Let's Talk About The Weather

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Kirsi Jansa is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, she uses the power of authentic human stories to educate the people, especially on issues relating to environment, health and sustainability. She is best known for her two short documentary series, Gas Rush Stories and Sustainability Pioneers. Kirsi is currently an organizer for Creatives 4 Climate, an organization that brings together artists, architects, climate communicators and scientists to inspire others to use creativity and art to spread the word about climate change and action.

Mentions

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History Educators
• Land Art Generator Initiative
• We Are Nature: Living in the Anthropocene
• Joanna Macy: Active Hope
• Dear Tomorrow
• Bill Gentile: Backpack Journalism Workshop
• Kirsi Jansa: Gas Rush Stories
• Miranda C. Spencer: Don’t do it, Scotland - fracking warnings from Pennsylvania
• The Freedom of Press Index and the Sunshine Laws
• Fracking: Terry Greenwood’s Fight
• Sustainability Pioneers
• Gasland the movie
• The Carbon Tax
• Naomi Oreskes: the numbers we put on subsidies
• CitizensClimateLobby.org

Guest Contact information

Kirsi Jansa

• GasRushStories.com
• SustainabilityPioneers.com
• Sustainability Pioneers on Facebook
• Creatives4Climate.wordpress.com
• Creatives 4 Climate on Facebook

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Through his one-person comedies and lively lectures, Peterson Toscano has delighted audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Africa as he takes on social justice concerns. His plays and talks humorously explore the serious topics of LGBTQ issues, sexism, racism, privilege, gender, and climate change. Concerned about climate change as a human rights and LGBTQ issue, Peterson shares his gifts on his YouTube videos and on stage. A Quaker and obsessive gardener, he leads the Sunbury chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby with his husband and organizes trips to South Africa for the Susquehanna University Global Opportunities’ program. A recognized scholar who has highlighted gender variance in the Bible, Peterson’s personal journey to accept himself as gay had been long and complicated. Through performances, media appearances, and community organizing, he has raised public awareness about the harm that comes from seeking to suppress and change one’s sexuality and gender differences.

Links mentioned

• Peterson’s YouTube Channel
• Citizens’ Climate Lobby
• Glen Retief
• Peterson’s website
• Beyond ExGay

Guest Contact information

Peterson Toscano

• Peterson’s website
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Climate Stew podcast

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org and www.EcoArtsFoundation.org

Julia Levine is a playwright, creative collaborator and vegetarian. Planted in the New York City downtown theatre realm, she is on the Marketing team at HERE, the Producing team for the International Human Rights Art Festival, the organizing team for Climate Change Theatre Action, and writes for the blog series Artists & Climate Change. Julia creates new performance pieces as part of The Food Plays, an initiative she founded to raise questions about food, climate, and justice through theatre.

Links mentioned

• The Food Plays on Facebook
• Book: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Play: UPROOT at "Here" by Julia Levine
• Climate Change Theatre Action website
• Climate Change Theatre Action on Facebook
• International Human Rights Art Festival
• Artists in Climate Change blog
• The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies by artist James Leonard
• The Red Line Project by environmental artists Daron Gazetz
• Capitalism vs. the Environment

Guest Contact information

Julia Levine

• www.JuliaSLevine.com
• The Food Plays on Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Rae Irelan graduated from The Boston Conservatory with BFA in contemporary dance performance and has since worn many hats from event producer, dancer, teacher and yogini, to alternative healer.

Her San Diego award winning band The Moves Collective is a driving force in the US music scene, supporting ideologies, companies and nonprofits that propel sustainability, inspire audiences to positively impact their local communities, and build positive change globally.

She blends international cultural influences, sacred instruments, healing modalities, improvised contemporary movement and dance, and original songs into unique performance experiences. Rae aims to inspire people to live at their highest potential, dream big, and achieve a sustainable and connected world. In fact, this year’s theme for her annual event Goddess Fest is Gaia, AKA Mother Earth. A self-identified eco musician committed to raising awareness of holistic healing, sustainable practices, and social justice, we couldn’t be more excited to have her with us today!

