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Latest Episodes

S5 E7: Health & Housing Justice and the Climate Crisis
April 11, 2022

As the city of Denver grows, many of our neighbors are becoming displaced due to high cost of living and gentrification. The Globeville Elyria-Swansea Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice (GES Coalition) is advocating to protect historicall

S5 E6: Black Denver and the Climate Crisis with Pastor Eugene Downing
March 14, 2022

Historically marginalized people suffer disproportionately from the climate crisis. Environmental hazards, such as pollution, contaminated materials, and industrial waste, often plague low-income communities of color. Pastor Eugene Downing, Senior Pastor

Season 5 Mid-Season Preview with Canon Broderick Greer and Christina Rutland
January 03, 2022

Canon Broderick Greer and Christina Rutland recap the first half of this season on the climate crisis and give us a preview of the final episodes coming this spring.

S5 E4: Environmental Racism, Indigeneity, and the Climate Crisis
November 29, 2021

American systems actively silence and minimize the voices within Indigeneous communities, resulting in young Native Americans struggling to find representation. Spirit of the Sun, an Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit in Denver, empowers Indigeneous youth to

S5 E3: Reckoning with the Climate Crisis through Music with Logan Farmer
November 07, 2021

As we learn more and more about the effects of climate change, we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed rather than driven to create change. In his album "Still No Mother," musician Logan Farmer tells the story of our reckoning with the impending r

S5 E2: Youth Activism in the Climate Crisis with Leala Pourier
October 11, 2021

When youth activist Greta Thunberg became a global leader against climate change, she inspired people around the world to recognize the already existing youth activists in their own communities. Earth Guardians, a nearly 30-year-old organization represent

S5 E1: The Eurochristian Roots of the Climate Crisis with Dr. Tink Tinker
September 13, 2021

As European settlers came to the Americas, they prepared to claim and conquer the land, exploiting its various resources to further human life. Dr. Tink Tinker, Professor Emeritus of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff School of The

S4 E9: Visual Art with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
May 17, 2021

When Canon Broderick's parents renovated their home a few years ago, he gave them one of Lanecia Rouse Tinsley's paintings as a house-warming gift. In a note to his parents, Tinsley wrote, "I am happy one of my creations has found a home wi

S4 E8: National Poetry Month with Natasha Oladokun
April 26, 2021

"They say, Lord, piety is speaking to you, // but madness is hearing you // speak back." And so Natasha Oladokun stings her audience in her 2020 poem "Black Credit." In line after line, essay after essay, and poem after poem, Oladokun