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Season 2

March 16, 2021

EP 46: Investigating the Illicit Vulture Trade in Nigeria

Stephen Awoyemi is a PhD student at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. For his PhD research, he looks at how sociological theories can help explain and solve the conservation problem of trade in vulture parts for traditional medicine …

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March 9, 2021

EP 45: Making Space for Climate Justice and Clean Energy (RERUN)

Raya Salter is an attorney, educator and clean energy law/policy expert, focusing on climate justice. She is a member of the New York State Climate Action Council, which is developing NY’s plan to reach the nation’s leading climate action goals,

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March 2, 2021

EP 44: Indigenous Environmentalism

Deondre Smiles is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. His research interests include Indigenous geographies, science and technology studies, and tribal cultural resource protection/preserv...

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Feb. 23, 2021

EP 43: Diving With A Purpose

Weldon Wade was born and raised in Bermuda and has been active in the Bermuda diving community for over 10 years. The first and only Bermudian certified as freediver/scuba diver/closed-circuit rebreather diver,

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Feb. 16, 2021

EP 42: Grassroots Action in River Protection (RERUN)

This is a re-release of an episode from Feb 2020 season 1 of the podcast. This episode is with the only African American River Keeper in the world, Fred Tutman. Fred is the river for the Patuxent River in Maryland, …

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Feb. 9, 2021

EP 41: Finding Black Joy: Black Women in Nature

Nicole Jackson, Ivory Levert and Angela Mitchell are co-creators of Black Women in Nature (BWN), an initiative to connect Black women with nature through meditation, nature, hiking, and reflection in Columbus, Ohio.

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Feb. 9, 2021

S2 TRAILER: We're Back!

Hey All! Season 2 is here! I can’t believe that we made it this far. Season 1 was exhilarating and hectic at the same time. We had 40 episodes in 9 months. At that time I didn't think to take …

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