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The Land I Trust, an audio series by the Sierra Club, tells stories of special places under threat by dirty energy -- and how the transition to clean energy is benefiting people and the homes they hold dear. In our first series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the coal that is fouling their air and water, the dirty energy projects they're fighting in their backyards, and a shared vision for a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. Fro ...
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In the season finale, host Rebecca Kling reflects on how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts frontline communities and why these communities should be at the center of our collective fight against the structural inequities that perpetuate the crisis.על ידי Sierra Club
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Urban forests are a key climate change adaptation strategy. The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico has a strong and successful urban forestry program. What lessons can be learned from the Albuquerque program that are applicable across the rapidly warming American Southwest?Jim O'Donnell talks with Dave Simon from the City of Albuquerque Parks and Recr…
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Journalist Julia Daye hosts KNCE's informational special in response to community concern and recent protests over the Abeyta Water Rights Settlement and the future of the Taos, New Mexico valley watershed. This special was recorded in early June 2021.על ידי Taos Land Trust
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New Mexico is in a battle to escape the powerful grip of the oil and gas industry. For nearly a century, the oil and gas industry’s influence on New Mexico has ranged from the education system to elected officials to issues of water and air quality. New Mexico has long been an oil and gas colony - and oil and gas is one of the top polluters in the …
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In Massachusetts, decades-old gas infrastructure is leaking methane, a super pollutant that heats up the climate much faster than carbon. Audrey Schulman, co-executive director of the Home Energy Efficiency Team, a grassroots non-profit working on cutting emissions from buildings, is advocating for renewable geothermal heating systems, a climate-sa…
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Dr. Amy Brady is the Executive Director of Orion magazine and the author of Ice: An American Obsession, a cultural history of ice forthcoming from Putnam in 2023. Her writing about culture, environmentalism, and climate change has appeared in O, the Oprah magazine, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Village Voice, the Dallas Mornin…
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On the South Side of San Antonio, a majority-Latino community lives near a coal plant that accounts for half of the city's carbon emissions. DeeDee Belmares, a climate justice organizer with Public Citizen, is working to educate and mobilize the community to retire the plant after years of toxic air and water pollution.…
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In season three of the Taos Land Trust podcast, we will explore climate change in New Mexico. What can we expect? What impacts do we see right now? Most importantly, how can we adapt to the changes that are coming, like it or not?Jim O’Donnell talks with environmental reporter Laura Paskus, the producer of the series “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environ…
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Steel mills and coal-fueled industry created a dirty past for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though the city has cleaned up its environmental act in the past few decades, there’s still work to be done. Resident Laura Jacko fights for her neighborhood’s future.על ידי Sierra Club
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Bill Halter has worked in the White House, sat on boards of tech companies, and served as lieutenant governor of Arkansas. In all these pursuits, he says he tries to “do well by doing good.” This led him back to his hometown in Little Rock to become CEO of Scenic Hill Solar, where business is booming.…
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Since early 2019, the Taos Land Trust has been engaged in a long-term iterative process known as the Working Lands Resiliency Initiative. The goal of this work is to reconnect traditional farming families to their lands and their farming heritage. The land trust is asking: How can conservation easements, tax breaks, planning and zoning work togethe…
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Christopher Basaldú lives in Brownsville, Texas, where the oil and gas industries dominate. But to Christopher, the danger of the status quo is clear. A proposed export terminal for fracked gas threatens to destroy his tribe’s connection to spiritual and cultural sites.על ידי Sierra Club
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Flare stacks, refineries and other signs of extractive industry have taken over much of the Gulf Coast of South Texas. But one pristine stretch of the shoreline remains intact near Brownsville. Bekah Hinojosa and her community are fighting locally, nationally and internationally to keep it this way.על ידי Sierra Club
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For Mary Lyn Stoll, the damaging effects of dirty energy and injustices caused by climate change are abundantly clear. But as a professor of ethics in Evansville, Indiana, the heart of coal country, teaching climate ethics is a lot more complicated.על ידי Sierra Club
