In This Climate

Host Gabe Filippelli talks with Paul Harvey about his book and project Plasticology, microplastics in the environment, and how we can deal with our legacy of plastics pollution—which, like most things, is a climate problem.

In this episode, host Gabe Filippelli talks with Laurate Professor Ravi Naidu at the University of Newcastle about environmental contamination, emerging issues, and how to work with industries in a constructive way to help solve environmental problems. 

As institutions of higher education aim to prepare students of sustainability and support environmental research, what are we missing? And what does it take to turn our knowledge of chemistry and physics into new ways of relating with the earth? In this episode, Lissy Goralnik and Laurie Thorp of Michigan State University share what they've learned through teaching with contemplative practices.

We've been talking a lot about ecological anxiety and grief, vague and muddy feelings that they are. In this episode, climate emotions researcher Panu Pihkala helps us name and explore what these wide terms hold. An insightful episode from Panu's new podcast: https://climatechangeandhappiness.com/episodes/episode-03-eco-anxiety-demystified

We talk with Ashlee Cunsolo, founding dean of the School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies at the Labrador Campus of Memorial University, about the connective capacity of grief, the role of land in Inuit mental health research, and the relationship between agency and letting go. Ashlee's site: https://ashleecunsolo.ca/

While we're not in the business of pathologizing feelings toward our changing environment, we recognize those emotions can be difficult to work with. So, in this episode, Leslie Davenport helps us understand what climate-aware therapy is, why it matters, and how we can tend the interactions between our brains and the structures in which we exist. Leslie's website: https://lesliedavenport.com/

What if the science story and the emotion story are the same story? What could we do if we were to deconstruct the dualism of feeling and acting? In this episode, Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jennifer Atkinson walk us through their research on and experience with climate feelings, from grief to guilt to hope. We work on understanding how we can engage with emotions together to help us get into ever-better relationship with each other and the earth. Sarah Jaquette Ray's reflection on The Unbearable Whiteness of Climate Anxiety: https://gendread.substack.com/p/sarah-jaquette-ray-on-the-unbearable?utm_source=url&s=r Jennifer Atkinson's Facing It podcast: https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/facing-it 

In this episode, Jim talks with Michael Hamburger, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, about the letter that Concerned Scientists at Indiana University-Bloomington recently sent to University admonistrators. It includes requests for a formal climate action plan and an implementation planning taskforce of diverse stakeholders. We reached out to IU Director of Media Relations Chuck Carney for comment and received a statement, which Jim reads at the end of the episode.

Stephanie Kaza—a long-time lover of trees, practicing Zen Buddhist, and environmentalist—walks us through some of the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism that can help us get into right relationship with the earth and ourselves, which as we learn, are not one and not two.

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? In this episode, we ask James Keys about his experience and study of wonder, about the many ways we can access, experience, and use this emotion.

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? In this episode, we talk with Lisa Sideris about wonder as it relates with science, religion, Rachel Carson, and policy change. We also return to a discussion on the importance of religious and ethical approaches to environmental issues.

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? In this episode, we ask environmental ethicist and religious studies scholar Willis Jenkins about the significance of understanding religion in the process of building a better relationship with our environment. We talk about the Lynn White Thesis, Laudato si', understanding Yellowstone as sanctuary, and more.

Back in December 2020, we talked with environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin about the ins and outs of natural gas leasing. Like, how is it that a company obtains rights to drill in the middle of farmland? How do farmers feel about that? And as always, how does money flow and motivate and determine access to political processes? More about Stephanie: https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/samalin/ More of her work: https://theconversation.com/profiles/stephanie-malin-318393/articles 

There's a new podcast we think you'll want to hear! “Just Energy” is a collaboration between Sanya Carley, an energy justice professor at Indiana University’s O’Neill School, and her master of public affairs students. They explore what energy (in)justice is, its racial and social dimensions, and how to make future energy policy more inclusive by design. Because it’s never just about energy. It’s about people. Here's a link to the first episode of the show: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7moq93E1leU1eq3c7x0pGK?si=4btlrDFkQT-8KXM60GiDew 

In this episode, host Gabe Filippelli explains the science of lead's health effects and tells us the story of Thomas Midgley Jr. and Clair Patterson, who respectively put lead into and got lead out of gasoline. 

Not all greenhouse gases work the same. While CO2 has a severe long term effect on our climate, methane has much more significant warming power in the near term. And where does methane often escape? Along the natural gas supply chain. In this episode, Jim talks with Environmental Defense Fund scientist Steven Hamburg about all things methane -- where we find leaks and how we can fix them while we move to renewables.

Host Jim Shanahan and David Polly, chair of Indiana University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, discuss the politics of preservation, national monuments, and paleontology.

Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter. This episode, we meet Lauren Volpp, who nurtures Three Flock Farm, the Plant Truck Project, the People's Market, and much more. She explains how this distinct farmers market cultivates collective confidence and stability that can build capacity for future winter harvests. Visit the market website here: https://www.peoplesmarketbtown.org/  Another podcast explaining markets and food justice work in Bloomington: https://blackprogressivespodcast.buzzsprout.com/1806789/9060825-food-justice-locally-ep-5-part-1 

What is the health impact of urban heat islands? Is climate change a "cause of death"? How good is med school training on climate issues? Gabe talks with Dr. Jay Lemery of the Univ  of Colorado.

Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter. In this episode, we join Stewart Hamilton and Kelsey Campbell for a Friday harvest and chat through lettuce bagging. They talk about the value of local, sustainably grown food and what needs to change in order to build capacity for local growing and eating in future winters.