Locally Global

In this episode of Locally Global, we talk with a solar educator, an environmental compliance advisor, and a green chemist about the issues with non-renewable energy and the effort to shift towards a sustainable world.

Two rivers on opposite sides of the world are connected in more ways than we think. This episode covers how wastewater can be more than just another form of water pollution.

For centuries the world has been wasting the potential to do much greater things; wasting the potential to progress and do better! The continuous discrimination of women and girls is a major loss of the world’s potential as females make up about half of the world’s population. Listen to this episode of Locally Global to see the promotion of gender equality in action and how you can empower women and girls in your own ways for a better, more sustainable future!

When considering the desegregation of schools, it is generally believed that it started with the monumental Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision in 1954. However, in 1868, the Iowa Supreme Court held that schools did not have the right to segregate based on race. This episode aims to spread knowledge on the girl that started it all—86 years before the Supreme Court of the United States—twelve-year-old Susan Clark from Muscatine, Iowa. Other topics in this episode include inequities in schools and the necessity of giving all students an equal education. In order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, we have to ensure that the schools across our nation are fair and that we are giving each student access to the same resources and opportunities they need to succeed. The children are our future. We must allow them to make the most of theirs.

Hear more from Nikole Hannah-Jones by checking out her website here or reading her New York Times Magazine article on choosing a school for her own daughter. You can learn more about her most recent work, The 1619 Project, here.

To learn about the Chicago Public Schools strike, click here.

For more on Jennifer Chavez-Miller, check out her National Geographic Explorer biography.

To learn more about the legacy of the late Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice, Mark Cady, read The Des Moines Register story here.

This episode examines Global Goal 3: Good Health & Well-Being through the perspective of mental health, how it affects school-aged kids, and most importantly, what we can do to see the signs of it in our schools. We'll look at how Kelly Koller used her trauma to her advantage and how Allison Phelps uses yoga to ease her mind.

In this episode of Locally Global, we talk with local food experts about how the world is fighting global hunger.

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MUSCATINE:

The Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine has “the power to design the future,” but they can’t do it without funds. Did you know funding is the number one problem for most organizations?

The Muscatine Center for Social Action was established in 1991 to help meet the social needs of the Muscatine area. In 2018 they sheltered 255 adults and 82 Children. However, they can’t do this alone.

UNITED STATES:

According to The Huffington Post, “The Borgen Project is an incredible nonprofit organization that is addressing poverty and hunger and working towards ending them.” This organization is working to make poverty a priority in the US government.

Make sure to stay updated with world events in poverty with UNOCA!

Coming next week, a new podcast series on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, brought to you by some pretty remarkable high school students in Iowa in partnership with a National Geographic Explorer based in Colombia.