Just Sustainability

This podcast offers you the opportunity to listen to curious conversations exploring the intersection of sustainability, equity, and social justice. It is a resource for folks who are interested in learning and thinking about how equity and environment interact and who want to approach solving environmental problems in ways that are better informed by social justice -- or solving social justice problems in ways that are more environmentally conscious.

Just Sustainability, Episode 28C: Shane Epting on public scholarship and philosophy as a tool for thinking about complicated and overlook problems

As we reach the end of our conversation Shane Epting and I spoke about the role that the discipline of philosophy should have in examining the cities where many of […]

03-21
44:49

Just Sustainability, Episode 28B: Shane Epting on participatory budgeting, municipalities as technology, and arguing lovingly

During the second part of our conversation, Shane Epting told me more about how participatory budgeting and how he thinks it’s a useful tool that can be used by municipalities […]

03-11
36:01

Just Sustainability, Episode 31C: Michelle Garvey on non-extractive scholarship

In this episode, climate and sustainability educator, Michelle Garvey tells me about how one might better engage in non-extractive scholarship. Dr. Michelle Garvey is an Institute on the Environment Educator. […]

12-04
31:28

Just Sustainability, Episode 31B: Michelle Garvey on vulnerability, openness, and transforming the academy

On this episode of Just Sustainability we return to Michelle Garvey who told me about how vulnerability and openness to learn are both deeply important for reforming the way we […]

11-22
30:12

Just Sustainability, Episode 31A: Meeting Michelle Garvey

I’ve noted elsewhere that what I wanted to do when I started working on the Just Sustainability podcast was to be able to share some of the wonderfully edifying conversations […]

11-15
28:30

Just Sustainability, Episode 30C: Valentine Cadieux on art and how universities might better engage with communities

Valentine Cadieux and I concluded our conversation by talking about art as a tool for more accessible discourse (which is a topic that was also explored in the conversation that […]

08-28
19:20

Just Sustainability, Episode 30B: Valentine Cadieux on food justice

In the second part of the conversation that I had with Valentine Cadieux we spoke about food justice, media literacy, and how art can serve as a mode of collective […]

07-01
40:05

Just Sustainability, Episode 30A: Meeting Valentine Cadieux

If someone were to ask me to describe my exemplar of a scholar and educator that does a terrific job integrating equity and sustainability, I would offer a description of […]

06-05
21:41

Just Sustainability, Episode 29C: Marceleen Mosher on how the medium shapes the narrative and the importance of conversation

In the conclusion of the conversation that I had with Marceleen Mosher, we discuss how different media has an impact upon how narratives are formed, which in turns shapes how […]

04-16
29:25

Just Sustainability, Episode 29B: Marceleen Mosher on narratives about sustainability and hope

In this episode we return to the conversation that I had with Marceleen Mosher. Marceleen and I talk about hope and the sorts of discourse that are effective in driving […]

03-20
18:56

Just Sustainability, Episode 29A: Meeting Marceleen Mosher

We’re straying a bit from the planned episode order of the Just Sustainability podcast. Because we need to do some re-recording, the remainder of Shane Epting’s episodes are going to […]

02-29
26:12

Just Sustainability, Episode 27D: Jill Fellows on liberatory technology and what is obscured by the dominant narratives about technology

As our conversation came to a close, Jill Fellows told me about the ways that technology can empower and liberate as well as how we often talk about technology (particularly […]

11-30
36:46

Just Sustainability, Episode 27C: Jill Fellows on the digital divide and biases related to technology

In the this episode the conversation between Jill Fellows and I shifts topics. We move on from discussing podcasting and public scholarship to the content of Jill’s research: the interplay […]

11-09
27:13

Just Sustainability, Episode 27B: Jill Fellows on integrating public scholarship into an academic career

In this episode we pick-up where we left off on the previous episode, with Jill Fellows telling me about how she identifies the guests that are featured in her podcast […]

11-01
23:51

Just Sustainability, Episode 27A: Jill Fellows on podcasting and public scholarship

I’m really excited to share this episode because I get to introduce all of you to an old friend of mine who also happens to be my favorite public philosopher: […]

10-12
34:14

Just Sustainability, Episode 26B: Clement Loo and more reflection on the Just Sustainability Podcast

This episode contains the second half of the conversation where liz Thomson interviewed me. In it, liz asks me to discuss what I’m most proud of or pleased about Just […]

10-02
33:18

Just Sustainability, Episode 26A: Clement Loo and reflecting on the Just Sustainability Podcast

In this episode we decided to do something slightly different from what we usually do on the Just Sustainability Podcast. When we finished recording for their episodes at the end […]

09-26
28:15

Just Sustainability, Episode 25B:  liz Thomson on universal design principles, counter-spaces, and home-spaces

In the second half of the conversation that I had with liz Thomson, we spoke built on our discussion about the relationship between equity and disability by talking about universal […]

05-12
45:27

Just Sustainability, Episode 25A: Meeting liz Thomson

It was really cool to have Elizabeth (liz) Anh Thomson, PhD as a guest for the Just Sustainability Podcast. One of the reasons that I created this podcast was that […]

05-09
27:22

Just Sustainability, Episode 24B: Mark Pedelty on music as communication, Ecosong.net, and podcasting

In this episode Mark Pedelty discusses the idea of music as communication, Ecosong.net, and different approaches to podcasting. Mark is a musician, environmental activist, podcaster, and a Professor of Communication […]

04-21
46:31

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