Let’s Talk Climate Justice, Y’all!
This podcast is dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South. Despite the South being the most biodiverse, diverse, and one of the largest economic engines in the world, we are underfunded and often barred from the decision-making table.
So we decided to pull up a chair and amplify the stories of communities in the South hit the hardest by the climate crisis. We’re using good ol’ fashion storytelling to shine a spotlight on these Southern leaders from all walks of life putting in their blood, sweat, and tears to transform the region. The usage of Y’ALL in the title is on purpose– we are honoring our Southern heritage of creativity, resilience and ingenuity.
Let’s talk about climate justice, y’all!
It’s real, it’s here, it’s about time. Welcome!
Latest Episodes
S6E8: Season Finale: Changing Times and Southern Throughline
This season, without planning it, maps a clear throughline from plantations to pollution, while spotlighting living in a new technological and political age. Tune in to hear the hosts discuss the overarching narrative of the season, their favorite episodes and topics,...
S6E7: Southern Journalism with Threshold’s Jaha Nailah Avery
In this episode, we're joined by Jaha Nailah Avery, host and reporter of The Corridor, a Threshold series about “history, pollution, and resistance on the front lines of America’s petrochemical industry” (thresholdpodcast.org/the-corridor). Jaha recounts her...
S6E6: Climate Resilience Tech with With Cat Hebson and Moira Hanes
Climate disasters are accelerating, but so are solutions. In this episode, we talk with Cat Hebson (Footprint Project) and Moira Haynes (Empowered by Light) about how climate-resilient tech is helping communities respond to extreme weather and failing infrastructure...
S6E5: Reducing AI Impact: Minus AI with Reverend Michael Malcom and Lindsay Harper
AI data centers are popping up all over the South, extracting resources from communities and increasing power bills. In this episode, we sit down with the leaders of the new Minus AI campaign, Lindsay Harper and Reverend Michael Malcom of our own People's Justice...
S6E4: From Plantations to People-Powered Resistance: Environmental Justice with Chandra Taylor-Sawyer
In this episode, we talk with Chandra Taylor-Sawyer, Senior Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center about Environmental Justice communities in the South, their ties to former plantation lands, and how strategic legal action can empower communities facing...
S6E3: Southern Energy Politics with John Dodd
Southerners experience some of the highest rates of energy burden in the country, meaning we spend the highest percentage of income on energy costs. Proper policy can reduce the costs of energy, implement efficiency measures, and discourage political corruption from...
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Climate Justice Y’all: It’s real, it’s here, it’s about time.
Collaborators
Southeast Climate & Energy Network
Fort Lauderdale, FL
SCEN’s mission is to confront the climate crisis by creating strategic alignment, growing capacity, and building power among member organizations and their communities in the Southeastern United States.
GASP
Birmingham, AL
GASP’s mission is to advance healthy air and environmental justice in the Greater-Birmingham area through education, advocacy and collaboration.
The People’s Justice Council
Pleasant Grove, AL
The People’s Justice Council engages and equips communities suffering from disproportionate impacts of environmental injustice with the tools to build power from the grassroots up to fight for their own justice.