Climate, Justice, Culture, Storytelling, Systems Change, Youth Alice Irene Whittaker Climate, Justice, Culture, Storytelling, Systems Change, Youth Alice Irene Whittaker

Episode 25 - Rejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures

Fossil fuel narratives seep into our culture, media, politics, and minds, and it can be hard to extricate them from our lives. Fortunately, we can create our own hopeful narratives of possible climate futures that run like fast-moving rivers from person to person.

Grace Nosek is a climate justice scholar, community organizer, and storyteller. Grace has spent years studying and deconstructing the narratives and tactics of the fossil fuel industry - as well as creating her own hopeful climate narratives.

We can find the veins and rivulets of care that already exist in the growing climate movement, and together rewrite the future.

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Climate, Caretaking, Relationships, Storytelling Alice Irene Whittaker Climate, Caretaking, Relationships, Storytelling Alice Irene Whittaker

Episode 22 - Rewriting Joy Amidst Crisis

How do we balance joy with sorrow in the midst of ongoing crises? This conversation with Danielle Daniel, bestselling author of Forever Birchwood and Daughters of the Deer, explores the importance of strengthening our relationships to our ancestors, protecting the places where we live, and reconnecting with our own inner child in this search for joy.

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Circular Economy, Storytelling Alice Irene Whittaker Circular Economy, Storytelling Alice Irene Whittaker

Episode 20 - Witnessing Waste, Restoring Scrap

There is a haunting beauty to the discarded massive objects like ships, planes, cars, and phone booths that sit in waste graveyards around the planet. These relics of the past and symbols of our disposable culture are spotlighted in Scrap, a new documentary by filmmaker Stacey Tenenbaum, who tells the stories of the human beings who have relationships with these objects at the end of their useful life. This episode talks about witnessing what happens to the mammoth waste that we create and discard, and delves into the lost arts of repair, reuse, and restoration that people are reclaiming in the burgeoning circular economy.

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