Clear the Air

In this episode, Jenna does a deep dive on her final undergraduate project, her Honours Thesis. "Addressing Systemic Barriers to Truth and Reconciliation in Higher Education" is about fostering inclusive, decolonized, and reconciled academic spaces across what is now known as Canada. In this episode, Jenna discusses where the inspiration for her thesis emerged, how she conducted this work as a non-Indigenous settler ally, and provides key insights and advice for those interested in pursuing similar research.

Episode references and resources

• TRC's Calls to Action
• UWaterloo Office of Indigenous Relations
• NativeLand.ca: Whose Land Am I On?

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca
• Twitter: @_ctablog

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

Jenna interviews the Co-Director of Participants at Leading Change, Austin Zacharko. In this conversation, Austin highlights the importance of engaging youth in sustainable change, fostering truth and reconciliation in events, and what youth need to continue having a presence on the global changemaking platform.

Episode references and resources

• Leading Change website
• CTA episode 3: Leading Change recap
• Austin's Linkedin page
• Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES) funding opportunity (The Harbour)

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• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast 
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

This episode is a repost from the beginning of the podcast. Jenna shares tips for pursuing a sustainable lifestyle when your journey is not supported by the people or the environment around you. It can be hard to change your life when there are physical and social barriers preventing you from taking action. Learn how to overcome these barriers to become a sustainability pro, no matter what challenges you face. For more sustainable living tips, check out these helpful posts:

• Changing the world as a teen with Naila Moloo
• We need to make climate information accessible
• 10 zero-waste swaps for everyday life
• How to eat sustainably in the winter
• 5 tips for eating well and sustainably on a student budget
• 10 tips for living sustainably in university

Want to help the podcast? Leaving a rating and review is the best thing you can do.

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast 
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca

ABOUT THE PODCAST

Clear the Air seeks to educates, empowers and mobilizes youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

How can we foster food system sustainability and food literacy at the same time? To answer that question, Jenna interviews the Co-Founders of Circular Harvest, Kyle Born and Chadd Bauman. These recent graduates started their indoor farming company started with the vision to disrupt the current “take, make and waste” mindset of agri-businesses. Learn how Circular Harvest are changing the food system through mushrooms, along with tips for starting your own business and following your passions to enhance sustainability. 

Episode references and resources

• Circular Harvest website
• Mushroom grow kits (check out the photos!)
• ReFeed Canada
• Kate Raworth’s Donut model

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca
• Twitter: @_ctablog

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

Thinking about grad school? Jenna shares her tips from her experience identifying, applying, and getting accepted into graduate school for this Fall. She also provides advice about things she wished she knew before applying. 

Episode references and resources

• Mastersportal.com - a global inventory of grad school programs
• The Grad Cafe - a great database and forum for all of your grad school questions
• Blog: what to expect in university

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca
• Twitter: @_ctablog

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

In this episode, Jenna interviews Naila Moloo, a 16-year-old changemaker with a passion for sustainability. Naila has written a #1 bestselling book, is the youngest recipient of the National Post's 100 Most Powerful Women, has presented for Microsoft and TedTalks, and more. Naila is also the youngest podcast guest thus far, demonstrating that age is not a barrier to creating change. We talk about how Naila got started in the sustainability space, the barriers she faces as a teen changemaker, how to access resources to accelerate change, and how to build exposure.

Episode references and resources

• Naila’s personal website
• Naila’s LinkedIn
• Chronicles of Illusions: The Blue Wild
• The Curiosity Podcast

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca
• Twitter: @_ctablog

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

After five long years, Jenna has completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo! In this episode, she reflects on how her understandings of sustainability, herself, and the people around her have shifted over the years. Hear about boundary setting, building self-confidence, respecting others, and what is next for Clear the Air.

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

• Website: https://cleartheair.ca
• Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast
• Instagram: @cleartheair.ca
• Twitter: @_ctablog

Don't forget to share your sustainability journey on social media and tag Clear the Air!

Episode references and resources

• How to overcome perfectionism
• Imperfect environmentalism
• Lessons learned from first, second, and third year

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

Climate change impacts everyone, and everyone has the right to climate change information to enable climate action. Climate information is made inaccessible by subscription based journals, scientific jargon, and greenwashing/lack of evidence. In this podcast episode of Clear the Air, we explore the importance of increasing the accessibility of climate change information, and how YOU as a content creator or knowledge sharer can make your message more accessible to the general public.

Episode references and resources

• Leading Change 2020 recap
• Inclusive stock images 
• Climate change communication tips
• Talking about “that girl” and perfectionism

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

Comparison can be one of your greatest enemies in work, school, and life in general. This goes for comparison against other people, as well as self-comparison. In this episode, Jenna opens up about her struggles with the comparison trap and provides tools for getting out of the vicious comparison cycle so you can thrive.

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

Website: https://cleartheair.ca

Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast

Instagram: @cleartheair.ca

Twitter: @_ctablog

Don't forget to share your sustainability journey on social media and tag Clear the Air!

Episode references and resources:

• Pandas are no longer endangered
• $5 billion towards conservation
• Indigenous leaders at COP 26

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.

There is a lot of negativity in the news, whether it's about climate change or otherwise. On this episode, we highlight three positive sustainability stories to brighten the mood and demonstrate that collective action can make a difference. From pandas, to donations, to reconciliation, you need to know what is happening around the world.

Make sure to rate, subscribe and follow the Clear the Air Podcast, and follow the journey on social media:

Website: https://cleartheair.ca

Podcast site: https://cleartheair.ca/podcast

Instagram: @cleartheair.ca

Twitter: @_ctablog

Don't forget to share your sustainability journey on social media and tag Clear the Air!

Episode references and resources:

• Pandas are no longer endangered
• $5 billion towards conservation
• Indigenous leaders at COP 26

Clear the Air seeks to educate, empower and mobilize youth to take action against climate change. These weekly episodes will focus on a specific theme, teaching you how to take action RIGHT NOW in your own life. By listening to the podcast, you will become a sustainability expert in no time.

Jenna Phillips is the podcast host, a passionate university student, and a local climate action leader. She uses her expertise and desire for change to make a difference in the lives of others.

It’s time to Clear the Air of all this confusion about climate change. It’s time to learn how we, the youth climate leaders of today, can make a change. It’s time to take our future into our own hands.