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Víctor Guzmán nunca esperó encontrarse esposado. Siendo padre y miembro vocal de la comunidad de Salinas en Puerto Rico, Víctor quiso una comunidad segura y saludable para sus hijos y para todos los puertorriqueños. Pero cuando las plantas térmicas de carbón empezaron a descargar ceniza tóxica cerca de Salinas, Víctor organizó a su comunidad para o…
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Víctor Guzmán never expected to find himself in handcuffs. As a father and vocal community member of Salinas, Puerto Rico, Víctor wanted a safe and healthy home for his children and all Puerto Ricans. But when coal plants started dumping toxic coal ash near Salinas, Víctor organized the community to resist the coal ash trucks and confront the growi…
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Russell Schiermeier runs an 800-acre farm in Bruneau, Idaho. Like much of Idaho, Russ’s farm is in a very arid climate, so irrigation is a must. As a result, Russ says Idaho farmers “live or die by our power costs." To address that, Russ installed solar in the pivot corners of his fields to pump water at lower cost than the grid.Russ is now active …
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Lucy Molina was a born fighter. Her grandmother, father and mother all marched for the rights of migrant farm workers alongside Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez. Lucy continues that fight by advocating for her home of Commerce City, Colorado, which, according to Lucy, lives up to its name… placing commercial interest above public interests like fres…
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Just a few miles from downtown Mobile, Alabama, Africatown has a deep history that informs its name. It's home to descendants of enslaved people who were brought to this country aboard the last slave ship to enter the United States. When the Civil War ended, they purchased the land and called it Africatown. Today, the community is rich in history a…
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Lucia Urreta is a junior in high school from Houston. Growing up on the Gulf Coast, she was used to big storms and hurricanes. But she noticed they were getting scarier and more frequent. Then in September 2019, Tropical Storm Imelda hit, and Lucia knew it was time to take action. She organized a climate strike in front of city hall, spoke in front…
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The Taos Land Trust and Vista Grande High School (VGHS) have joined forces to provide fresh weekly produce to Taos families, school food delivery programs, and local food pantries while offering paid technical training to Vista Grande students. The project is funded by Vista Grande High School’s Career Technical Education and Community Schools gran…
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Paul Wilson is the pastor of the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Union Hill, Virginia a small, historically Black community. When he found out that Dominion Energy and Duke Energy wanted to build a compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in the middle of his community, it felt all too familiar. After organizing around protecting…
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We have mismanaged our forests over the last century—and we are now paying the costs. Climate change is making forests drier, beetles and other pests (driven by warming temperatures) are making kindling of vast stretches of woodland, and “booming development…[has] filled forests with human-produced sparks and heat,” and far too many houses.What is …
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Casey Camp-Horinek is a member of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and a longtime Native rights and environmental activist. She remembers what it was like to travel to South Dakota to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect the sacred drinking water of the Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. While there, she and other protestors were attacked and arres…
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In North Minneapolis, the city’s largest Black neighborhood, a garbage incinerator burns nearly half the county’s waste to generate energy for corporations and businesses. The pollution from all those tons of burned trash stays right in North Minneapolis. Kyra Brown grew up near the incinerator without ever knowing about its damaging health effects…
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The new season of The Land I Trust, Sierra Club's stories podcast, launches on Aug. 24 with the first episode featuring storyteller Kyra Brown. Kyra Brown fights for environmental and racial justice in Minneapolis, focusing on incinerators in the city. This season, we'll hear from people from all around America who are working hard to create a just…
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Host Jim O'Donnell talks with John Fleck, Director of the University of New Mexico Water Resources Program and Eric Kuhn, self-described "Colorado River nerd" about their new book "Science be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River" and how the realities of water in the American West run up against the hopes and dreams …
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We are at a critical time for agriculture and the environment. The realities of extreme weather events, conflicts over water, the blight of rural communities, and diminishing natural resources are bearing down on all New Mexicans, with farmers and ranchers at the forefront of these serious problems. At the same time, awareness that soil stewardship…
