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From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis

From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis

Update: 2025-08-27
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In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed to model bioregional democratic climate action. The aim is to transform the Gulf South and Appalachia away from the lethal matrix of fossil fuel extraction and extractive economics. Instead, the regional vision is for a regenerative future of clean energy democracy, and an equitable, inclusive economy.


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Colette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. After 17 years leading the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.


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Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel


Written by: Kenny Ausubel


Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch


Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris


Producer: Teo Grossman


Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey


Songs in this Episode: ‘Good Morning New Orleans’ by Kermit Ruffins; ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ by Rebirth Brass Band, provided by Basin Street Records in New Orleans, Louisiana


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This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

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From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis

From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis

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