Just Sustainability Episodes
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Just Sustainability, Episode 15B: Erika Bailey-Johnson – Skills, hierarchies, and facing change
On this episode we return to my conversation with Erika Bailey-Johnson. We talk about a workshop series at Bemidji State University aimed at providing students with a range of practical […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 15A: Meeting Erika Bailey-Johnson
I first met Erika Bailey-Johnson about 8 years ago when she chaired the organizing committee for the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (aka UMACS). It took one conversation with […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 14: Special Episode with Cathy Jordan about COP 26
When Cathy Jordan was previously on Just Sustainability, she mentioned that she was about to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of the Parties meeting […]
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 1B: Evelyn Brister – Restoring the American Chestnut
On the second part of Amanda’s conversation with Evelyn Brister, they speak about efforts aimed at reintroducing American chestnuts to the wild and some of the ethical questions underlying those […]
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 1A: Meeting Evelyn Brister
On the first episode of our new special series, Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Amanda introduces us to Evelyn Brister. Dr. […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 13: Meeting Amanda Corris
It’s my distinct pleasure on this episode to introduce you to a new contributor to Just Sustainability, Amanda Corris. Starting at the beginning of 2022, Amanda will start hosting a […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12C: Cathy Jordan – Listening and rethinking the deficit-focused approach to environmental justice
In the final part of our conversation, Cathy Jordan and I talk about the emphasis on addressing disparities and harms within much of the literature about environmental justice. Cathy suggests […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12B: Cathy Jordan – Community-based participatory research
Cathy and I had so much fun during our live-recording for the IonE Annual meeting that we decided to follow that discussion up with a longer conversation. Reconvening allowed us […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12A: Meeting Cathy Jordan
This episode, where I have the pleasure of introducing you to Cathy Jordan, was recorded live as part of the 2021 annual meeting of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 11C: Janiece Watts – Finding common cause and what the academy might learn from activists
During the concluding half-hour of our conversation, Janiece Watts and I spoke about: finding common cause with one another across the silos of our work, what institutions of higher education […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 11B: Janiece Watts – Connecting the dots and building coalitions
In this episode Janiece Watts and I talk about the importance of “connecting the dots” when thinking about the relationships between place, race, equity, and sustainability. We also discuss strategies […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 11A: Meeting Janiece Watts
In this episode of Just Sustainability it’s my distinct pleasure to introduce you to Janiece Watts. I first learned about Janiece through Troy Goodnough (whom you might have listened to […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 10D: Taylor Brorby – Climate change, social justice, and the need to attend to uncomfortable truths
We’ve reached the conclusion of the conversation that I had with Taylor Brorby. When I asked him about whether there were topics that he wanted to talk about that we […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 10C: Taylor Brorby – Stories, social issues, and humility
In the third part of our conversation, Taylor and I spoke about how he works personal stories about growing-up in a rural community, being gay, and being diabetic into social […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 10B: Taylor Brorby – Biases and telling stories that resonate
In the second part of our conversation, Taylor Brorby and I pick-up where we left off at the end of the previous episode. Speaking about our childhoods growing-up in rural […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 10A: Meeting Taylor Brorby
Taylor Brorby is an essayist, poet, short storyist (or whatever one calls folks who write short stories), educator, and activist. I invited him onto Just Sustainability for several reasons. First, […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 9: Troy Goodnough – Intercultural Sustainability Leaders (ISLe)
I suspect that, for the past decade, I’ve worked more closely with Troy Goodnough than with any other colleague or collaborator. I can’t think of many of my professional projects […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 8C: Stephania Fregosi – Competencies and making space for inclusive discourse
In the conclusion of our conversation, Stephania Fregosi and I talk about the skills that we believe are necessary to solve difficult problems, the need to better attend to wellness […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 8B: Stephania Fregosi – Political neutrality, tools from professional organizations, and thinking about skills and vocations.
In the second part of our conversation, Steph and I talk about about how institutional rules requiring political neutrality can interfere with discourse about sustainability (especially given that topics such […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 8A: Meeting Stephania Fregosi
When I think about the integration of equity and sustainability within higher education, I can’t help but to think of Stephania Fregosi. Steph is a member of the Association for […]