Gabe talks with Barbara Buffaloe, mayor of Columbia, MO, about climate challenges and success in her community.

Elizabeth Hillborn's book " Restoring Eden" chronicles her search to discover what was poisoning her wetland.

Insects can provide protein, and increased use of them as feed and food may have beneficial climate effects. Gabe Filippelli interviews IUPUI's Christine Picard about her research.

It's almost Valentine's Day, a time for love and examining yet another lifecycle analysis of environmental effects. We also dig into the United States's energy mix and projections.

US energy stats: https://www.eia.gov/

Vox on roses: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/12/18220984/valentines-day-flowers-roses-environmental-effects

Wilding Flowers CSA: https://www.wilding-flowers.com/flower-csa

We bring you eight points about the Biden Administration's early work on climate in approximately eight minutes. We also talk about where Janet is and make some recommendations.

Atmos Magazine's Biden climate guide: https://atmos.earth/joe-biden-climate-policy-laws-list/ 

The Phoenix: https://thephoenix.substack.com/ 

Imagine 2200: https://grist.submittable.com/submit?utm_source=internalgrist&utm_medium=sitepost&utm_campaign=clifi 

Danielle Doggett, founder & CEO of SAILCARGO INC., tells us about the zero-emission ocean cargo ship Ceiba. From mitigating underwater noise pollution to sourcing food for shipbuilders, their sustainability considerations move far beyond what fuel propels the ship. 

The SAILCARGO site: https://www.sailcargo.org/

J.J.'s piece in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/160689/rise-fall-fracking-boom-town-oral-history

Our big question for the series is, why do we extract and burn natural gas? To answer this question, we’re addressing smaller questions around the physical science of hydraulic fracturing/emissions/health effects, ownership of and responsibility for assets, and conflicts (hyperlocal and international) around natural gas.

In this live episode: Keith Hall teaches us about environmental and property law surrounding fracking, Anne Spice explains the context of the Unist'ot'en Village oil and gas resistance, and Sammy Roth runs through some of the biggest natural gas stories in the Western U.S.

Watch the episode on Facebook: https://fb.watch/370C4IJu-S/

Just checking in and looking forward to 2021.

RSVP for our next live show: https://fb.me/e/1UuQB0dwk

Learn more about Grist's cli-fi writing contest: https://grist.submittable.com/submit/ 

Find Kristina's work here: https://www.ehn.org/u/kristinamarusic1

In this episode of our spiritual ecology series, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso shares stories and wisdom connecting our spiritual existence with our physical environment.

More about Rabbi Sasso: https://jwa.org/rabbis/narrators/sasso-sandy 

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 Transition Initiative (RETI), she also helps us understand high energy burdens and offers insight into lowering them.

Resources:

https://salvadorfornc.com/meet-deandrea/

http://www.energyhero.org/ 

Deborah McGregor, who is Anishinaabe from Whitefish River First Nation and a scholar of law and the environment at York University, helps us understand how spirituality and ecology intertwine in ways more complex than we typically articulate.

For further learning: https://iejproject.info.yorku.ca/

Are top-down solutions the best way to achieve environmental improvements? Author Todd Myers discusses ways to incentivize change at the individual level.

In this week's Air Check, Janet explains how and why the EPA is hurrying to finalize rules before a shift in administration.

By talking with folks from different faith traditions, we investigate what spiritual connection is and how it happens, the composition of the environment, and the potential for spiritual connection to meaningfully affect the destructive human systems responsible for climate change.

In this episode, the Rev. Mitch Hescox discusses his work with the Evangelical Environmental Network, understandings of creation care, and so much more.

Now deep in the holiday season, even in 2020, we have much to celebrate. But, in the U.S. especially, celebration can lead to a spike in emissions and waste from travel (despite CDC recommendations), obligatory gift-giving, temporary decorations, and feasts.

In this episode, we don't tell you to sit alone in a dark room and gnaw on the stems from your windowsill herb garden. Mental and physical health are inseparable and important, so we outline ways to think and act more sustainably while still having a wonderful holiday time.

Some resources! 