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Do you know about No Place Like Home, the podcast that gets to the heart of climate change? We thought listeners of The Land I Trust and The Overstory would enjoy this show, hosted by Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner. Climate scientist and Zen Buddhist Dr. Kritee Kanko shares her journey through depression into interbeing with the No Place Like …
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What is solutions-oriented environmental journalism and how do journalists make complex science accessible to the public? Host Jim O'Donnell talks with Todd Reubold publisher and co-founder of Ensia Media about journalism, climate change, story-telling and COVID19. This episode was recorded at the studios of Taos Sound and Media in Taos, New Mexico…
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Jonathan P. Thompson is the author of RIVER OF LOST SOULS which the gripping story behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals for over 100 miles downstream, wreaking havoc on cities, farms, and the Navajo Nation along the way. Host Jim O'Donnell talks with Thomps…
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What are our nation's bedrock environmental laws? How do the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and others work and how effective are they? Host Jim O'Donnell speaks with John Horning, Executive Director of Wild Earth Guardians. Recorded at the studios of KNCE 93.5FM True Taos Radio on February 20, 20…
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What is an urban forest? Forests are dynamic ecosystems providing critical benefits to people and wildlife. Forests within towns and cities are called urban forests. These systems help filter air and water, they control storm water, protect infrastructure, conserve energy, increase economic activity and provide animal habitat and shade. They also a…
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Josh Usdan [pronouns they/them/theirs] is a 17-year-old high school student from Nashville, Tennessee. Josh is also a climate activist and a member of the Sunrise Movement, a group of young people fighting climate change. But for Josh, it all started with their love of the ocean… Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the …
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St. Louis, Missouri, is home to the headquarters of coal companies, but it’s also about to become a lot more solar friendly. A couple years ago St. Louis passed Resolution 124, which called upon the city to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2035. Leading that effort was Lewis Reed, the president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. Season 3 …
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Bob Pashos is from St. Louis, Missouri. For him, reckoning with climate change meant he had to grieve for what we’ve already lost, and for what it’s too late to do anything about. But he didn’t just bury his head in the sand and give up. He came out the other side. Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US w…
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In the season finale, stories from a man whose faith was tested by climate change, a city going to 100% clean energy, and a high school activist in Nashville. All that, plus the definitive answer on whether or not you should stay hopeful about the future. Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US who share t…
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Casey Weinstein probably is the most public environmentalist in Northeast Ohio, where he lives. In 2018, he ran for office and flipped a seat by 51 percent. Now, he represents part of northeast Ohio in the State House. Before that, he served on Hudson City Council. He’s in the public eye often, but the reason he ran for office started at home. Seas…
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Pete Lenzen lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where Duke Energy operates. When Pete heard that coal-burning Duke Energy proposed a rate increase, this got him really fired up. So fired up that he testified in front of the The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US who s…
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Shikha Bhattacharya lives in Terre Haute, Indiana. Some people call it Terrible Haute. In this episode, see how Shikha wants to change that, by helping the environment. Also: stories of standing up to big utilities and getting into politics. Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US who share their experienc…
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In Pleasant Plains, Illinois, Girl Scout Troop 6195 does more than just sell cookies. They speak up and act on environmental issues. For them, environmental activism started small, literally, with protecting the Monarch Butterfly. Their success with the monarchs got the girls fired up about other environmental issues. Season 3 of the Land I Trust b…
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To Charles Hua, Madison, Wisconsin, is more than dairy. It’s his hometown and the land has shaped who he is as a person, and how he approaches the issues of climate change. Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US who share their experiences of climate change, the impacts of dirty fuels, the fight for clean…
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The Michna family has lived near Caledonia, Wisconsin since the 1800s. In fact, there are now 11 Michna siblings living on Michna Road. But they have a bad neighbor now—a coal plan. Frank Michna and two of his sisters, Renee Michna and Maureen Michna-Wolff, sat down to talk about living in the shadow of coal plants……
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