Episode 31: Changing the Climate for Women - Krista Murphy

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Krista Murphy, Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Krista Murphy, Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Guest: Krista Murphy
Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

Host: Kaia Findlay
Production Assistant, Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast production assistant, and special guest hosts.

Krista Murphy has long had a passion for engineering. She studied architectural engineering in school, honed her skills in project management and now works as a principal at Affiliated Engineers, Inc., in San Francisco. Her experience as a leader in the engineering field led her to take on leadership in another aspect of her life, one where she speaks up for other women in the workplace. 

In this episode, host Kaia Findlay and Krista talk about the challenges that women and other minorities face in engineering, how to deal with the uncomfortable situations that arise because of those challenges, and how mentors that advocate for their mentees can play a crucial role in keeping women in the field. 

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Episode 30: Twenty Sustainability Podcasts for 2020

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Amber Artrip and Nate Nilles
Co-hosts of the Modern Energy Management Podcast

Chris Nelder
Host of The Energy Transition Show

Stephen Lacey
Host of The Energy Gang and The Interchange

Host:

Dave Karlsgodt
Director of Management Advisory Services, Brailsford & Dunlavey, Inc.

Co-Produced with The Modern Energy Management Podcast, hosted by Amber Artrip and Nate Nilles

With the new year in full swing and a new decade ahead, what better time to explore a cache of sustainability-related podcasts? In this episode, the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast partners with the Modern Energy Management Podcast to highlight some of the great stories being shared about the climate, energy and sustainability in the podcast world. This episode features interviews with sustainability podcast hosts Chris Nelder of the Energy Transition Show and Stephen Lacey of The Energy Gang and The Interchange. We also feature several recommendations from our listeners, including Brian Campbell of Central College, Kori Armstrong of University of Southern Mississippi, and Spencer Turk of 3P Partners. Recommendations from other listeners who reached out to us can be found in the show notes. We hope you come out of this episode inspired to explore and learn what podcasters across the nation have to share about sustainability.

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Episode 29: Changing the Climate for Women - Kayla Dawson

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Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

Kayla Dawson, Professional Engineer

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Kayla Dawson
Professional Engineer

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcasts’ first short-episode series! Each month, we’ll release a half-hour episode based on a pertinent theme in the sustainability sphere, collecting a variety of opinions and viewpoints on important issues throughout the series. Our first theme is “Changing the Climate for Women,” and will focus on women’s experiences in sustainability, energy and facilities. Short series will be hosted by Kaia Findlay, podcast manager, and special guest hosts.

As an engineer, there’s nothing Kayla Dawson finds more frustrating than seeing a problem and being unable to solve it. But in environments where biases - whether they be regarding gender, leadership styles, or communication preferences - influence behavior, she sees this happening all too often. 

In this episode, Kayla and host Sarah Barrr discuss how dominant, “status quo” leadership and mentorship styles favor certain groups of people, and how breaking down that status quo can pave the way for women and other minorities to relax and feel comfortable in the workplace and leading the change necessary to address climate change. Kayla also talks about embracing personal limitations and using them to strengthen communication and collaboration with a work team instead of letting them turn into liabilities.. In this second episode of our ‘Changing the Climate for Women’ series, Kayla gives the insight that it’s not only diversity that matters at the workplace table -- it’s making sure diverse voices are heard, accepted and uplifted.

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Episode 26: Changing the Climate for Women - Bonny Bentzin

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Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

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Bonny Bentzin
Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA

Host: Sarah Barr
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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What if, to get ahead at work, you were told that you not only had to work hard and show up to your desk on time, but that you also had to wear pastels and not stand in doorways?

This is some of the strange advice Bonny Bentzin, deputy chief of sustainability at UCLA, has received as a woman working in her field. In this episode, Bonny discusses her experiences and her observations of gender at play in the workplace with host Sarah Barr. Their conversation sheds light on the challenges and triumphs women experience in teamwork, communication and leadership.

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Episode 24: Sustainable Food Systems at UNC-Chapel Hill

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Laura Mindlin, Claire Lorch, and Scott Myers of UNC-Chapel Hill

Laura Mindlin, Claire Lorch, and Scott Myers of UNC-Chapel Hill

Guests:

Claire Lorch
Garden Manager and Education Coordinator, Carolina Campus Community Garden

Laura Mindlin
Coordinator, Edible Campus UNC

Scott Myers
Director of Auxiliary Services, UNC-Chapel Hill

Host: Kaia Findlay
Podcast and Communications Manager, Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast

Feeding a campus is no small task. Tackling sustainability in that campus’ food system -- a system that encompasses the growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption and disposal of food -- isn’t either.

In this episode, the Campus Energy and Sustainability Podcast’s new manager, Kaia Findlay, explores what makes food systems sustainable at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with three interviewees, each working with a different food-related organization on campus: Laura Mindlin, coordinator for Edible Campus UNC; Claire Lorch, garden manager and education coordinator for the Carolina Campus Community Garden; and Scott Myers, director of auxiliary services for UNC. The interviewees discuss the role their organization plays in the food system on campus and their efforts in sustainability, and as a group they reveal how the campus has addressed a variety of food-related issues and challenges.

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