Priya Cooks a Minimal-Waste Thanksgiving

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

Composting Is Way Easier Than You Think

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 future. We touch on the Latin American pink tide, the rise of Indigenous environmental movements, and how supporters of a Green New Deal could effectively maintain pressure on the Biden administration.

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In this bonus episode, we share just a little bit of The EPA at 50, an online event sponsored by the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Integrated Program in the Environment here at IU. It featured host Janet McCabe, Gina McCarthy, Jim Barnes, and Jody Freeman.

The program is edited for time, but you can find the full recording on the O’Neill School Youtube channel.

Also, coming up on December 2, we have a Facebook live show on the topic of spiritual ecology. This one is at 10 a.m. ET, and you can RSVP by going to our Facebook page.

Do you also have questions? Do you have answers? Because we want to know! You can email us at itcpod@indiana.edu or message us on your preferred social media @thisclimatepod.

In the third episode of our post-election series, Bob Perciasepe explains how the Biden administration and the private sector could work together to decarbonize and build resilience. Bob is president of the nonprofit Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and former Deputy Administrator of the EPA.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

Jacob and Emily talk through the record-breaking catastrophic hurricanes Eta and Iota, which hit Central America only two weeks apart. We zero in on the why and the what now that could lead to a more resilient future.

Resources:

‘The Ixil helping the Ixil’: Indigenous people in Guatemala lead their own Hurricane Eta response

Storm Eta damage pushes small, indigenous farmers in Central America into hunger

Humanitarian emergency in Central America

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 Council member, she also speaks specifically to the California city's environmental challenges and potential.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us (@thisclimatepod) or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In this Air Check, host Janet McCabe talks with IU professor and recently-named chair of the EPA's Science Advisory Board John D. Graham about his experience in the SAB and what he foresees for the Biden Administration's environmental work, including cost-benefit analysis and the electrification of motor vehicles.

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 reporter/consultant Mythili Sampathkumar to discuss the environmental news you need to watch (and how to cope with the associated anxiety) as we move forward.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

 A discussion with Erin Posthumus from the National Phenology Network. They track the seasons through "phenology," the study of cycles and seasons in nature. She tells us if "spring" is really early, and by how much.

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 Emily's future home spreadsheet.

Access to fresh, affordable produce varies widely across the U.S., with some of us enjoying yards with soil safe for gardening and others miles from a grocery store. But one thing remains consistent: every tomato, chickpea, and grain of rice carries with it a full lifecycle of environmental impacts.

In this Air Check, we talk about food from seed to landfill (or compost) and where we can look to improve the ways we engage with agriculture on micro and macro levels.

Where strong Alabama activist roots meet inadequate wastewater infrastructure, you find the work of Catherine Coleman Flowers. What began as a fight for improved environmental health in Lowndes County has stretched to connect those fighting for environmental justice across the nation with necessary resources.

In this episode, Catherine talks with host Janet McCabe about the pervasive issue of wastewater, how it intersects with climate change, and what it's going to take to solve these problems.

Check out her new book, Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In this week's Air Check, we talk about a couple of ballot propositions (Nevada energy and Colorado wolves), why Apple isn't packaging charging adapters with the iPhone 12, and the derecho that swept through Iowa.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

Merav Ben-David is a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wyoming. Her specialty? The effects of global environmental change on animals and their ecosystems. Her next move? A run for the U.S. Senate.

In this episode, host Janet McCabe talks with Dr. Ben-David about what it means for a climate scientist to run for office in a state whose economy has long relied on coal.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

Does this U.S. election season have your head spinning? In this episode, Grist reporter Zoya Teirstein and LA Times reporter Sammy Roth take us from the national to the local on what's important in terms of the environment.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In this week's Air Check, special guest James Bruggers talks with us about U.S. Senate races in Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

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, and Catherine Boileau explain how they've adapted their practices for the challenges we face today.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In this week's Air Check, we talk about propane's cold-weather demand spike, other COVID-environmental backslides, the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, and prolonged Midwestern dryness.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

With early voting opening around the U.S. and Election Day just about a month away, we want to dive into the races and issues to watch this season.

In the first episode of our pre-election series, we go live with policy expert Julian Brave NoiseCat and energy/politics reporter Ben Geman to discuss what this year's elections could mean for climate, resilience, and environmental justice. 

