Jan Spencer lives in Eugene, Oregon, and he's been creating a preferred future, on the ground and for the wider culture, from his one-quarter acre suburban home there. Many folks may assume that you have to move out to the country to create something in tune with nature, but Jan's wonderful homestead in the city proves the contrary.
Unleashing Our Imaginations for Climate Change Solutions
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As climate advocates, we need to articulate what it is that we are fighting for. What is the world we want to create? Engaging our imagination is essential to stir up the kind of hope and excitement that inspires others to action.
George Lakey's Life for Peace and Justice: Dancing with History
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George Lakey has been on the vanguard of nonviolent activism for over 50 years, doing, innovating, and teaching organizing & activism with ever more effective ways of helping humanity forward.
How to Tell a Climate Change Solution Story
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In this episode, host Peterson Toscano looks at climate stories that reveal the impacts of climate solutions. This is a harder story to tell because many of the best solutions are still on the table. In fact, CCLers are working hard to get lawmakers and community leaders to take these solutions seriously and put them into practice. In 25 or 50 years, we will be able to tell many stories about the beneficial impacts these solutions will have. But we need to tell these stories today.
What is an Effective Climate Change Story?
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In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, host Peterson Toscano considers stories that focus on the impacts of climate change. These include incidents of extreme weather and stories of changes you have witnessed over time and the ways these changes affect you and everything and everyone you love. This episode will give viewers the opportunity to tell effective climate stories.
Plus, you will hear one climate solution story from the future. Most importantly, you will hear an example of “the climate story pivot.” The pivot happens when you jump off of your story into the climate solution you are proposing.
Personal & Societal Climate Optimism & Resilience - Citizens Climate Radio
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A wide array of valuable climate-related guests & resources though guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio.
Writer in a Life Vest: Iris Graville
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Iris Graville was writer-in-residence on the Interisland Ferry of Washington's San Juan Islands just before COVID hit.
Black Birding, Poetry, Equity, Food Security, & Faith: Climate Changed
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Guest-hosts today are from the Climate Changed podcast, Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center, accompanied by Peterson Toscano. Their guests today are Maya Williams, the poet laureate of Portland, Maine, and Corina Newsome, who co-organized the very first #BlackBirdersWeek and who, in taking on racial injustice directly through activism, has challenged the straight-forward faith of her childhood.
Adrian Rafizadeh — Young conservative pursuing climate solutions
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Adrian Rafizadeh is a young conservative; he’s also motivated to connect with fellow young conservatives about climate change.
“Polling from Frank Luntz found that 75% of Republicans under 40 support a carbon fee and dividend, which is really major,” Adrian explains in this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio. “That 75% number is something that we’re really trying to laser in on and focus on within the Conservative Caucus because there’s so much potential there.”
Queer Response to Climate Change
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Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio guest-hosts today, on the topic of Queer Response to Climate Change. Foremost he speaks with Isaias Hernandez who provides training and media as Queer Brown Vegan.