S2E7 Digging Deeper: Soil Science, Environmental Health, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty

S2E7 Digging Deeper: Soil Science, Environmental Health, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Guest: Dr. Lydia Jennings   **This episode was recorded in April 2024** Through the lens of environmental soil science, we explore mining practices, land reclamation, environmental health, and Indigenous data sovereignty. Our conversation ultimately asks: what does it mean to engage these issues in ways that are accountable to and shaped by Indigenous communities?

S2E6 Context Matters: Climate Change, Justice, and the UN

Guest: Dr. Sonja Klinsky   Climate justice is deeply political and shaped by context. In this episode, Sonja Klinsky joins to discuss how climate justice is negotiated globally, the role of the UN in amplifying voices from the Global South, and the technical meaning and significance of transitional justice in addressing legacies of large-scale harm on oppressed and repressed people groups.

S2E5 (Im)material Futures: ECOtarot and the Power of Imagination

Guest: Adriene Jenik   Art is often perceived to be confined to galleries, but what if it played a central role in designing just and sustainable futures? In this episode, Adriene invites us to consider how art, imagination, and the immaterial - emotion and spiritual insight - shape our responses to climate change and justice. We also explore her ECOtarot project that continues to offer climate readings to people around the world, which bridges climate data and people's lived climate experiences.

S2E4 Sustaining the Struggle through Antiracist Spirituality

Guest: Dr. Regina Shands Stoltzfus   In this episode, we discuss Regina's book Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality. Together, we explore how being in and sustaining struggles for justice and sustainability shape both personal and collective life. The conversation welcomes listeners of all spiritual backgrounds, including those who do not identify as spiritual.

S2E3 More Than Shade: Trees and Justice in the City

Guest: Timara Crichlow, M.S.   This conversation begins by discussing Tim's master's thesis on the distribution of urban tree canopy and its impact on neighborhood life satisfaction. From there, we draw on Tim's expertise to explore how broader ideas - history, creativity, community, politics, anthropocentrism/ecocentrism - shape the meaning and practice of sustainability.