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What's the latest from Climate activist Brian Ettling? He's been at this work since 2012, specifically working toward U.S. legislation through the Citizens Climate Lobby, and speaking up about it!.
Brian catches up on his work as Chair, Climate Reality Project in Portland, Oregon - climate out there bit different than in STL - with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi. A LOT of interactions, as we plug away at IMPACTS.
Music: Big Piney Blues, performed live at KDHX by Brian Curran
THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms volunteer engineer, enviro-action professional with Sierra Club
Related Earthworms Conversations: Climate Communications at Saint Louis Zoo (Sept 2019)
Ecology is still relatively "new" to circles of scientific respect, but Indigenous peoples world-wide have grown scientific, creative and functional expertise from ecological understanding, as long as humans have been around. What can we learn from this today?
Ecologist Alejandro Frid works and learns in circles of science, Indigenous cultures and environmental activism in British Columbia. Perspectives and experience shared in his new book Changing Tides, An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene (New Society, 2019) make this Earthworms conversation one worth hearing, sharing and seeding into our world views.
THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms' audio engineer
Music: Artifact by Kevin MacLeod
Related Earthworms Conversations: Native Science with Dr. Daniel Wildcat (October 2018)
Photographer Neeta Satam: Documenting Himalayan Climate Change (March 2018)
Environmental problems make a lot of news, but solutions are in the works in many places too. Where thinking around a whole system is taking place, ideas-in-action deserve a listen!
Beth Porter, Climate Campaigns Director for the DC based non-profit Green America, digs into making solutions work, toward a green economy.
The Earthworms conversation focuses on Porter's recent extensive research into recycling - her book Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine sorts out the recycling system - and on Green America's Cool It! campaign to transform refrigerants from climate-whacking HFCs to options that will keep cool both our stuff and our planet.
Green America works to harness economic power - the strength of consumers, investors, businesses and the marketplace - to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer
Music: Butter II, performed live at KDHX by Ian Ethan Case
Related Earthworms Conversations: Drawdown: Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (March 2018)