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

Not yet registered to vote? If you can, please do that!

Emily Miles converses with noted author Priyanka Kumar.

In this week's Air Check, we talk about the (former) acting director of the Bureau of Land Management who served unlawfully for 424 days, the scientist running for Senate in Wyoming, and International Coffee Day.

Resources:

Judge removes Trump’s public lands boss, William Perry Pendley, after governor sued

Meet the climate expert running to be the first female scientist in the Senate

Rebuilding the coffee system for resilience

We’ve talked a lot about the ways we incarcerate people and subject them to environmentally unsafe conditions. We’ve told stories and shared statistics and legal arguments. We’ll do some of that in this episode, too.

But the reason we reached out to Mei Azaad with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, and the reason she called on Malik Washington, is because improving conditions requires action. Mei and Malik know a lot about how to make that happen.

The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons: https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/

The San Francisco Bay View: https://sfbayview.com/

In our first Air Check (a short, weekly conversation on current events), we talk through the environmental implications of a changing supreme court, how long Bloomington has been without significant rain, and other weather events with climate change signatures.

This episode, we're taking a deeper look at environmental injustices in an around prisons. How are they sited, what do they emit, and what does all of this mean for people locked inside?

We start with the history of the St. Louis and Central Michigan correctional facilities with Dr. Elizabeth Bradshaw, move through trends with Candice Bernd and legal arguments with Taylor Carpenter, and start the discussion around what can be done to improve conditions.

America's Toxic Prisons: https://earthisland.org/journal/americas-toxic-prisons/

Taylor's legal note: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ihlr/pdf/vol17p229.pdf

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 have long worked to dismantle the broader U.S. carceral state, which imprisons more people than any other nation.

"Abolition has to be 'green.'" Ruth Wilson Gilmore told Chenjerai Kumanyika for the Intercepted podcast. "It has to take seriously the problem of environmental harm, environmental racism, and environmental degradation."

In the first episode of our prison ecology series, we go live with critical environmental justice researcher David Pellow to discuss the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental justice. 

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

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 indigenous land and resources, as well as indigenous and peasant resistance efforts and opportunities to support land defenders.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In the second episode of our land defender series, we talk with land defender Marvin Wilcox and Front Line Defenders representative Adam Shapiro. They walk us through Marvin's story, in which agricultural producers in Panama take on the state and a transnational fruit company to protect their land and health, as well as the patterns commonly encountered by land defenders around the world.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

Resources:

ASAMBLEA NACIONAL Ley Nº 55

2019 Dublin Platform Testimony - Marvin Wilcox, Panama

Banapiña: Espada de Damócles sobre los productores del Barú

In this bonus episode, Janet McCabe talks with Scott Russell Sanders, who Kathleen Dean Moore described as "an honest man in a time of lies, a wise man in a time of foolishness, a healer in a time of wounds, and a beautiful writer in a time of ugly rants." He taught English at Indiana University and is the celebrated author of more than 20 books including a collection of essays called The Way of Imagination.

We talk with him about that most difficult subject of solving our environmental challenges, about his most recent book, and about the wisdom he's accumulated over the years.

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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 Cáceres.

In the first episode of our land defender series, we go live with journalist Nina Lakhani to discuss the life of Cáceres and the long campaign against her. We also check in with Indiana Public Broadcasting's Rebecca Thiele, who covers environmental issues in ITC's home state.

If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.

In the finale of our first season, we talk with environmental attorney Barbara Freese about her new book Industrial Strength Denial and learn about the mechanisms behind corporate climate change denial.

As the Forest Service's plan for forest restoration in the Buffalo Springs moves ahead, some citizens are opposed. A conversation with Andy Mahler.

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 David Silverberg and Parity CEO Brad Pilgrim about the ways we can use and improve artificial intelligence to fight climate change from all directions.

A year after Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in southern Africa, communities in Zimbabwe continue to feel the storm's effects. For many, the trauma is physical, emotional, and spiritual, necessitating mental health care that has become increasingly inaccessible since the country's economic crash.

In this bonus episode, we talk with freelance journalist Ray Mwareya, who grew up in hard-hit Chimanimani and wrote a feature story on the subject.