Announcing a New Podcast: DoveTale
It goes without saying that science and technology play a key role in shaping climate solutions. They are no panacea, however: to address climate change, we need more than science and technology.Climate change and environmental damage are all-encompassing – they affect every aspect of our reality, from our bodies and Mental Health To our communities and societies, and to the species and ecosystems around us. Any viable solutions must therefore be as interconnected and diverse as the crisis itself.
That’s the fundamental insight I’m trying to make with my new podcast, DoveTale.This program is at my hometown Concord Theological Seminary (where I will soon be earning my Masters in Theology) and Columbia Climate School, I am doing an internship there this school year. During my studies, I was fascinated by observing the ways in which the challenges of climate change and environmental destruction are applied in the humanities: How does climate change relate to colonial history? What is the ethical, moral and spiritual context and implications of these crises? How can we respond robustly to the mental and emotional challenges associated with the climate crisis?
As I immersed myself in this layer of climate dialogue within the academy, I became more and more curious about how these issues were being tackled on the ground. And what better way to find out than by talking? At DoveTale, I talk to psychologists, religious leaders, artists and Indigenous management practitioners, scientists and more. In speaking with these broad conversational partners, I have sought to explore the various ways in which community climate and environmental leaders connect ethical, spiritual, psychological, moral, artistic, and historical dimensions to their community work.
In episode 1, I discuss with Karen Blondel, a climate and housing justice advocate in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the importance of cultivating “social infrastructure” in developing communities to respond to ecological disaster, and the real-time impact of environmental racism.
In Episode 2, I discuss the multidimensional impact of climate change on mental health with Jen Robohm, Peter McDonough, Hayley Blackburn, and Rachel Williamson (University of Montana’s Climate and Mental Health Affinity Group).
In Episode 3, I talk with Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, Vice President of the Evangelical Environmental Network, about the importance of engaging people’s value systems when organizing around climate and the environment in communities that may not be immediately receptive to environmental information.
DoveTale is available at apple, spotify music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. New episodes are released every two weeks. Join me on this world tour of creative and intersecting climate solutions!
