harvie Pollard conducted fieldwork at the spring site. The video shows camera logging and ...
Ledbetter, Judy (narrator); Ledbetter, Andrea (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Judy and Andrea Ledbetter at their home on Chase St., Gary Indiana, on January 14, 2020. Judy Ledbetter is a community activist who has lived in her home on Chase St. for 54...
Kay Westhues interviews Tyrell Anderson at Anna’s Kombucha Café in Gary, Indiana, on January 22, 2020. Anderson is a photographer, videographer, and historic conservationist who co-founded the Deca...
Kay Westhues interviews Tyrell Anderson at Anna’s Kombucha Café in Gary, Indiana, on January 22, 2020. Anderson is a photographer, videographer, and historic conservationist who co-founded the Deca...
Tyrell Anderson, a historic conservationist and co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses when he first became aware of the Lake Sandy Jo/M&M Landfill Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Site...
Tyrell Anderson shares a memory of when his father took him to the spring for the first time, telling him "I'm gonna take you to the best water in Gary!” His father loved the taste of the spring wa...
Tyrell Anderson, historic conservationist and co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses how learning about his family's history has helped him to be more grateful. He says, "Seeing what they had to...
Andrea Ledbetter, historic conservationist and co-founder of the Decay Devils, discusses the mineral content of the Chase Street spring water. "If you're a person who likes to have their bright pea...
Alma Wilkes, retired Gary School System teacher and nutritionist, discusses the healing properties of the sulfur in the Chase Street spring water. She drinks the spring water to alleviate water ret...
Glenn Goerke was IU East's second chancellor from 1981-1986.
Goerke was born and raised in Lincoln Park, Michigan. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and Master of Arts in Administ...
Leroy Moore (Berkeley, California)
Leroy F. Moore, Jr., founder of the Krip-Hop Nation, since the 1990s, has written the column “Illin-N-Chillin” for POOR Magazine. Moore is one of the founding me...
David Fulton (Chancellor from 1995-2007), the Director of Planning and Budget at the time this video was shot, gives a tour of campus as a goodbye gift to IU East Chancellor Glenn Goerke (1981-1986).
Marv Hamilton (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Marv Hamilton (guitar, vocals, harmonica), is an award-winning performing songwriter with two hard-won CDs to his credit. Hamilton’s folk and acoustic blues so...
Lyla June (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Lyla June is an Indigenous environmental scientist, doctoral student, educator, community organizer, and musician of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), ...
Lesli Wood (Seattle, Washington)
Lesli Wood, front person, guitarist, and songwriter for Skates! (pop band, upbeat, energetic, with a lot of punk influence), also plays lead guitar in the punk ban...
Maggie Delaney-Potthoff (Madison, Wisconsin)
Founding member of Harmonious Wail, Maggie Delaney-Potthoff is a vocalist extraordinaire whose percussive instrument of choice is a cardboard box (but ...
Mercedes Mendive (Elko, Nevada)
Accordionist Mercedes Mendive is the daughter of Joe and Veronica Mendive. She attended schools in Elko and has lived in Reno, as well as eleven years in Miami, Flo...
Mary Flower (Portland, Oregon)
An internationally known and award-winning picker, singer/songwriter, and teacher, the Midwest native relocated from Denver to the vibrant Portland, Oregon, music sc...
Luis Herrera (Fillmore, California)
Luis Herrera is brother number two in his family band, Hermanos Herrera, a musical group consisting of five brothers and their younger sister. The group plays ...
