The Response

Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing episodes from BUT NEXT TIME, a limited-run podcast that spotlights powerful stories of community-led disaster prevention and recovery.

Sounds familiar, right?

BUT NEXT TIME answers one vital question: how can we ensure that next time will be different?

On today's show, we're featuring a conversation I had with BUT NEXT TIME co-hosts Chrishelle Palay & Rose Arrieta and senior producer Leah Mahan to get a better understanding of why they produced this series, their storytelling process, and what they're hoping listeners will take away from it.

Starting next week, we'll be sharing full episodes of their show.

The Response is an award-winning documentary film, book, and podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llewellyn.

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

The Response is an award-winning documentary film, book, and podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llewellyn.

A clear and present danger awaits our species if we are unable to keep global temperature below the 1.5 degrees Celsius rise that climate scientists have identified as proverbial the line in the sand. Even at current levels things are looking and feeling pretty dire.

But it's not all doom and gloom, significant actions are being taken at the city level in spite of the mostly disappointing (inter)national policies coming out of COP26.

On this week's episode, The Response producer Robert Raymond interviews Eleni Myrivili, the first Chief Heat Officer for the City of Athens, Greece.

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

The Response is an award-winning documentary film, book, and podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llewellyn.

It's the first week of November in 2021 and COP26 is in full swing. Many people had low expectations going into it, this is the 26th COP after all and the outlook for Climate Change is only getting worse year after year. With all of the moneyed and political interests influencing the framework for discussions, could the agreements coming out of the conference actually meet the moment? Probably not...

One aspect of climate change that isn't talked about nearly enough, is the mass migration of people that it's already forcing. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, more than 75% of the 40 million internal displacements last year were caused by disasters. And a 2020 report from Institute for Economics and Peace, found that over a billion people lived in 31 countries that aren't sufficiently resilient to withstand ecological threats.

With the increasing number of climate-fueled disasters impacting nearly every corner of the world, the number of displaced peoples will most likely only go up from here.

With all of that in mind, we want to resurface an episode from season 3 which offers an inside look at an active migration route into the continent that's hosting this year's Climate Summit, Europe.

The Western Balkans are the entryway for asylum seekers from places like Afghanistan, Syria, and Northern Africa to enter into the European Union. As they approach this region, many are hunted down by authorities, violently beaten, and forced into camps with terrible conditions.

In the face of this crisis, a project emerged to help provide food and other basic necessities to these asylum seekers. It's known as No Name Kitchen, but don't let the name fool you, as you'll see, the project is much, much more than just a community kitchen.

Response producer Robert Raymond, spoke with one of the project's co-founders, Bruno Morán, about what exactly is going on in the region and how No Name Kitchen is helping to build community while providing mutual aid to one of the most vulnerable populations in the world.

https://www.nonamekitchen.org/en/

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

This weekend marks the beginning of COP26. After being delayed for nearly a year because of COVID, diplomats, scientists, corporate lobbyists, NGOs, students, demonstrators, corporations, heads of state, and many, many other invited and uninvited guests are already making their way to Glasgow Scotland for what has been projected to be the most consequential U.N. climate change conference since the Paris Agreement was struck in 2015.

Earlier this week, the Arkbound Foundation published a new anthology, "Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self-Sufficiency and Systems Change." This episode features a discussion I hosted with three of the book's co-authors.

Featuring:

Morgan Phillips is UK co-director of the Glacier Trust, head of insight at Global Action Plan, and author of "Great Adaptations: In the Shadow of a Climate Crisis" (UK)

Carol Manetta is Executive Director of Reap Goodness (USA)

Ashish Kothari is the founder-member of Kalpavriksh, co-coordinator of Vikalp Sangam, and a co-editor/author of several books including "Churning the Earth" and Pluriverse: A Post- Development Dictionary (India)

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

The Response from Shareable.net, is a documentary film, book, and podcast series exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters.

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

In this bonus episode, Bob Stilger recounts his experience in Japan following the triple disaster of 2011 and shares how one community that was completely wiped away by the Tsunami, took the opportunity to truly build back better from the ground up.

Bob Stilger is the founder of New Stories and author of the book, "AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin?"

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

The Response from Shareable.net, is a documentary film, book, and podcast series exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters.

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

Last week we participated in a panel discussion during the Regenerative Communities Summit where we talked about how Crisis can be a Catalyst for Transformation.

This episode features a recording of the second half of that event. We've decided to omit the presentations that were delivered by each panelist, so there are a few times when you'll hear references to what was presented earlier. If you would like to watch the entire event, you can access the recording by registering for the summit at TransitionUS.org.

