In This Climate

It's almost Valentine's Day, a time for love and examining yet another lifecycle analysis of environmental effects. We also dig into the United States's energy mix and projections.

US energy stats: https://www.eia.gov/

Vox on roses: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/12/18220984/valentines-day-flowers-roses-environmental-effects

Wilding Flowers CSA: https://www.wilding-flowers.com/flower-csa

We bring you eight points about the Biden Administration's early work on climate in approximately eight minutes. We also talk about where Janet is and make some recommendations.

Atmos Magazine's Biden climate guide: https://atmos.earth/joe-biden-climate-policy-laws-list/

The Phoenix: https://thephoenix.substack.com/

Imagine 2200: https://grist.submittable.com/submit?utm_source=internalgrist&utm_medium=sitepost&utm_campaign=clifi

Danielle Doggett, founder & CEO of SAILCARGO INC., tells us about the zero-emission ocean cargo ship Ceiba. From mitigating underwater noise pollution to sourcing food for shipbuilders, their sustainability considerations move far beyond what fuel propels the ship.

The SAILCARGO site: https://www.sailcargo.org/

What does a fossil fuel boom town feel like for those living in it? And what's possible once the coal's burned and the wells are dry? In this episode, Rock Springs-raised J.J. Anselmi shares what he's seen and heard in collecting oral histories of the Wyoming boom town.

J.J.'s piece in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/160689/rise-fall-fracking-boom-town-oral-history

Our big question for the series is, why do we extract and burn natural gas? To answer this question, we're addressing smaller questions around the physical science of hydraulic fracturing/emissions/health effects, ownership of and responsibility for assets, and conflicts (hyperlocal and international) around natural gas.

In this live episode: Keith Hall teaches us about environmental and property law surrounding fracking, Anne Spice explains the context of the Unist'ot'en Village oil and gas resistance, and Sammy Roth runs through some of the biggest natural gas stories in the Western U.S.

Watch the episode on Facebook: https://fb.watch/370C4IJu-S/

Just checking in and looking forward to 2021.

RSVP for our next live show: https://fb.me/e/1UuQB0dwk

Learn more about Grist's cli-fi writing contest: https://grist.submittable.com/submit/

Kristina Marusic, who covers environmental health and justice issues in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania for Environmental Health News, helps us understand how fracking and natural gas affect community health and how one community has responded.

Find Kristina's work here: https://www.ehn.org/u/kristinamarusic1

"You're not all that is."

In this episode of our spiritual ecology series, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso shares stories and wisdom connecting our spiritual existence with our physical environment.

More about Rabbi Sasso: https://jwa.org/rabbis/narrators/sasso-sandy

In this Air Check, Senator-Elect DeAndrea Newman Salvador joins us to talk about North Carolina's 39th District, which she flipped in the most recent election. As the founder of Renewable Energy Transition Initiative (RETI), she also helps us understand high energy burdens and offers insight into lowering them.

Resources:

https://salvadorfornc.com/meet-deandrea/

http://www.energyhero.org/

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants?

Deborah McGregor, who is Anishinaabe from Whitefish River First Nation and a scholar of law and the environment at York University, helps us understand how spirituality and ecology intertwine in ways more complex than we typically articulate.

For further learning: https://iejproject.info.yorku.ca/