In This Climate

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we talk with Lisa Sideris about wonder as it relates with science, religion, Rachel Carson, and policy change. We also return to a discussion on the importance of religious and ethical approaches t...

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? In this episode, we ask environmental ethicist and religious studies scholar Willis Jenkins about the significance of understanding religion in the process of building a better relationship with our environment. We...

Back in December 2020, we talked with environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin about the ins and outs of natural gas leasing. Like, how is it that a company obtains rights to drill in the middle of farmland? How do farmers feel about that? And as always, how does money flow and motivate and determine access to political processes? More about Stephanie: https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/sam...

There's a new podcast we think you'll want to hear! "Just Energy" is a collaboration between Sanya Carley, an energy justice professor at Indiana University's O'Neill School, and her master of public affairs students. They explore what energy (in)justice is, its racial and social dimensions, and how to make future energy policy more inclusive by design. Because it's never just about energy. It's a...

In this episode, host Gabe Filippelli explains the science of lead's health effects and tells us the story of Thomas Midgley Jr. and Clair Patterson, who respectively put lead into and got lead out of gasoline. 

Not all greenhouse gases work the same. While CO2 has a severe long term effect on our climate, methane has much more significant warming power in the near term. And where does methane often escape? Along the natural gas supply chain. In this episode, Jim talks with Environmental Defense Fund scientist Steven Hamburg about all things methane -- where we find leaks and how we can fix them while we...

Host Jim Shanahan and David Polly, chair of Indiana University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, discuss the politics of preservation, national monuments, and paleontology.

Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter. This episode, we meet Lauren Volpp, who nurtures Three Flock Farm, the Plant Truck Project, the People's Market, and much more. She explains how this distinct farmers market...

What is the health impact of urban heat islands? Is climate change a "cause of death"? How good is med school training on climate issues? Gabe talks with Dr. Jay Lemery of the Univ  of Colorado.

Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter. In this episode, we join Stewart Hamilton and Kelsey Campbell for a Friday harvest and chat through lettuce bagging. They talk about the value of local, sustainably grown foo...

Gabe talks with Susan Anenberg of GWU about climate change, air quality, COVID and climate and  other issues.

If you haven't yet listened to our discussion with Darren Bender-Beauregard, we recommend you do that here ! It provides context for Darren's relationship with the land, how he grows Andean crops in Indiana, the sorts of grants that help his family experiment and educate, and more. Then, listen to this tour for concrete insights into how Darren and his family channel and encourage ecological abund...

Many of us here in Indiana wonder how we can access local food as the weather gets colder and warm-weather plants go dormant. So, in three parts, we're asking folks near Bloomington how they prepare for and operate in winter. First up, we sit down at Brambleberry Farm with Darren Bender-Beauregard to talk through his family's iteration of permaculture/homesteading, experimentation with unconventio...

Gabe and Jim review the movie "Don't Look Up" from a scientist perspective. Also a discussion of Midwest tornadoes.

A show about how environmental policy dealt with acid rain, and the beneficial effects in the Adirondacks.

A discussion with Chris Clayton of Progressive Farmer/DTN  about ag and climate provisions in the Build Back Better bill. What is the future for those provisions?

A discussion about a proposed forest restoration project in the Hoosier NF. 2:23 Ranger Chris Thornton, HNF 24:00 Kyle Brazil, Central Hardwood Joint Venture 34:11  Steven Stewart, Save Hoosier National Forest

We talk with researcher Seth Wynes about how major league sport travel, affected by COVID, affects energy use. Also, does academic travel affect academic success?

Gabe talks with Pakistani climate communicator Maryam Shabbir.

In this episode, Gabe talks with climate and sustainability expert Imran Khalid about COP26, renewable energy, vehicle emissions, and more as they relate to Pakistan's position in a changing climate.

In this episode of our series on reimagining transportation, urban history expert John Fairfield helps us understand how our transportation infrastructure developed and what we can do to modify it in a sustainable direction. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority , the McKinney Family Foundation , and Greenworks , which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainabi...

In this episode, Jesse Kharbanda sits down with host Gabe Filippelli to talk about the nuances, challenges, and opportunities in Indiana environmental legislation and action. Jesse built this knowledge over more than a decade of leading the Hoosier Environmental Council. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority , the McKinney Family Foundation , and Greenworks...

When you come across a challenge, what is your first impulse? To add or subtract? And what does it really mean to subtract? In this episode, University of Virginia professor Leidy Klotz helps us understand the human tendency toward addition and what that means in the context of the relationship between humans and the rest of the earth. Also, the next event in our Resilience Speaker Series is Frida...

In the 1990s, you could see one bumper sticker across the capital of Azerbaijan: " Happiness is multiple pipelines. " Amid ever-complicating conversations about environmental resilience, the themes of diversification, redundancy, and (inter)dependence of energy infrastructure remain relevant. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Adam Stulberg, Sam Nunn Professor and Chair in the Sam Nunn School of In...

In this episode, we dive deep into the history of infrastructure to uncover elements of both hardware and knowledge systems that hold us back from resilience to climate change. Guest Mikhail Chester provides theoretical insight and lots of tangible examples of people who are figuring out how to improve infrastructure for a world of decreasing stability. Dr. Chester's book: The Rightful Place of Sc...