For this week's episode of the Shut up and Dribble Podcast, Ben welcomes Davis Mead, an expert on sports activism, onto the show to discuss the differing roles of athletes in social justice issues, as well as the future role of athletes and the sports world in combating environmental justice issues. Ben, and Davis open with a case study on NBA player Javale Mcgee and his foundation, JUGLIFE’s environmental justice work (0:35 - 6:45). This episode includes a discussion of athletes’ roles in...

Join Angie and Janie in this investigative podcast as they explore the tumultuous and storied construction of the Trump Links golf course at Ferry Point in the South Bronx. With lively discussion spanning from the burdened tax payers of New York City to the forgotten Lenape people, this is an episode you don’t want to miss!Music and Sound is courtesy of: Spongebob Squarepants soundtrack: “Sponge Monger”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwaCyaemL7E “Have a Laugh” Chef Donald Duck...

On this episode of the Get Lit Podcast, show host Teddy Rockefeller brings AJ DiChiara, a well versed expert on sand mining, to discuss the global blight of “sand mafias”.  Bibliography:  Abdulali and the stolen beach story: https://theecologist.org/2018/feb/08/they-stole-beach-major-mafia-almost-nobody-wants-talk-about (Links to an external site.)  More information on sand mining and its global...

On this episode of The Waste Podium, Claire, Lexi, and Maddy dive into the Olympic games and some essential, yet buried, questions. Our central question was, are the Olympics truly sustainable? We explore this question in both the context of “green” sustainability of the games, and questioning if the hyper-wasteful model of the games themselves can be sustained into the future. What happens to Olympic communities after they host? Do the Olympics present both social and environmental issues?...

Page 1 of 2 Food for Thought show notesOverviewIn this podcast Mary Blake Zeron and myself, Elsa Marrian, discuss the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). We compare and contrast the Western World perspective on GMOs to that of the less economically developed world. One way that we do this is through the use of the Golden Rice example in India. Through this lens we are able to contextualise shopper anxiety, food labeling and legislation, and farmer activism. Headline...

In this podcast, Talbot and Kendal, explain food apartheid by driving to food justice. They begin in Hobe Sound, Florida at Banner Lake Charter School, where they interview Simone Scott, an employee and native of Banner Lake. They explain how food apartheid differes from food deserts before driving up to Petersburg, New York to look at the work of Leah Pennimen and her team at Soul Fire Farm. The different voice is a Deerfield Academy student (Linnea Dreslin) meant to replicate Leah’s voice...

This episode of Injustices Uncovered explores the environmental and labor rights issues that go unnoticed in the commercial fishing industry. The two hosts, Quinton and Haley, begin by expelling some common perceptions about fishing and then introduce Vannak Anan Prum, a Cambodian man who’s story reveals how modern slavery is possible. The episode concludes by examining the ways in which this injustice is being addressed and how solutions should be improved. Quinton and Haley, with Prum’s...

In this episode of Big Boom Podcast hosts Nick Baker and Anne Brown discuss the role of environmental issues within the prison complex. With an introduction of America’s mass incarceration problem followed by analysis of stories from various prisoners and professionals, this show really dives into the unsafe conditions prisoners are living in. See below for various resources and works cited.