A Future For Us

Host and creator, Joelle Alexandria, speaks with Allie Rougeot on her journey to becoming a climate activist and registered lobbyist, FACTS not caring about FEELINGS, the point of the COP( Conference of Parties 2023), climate anxiety, climate grief and climate hope. (IN THAT ORDER!) Welcome to Part 1.

Hos and Creator, Joelle Alexandria, talks with Allie Rougeot about "The Blip" of climate change, Tar Sands in Alberta Canada, Carbon Capture Technologies, Immigration and Activism as An Art. Welcome to Part 2.

Creator and host of A Future for Us Podcast, Joelle Alexandria, interviews Nick De Carlo, co-founder of Seniors for Climate Action. In this discussion, Alexandria and De Carlo discuss how big oil industries were (are) able to hide the climate catastrophe; "Third locations", spaces that provide social enrichment and full-filling developmental experiences; Our experiences at the September...

Creator and host of A Future for Us Podcast, Joelle Alexandria, interviews Nick De Carlo, co-founder of Seniors for Climate Action. In this discussion, Alexandria and De Carlo discuss the conception of Seniors for Climate Action, a group of seniors who are calling on governments to act decisively on the climate emergency by amplifying their voices and youth voices; And how the generational divide...

This is an audio journey through the Toronto Climate Strike of September 16th, 2023. Each bell will transport you to the experiences of people marching for fossil fuel divestment: INTERVIEW #1 Guru Fatha INTERVIEW #2 Heidi INTERVIEW #3 Laura INTERVIEW #4 Paul INTERVIEW #5 Petra Thank you to Fridays for Future for initiating and engaging the Toronto community with a city-wide strike for climate jus...

This is an audio journey through the Toronto Climate Strike of September 16th, 2023. Each bell will transport you to.... A SPOKEN WORD titled The True Cost of Coal. The True Cost of Coal is a story created by the Beehive Design Collective. The story features lessons on themes of ecology, colonial history, workers' rights, extreme extraction, community organizing, and regenerative futures along...

This is the Last Event of ECOFEST!! Listen to this episode recapping the Willow Project, Hosted by Joelle Alexandria! The Willow Project is a Proposed development project in Northern Alaska by ConocoPhilips, a company that has been surrounded by controversy for continued oil drilling, exploitation of nature, and posing risks to indigenous communities globally. This project was proposed during the...

Who are Sweezy and the Discopunk? In Part 2, Joelle Alexandria interviews the Toronto based band Sweezy and the DiscoPunk in a riveting interview that talks about social media etiquette, mental health, and the religion and spirituality that influence their music. Stay tuned to hear a sneak peek of the band's new song, Cerulean City. Available on YouTube, Spotify and wherever you stream music on Fe...

Who are Sweezy and the Discopunk? In Part 1, Joelle Alexandria interviews the Toronto based band Sweezy and the DiscoPunk in a riveting interview that talks about their drive to pursue music, how they write, how they came together and the band's aspirations (and inspirations) in the music industry.  Stay tuned to hear a sneak peek of the band's new song, Cerulean City. Available on YouTube, S...

Creator and host of A Future for Us, Joelle Alexandria, gets interviewed by fellow science communicator, host, and creator of Translating Science, Isra Khiyar,  as we discuss the endemic of Science Literacy and insight into my platform as a science commentator and environmental journalist. Translating Science is a YouTube channel that promotes science literacy and science communication. The e...

Creator and host of A Future for Us, Joelle Alexandria, gets interviewed by fellow science communicator, host, and creator of Translating Science, Isra Khiyar,  as we discuss the endemic of Science Literacy and insight into my platform as a science commentator and environmental journalist.  Translating Science is a YouTube channel that promotes science literacy and science communication....

Joelle Alexandria hosts A Future for Us in today's episode: Science Communication Part 2 Featuring Irene Duah-Kessie & Sydney Hussett. These executives of the grassroots organization, Rise-In-STEM, make up a team of driven leaders who offer holistic science technology engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, enrichment programs to unlock potential in underserved black youth. **STEM stands for sc...