The speakers in this episode have been addressing the challenges, crises, and disasters we're currently facing while finding new and innovative ways to not only respond but to open new opportunities and to use the times we are living in as a way to build better, more resilient communities.

Featured Speakers:

Jul Bystrova, co-founder of the Inner Resilience Network and Director of the Eomega/Era of Care project

John Liu, catalyzed the creation of The Ecosystem Restoration Camps movement which has grown to nearly 50 camps in 6 continents

Elaine Miller-Karas, Co-Founder and Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and author of the book, "Building Resilience to Trauma: the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models" (2015).

Bob Stilger, founder of NewStories and author of the book, "AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin?"

Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn

Series producer: Robert Raymond

Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

The Response from Shareable.net, is a documentary film, book, and podcast series exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters.

Let us know what you think of the show: [email protected]

The Response is officially back for a 4th season. Over the next few months, we'll be increasing the frequency of the show and releasing new episodes at least every other week. We've already got a number of exciting interviews and roundtable discussions lined up.

We also encourage you to watch our award-winning 30-minute micro-budget documentary film on Youtube: "The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People."

For the 9th audio documentary episode of The Response, we're going to focus on an issue that isn't talked about hardly enough: energy poverty. When temperatures rise to the point where they become dangerous, what happens to people who can't escape the heat?

The transcript is available here: shareable.net/heatwaves-and-energy-poverty-in-the-mediterranean

Episode credits:

• Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn
• Series producer (+ research and scriptwriting for this episode): Robert Raymond
• Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats
• Additional music: Belong, Fugazi, and Chris Zabriskie
• original artwork was created by Kane Lynch

This episode features:

• Eleni Myrivili, Chief Heat Officer for the City of Athens (the first person to hold this title – recently featured in New York Times).
• Lidija Živčič is the senior expert at the FOCUS Association for Sustainable Development and a coordinator at EmpowerMed.
• Mònica Guiteras, a member of the Alliance Against Energy Poverty in Catalonia, and Engineers Without Borders.
• Martha Myers, energy poverty campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe and the coordinator of the Right to Energy Coalition.
• Narrated by Tom Llewellyn.

The Response is a podcast series from Shareable.net exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters with host Tom Llewellyn.

Today is the four-year anniversary of when Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico causing what is largely considered to be the worst disaster to happen in the US or its colonies.

To mark the occasion, we're making our film, "The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People," available for all to see. Please follow the link in the episode notes to watch it on shareable's Youtube channel.

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/-RVTpDSE9H0

For this bonus episode, we're featuring the audio from an interview that film director Juan Carlos Dávila and producer Tom Llewellyn did on Free Speech TV's Just Solutions last week.

After taking a long Summer break, The Response is back for a fourth season, well kinda. We're officially kicking things off at the end of the month with an audio documentary focused on European Heatwaves and how their impact is exacerbated by energy poverty.

But for the next two weeks, we'll be returning our focus to Puerto Rico.

Monday, September 20th marks the four-year anniversary of when Hurricane Maria slammed into the island causing thousands of deaths, and knocking out power for almost an entire year, leading to what many consider to be the worst disaster in US History.

In this episode, we talk to environmental sociologist Marla Perez Lugo. We discuss her experience during Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's power supply and energy grid before and after the storm and the multitude of issues caused by precarious resilience.

Episode credits:

• Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn
• Series producer: Robert Raymond
• Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

For the past decade, communities across the state have faced severe challenges on multiple fronts - from extreme fires and flooding to earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic.

But how have they responded and what community resilience strategies have proved most successful?

In this episode of The Response, we explore some of the answers to these questions with two guest speakers

Lisa Beyer is an Urban Water Infrastructure Manage at World Resources Institute. As part of that role, she is responsible for developing and scaling financially innovative, environmentally sustainable municipal water management solutions in cities across the country.

And Greg Kochanowski is a licensed architect, an aspiring landscape architect, and educator in the State of California. His new book, The Wild, explores the urban periphery of Los Angeles, where the city meets the mountains, a landscape inherently vulnerable to wildfire, and its secondary and tertiary effects, including flash floods and debris flows.

Episode credits:

• Host and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn
• Series producer: Robert Raymond
• Theme Music: "Meet you on the other side" by Cultivate Beats

*This episode features the audio recording from a webinar that was co-hosted by American Institute of Architects San Francisco (AIASF) and Center for Architecture and Design. As a result, here are several references to images that were shared by our presenters. The video recording of this talk can be accessed by becoming a member of AIASF.