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In the tenth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Rachel Schlueter, a senior organizer with the Better Future Project. We talk more about fossil fuels, divestment, and introduce the just transition framework. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Better Future Project: https://www.betterfutureproject.org/
Just Transition Framework: https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/
Climate False Solutions: https://climatefalsesolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/HOODWINKED_ThirdEdition_On-Screen_version.pdfSources:
âDivestment Commitments.â Fossil Free: Divestment, gofossilfree.org/divestment/commitments/.
Remedios, Jesse. âWith New Complaint, Fossil Fuel Divestment Proponents Shift From Moral To Legal Ground.â Earthwhile, WBUR, 15 Mar. 2021, www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2021/03/15/with-new-complaint-fossil-fuel-divestment-proponents-shift-from-moral-to-legal-ground.
âWhy Divestment?â Divest Ed, Better Future Project, divested.betterfutureproject.org/why-divestment.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the ninth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Dr. Heidi Roop, a climate scientist at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We talk about the importance of voting, technology, and science communication in the climate crisis. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Heidi Roopâs Website: http://www.heidiroop.com/
Ologies by Alie Ward: https://www.alieward.com/ologiesSources:
Boyd, Philip. âGeoengineering.â Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 17 Sept. 2009, www.britannica.com/science/geoengineering.
âFossil Fueled Foolery, An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fuel Industryâs Deceptive Tactics.â NAACP, NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, Apr. 2021, naacp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Fossil-Fueled-Foolery-2.0-abridged-4_1_2021.pdf.
Kanefield, Teri. âGeorgia's 'Jim Crow' Voter Suppression Bill Is Now Law. Here's How Democrats Can Fight Back.â NBCNews.com, NBC Universal News Group, 28 Mar. 2021, www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/georgia-s-jim-crow-voter-suppression-bill-now-law-here-ncna1262254.
Novotny, Patrick. âPopular Epidemiology and the Struggle for Community Health in the Environmental Justice Movement.â The Struggle for Ecological Democracy, edited by Daniel Faber, The Guilford Press, 1998, pp. 137â158.
Rau, Alex, et al. âCan Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?â Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2010, hbr.org/2010/01/can-technology-really-save-us-from-climate-change.
Spitzer, Suzi. âFive Principles of Science Communication.â Social Science Space, 24 Jan. 2019, www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/04/five-principles-of-science-communication/.
Ward, Alie. âUrsinology (BEARS) with Chris Morganâ Audio blog post. Ologies with Alie Ward. 7 Apr. 2021. Web. 8 Apr. 2021.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the eighth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Lili Hoschka, a youth activist in the Twin Cities. We talk about the evils of capitalism and why our economic system prevents environmental justice action. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
The Political Ecology of American Capitalism by Faber:
About REDD+: https://indianlaw.org/content/what-redd-and-why-it-important-native-peoples
About Rights of Nature: https://celdf.org/advancing-community-rights/rights-of-nature/Sources:
De Cristano, Riccardo. âThe Financialization of Environment Protection.â Climateandcapitalism.com, Climate & Capitalism, 11 Mar. 2021, climateandcapitalism.com/2021/03/11/the-financialization-of-environment-protection/.
Guerrero, Dorothy Grace. âThe Limits of Capitalist Solutions to the Climate Crisis.â The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives, edited by Vishwas Satgar, Wits University Press, 2018, pp. 30â46, doi.org/10.18772/22018020541.1.
Hoffman, Jane, and Michael Hoffman. âWhat Is Greenwashing?â Scientific American, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2009, www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenwashing-green-energy-hoffman/.
McDuff, Phil. âEnding Climate Change Requires the End of Capitalism. Have We Got the Stomach for It?â The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Mar. 2019, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism.
Willis, Matthew. âMadeira, The Island That Helped Invent Capitalism.â Daily.jstor.org, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2017, daily.jstor.org/madeira-the-island-that-helped-invent-capitalism/.
âWhat Is the CDM.â Unfccc.int, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, cdm.unfccc.int/about/index.html.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the seventh episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Dr. Kate Derickson, a professor and research at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We talk about environmental racism and other key intersections of environmental justice. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
The Create Initiative: https://create.umn.edu/
The Yikes Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/TheYikesPodcast/
Layla F. Saadâs Website: http://laylafsaad.com/
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
Dumping in Dixie by Dr. Robert Bullard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/645961.Dumping_in_Dixie
Climate False Solutions: https://climatefalsesolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/HOODWINKED_ThirdEdition_On-Screen_version.pdfSources:
Becker, Jo and Mikaela Loach. âEPISODE 27: Layla Saad: White Supremacy, Healing & Futuresâ Audio blog post. The YIKES Podcast. 23 Mar. 2021. Web. 6 Apr. 2021.
âFossil Fueled Foolery, An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fuel Industryâs Deceptive Tactics.â NAACP, NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, Apr. 2021, naacp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Fossil-Fueled-Foolery-2.0-abridged-4_1_2021.pdf.