Links mentioned

• TheGoddessFest.com
• TheMovesCollective.com

Guest Contact information

Rae Irelan
[email protected]
TheGoddessFest.com
TheMovesCollective.com

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Joanna Engelberg is Sustainability Director at The New Denim Project, a third-generation family business that creates high-end eco-textiles made purposefully and ethically.

After five years in Israel with her sister Arianne -- Creative Director of The New Denim Project -- she came home to Guatemala passionate about environmental & social impact. They created a fully-closed loop system with 100% sustainable, conscious and patient textiles at its core. Their yarns, fabrics and products are made from upcycled pre-consumer textile waste from vast denim mills, reducing consumption of new products, minimizing the waste of raw virgin material and reusing discarded textiles and fibres to elongate their life span. Final cotton waste that cannot be spun is donated to farmers and coffee-growers to use as compost and serves as an organic fertilizer. As true eco innovators, the New Denim Project is fashioning zero waste, transparent style for people and the planet.

“The goal of the upcycle is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world with cleanair, water, soil, and power—economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed.Upcycling is the most exciting project of all. It’s going to take all of us. It’s going to takeforever. And that’s the point.” -The Upcycle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.

Links mentioned

• The Upcycle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• Good Guide
• Better World Shopper

Guest Contact information

Joanna Engelberg
The New Denim Project
[email protected]
www.TheNewDenimProject.com
@thenewdenimproject

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes orBandcamp.

LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Kira Carrillo Corser is a photojournalist, artist, and community leader with over 15 years of experience, publishing and exhibiting in 19 states across the US in venues such as the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. She taught "Arts and Community” for 8 years in Service Learning and taught as a Visual Art Consultant in Human Communications at CSU - Monterey Bay.

From art galleries, museums, universities, and national conferences to U.S. Congress in Washington D.C., Kira’s art knows no limits. Her goal remains: to produce works with artists and nonprofit organizations that aid and promote social justice or wellness and to consult for or teach individual and collaborative projects using art as a force for social action and visual literacy.

A special thank you to: Lisa Parsons, Co-Director of the Posts for Peace and Justice Project; Felecia (Fe Love) Lenee Williams and Sherretha Jackson, Youth Program Directors; and partners One Billion Rising, Compassionate CA, Compassionate ARTS in Action and First Night Monterey.

Rich Information and Resources Links

• The many awards, accolades and grants of Kira Corser
• Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego
• Smithsonian
• Cal State Monterey Bay
• International CharterForCompassion.org
• B Corp Movement
• Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
• PostsForPeaceAndJustice.org
• Cal State University San Marcos
• San Diego Visual Arts Network and The DNA of Creativity
• Diane Burko Photography and Diane Burko: Polar Expeditions in Photo and Paint podcast
• SeaChanges.org
• Endaranged: Exploring California’s Changing Ecosystems Sept 5 - 28th, 2017 at Mesa College
• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
• Compassionate California
• Visual Voices: The Threat of the Dam
• The CarterCenter.org
• The National CivilAndHumanRights.org
• OneBillionRising.org

Guest Contact information

Kira Corser
Visual Arts Director
Art Connecting Communities
Fallbrook, CA
PostsForPeaceAndJustice.org
SeaChanges.org
KiraCorser.com

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Bethany Kolody was introduced to biology during her time at NYU’s “world honors college,” in the Middle East, where she had the opportunity to study in Sri Lanka, Ghana, and China. There, she worked in Fabio Piano’s lab studying mRNA localization in C. elegans. It soon became apparent that she was more interested in the nematodes themselves than their mRNA, and for her capstone thesis she orchestrated the first molecular phylogenetic survey of marine nematodes across the Arabian Gulf.

