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Just Sustainability
by Clement Loo
This podcast offers you the opportunity to listen to curious conversations exploring the intersection of sustainability, equity, and social justice. It is a resource for folks who are interested in learning and thinking about how equity and environment interact and who want to approach solving environmental problems in ways that are better informed by social justice — or solving social justice problems in ways that are more environmentally conscious.
Episodes
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Just Sustainability, Episode 28C: Shane Epting on public scholarship and philosophy as a tool for thinking about complicated and overlook problems
As we reach the end of our conversation Shane Epting and I spoke about the role that the discipline of philosophy should have in examining the cities where many of us live. We also spoke about how scholars might better engage in public discourse. Dr. Shane Epting is an Associate Professor of...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 28B: Shane Epting on participatory budgeting, municipalities as technology, and arguing lovingly
During the second part of our conversation, Shane Epting told me more about how participatory budgeting and how he thinks it’s a useful tool that can be used by municipalities to better involve their citizenry in impactful decision making. He also told me about how thinking of municipalities as a...
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Just Sustainability, Re-Post Episode 28A: Shane Epting on philosophy of the city
A while back the order of Just Sustainability episodes got a bit disrupted and I skipped posting episodes 28B and 28C. Episodes 28B and 28C are now ready for posting but, since there’s been quite some time since I first posted episode 28A, I thought that I should re-post it so that folks can…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 31C: Michelle Garvey on non-extractive scholarship
In this episode, climate and sustainability educator, Michelle Garvey tells me about how one might better engage in non-extractive scholarship. Dr. Michelle Garvey is an Institute on the Environment Educator. She previously served as the Director of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 31B: Michelle Garvey on vulnerability, openness, and transforming the academy
On this episode of Just Sustainability we return to Michelle Garvey who told me about how vulnerability and openness to learn are both deeply important for reforming the way we approach higher-education in order to make our institutions more accessible and better structured to serve our students....
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Just Sustainability, Episode 31A: Meeting Michelle Garvey
I’ve noted elsewhere that what I wanted to do when I started working on the Just Sustainability podcast was to be able to share some of the wonderfully edifying conversations that I find myself in proximity to. I’ve been lucky enough over the years to become friends with a number of folks who are...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 30C: Valentine Cadieux on art and how universities might better engage with communities
Valentine Cadieux and I concluded our conversation by talking about art as a tool for more accessible discourse (which is a topic that was also explored in the conversation that I had with Marceleen Mosher). This led Valentine and I to reflect upon how institutions of higher education (and in...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 30B: Valentine Cadieux on food justice
In the second part of the conversation that I had with Valentine Cadieux we spoke about food justice, media literacy, and how art can serve as a mode of collective expression and reflection as a tool to drive positive change. Dr. Valentine Cadieux is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 30A: Meeting Valentine Cadieux
If someone were to ask me to describe my exemplar of a scholar and educator that does a terrific job integrating equity and sustainability, I would offer a description of Valentine Cadieux. Valentine is one of the most thoughtful folks that I know when it comes to the topics of environment,...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 29C: Marceleen Mosher on how the medium shapes the narrative and the importance of conversation
In the conclusion of the conversation that I had with Marceleen Mosher, we discuss how different media has an impact upon how narratives are formed, which in turns shapes how as a society we understand various phenomena. Marceleen and I also also talk about the importance of robust conversation...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 29B: Marceleen Mosher on narratives about sustainability and hope
In this episode we return to the conversation that I had with Marceleen Mosher. Marceleen and I talk about hope and the sorts of discourse that are effective in driving social action related to climate change and sustainability. Marceleen Mosher has taught communication studies at Augsburg...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 29A: Meeting Marceleen Mosher
We’re straying a bit from the planned episode order of the Just Sustainability podcast. Because we need to do some re-recording, the remainder of Shane Epting’s episodes are going to be posted at a later date. However, I’ve kept all of you waiting for too long. So, without further ado, it’s my...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 28A: Shane Epting on philosophy of the city
On this episode I’m delighted to introduce you to another one of my old friends, Shane Epting. In his first episode of the Just Sustainability Podcast, Shane offers us a primer about philosophy of the city — the field that (I would argue) he played a central role in forming (while of course...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 27D: Jill Fellows on liberatory technology and what is obscured by the dominant narratives about technology
As our conversation came to a close, Jill Fellows told me about the ways that technology can empower and liberate as well as how we often talk about technology (particularly digital technology) can serve to hide the environmental and social impacts of various technologies. Dr. Jennifer Jill…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 27C: Jill Fellows on the digital divide and biases related to technology
In the this episode the conversation between Jill Fellows and I shifts topics. We move on from discussing podcasting and public scholarship to the content of Jill’s research: the interplay between gender and technology. Jill tells me about the digital divide and some of the ways that our biases…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 27B: Jill Fellows on integrating public scholarship into an academic career
In this episode we pick-up where we left off on the previous episode, with Jill Fellows telling me about how she identifies the guests that are featured in her podcast and how she has approached overcoming the various challenges related to integrating public scholarship into her academic career....