Lipsitz, George. âThe Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race.â Landscape Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2007, pp. 10â23., doi.org/10.3368/lj.26.1.10.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the sixth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Emma Hjelle, a youth organizer in the Twin Cities. We talk about reimagining policing and the powers of revisioning. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar: TCC4J - CPAC
SDS: https://newsds.org/join/
DAPL: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-police-used-excessive-force
Line 3: www.stopline3.org/news/enbridgebuyingpoliceSources:
Bansal, Priyanka. âThe Climate Case for Prison Abolition.â The New Twenties, The New Twenties, 11 June 2020, thenewtwenties.ca/articles/prisonabolition.
Bediako, Jacqueline. âThe Link between Climate Justice and Police Brutality.â San Francisco Bay View, San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, 19 Nov. 2018, sfbayview.com/2018/11/the-link-between-climate-justice-and-police-brutality/.
âCommunity Control of Police.â National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, 15 June 2020, naarpr.org/updates/campaign-for-community-control-of-police/.
Hewett, Frederick. â'Racial Justice Is Climate Justice': Why The Climate Movement Needs To Be Anti-Racist.â Wbur.org/Cognoscenti, WBUR, 9 June 2020, www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/09/the-links-between-racism-and-the-environment-frederick-hewett.
âStudents for a Democratic Society.â Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/topic/Students-for-a-Democratic-Society/additional-info#history.
Zhao, John. âThe Link between Prisons and Environmental Justice.â Students for a Sustainable Stanford, 24 Oct. 2017, studentsforasustainablestanford.weebly.com/blog/the-link-between-prisons-and-environmental-justice.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the fifth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Hannah Jo King, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We talk about afrofuturism, indigeneity, and local community-based action. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Tribal-led Manoomin Research: https://manoominpsin.umn.edu/
Recommended Afrofuturism Works: https://www.essence.com/entertainment/a-beginners-guide-afrofuturism/
East Phillips Neighborhood: https://www.eastphillipsneighborhoodinstitute.org/Sources:
âOur Current Proposal.â East Phillips Neighborhood Institute, 2019, www.eastphillipsneighborhoodinstitute.org/our-current-proposal/.
Ballin, Sofiya. âUSING AFROFUTURISM TO BUILD THE KIND OF WORLD YOU WANT.â EcoWURD, 1 June 2020, ecowurd.com/2018/11/19/using-afrofuturism-to-build-the-kind-of-world-you-want/.
Bruce, Delan. âAfrofuturism: From the Past to the Living Present.â UCLA, UCLA, 15 Oct. 2020, newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturism.
Jones, Justine. âWhat an Urban Farm Could Mean for East Phillips.â Mspmag.com, Mpls St Paul Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021, mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/east-phillips-urban-farm/.
Maloba, Donald. âWhat Is Afrofuturism? A Beginner's Guide.â AfriTechNews, 4 Dec. 2020, afritechnews.com/afrofuturism/.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the fourth episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Dr. Michelle Garvey, a teacher of Environmental Justice and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies in the Twin Cities. We talk about the labor movement, Twin Cities environmental justice issues, and ways to get involved. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
EcoHarbor: https://northside-ecoharbor.org/
HECUA: https://hecua.org/study-usa/environmental-justice/Sources:
Bove, Tristan. âEcofeminism: Where Gender and Climate Change Intersect.â Earth.org, Earth,Org, 17 Jan. 2021, earth.org/ecofeminism/.
Irfan, Umair. âThe Green New Deal Is Fracturing a Critical Base for Democrats: Unions.â Vox, Vox, 22 May 2019, www.vox.com/2019/5/22/18628299/green-new-deal-labor-union-2020-democrats.
âNorthside Eco.â Northside EcoHarbor, 2021, northside-ecoharbor.org/.
âThe Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth.â Therednation.org, The Red Nation, Apr. 2020, therednation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Red-Deal_Part-I_End-The-Occupation-1.pdf.
United States, Congress, âRecognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal.â Congress.gov, 2019. www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text.
Warren, Elizabeth. âWe Need A Blue New Deal For Our Oceans.â Elizabeth Warren, 2019, elizabethwarren.com/plans/blue-new-deal.
Whalen, Eamon. âWill Minneapolis's Upper Harbor Terminal Project Be Good for Its Neighbors?â Belt Magazine, Belt Magazine, 3 Nov. 2020, beltmag.com/minneapolis-upper-harbor-terminal-neighbors-equitable-development/.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the third episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Mercedes Gohl, an energy intern at the Metropolitan Council here in the Twin Cities. We talk about all things energy and equity, including Line 3. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Stop Line 3 Resources: https://www.honorearth.org/; https://www.stopline3.org/; https://www.facebook.com/nfld.against.line.three/; https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/; https://www.facebook.com/MigiziWillFly; https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/Sources:
âAbout the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.â Minnesota.gov, 22 Feb. 2021, mn.gov/puc/about-us/.
