Just Sustainability

Just Sustainability


Latest Episodes

Just Sustainability, Episode 12C: Cathy Jordan - Listening and rethinking the deficit-focused approach to environmental justice
November 30, 2021

In the final part of our conversation, Cathy Jordan and I talk about the emphasis on addressing disparities and harms within much of the literature about environmental justice. Cathy suggests […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 12B: Cathy Jordan - Community-based participatory research
November 23, 2021

Cathy and I had so much fun during our live-recording for the IonE Annual meeting that we decided to follow that discussion up with a longer conversation. Reconvening allowed us […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 12A: Meeting Cathy Jordan
November 15, 2021

This episode, where I have the pleasure of introducing you to Cathy Jordan, was recorded live as part of the 2021 annual meeting of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 11C: Janiece Watts - Finding common cause and what the academy might learn from activists
November 05, 2021

During the concluding half-hour of our conversation, Janiece Watts and I spoke about: finding common cause with one another across the silos of our work, what institutions of higher education […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 11B: Janiece Watts - Connecting the dots and building coalitions
October 29, 2021

In this episode Janiece Watts and I talk about the importance of “connecting the dots” when thinking about the relationships between place, race, equity, and sustainability. We also discuss strategies

Just Sustainability, Episode 11A: Meeting Janiece Watts
October 22, 2021

In this episode of Just Sustainability it’s my distinct pleasure to introduce you to Janiece Watts. I first learned about Janiece through Troy Goodnough (whom you might have listened to […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 10D: Taylor Brorby - Climate change, social justice, and the need to attend to uncomfortable truths
October 14, 2021

We’ve reached the conclusion of the conversation that I had with Taylor Brorby. When I asked him about whether there were topics that he wanted to talk about that we […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 10C: Taylor Brorby - Stories, social issues, and humility
October 06, 2021

In the third part of our conversation, Taylor and I spoke about how he works personal stories about growing-up in a rural community, being gay, and being diabetic into social […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 10B: Taylor Brorby - Biases and telling stories that resonate
September 28, 2021

In the second part of our conversation, Taylor Brorby and I pick-up where we left off at the end of the previous episode. Speaking about our childhoods growing-up in rural […]

Just Sustainability, Episode 10A: Meeting Taylor Brorby
September 21, 2021

Taylor Brorby is an essayist, poet, short storyist (or whatever one calls folks who write short stories), educator, and activist. I invited him onto Just Sustainability for several reasons. First, […]