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Just Sustainability, Episode 27A: Jill Fellows on podcasting and public scholarship
I’m really excited to share this episode because I get to introduce all of you to an old friend of mine who also happens to be my favorite public philosopher: Dr. Jennifer Jill Fellows. Jill teaches philosophy and is the Associate of Arts Coordinator at Douglas College. She also hosts two really...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 26B: Clement Loo and more reflection on the Just Sustainability Podcast
This episode contains the second half of the conversation where liz Thomson interviewed me. In it, liz asks me to discuss what I’m most proud of or pleased about Just Sustainability, whether there are dream listeners or guests that I have for the show, and how my career arc has influenced how I...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 26A: Clement Loo and reflecting on the Just Sustainability Podcast
In this episode we decided to do something slightly different from what we usually do on the Just Sustainability Podcast. When we finished recording for their episodes at the end of last season, liz Thomson suggested that it might be fun for them to interview me for this podcast. I agreed that…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 25B: liz Thomson on universal design principles, counter-spaces, and home-spaces
In the second half of the conversation that I had with liz Thomson, we spoke built on our discussion about the relationship between equity and disability by talking about universal design principles and the creation of counter- and home-spaces as a framework for improving sense of belonging. liz...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 25A: Meeting liz Thomson
It was really cool to have Elizabeth (liz) Anh Thomson, PhD as a guest for the Just Sustainability Podcast. One of the reasons that I created this podcast was that I wanted an excuse to pester friends and colleagues with the random questions that I have about the cool work that they do. The...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 24B: Mark Pedelty on music as communication, Ecosong.net, and podcasting
In this episode Mark Pedelty discusses the idea of music as communication, Ecosong.net, and different approaches to podcasting. Mark is a musician, environmental activist, podcaster, and a Professor of Communication as well as an Affiliate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 24A: Meeting Mark Pedelty
Mark Pedelty is a hard person to describe succinctly. He has a broad range of interests and engages in a lot of different sorts of work. One could say that Mark is a scholar that is interested in how we communicate (and how we might communicate more effectively) about sustainability and social...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 23B: Ren Olive on factors contributing to food insecurity and work that might improve access to food.
Ren Olive has spent their career working to build and strengthen access to food in a range of communities and to improve the capacity of institutions of higher-education to support the sustainability and economic development of communities across Minnesota. They’ve in the past worked at the...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 23A: Meeting Ren Olive
I first met Ren Olive about 8 or 9 years ago camping at the Land Institute’s Prairie Festival in Salina, KS. I clearly remember having a number of very thought provoking conversations with them throughout that weekend about topics such as removing the barriers to food access in rural communities,...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 22: Patrick Moore on equity, hospitality, and rural community organizing
I first learned about Patrick Moore from Theresa Peterson (who is featured on the first season of the Just Sustainability Podcast). Theresa suggested that I should record an episode with Patrick because of his extensive community organizing related to protecting the waters of Minnesota and his...
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 2B: Eugene Chislenko on Philosophers for Sustainability
In this episode we return to Amanda Corris’ conversation with Eugene Chislenko. Amanda and Eugene talk about Philosophers for Sustainability and the role of professional philosophers in social discourse and advocacy. Eugene is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and is one…
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 2A: Meeting Eugene Chislenko
In this episode Amanda introduces us to Eugene Chislenko. Eugene is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and is one of the co-founders of Philosophers for Sustainability. His scholarship covers a broad range of topics related to moral philosophy and moral psychology, history…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 21B: Climate Justice for the Dead and Dying, wellness, and spirit
Julia Gibson often describes themselves as a farmer-philosopher. Her scholarship often weaves together themes such as palliative care ethics and remembrance, the impact and role of narratives and stories, resisting colonialism, and the rights and representation of non-human species in political...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 21A: Meeting Julia Gibson
Julia Gibson often describes themselves as a farmer-philosopher. I would describe them as the author of some of the most exciting work that’s been recently published about environmental and animal ethics. Her scholarship often weaves together themes such as palliative care ethics and remembrance,...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 20B: Ray Burns – tribal colleges, nation rebuilding, and partnerships
Ray Burns is the Tribal Partnerships Manager for the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in North Dakota (ND EPSCoR). Moreover, at the time that the conversation featured in this episode was recorded, Ray was the President of Leech Lake Tribal…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 20A: Meeting Ray Burns
Ray Burns is the Tribal Partnerships Manager for the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in North Dakota (ND EPSCoR). Moreover, at the time that the conversation featured in this episode was recorded, Ray was the President of Leech Lake Tribal…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 19B: Simon Franco on MLEAD and the goodness of leadership
When I first met Simon Franco about a decade ago he was the Student Success Coordinator for Multi-ethnic Student Programs at the University of Minnesota Morris (which the precursor to the position that I currently hold). Soon after that initial meeting, Simon changed jobs and became the Assistant...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 19A: Meeting Simon Franco
When I first met Simon Franco about a decade ago he was the Student Success Coordinator for Multi-ethnic Student Programs at the University of Minnesota Morris (which the precursor to the position that I currently hold). Soon after that initial meeting, Simon changed jobs and became the Assistant...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 18B: Emily Brier – What it means to be Appalachian and the work of higher-education as therapy.
