Just Sustainability
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12C: Cathy Jordan - Listening and rethinking the deficit-focused approach to environmental justice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, […]