All the Feelings Under the Sun with Dr. Leslie Davenport
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This is the episode where we discuss our feelings of anxiety with climate change and building emotional resiliency with Dr. Leslie Davenport. She works as a climate psychology educator & consultant and lives here in Grit City. Her most recent book is called All the Feelings Under the Sun.
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Climate Disruption § Feels § Shaping Change with the Forest Adaptation Network
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Which tree species impacted by climate change are we getting nervous about? This is the episode where we talk about climate disruption, our anxiety & grief as we witness tree loss while also embracing change with the Forest Adaptation Network.
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Restoration for Whom, by Whom? with Marlène Elias
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Working from a foundation of feminist political ecology, Marlène Elias questions who decides the sustainability agenda and urges all of us to pay attention to the power and politics that shape the values, meanings and science driving restoration.
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Local Oak Novela with The Lakewood Oak Protectors
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It’s First Lushootseed name is čaʔadᶻac aka Oregon white oak, Garry oak, or Quercus garryana. Join us on a deep dive on the intersections of urban development, environmental racism, organizing against tree loss, and the oak restoration imaginary.
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Recovering Lost Species with Dolly Jørgensen
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Absence of species we feel belong in our lives gives rise to powerful emotions. "It’s the feeling of environmental lost-ness and the potential found-ness that motivates decisions about recovering locally extinct animals," says Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, historian of the environment and technology and an environmental humanities scholar.
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Coppice & Pollard with Alex Slakie
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Disrupted by enclosure of the commons and colonialism, people have had a relationship with trees via coppice and pollard for eons. My guest is Alex Slakie who grows and wild-tends willow coppices and stands of medicinal plants in the Columbia River Gorge.
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Mapping Abundance with Candace Fuijikane
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Candace Fujikane leads us through Kanaka Maoli cartographies via moʻolelo, oli, and mele. Through the art of kilo, observing natural laws in relationships with the akua, elemental forms, leads to abundant-mindedness, restoration and decolonial futures.
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Forest Gardens with Chelsey Armstrong
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Forest gardens are intimate with humans. Professor Chelsey Armstrong refer to these forests as novel ecosystems - composed of communities of species that result from human agency, ecosystem engineering and wildcrafted species from nearby regions.
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Words about Weeds with Just Language
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I fortuitously got mixed up with this group called Just Language. Christopher Widmaier, Danielle Bunch, Lisa Fink and Celeste Williams interrogate our language around invasive species. Join in the dialogue and effort to make our conservation language more inclusive and purge terms like “invasive” and “alien” that have racist, prejudiced and xenophobic implications. Clayton County Water Authority and Green Collar Collaborations make this project possible.
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Reimagining the Elwha Restoration with Whitney Mauer
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Think of this show when you are dismantling structures. After successful dam removal on the Elwha River, Whitney Mauer assesses the restoration in light of ongoing challenges of cultural revival and self-determination for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.
info_outlineCandace Fujikane leads us through Kanaka Maoli cartographies that articulates Indigenous ancestral knowledges via moʻolelo (historical stories), oli (chants), and mele (songs). Engaging in the art of kilo, observing laws of the natural order is based on longtime observation and recording in relationships with the almost half a million akua. The akua are the elemental forms, who guide the people in their daily lives and embody the lands, seas, and skies. Professor Fuijikane asserts, “abundance is expressed out of Kanaka Maoli restoration projects, as practitioners assert their capacity to determine their own decolonial futures…."
Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1996, and she teaches courses on Hawaiʻi literatures, Asian American literatures, and settler colonial and Indigenous politics. In 2000, she co-edited a special issue of Amerasia Journal entitled Whose Vision? Asian Settler Colonialism in Hawaiʻi, and that issue was expanded in 2008 into Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi. She has stood for Mauna a Wākea since 2011, testifying to protect the sacred mountain and standing on the frontlines against law enforcement in 2019. Just this year, she has published a new book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi.
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i Purchase Mapping Abundance from Duke University Press. Use the code F J K N E for a 30% discount on your purchase.
https://hawaii.academia.edu/CandaceFujikane
Editing for this episode provided by the wonderful Katie Dunn
Music for the show you heard from was from Reed Mathis
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