The Rift

3/2/2025: I speak with Allie Lindstrom, Senior Strategist with the Sierra Club's Sustainable Finance program, about how climate risk is affecting public pensions in the US and what workers can do about it.

2/16/2025: I speak with Liz Jacob, staff attorney at the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice in Detroit, Michigan, about the fight for affordable, reliable and clean electricity in Detroit.

2/2/2025: I speak with Elba Serrano, Associate Vice President at East Los Angeles Community Corporation, about how the recent wildfires have affected members of her community, fighting for economic justice in LA, and how climate change is affecting other struggles for social justice.

1/5/2025: I speak with investigative journalist and researcher Rebecca John about her latest reporting on the deceptive climate denialist practices of the Western States Petroleum Association.

12/15/2024: I speak with Alex Patterson, Campaign Coordinator for the Public Power New York coalition, about the movement for public power and the fight to pass the Build Public Renewables Act in New York State.

12/1/2024: I'm joined by Ghada Sasa, Palestinian activist-scholar and PhD candidate at McMaster University, to discuss her research and advocacy on Israeli green colonialism, Palestinian environmentalism, and the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

11/17/2024: On this episode, I'm joined by Kim Erndt-Pitcher and Robert Hirschfeld of Prairie Rivers Network to discuss the problem of herbicide drift in Illinois, and what widespread herbicide and pesticide use means for the present and future of agriculture and ecological health more broadly.

11/3/2024: In the wake of a destructive hurricane season, I'm joined by Moira Birss, Fellow at the Climate and Community Institute, to discuss the growing crisis in disaster insurance in the face of increasing climate-change-driven disasters.