The Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices
Gracelyn McClure
In this podcast, we explore people’s various visions for the future of society and the environment. I, Gracelyn McClure, chat with leaders in the Environmental ...
Episode 10: Divestment & Just Transition w/ Rachel Schlueter
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.pdf
Sources:
“Divestment Commitments.” Fossil Free: Divestment, gofossilfree.org/divestment/commitments/.
Remedios, Jesse. “With New Complaint, Fossil Fuel Divestment Proponents Shift From Moral To Legal Ground.” 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.
“Why Divestment?” Divest Ed, Better Future Project, divested.betterfutureproject.org/why-divestment.
Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.
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Episode 9: Voting, Technology, & Science Communication w/ Dr. Heidi Roop
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 Roop’s Website: http://www.heidiroop.com/
Ologies by Alie Ward: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
Sources:
Boyd, Philip. “Geoengineering.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 17 Sept. 2009, www.britannica.com/science/geoengineering.
“Fossil Fueled Foolery, An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive Tactics.” 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. “Georgia's 'Jim Crow' Voter Suppression Bill Is Now Law. Here's How Democrats Can Fight Back.” 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. “Popular Epidemiology and the Struggle for Community Health in the Environmental Justice Movement.” The Struggle for Ecological Democracy, edited by Daniel Faber, The Guilford Press, 1998, pp. 137–158.
Rau, Alex, et al. “Can Technology Really Save Us from Climate Change?” Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2010, hbr.org/2010/01/can-technology-really-save-us-from-climate-change.
Spitzer, Suzi. “Five Principles of Science Communication.” Social Science Space, 24 Jan. 2019, www.socialsciencespace.com/2018/04/five-principles-of-science-communication/.
Ward, Alie. “Ursinology (BEARS) with Chris Morgan” Audio blog post. Ologies with Alie Ward. 7 Apr. 2021. Web. 8 Apr. 2021.
Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.
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Episode 8: Capitalism w/ Lili Hoschka
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. “The Financialization of Environment Protection.” Climateandcapitalism.com, Climate & Capitalism, 11 Mar. 2021, climateandcapitalism.com/2021/03/11/the-financialization-of-environment-protection/.
Guerrero, Dorothy Grace. “The Limits of Capitalist Solutions to the Climate Crisis.” The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives, edited by Vishwas Satgar, Wits University Press, 2018, pp. 30–46, doi.org/10.18772/22018020541.1.
Hoffman, Jane, and Michael Hoffman. “What Is Greenwashing?” Scientific American, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2009, www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenwashing-green-energy-hoffman/.
McDuff, Phil. “Ending Climate Change Requires the End of Capitalism. Have We Got the Stomach for It?” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Mar. 2019, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism.
Willis, Matthew. “Madeira, The Island That Helped Invent Capitalism.” Daily.jstor.org, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2017, daily.jstor.org/madeira-the-island-that-helped-invent-capitalism/.
“What Is the CDM.” Unfccc.int, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, cdm.unfccc.int/about/index.html.
Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.
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Episode 7: Environmental Racism w/ Dr. Kate Derickson
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. Saad’s 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.pdf
Sources:
Becker, Jo and Mikaela Loach. “EPISODE 27: Layla Saad: White Supremacy, Healing & Futures” Audio blog post. The YIKES Podcast. 23 Mar. 2021. Web. 6 Apr. 2021.
“Fossil Fueled Foolery, An Illustrated Primer on the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive Tactics.” 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. “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race.” Landscape Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2007, pp. 10–23., doi.org/10.3368/lj.26.1.10.
Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.
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Episode 6: Policing w/ Emma Hjelle
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/enbridgebuyingpolice
Sources:
Bansal, Priyanka. “The Climate Case for Prison Abolition.” The New Twenties, The New Twenties, 11 June 2020, thenewtwenties.ca/articles/prisonabolition.
Bediako, Jacqueline. “The Link between Climate Justice and Police Brutality.” 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/.
“Community Control of Police.” 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. “'Racial Justice Is Climate Justice': Why The Climate Movement Needs To Be Anti-Racist.” Wbur.org/Cognoscenti, WBUR, 9 June 2020, www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/09/the-links-between-racism-and-the-environment-frederick-hewett.
“Students for a Democratic Society.” Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/topic/Students-for-a-Democratic-Society/additional-info#history.
Zhao, John. “The Link between Prisons and Environmental Justice.” Students for a Sustainable Stanford, 24 Oct. 2017, studentsforasustainablestanford.weebly.com/blog/the-link-between-prisons-and-environmental-justice.
Music: “Awakening Instrumental” by Wataboi from pixbay.
About The Great Futures Podcast featuring Environmental Justice Voices
In this podcast, we explore people’s various visions for the future of society and the environment. I, Gracelyn McClure, chat with leaders in the Environmental Justice Movement, including youth activists, community change-makers, professors from the University of Minnesota, and other experts in the field, in order to compile a diverse, unique vision of what a just future could look like. We touch on capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy within the context of labor, agriculture, water, energy, Indigenous sovereignty, policing, and youth being centered in the movement.
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