Environmentally Speaking
Welcome to Environmentally Speaking.
The environment is everything, literally, and on this podcast, no environmental topic is off-limits. We are living in unprecedented times. Times of threats to our environment, our health, and our freedom. Environmental degradation has resulted in the loss of livelihoods, lives, cultures, knowledges, and heritages. We are in the midst of a global-scale environmental crisis…climate change. What are our leaders doing to fight against this? What are you doing to fight against this? For our returning listeners, we have rebranded. So you would have been with us from what is now Season 1, CovidChat, where we discussed the multidimensional impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thank you for sticking with us. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @Ourfootprintja. Visit our website www.ourfootprintja.org.
Episodes
29 episodes
Gender & Climate
It's the final Episode!We speak to Gender Specialist, Kristina Neil and Dr. Dalea Bean, Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit on the connected topics of Gender & Climate.For successful clim...
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Traffic & City Planning
Everyone complains about the traffic. But it's not as simple of an issue as it may seem. It goes to the heart of how we plan our cities, what we prioritize and how we zone- residential vs. commercial, concrete vs. agricultural. When...
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Health and Environment
Climate Change is not just an environmental issue, it's a public health issue that affects us all. Whether it's airborne/waterborne diseases, industrial contamination, or even access to healthcare during natural disasters, we cannot separate ou...
Solid Waste Management
If there is one thing we all have in common it's waste. We use it, try to lose it, but we have to find a way to deal with it. With no sanitary landfills in the country, waste management in Jamaica becomes a huge issue for our homes ...
Infrastructure & Disaster Readiness & Recovery
With the memory of Hurricane Beryl fresh in our minds and as we are heading into another hurricane season, we can't forget Disaster Readiness & Recovery on the campaign trail. We have to talk about the support and infrastructure we ne...
Climate on the Ballot Live Show 2: Jobs
We're Live!Last episode we talked with our expert guests about Jobs- specifically green jobs and the just transition.Our breakdown show where your voice can be heard.Climate on the Ballot is about getting the citizen...
Climate on the Ballot: The Grocery Bill & Food Security
One topic that can turn the tides in an election season: the grocery bill.The cost of food cuts to the very essence of our humanity: can people afford to eat? and to eat healthy? Right now, not so much.With the Caribbe...
Climate on the Ballot: Jobs
On Today's ballot: jobs. The climate is changing, and so is the work world. We are joined by Marissa Sheppard, Just Transition Officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Sean Yates, Entrepreneur and Anim...
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Climate on the Ballot Live Show 1: Education
We're Live!Last week we talked about education with our expert guests. This week is our breakdown show where your voice can be heard.Climate on the Ballot is about getting the citizen voice out and the votes in!It's ...
Climate on the Ballot: Education
We're back!Season 4 is ‘Climate on the Ballot’. This election season we want to see the issues that affect us most at the forefront of the discussion.That means more meaningful dialogue on climate change through the lens of...
Justice in Climate: Equity at the intersections of ‘Being’ in the Caribbean
It's just us in the studio! For this, our final episode of Season 3, we take the time to have a frank discussion with each other about climate justice and what it means to us and the marginalized groups of which we form part. We get more p...
Sizzling Sustainably: Climate (In)Action & Our Collective Economy(ies)
Sustainability is a hot topic, but it's more than just a buzzword. It's an absolute necessity for human survival and continuity. We dive into the real crux of what it takes to secure our collective futures. We speak to guest, Eleano...
Power Play: Fueling a Renewable Energy Revolution
How do you see your relationship with energy? What costs are we willing to pay to ensure everyone has access to this life force?For years we have been talking about renewable energy and a just transition to address the climate crisis. B...
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Thirst Trap: Water Everywhere & Nowhere, All at Once
Water is life, so its scarcity is life-altering. What makes the Caribbean so susceptible to water scarcity? How does it impact our communities? How do water-filled countries in a region surrounded by water struggle to maintain the source of our...
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Boiling Seas & Cooked Corals
Temperature check? Too hot for corals…Episode two of temperature check dives into the ocean where warming waters are killing our corals. After a mass extinction event, coral restoration efforts in Jamaica came to a screeching halt despite the w...
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Temperature Check: Life in a New Climate
We’re back! Season 3 of the Environment Speaking podcast, Temperature Check, focuses on our new climate reality. In this episode, we are joined by returning guest Dr. Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie, and climate justice activist Luciano Doest fr...
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Transparency Matters: Ocean Turbidity and Poor Environmental Governance
Transparency and turbidity are two sides of the same coin. They are important to understand if we are to see the true impact of our environmental decisions. Whether we are looking at government processes or at the impact on deep-sea ecosystems,...
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Pause! It's More Than Just Minerals.
There’s a lot more to deep-sea mining than just the pure facts. It’s more than just minerals and the effects can be far beyond any financial or biophysical loss or gains. In this week’s episode, we talk with Danielle Nembhard and Esther Figuero...
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The Void: Why is no one talking about Deep-sea Mining?
In this week's episode, we dove deep into the barriers to environmental journalism. With our guest from the GlobalYaadie Podcast, Dainalyn Swaby, we explored obstacles to covering climate change and environmental issues in mainstream media, dis...
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Deep-sea Mining: Marine Ecosystems, Climate Change Mitigation & SIDS
"On this episode of Diving Deep, we spoke with EcoVybz Podcast creator and the Caribbean representative for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, Khadija Stewart about the risks we face as small island developing states supporting big global north co...
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The Danger to Our Waters: Threats of Deep-Sea Mining
The ocean is approximately 12,100 feet (3,688 meters) deep and we have only explored about 5% of it. That means the majority of our ocean HAS NOT BEEN EXPLORED. This season on Environmentally Speaking, we are diving deep into the ocean and disc...
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S1.8 COVID-19 & Jamaica’s Future: Impacts, Solutions & Future Prospects
Over the past few months, we’ve looked at how COVID-19 has affected various sectors, so in our final session we’ll be reviewing some of the most salient points, suggestions, tying them together, and wrapping them up. We want to figure out how w...
S1.7 Human Dimensions of a Pandemic: How Covid-19 affects various demographics
There is no society without people. According to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, “The COVID-19 outbreak affects all segments of the population and is particularly detrimental to members of those social groups in t...
S1.6 Bridging the digital divide: Education in age of COVID-19
Goal 1 of Jamaica's Vision 2030 development plan speaks to Jamaicans being empowered to achieve their fullest potential. Under this goal, one of the national outcomes is listed as “World-Class Education and Training” and that “Visi...
S1.5 Can Society Recover? Economic Sustainability in the age of Covid-19
Governments need to focus on the general welfare of citizens and make investments in areas that unlock human potential, such as mental health services, reducing child poverty and homelessness, promoting Indigenous rights, fighting climate chang...
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