Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
Climate Justice Alliance
16 episodes
1 week ago
After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
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After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
Season 2 Ep. 3 - Energy Democracy & Just Transition Solutions to Climate Change
Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
34 minutes 20 seconds
3 years ago
Season 2 Ep. 3 - Energy Democracy & Just Transition Solutions to Climate Change
What are real-life examples of climate solutions that are just, equitable, community-driven, and lead to a “brighter, better world?” They are community-driven solutions that stop harm, undo harm, and heal not only the Earth, but how we are in relationship with one another.
In this episode we zoom in on “energy democracy,” a term describing a wide range of solutions that move away from a fossil fuel economy into renewable energies that also ensures energy is community-owned.
We look at the work of the following Climate Justice Alliance members: Kentuckians for the Commonwealth as they devise community energy plans, UPROSE’s solar park and clean energy development in Brooklyn, New York, and the Oregon Just Transition Alliance’s Clean Energy campaign that flips extractive economics on its head. Bonus readings in description.
Thanks to our guests, Basav Sen (Climate Change Policy Director at the Institute for Policy Studies), Cassia Heron (Immediate past chair of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, and a co-founder of the Louisville Association for Community Economics and the Louisville Community Grocery), and Elizabeth Yeampierre (Executive Director of UPROSE).
Learn more about the grassroots communities and issues featured in this episode:
UPROSE: https://www.uprose.org/
Oregon Just Transition Alliance: https://www.ojta.org/
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth: https://kftc.org/
The environmental disaster in Popal, India, that Basav talks about: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-is-still-unfolding/560726/
UPROSE’s proposed clean energy industrial “GRID”: https://www.uprose.org/the-grid
Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity Campaign: https://cleanenergyoregon.org/
Portland Clean Energy Fund
https://portlandcleanenergyfund.org/about
Empower Kentucky, people’s energy plan: https://www.empowerkentucky.org/
Stories from Home: Living the Just Transition Podcast
After a season that journeys through the history of environmental and climate justice, how to identify good and bad solutions to climate change, the importance of storytelling and creativity in the movement, we conclude with a focus on the most foundational element of the work: each of us, our capacity for self-transformation and leadership, and our relationships in the ecosystems that are our families, neighborhoods, and communities.
The Jemez Principles of Democratic Organizing includes a “commitment to self-transformation,” recognizing that “We must be the values that we say we’re struggling for and we must be justice, be peace, be community.”
Organizations like the Kheprw Institute focus on just that – community empowerment through self-mastery. In this episode, guests Aghilah Nadaraj and Asli Mwaafrika from Kheprw share what it means to build “community wealth” and how leadership is within each of us.
You’ll also hear from Najari Smith, founder of Rich City Rides, on his journey from Brooklyn, New York, to Richmond, California, and how he channeled the voices of his community into the visionary bike cooperative and ecosystem that it is today.
Lastly, you’ll meet Climate Justice Alliance’s co-executive director Marion Gee, who talks about personal loss, grief, and her calling to leadership.
We hope you’ve enjoyed Stories from Home, Season 2. Please let us know your thoughts at media@climatejusticealliance.org
Resources:
The Kheprw Institute: https://kheprw.org/
The KHEPRW Story video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6cooMdIPE
Rich City Rides: https://www.richcityrides.org/
Cooperation Richmond: https://www.cooperationrichmond.org/
