Hear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community.   Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its allies secured a victory once thought impossible through grassroots organizing, legal advocacy, and unwavering determination.  Learn more at brokengroundpodcast.org.  <a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

Hear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community. Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its allies secured a victory once thought impossible through grassroots organizing, legal advocacy, and unwavering determination. Learn more at brokengroundpodcast.org. Support the show

Hear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community. &nbsp; Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its allies secured a victory once thought impossible through grassroots organizing, legal advocacy, and unwavering determination.&nbsp; Learn more at brokengroundpodcast.org.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Season 5 Trailer: How Memphis Beat The Odds To Stop A Pipeline

Author and wildlife biologist Drew Lanham talks about his book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. Lanham discusses his love of birds, his South Carolina homeplace, and reconciling the South’s legacy of hate with its beauty.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

Author and wildlife biologist Drew Lanham talks about his book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. Lanham discusses his love of birds, his South Carolina homeplace, and reconciling the South’s legacy of hate with its beauty. Support the show

Author and wildlife biologist Drew Lanham talks about his book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. Lanham discusses his love of birds, his South Carolina homeplace, and reconciling the South’s legacy of hate with its beauty.<a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Drew Lanham: Call of the Rural South

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Season 2 Trailer

Solar energy is growing by leaps and bounds in the Southeast and becoming a way for schools to save money.  In this episode, we visit two Virginia schools to better understand the key role policies play in whether schools can go solar.  <a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

Solar energy is growing by leaps and bounds in the Southeast and becoming a way for schools to save money. In this episode, we visit two Virginia schools to better understand the key role policies play in whether schools can go solar. Support the show

Solar energy is growing by leaps and bounds in the Southeast and becoming a way for schools to save money.&nbsp; In this episode, we visit two Virginia schools to better understand the key role policies play in whether schools can go solar.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Riding the Solar Coaster

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging project that – after years of delay – is now obsolete.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging project that – after years of delay – is now obsolete. Support the show

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging project that – after years of delay – is now obsolete.<a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Demand for Power

When two North Carolina women received letters from state officials that their water wasn’t safe to drink due to coal ash pollution, they fought it all the way to the state house.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

When two North Carolina women received letters from state officials that their water wasn’t safe to drink due to coal ash pollution, they fought it all the way to the state house. Support the show

When two North Carolina women received letters from state officials that their water wasn’t safe to drink due to coal ash pollution, they fought it all the way to the state house.<a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

The Real Housewives of Coal Ash

The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy. Support the show

The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy.<a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Tip of the Ashberg

Broken Ground is a new podcast from the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South.<a rel="payment" href="https://www.southernenvironment.org">Support the show</a>

Broken Ground is a new podcast from the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South. Support the show

Broken Ground is a new podcast from the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South.<a href="https://www.southernenvironment.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Broken Ground Season 1 Trailer

Broken Ground Episode 1 Trailer

Broken Ground is a podcast produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South.

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