Episode 1: Paving the Way to Justice – How Local Communities Are Centering Wellbeing in Their Success Despite Capitalism
This special episode focuses on the value of community ownership in establishing just, equitable, and sustainable communities as organizers continue to navigate the disparities, individualism, and power struggles of capitalism and colonialism.
Episode 2: John “Planetwalker” Francis – Where Movements Meet with a Black Environmentalist
In this episode, Dr. John Francis discusses the power of listening and the need to ground ourselves in our shared humanities as a precursor to any type of advocacy whether within the Environmental Movement or the Environmental Justice Movement. His is an outlook of hope, optimism, and spiritual resonance with the natural world. We hope you come away from this inspired by both the peace and the power that comes from existing in deep root with Mother Earth.
Episode 3: Carol Browner – Reshaping Federal Policy with a Clinton-Era Environmental Justice Champion
In this episode, former EPA Administrator Carol Browner hones in on the importance of considering cumulative impacts in environmental policy and ensuring environmental justice communities not only have a spot at the table but are front and center both in conversations about the pollution in their neighborhoods as well as regarding the looming impacts of the climate crisis. Hers is an outlook that instills hope and emphasizes the responsibility we all have, regardless of our proximity to the White House, in holding our institutions accountable and using our voices and our votes to push toward equitable, sustainable futures.
Episode 4: Young, Gifted, & Green/BM4F – Memphis Food Justice with Gen Z Changemakers
In this episode, we sit with Schanaque Watson, Aramis Jones, and Terrence Brown, three Gen Z organizers with Black Millennials 4 Flint/Young, Gifted, and Green’s Memphis Chapter to share their personal journeys into the movement and to expand on the work they’re doing to bring healthy food and education to Memphis. Theirs is an inspiring dive into the multifaceted and multi-generational nature of environmental justice work; it cannot stop with a single issue or pollutant but must spread to the co-existing systems that leave many environmental justice communities without adequate infrastructure.
Episode 5: Celebrating Warren County – An Interactive with the Makers of the EJ Movement
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Episode 6: Kelly Muellman – On Minneapolis Green Zones and what it means to build community-owned policy solutions
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Episode 7: Hilton Kelley – Fighting Petrochemical Pollution in Port Arthur, TX
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Episode 8: Savi Horne – Black land loss is an environmental justice issue
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Episode 9: JV Valladolid – Environmental justice in immigrant communities
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Episode 10: Leah Thomas – The new Intersectional Environmentalist Movement with Green Girl Leah
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