Today a Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Bethany has decided to shift her focus to smaller, even more obscure organisms - marine microbes. Her cartoon comics, often printed on T-shirts, are at once scientifically accurate and gleefully unusual. The network of Squidtoons contributors of which she is a part dedicates itself to translating scientific research into engaging infographics to educate the public about science, provide educators with teaching tools, and support scientists with illustrations. Squidtoons takes pride in “illustrating science with farts, burps, and giggles.”

“And the plankton that spawned every tree,
They call me,
But no one knows, what makes them grow.
And they give us all the oxygen we need, so mankind breathes
And life can grow, but it could all change, what with climate change.”
~ Bethany Kolody, Moana parody on the importance of microbes.

Links mentioned

WillDoodleForScience.com
SquidToons.com and Garfield Kwan
Will Doodle for Science on Etsy
TheOatmeal.com

Guest Contact information

Bethany Kolody
[email protected]
WillDoodleForScience.com

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes orBandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Cherie Sampson is an artist working in environmental installation, performance and video art, creating projects in wilderness and rural settings in the U.S. and abroad, including woodland, mire and boreal landscapes. Historical, cultural and elemental layers of the site are integral to the working concepts and materials, where she often integrates her body in the landscape in performances for the camera and live audiences.

She has exhibited in live performances, art-in-nature symposia, video screenings and installations including in Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Cuba, Greece, France, and Hong Kong, and in U.S. galleries and festivals. A member of Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN) and two time winner of Fulbright Awards (1998, 2011), Cherie shares her experiences with Ag Arts, farm workers, found natural materials, ethnographic research, and arboreal forests.

Links Mentioned

• CherieSampson.net
• AgArts - imagine a healthy food system
• Futurefarmers
• Strive for Change Foundation - creating opportunities for the working poor
• Cherie Sampson’s Videos on Vimeo

Guest Contact Information

Cherie Sampson
[email protected]
Cherie Sampson at the Art Department at the University of Missouri
Blue Heron Orchard - Certified Organic Apples and Products
Cherie on Faceboook

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather"on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

Cherie Sampson is an artist working in environmental installation, performance and video art, creating projects in wilderness and rural settings in the U.S. and abroad, including woodland, mire and boreal landscapes. Historical, cultural and elemental layers of the site are integral to the working concepts and materials, where she often integrates her body in the landscape in performances for the camera and live audiences.

She has exhibited in live performances, art-in-nature symposia, video screenings and installations including in Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Cuba, Greece, France, and Hong Kong, and in U.S. galleries and festivals. A member of Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN) and two time winner of Fulbright Awards (1998, 2011), Cherie shares her experiences with Ag Arts, farm workers, found natural materials, ethnographic research, and arboreal forests.

Links Mentioned

• CherieSampson.net
• AgArts - imagine a healthy food system
• Futurefarmers
• Strive for Change Foundation - creating opportunities for the working poor
• Cherie Sampson’s Videos on Vimeo

Guest Contact Information

Cherie Sampson
[email protected]
Cherie Sampson at the Art Department at the University of Missouri
Blue Heron Orchard - Certified Organic Apples and Products
Cherie on Faceboook

Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather"on iTunes or Bandcamp.

www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org

A Wildlife Ranger turned ecological surveyor turned zero waste furniture artist, Jen Gardner started Forget Me Knot as a way to explore her creativity while producing low impact, long-lasting items for others. Destined to end up in landfill, be burnt or, at the very best, turned to wood pulp, Jen repaints and re-purposes wood into one-of-a-kind pieces, prolonging the life of lumber and sending custom pieces home with happy campers.

Above and beyond her craft, she uses Good Energy (a 100% sustainable energy supplier), gives monthly donations to The Woodland Trust and Soil Association, banks with ethical groups, limits the need to use chemicals on items and uses Ecosia (www.ecosia.org) search engine, where every search helps pay to plant a tree.

Guest Contact information

Jen Gardner
ForgetMeKnot on the Etsy
ForgetMeKnot on Facebook
ForgetMeKnot on Instagram

The album that led to this podcast -- “Let’s Talk About The Weather” -- can be purchased HERE.