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Season 1
Self-care in the Time of Climate Crisis
In this episode of Brown Girl Green, we are joined with Brittney Enin, Founder and Executive Self-Care Consultant & Radiator of Black Sunshine as we talk about the importance of “self-care.”
It is expected that the climate crisis has and will continue to have a detrimental
Climate Change & Disabilities: How'd we get here?
We’re not in shape to leap in a boat if there’s a flood, or run from a fire… there’s an attitude I think that’s completely unconscious that we have to be ready to do these kind of things. Marsha Saxton (21:48)
Kristy Drutman interviews Marsha Saxton and Alex Ghenis from the World Institute on
Put Your Money Where Your Values Are: Personal Finance & The Planet
Learn about how to both save the planet & learn how to not go broke along the way.
Given this fiscally-uncertain world for the 99%, how can we put our money where our values are? For the best answers, I made a 2 part episode on the topic. I teamed up with Joelle Sostheim of the Joelle Show. She gives us a step-by-step lesson on personal finance and shows us how we can use this important practice as a tool to make alternative spending and
Talking Circular Economy: Making Synthetic Hair More Sustainable
In this episode, we talk about the benefit of the circular economy for the climate crisis & to empower communities of color to take action.
Episode Notes
Join Kristy and Ciara Imani May, founder of Rebundle, a company closing the loop on synthetic hair waste one bundle at a time. We will be talking about what it means to generate a circular economy, how to make an environmentally friendly and culturally conscious
S1E6 - The Violence of Silence: Racial Equity & the Outdoors
Episode Notes
In this week's episode of Brown Girl Green, we are talking about racial equity within the outdoors given the current state of the world. A few weeks ago, Christian Cooper, a black birder encountered a white woman, Amy Cooper who felt threatened & called 911 after
False Choices & Poisoned Futures: Examining Environmental Racism
On Earth Day, I had the pleasure to interview Black Millennials 4 Flint's Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President LaTricea D. Adams and Sierra Club's community organizer Justin Onwenu. Together, we defined environmental racism and sacrifice zones; discussed their successful coalition practices and how to they take action for their communities; the
The Brown Girl Wears Green
Talking About Sustainable Fashion
Episode Notes
This episode of Brown Girl Green is focused on sustainable fashion. We discuss if/ why sustainable fashion is the path forward away from throw-away culture and mass over-consumption of clothing in modern society.
Stopping Food Waste: From Plate to Planet
Episode Notes
This episode of Brown Girl Green covers the issue of food waste - which currently contributes to 6% of global green house gas emissions (our world in data). Learn from Maen Mahfoud, an expert who is taking food surplus and using it to redistribute out to the
Conservation as a form of Colonization: A look at the Maasai in Tanzania
Episode Notes
In this episode you will learn about:
-The connections between colonization and conservation -How conservation movements can displace Indigneous communities -How Indigenous people in Tanzania are resisting and
How can I get a green job?
Episode Notes
Learn more at greenjobsboard on instagram and the website browngirlgreen.com/greenjobs!
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