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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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A small delay on Episode 9 of Season 1 of Just Sustainability
Hi everybody, You may have noticed that there isn’t a new episode of Just Sustainability today as there normally is on Fridays. This is because of a minor technical issue […]
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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 […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 7C: Shawn Shafner – The Four Noble Poops
In the last part of our conversation, Shawn Shafner and I talk about the parallels between the POOP Project and Shawn’s coming-out process, we review some strategies for approaching difficult […]
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Just Sustainability, Episode 7B: Shawn Shafner – Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse
In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse. Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully […]