Episode 32: Resilient Campuses, Resilient Communities with Cal State - Chico and Central Community College

Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Programs Manager, Cal State-Chico, Gayle Hutchinson, President, Cal State-Chico, and Ben Newton, Environmental Sustainability Director, Central Community College

Guests:
Cheri Chastain
Sustainability Programs Manager, California State University - Chico Company

Gayle Hutchinson
President, California State University - Chico

Ben Newton
Environmental Sustainability Director, Central Community College

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

Climate change spares no city, town or state from new, and often threatening, environmental challenges. How are campuses responding to natural disaster in ways that keep their students and communities safe? What plans are they making to prepare for an uncertain future?

In this episode, host Dave Karlsgodt talks with Cheri Chastain and Gayle Hutchinson of California State University - Chico and Ben Newton of Central Community College about these questions. You’ll hear their stories about dealing with fires, floods and truck-sized icebergs, and how these events have shaped their campuses as they look ahead to the next “unnatural disaster”.

Resources:

• Resources from Central Community College

  • Environmental Sustainability Action Plan: https://www.cccneb.edu/esap

  • Energy Technology AAS Program: https://www.cccneb.edu/energy

  • Ben Newton contact: benjaminnewton@cccneb.edu

• PBS Documentary And The Floods Came Nebraska 2019: http://pivotal.netnebraska.org/nebraska-floods/

• Resources from Cal State - Chico

  • Sustainability at Chico State: https://www.csuchico.edu/sustainability/

  • Cheri Chastain contact: cchastain@csuchico.edu

Production Team:

• Kaia Findlay

• Dave Karlsgodt

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Episode 23: Social Justice and Sustainability - with Mary Annaïse Heglar

Mary Annaïse Heglar, director of publications at the National Resources Defense Council, & Nick McCreary, sustainability coordinator at Indiana State University

Guest: Mary Annaïse Heglar
Director of Publications, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Guest Host: Nicholas McCreary
Sustainability Coordinator, Indiana State University

Turn off lights when you’re not using them. Take shorter showers. Bike to work. These three actions are all recommendations for people trying to make sustainable decisions. But why not also volunteer for a human rights organizations, or go to a protest?

In this episode, guest host Nicholas McCreary, sustainability coordinator for Indiana State University, talks with Mary Annaïse Heglar, director of publications at the National Resources Defense Council, about why it’s important to move sustainability conversations beyond recycling and conserving water and into the realm of social justice. They discuss the similarities between the roots of climate change and racial injustice, climate change disproportionately impacts minority communities and how the climate movement can move forward by embracing a climate justice approach.

We hope this episode will challenge you to think about why climate issues exist and deeper your understanding of the social pillar of sustainability.

Resources:

• Mary Annaïse Heglar on Medium, Twitter: https://medium.com/@maryheglar // https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar

• National Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org/

• Book and Reading Recommendations by Mary Annaïse Heglar

  • Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr. - https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

  • Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler

  • If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin

Production Team:

• Kaia Findlay

• Dave Karlsgodt

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