âA Giant Step Backward.â Priceofoil.org, Oil Change International, 29 Jan. 2019, priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2020/01/Giant-Step-Backward-report-01-29-19-FINAL-online-version.pdf.
Cervas, Strela, and Anthony Giancatarino. âEnergy Democracy Through Local Energy Equity.â Energy Democracy, edited by Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub, Island Press, 2017, pp. 57â75.
Hughlett, Mike. âOil Demand, Future of Enbridge Line 3 Argued before Appeals Court.â Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021, www.startribune.com/oil-demand-future-of-enbridge-line-3-argued-before-appeals-court/600037712/.
âLine 3 and Treaty Rights.â Sierraclub.org, Sierra Club North Star Chapter, Apr. 2017, www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce/north-star-chapter/pdf/TreatRightsFactSheet.pdf.
âWho We Are.â Metrocouncil.org, Metropolitan Council, 2021, metrocouncil.org/About-Us/Who-We-Are.aspx.
Yu Fu, Fang, et al. âThe Dynamic Role of Energy Security, Energy Equity and Environmental Sustainability in the Dilemma of Emission Reduction and Economic Growth.â Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 280, 15 Feb. 2021, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111828.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the second episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Jess Jurcek, an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. We talk about the interconnections of climate change, industrial agriculture, and gender equity. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Institute on the Environment at UMN: http://environment.umn.edu/
Food Inc. Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
A Foodieâs Guide to Capitalism by Holt-Gimenez: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34793745-a-foodie-s-guide-to-capitalism
Article by Holt-Gimenez: http://www.earthamag.org/stories/2018/1/29/our-food-system-isnt-broken-capitalism-is-what-is-wrong-with-it
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson: https://rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspxSources:
âCommunity Health Risks of Industrial Agriculture.â Delivering Community Benefit: Healthy Food Playbook, Health Care Without Harm, 2018, foodcommunitybenefit.noharm.org/resources/community-health-needs-assessment/community-health-risks-industrial-agriculture.
Duckett, Maryellen Kennedy. âEmpowering Female Farmers to Feed the World.â Nationalgeographic.com, National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2021, www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/partner-content-empowering-female-farmers.
âThe Hidden Costs of Industrial Agriculture.â Union of Concerned Scientists, 18 July 2011, www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agriculture.
Wes Jackson, Natural systems agriculture: a truly radical alternative, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-117, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00247-X.
Women Seed Change, SeedChange, 2019, weseedchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SeedChange-WSC_brochure-web.pdf.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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In the first episode of the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices, I speak with Sasha Lewis-Norelle, a youth change-maker in the Twin Cities. We talk about fossil fuels, divestment, and water. Enjoy!
Are you interested in learning more? Check out the following resources!
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Clean Water Action Website: https://www.cleanwateraction.org/
The United States Water Crisis: thewatercrisis.us/
Water Inequality by Natâl Geo: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/water-inequality/
Water Access + Gender Inequality: https://www.cfr.org/blog/water-access-gender-equality-issue
Water + Class Inequity: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/a-problem:-water-and-inequalitySources:
Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan. 2020. "U.S. Water Supply and Distribution Factsheet." Pub. No. CSS05-17.
âFuture Widespread Water Shortage Likely in U.S.â Science in the News, Harvard University - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 20 Mar. 2019, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/widespread-water-shortage-likely-in-u-s-caused-by-population-growth-and-climate-change/.
Gleick, Peter H. âA Way Forward?â Last Call at the Oasis, edited by Karl Weber, Public Affairs, 2012, pp. 85â102.
Levinson, Andrew. The United States Water Crisis, May 2019, thewatercrisis.us/.
Rivera-Diaz, Victor. âWidespread Water Inequality Across the United States.â Savethewater.org, Save the Water, 29 Mar. 2021, savethewater.org/widespread-water-inequality-across-the-united-states/.
Schulte, Peter. âDefining Water Scarcity, Water Stress, and Water Risk.â Pacific Institute, 4 Feb. 2014, pacinst.org/water-definitions/.
âThe Pillars of Water Equity.â US Water Alliance, US Water Alliance, 2021, uswateralliance.org/wec/framework.
Music: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
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Introducing the Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices! In the next ten episodes, we will explore various topics within environmental justice and discuss how we can transform the world to be a just place for everyone. We talk about disrupting systems of oppression, and making real, meaningful change. A great starting point to the environmental justice movement and further conversations. Welcome and Enjoy!
About environmental justice:
Equitable & Just National Climate Platform: https://ajustclimate.org/
Principles of Environmental Justice: https://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.html
History of the Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xLg2HHg8Q
Youth Perspectives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa8dDBP5-d8
Interview w/ Robert Bullard, the âFather of Environmental Justiceâ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU-D3YkOe-wMusic: âAwakening Instrumentalâ by Wataboi from pixbay.
