This week we're talking to Chauncey O'Dell and Adam Hughes about Appalachia, climate justice, and reimagining the present and future of the region. Chauncey and Adam are organizers with the Alliance for Appalachia, a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote a...
Episodes
S2 E9: When Disaster Strikes Part II with N. Teresa Ramos
This is Climate Justice, Y’all! Our podcast is dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South.
S2 E8: When Disaster Strikes Part I with Michael Esealuka
As Healthy Gulf’s Louisiana organizer, Michael works with frontline communities in the state’s traditional industrial corridor, which stretches along the Mississippi from East Baton Rouge down to Plaquemines Parish where the river opens up at the Gulf of Mexico. Her...
S2 E7: Faith & the Climate Crisis Part II with Codi Norred
Prior to serving as Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Executive Director, Codi worked as GIPL’s Director of Programs and Policy for three years. As Executive Director, Codi continues to lead all policy, program, and outreach efforts, spending much of his spring...
S2 E6: Faith & the Climate Crisis Part I with Rev. Dallas Conyers
Rev. Dallas Conyers works as a Body Restoration Specialist: teaching yoga, foods for healing, and spiritual reestablishment to help people become ABLE to live out their creation purpose. She is a certified Sustainable Agriculturalist, Beekeeper, and Greenhouse...
S2 E5: Rural Energy Democracy Part II with Chris Woolery
Chris Woolery joined the Mountain Association’s Energy Team in 2011. As the Residential Energy Coordinator, Chris manages the residential energy program, How$martKY™, which partners with rural electric cooperatives to design, finance, and install home energy...
S2 E4: Rural Energy & Democracy Part II with Brent Bailey
Brent is a 1994 graduate of Mississippi State University in Agriculture and Biological Engineering. After graduation, Brent worked as an Environmental Consultant for two central Mississippi environmental engineering firms. In 1999, Brent went to the Mississippi Farm...
S2 E3: Respect Your Elders Part II with Marsha Jackson
Marsha Jackson is the co-chair of Southern Sector Rising, a nonprofit environmental justice organization based in Dallas, TX. Founded to get rid of Shingle Mountain, an illegal dump in a southern Dallas community, SSR's mission is to offer marginalized residents...
S2 E2: Respect Your Elders Part I with Catherine Coleman Flowers
Alabama native Catherine Coleman-Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. As the founding director of...