Announcing a Latest Podcast: DoveTale
It goes without saying that science and technology play key roles within the formation of climate solutions. Yet they aren’t panaceas: as a way to solve climate change, we want greater than science and technology. Climate change and environmental destruction are all-encompassing—they impact all sectors of our realities, from our physical and mental health to our communities and societies, and the species and ecosystems that surround us. Consequently, any actionable set of solutions have to be as interconnected and diverse because the crises themselves.
That is the basic insight that I seek to bring forward with my recent podcast, DoveTale. This project was germinated at each my home institution, Union Theological Seminary (where I’ll soon graduate with a master’s degree in divinity), and Columbia Climate School, where I even have interned this academic 12 months. Over the course of my studies, I even have been fascinated to look at the ways wherein the challenge of climate change and environmental destruction is being engaged within the humanities: How is climate change tied with the history of coloniality? What are the moral, moral, and spiritual contexts and implications for these crises? How can we form a strong response to the mental and emotional challenges related to our climate crisis?
As I immersed myself on this layer of the climate conversation inside the academy, I became increasingly interested by the ways wherein these questions are being engaged on the bottom. What higher approach to discover than in conversation? On DoveTale, I converse with psychologists, religious leaders, artists, and Indigenous stewardship practitioners, scientists, and more. In speaking with this broad range of conversation partners, I seek to explore the varied ways wherein community climate and environmental leaders are interconnecting ethical, spiritual, psychological, moral, artistic, and historical dimensions with their work in community.
In Episode 1, I speak with Karen Blondel, a climate and housing justice advocate in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in regards to the importance of fostering “social infrastructure” in developing a community response to ecological disasters, in addition to the real-time impacts of environmental racism.
In Episode 2, I speak with Jen Robohm, Peter McDonough, Hayley Blackburn, and Rachel Williamson, who constitute a climate-and-mental-health affinity group at University of Montana, in regards to the many levels of mental health impacts of climate change.
In Episode 3, I speak with Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, the vp of the Evangelical Environmental Network, in regards to the importance of appealing to people’s value systems when organizing around climate and environment in communities that might not be immediately receptive to hearing an environmental message.
DoveTale is out there on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you take heed to your podcasts. Latest episodes are released on a biweekly basis. Join me for this world tour of creative and intersectional climate solutions!
