A Future For Us

Hos and Creator, Joelle Alexandria, talks with Allie Rougeot about "The Blip" of climate change, Tar Sands in Alberta Canada, Carbon Capture Technologies, Immigration and Activism as An Art.

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Host and creator, Joelle Alexandria, speaks with Allie Rougeot on her journey to becoming a climate activist and registered lobbyist, FACTS not caring about FEELINGS, the point of the COP( Conference of Parties 2023), climate anxiety, climate grief and climate hope. (IN THAT ORDER!)

Welcome to Part 1.

Creator and host of A Future for Us Podcast, Joelle Alexandria, interviews Nick De Carlo, co-founder of Seniors for Climate Action. In this discussion, Alexandria and De Carlo discuss how big oil industries were (are) able to hide the climate catastrophe; "Third locations", spaces that provide social enrichment and full-filling developmental experiences; Our experiences at the September 16th, 2023 Climate Mobilization event hosted by Fridays for Future; and How to use Voting to create Sustainable Political Structures.

Let's hear what he has to say.

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Thank you to the Michaëlle Jean Foundation and the University of Toronto Environmental Resource Network for sponsoring this episode.

Thank you to Bl_k Space Studios in Toronto for setting up the space to record these conversations.

Creator and host of A Future for Us Podcast, Joelle Alexandria, interviews Nick De Carlo, co-founder of Seniors for Climate Action. In this discussion, Alexandria and De Carlo discuss the conception of Seniors for Climate Action, a group of seniors who are calling on governments to act decisively on the climate emergency by amplifying their voices and youth voices; And how the generational divide between seniors and Generation Z is an integral part of the environmentalism conversation.

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This is an audio journey through the Toronto Climate Strike of September 16th, 2023. Each bell will transport you to the experiences of people marching for fossil fuel divestment:

INTERVIEW #1

Guru Fatha

INTERVIEW #2

Heidi

INTERVIEW #3

Laura

INTERVIEW #4

Paul

INTERVIEW #5

Petra

Thank you to Fridays for Future for initiating and engaging the Toronto community with a city-wide strike for climate justice.

This is an audio journey through the Toronto Climate Strike of September 16th, 2023. Each bell will transport you to....

A SPOKEN WORD titled The True Cost of Coal. The True Cost of Coal is a story created by the Beehive Design Collective. The story features lessons on themes of ecology, colonial history, workers' rights, extreme extraction, community organizing, and regenerative futures alongside the Beehive.

SPEAKER #1

SYED HUSSAN

An executive Director of Migrant Workers Alliance. MWAC's mission reflects the needs of thousands of migrant workers and students, helping them build power and providing support as the coalition presses for quality jobs and equity in the workplace for ALL!

SPEAKER #2

MAYA MENEZES

A senior Climate Finance Organizer at Stand Earth. Maya works at the intersections of financial regulation, fossil divestment, Indigenous land rights solidarity, and organized labor's reclamation of justly invested pensions for climate resiliency.

SPEAKER #3

DR. MILI ROY

A practicing physician and mother living and working in the Territory of the Mississauga's of the Credit First Nation. She is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and serves as Ontario Regional Co-Chair for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, which works to improve human health by protecting planetary health.

SPEAKER #4

ZOE KEARY-MATZNER

One of seven students taking the Ontario government to court for failing to act on the climate crisis.

SPEAKER #5
ALIÉNOR (ALLIE) ROUGEOT

A Toronto-based climate justice activist and current program manager at Environmental Defence Canada. She advocates for a just transition for workers and communities and the cleanup of the tar sand's toxic tailings ponds.

Thank you to Fridays for Future for initiating and engaging the Toronto community with a city-wide strike for climate justice.

This is the Last Event of ECOFEST!! Listen to this episode recapping the Willow Project, Hosted by Joelle Alexandria!

The Willow Project is a Proposed development project in Northern Alaska by ConocoPhilips, a company that has been surrounded by controversy for continued oil drilling, exploitation of nature, and posing risks to indigenous communities globally. This project was proposed during the Trump administration and looks like the Biden administration is currently greenlighting it. Despite Biden promising to turn away from nonrenewable energy sources such as oil, he is still defending the project. 

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Who are Sweezy and the Discopunk? In Part 2, Joelle Alexandria interviews the Toronto based band Sweezy and the DiscoPunk in a riveting interview that talks about social media etiquette, mental health, and the religion and spirituality that influence their music.

Stay tuned to hear a sneak peek of the band's new song, Cerulean City. Available on YouTube, Spotify and wherever you stream music on February 17th, 2023.

Welcome to Part 2.

Who are Sweezy and the Discopunk? In Part 1, Joelle Alexandria interviews the Toronto based band Sweezy and the DiscoPunk in a riveting interview that talks about their drive to pursue music, how they write, how they came together and the band's aspirations (and inspirations) in the music industry. 

Stay tuned to hear a sneak peek of the band's new song, Cerulean City. Available on YouTube, Spotify and wherever you stream music on February 17th, 2023. 

Welcome to Part 1.

Creator and host of A Future for Us, Joelle Alexandria, gets interviewed by fellow science communicator, host, and creator of Translating Science, Isra Khiyar,  as we discuss the endemic of Science Literacy and insight into my platform as a science commentator and environmental journalist.

Translating Science is a YouTube channel that promotes science literacy and science communication. The episode, I Can’t read, Science Illiteracy is up on Translating Science's Youtube channel. Also, check out the Translating science Instagram account @translating.science.

In part 1, we discussed parallels between journalism and science, how we learn science, and the miscommunication we both have to navigate as part of the scientific community and media content creators. In part 2, we’ll be discussing how to combat misinformation, the behind-the-scenes of my podcast episodes, gatekeeping science, and how we can all gain critical thinking skills.

FULL INTERVIEW IN VIDEO FORMAT ON SPOTIFY ONLY.

Welcome to part 2: Follow the Science