In the previous episode of Just Sustainability it was my pleasure to introduce you to Emily Brier and to share the first half of the conversation that I recorded with Emily. During that first half, Emily and I spoke mostly about how she thought about inclusive pedagogy and some of the steps that...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 18A: Meeting Emily Brier
There are at least two things about Emily Brier that would be of interest to listeners of this podcast. First, she’s innovative educator that has thought a lot about and built her courses around inclusive, accessible, and socially just pedagogy. Second, she’s a poet who writes about the...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 17B: Julian Agyeman – Belonging, representation, and the most justly sustainable cities
On the finale of Season 2 of Just Sustainable, Julian Agyeman and I talk about a broad range of topics that include: (1) the importance of fostering a sense of belonging for work related to sustainability and social justice, (2) hiring and representation within universities and colleges, and (3)...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 17A: Meeting Julian Agyeman
There’s an aphorism that suggests that one should not meet one’s heroes. That aphorism is without doubt incorrect when it comes to Dr. Julian Agyeman FRSA FRGS. Julian is certainly one of my heroes (indeed, the title of this podcast derives from the concept of just sustainabilities that — I…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 16B: Gabe Desrosiers – Revitalizing Indigenous languages and lifeways and the importance of families, communities, and treating folks as whole persons
In the second episode featuring Gabe Desrosiers, Gabe and I discuss how institutions of higher-education within the United States might better support language and cultural reclamation by appreciating the full personhood of students. We also talk about what it means to live in a good way from an...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 16A: Meeting Gabe Desrosiers
I was initially acquainted with Gabe Desrosiers as a fellow Canadian amongst the faculty at the University of Minnesota Morris. Indeed, I first learned of Gabe as the result of one of our mutual colleagues saying something to me like: “Oh, you’re Canadian? You should meet Gabe. He’s Canadian…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 15B: Erika Bailey-Johnson – Skills, hierarchies, and facing change
On this episode we return to my conversation with Erika Bailey-Johnson. We talk about a workshop series at Bemidji State University aimed at providing students with a range of practical skills (many of which are related to sustainability and Indigenous lifeways), the hierarchies in...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 15A: Meeting Erika Bailey-Johnson
I first met Erika Bailey-Johnson about 8 years ago when she chaired the organizing committee for the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (aka UMACS). It took one conversation with her to convince me of two things: First, Erika is a force of nature — if one looks up “change-maker”…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 14: Special Episode with Cathy Jordan about COP 26
When Cathy Jordan was previously on Just Sustainability, she mentioned that she was about to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 26th Conference of the Parties meeting in Glasgow. In this episode she tells us about her experience leading the University of…
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 1B: Evelyn Brister – Restoring the American Chestnut
On the second part of Amanda’s conversation with Evelyn Brister, they speak about efforts aimed at reintroducing American chestnuts to the wild and some of the ethical questions underlying those efforts. Dr. Brister is an environmental philosopher and a philosopher of science at the Rochester...
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Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Episode 1A: Meeting Evelyn Brister
On the first episode of our new special series, Just Sustainability – Socially Engaged Philosophy at the Intersection of Sustainability and Social Justice, Amanda introduces us to Evelyn Brister. Dr. Brister is an environmental philosopher and a philosopher of science at the Rochester Institute…
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Just Sustainability, Episode 13: Meeting Amanda Corris
It’s my distinct pleasure on this episode to introduce you to a new contributor to Just Sustainability, Amanda Corris. Starting at the beginning of 2022, Amanda will start hosting a series of special feature episodes of Just Sustainability about socially-engaged philosophy at the intersection of...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12C: Cathy Jordan – Listening and rethinking the deficit-focused approach to environmental justice
In the final part of our conversation, Cathy Jordan and I talk about the emphasis on addressing disparities and harms within much of the literature about environmental justice. Cathy suggests that those of us who work on environmental justice need for to be more aspirational and be better at...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12B: Cathy Jordan – Community-based participatory research
Cathy and I had so much fun during our live-recording for the IonE Annual meeting that we decided to follow that discussion up with a longer conversation. Reconvening allowed us to take some more time to go into greater detail about scholarship that empowers communities. During the first part of...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 12A: Meeting Cathy Jordan
This episode, where I have the pleasure of introducing you to Cathy Jordan, was recorded live as part of the 2021 annual meeting of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota. It was a really fun experience to get to record the podcast with a live (albeit virtual)...
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Just Sustainability, Episode 11C: Janiece Watts – Finding common cause and what the academy might learn from activists
During the concluding half-hour of our conversation, Janiece Watts and I spoke about: finding common cause with one another across the silos of our work, what institutions of higher education might learn from activists, and the importance of the narratives and perspectives of marginalized folks....
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This podcast offers you the opportunity to listen to curious conversations exploring the intersection of sustainability, equity, and social justice. It is a resource for folks who are interested in learning and thinking about how equity and environment interact and who want to approach solving environmental problems in ways that are better informed by social justice — or solving social justice problems in ways that are more environmentally conscious.
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