Joelle Alexandria hosts A Future for Us in today's episode: Science Communication Part 1 Featuring Dr. Gavin Tolometti. Dr. Tolometti is a post-doctorate fellow at Western University and host and creator of the podcast, The Diaries of Space Explorers. This podcast makes space accessible for everyone by featuring special guests in the space industry who tell stories of their experiences discovering...

Joelle Alexandria hosts today's episode, about climate justice, in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Environmental Resource Network. During the university’s virtual Eco-Fest, in March 2022, we'll be releasing a three-part series discussing Climate Justice: What is it? What are the impacts? & How we can combat Climate Injustice every day. Welcome to Part Three: Combating Climate In...

Joelle Alexandria hosts today's episode, about climate justice, in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Environmental Resource Network. During the university’s virtual Eco-Fest, in March 2022, we'll be releasing a three-part series discussing Climate Justice: What is it? What are the impacts? & How we can combat Climate Injustice every day. Welcome to Part Two: The Impacts of Climate...

Joelle Alexandria hosts today's episode, about climate justice, in collaboration with the University of Toronto's Environmental Resource Network. During the university’s virtual Eco-Fest, in March 2022, we'll be releasing a three-part series discussing Climate Justice: What is it? What are the impacts? & How we can combat Climate Injustice every day. Welcome to Part One: What is Climate Justic...

Joelle Alexandria hosts A Future for Us in today's episode: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence. Are humans and artificial intelligence really one and the same? We will be talking about the world of Artificial intelligence and how bots (robots) interact with people online featuring Alexis Pascual, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario. Today's episodes include discussing the negat...

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Joelle Alexandria hosts A Future for Us in today's episode: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence. Are humans and artificial intelligence really one and the same? We will be talking about the world of Artificial intelligence and how bots (robots) interact with people online featuring Alexis Pascual, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario. Today's episodes include discussing the Uncan...

SKEPTICS, OPTIMISTS & RIOTERS, OH MY! Joelle Alexandria hosts A Future for Us and interviews the people of Toronto. Let's find out why they're protesting and striking to advocate for climate justice on September 24th, 2021. Five weeks from the UN climate conference, people aren't very trusting towards how the Canadian government will keep its promises, amongst other concerns . . . 

Jamaica is a vast landscape of scenic environments in the Caribbean. Although its location may be strategic for an escape to paradise for Piña Coladas and island living, its geographical location can also be its downfall. One environmental disaster, in particular, is landslides caused by Slope Instability in the Parishes of St. Thomas and St Andrews Jamaica. We will be speaking with Environmental...

Jamaica is a vast landscape of scenic environments in the Caribbean. Although its location may be strategic for an escape to paradise for Piña Coladas and island living, its geographical location can also be its downfall. One environmental disaster, in particular, is landslides caused by Slope Instability in the Parishes of St. Thomas and St Andrews Jamaica. We will be speaking with Environmental...

Today's episode is a very nuanced one with special guest, documentarian and producer Maggie Reid. in this episode, we will be reviewing her work with the CBC on the documentary Generation Botox in which Reid takes a look at some hard truths that come with a society that normalizes plastic surgery. In part two of this episode, we will talk about whether feminism has a place in the uptick of plastic...

Today's episode is a very nuanced one with special guest, documentarian and producer Maggie Reid. In this episode, we will be reviewing her work with the CBC on the documentary Generation Botox in which Reid takes a look at some hard truths that come with a society that normalizes plastic surgery. In part one of this episode, Generation Botox Revisited, we will talk about the root cause of this mo...

In this two-minute update, Trudy covers the atrocities of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia where 215 indigenous children's remains were found on the residential school's property. This covers the brief history of the Kamloops school and the response of the provincial government of British Columbia.