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
18 episodes
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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46:50
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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Season 3
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Episode 4
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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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Season 3
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Episode 3
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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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Season 3
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Episode 2
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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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Season 3
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Episode 1
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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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Season 2
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Episode 5
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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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Season 2
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Episode 4
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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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Season 2
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Episode 3
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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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Season 2
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Episode 2
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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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Season 2
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Episode 1
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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...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:24:37
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:24:47
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:30:33
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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Season 1
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Episode 5
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S1.4 When Hunger Strikes Part 2: Food Security and Sustainability
We know that Covid-19 has restricted movement globally and even with some countries opening borders, travel, and movement are not what they used to be. Agriculture, globally, has taken a massive hit due to these actions that served to protect p...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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S1.3 When Hunger Strikes? Food Security and Sustainability (Part 1)
A look at how climate change and the environment impacts food security. In this episode, we assessed the frameworks existing in Jamaica to address these impacts considering our lived experience through COVID-19. The different perspectives an...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:26:05
S1.2 Is the Earth Better Off Without Us?” - COVID-19, Climate Change & The Environment
Launched on World Environment Day (June 5, 2020), under the theme 'TIME FOR NATURE', this episode explored the very close link between climate change, environmental health, and the spread of diseases.The COVID-19 Stay-At-Home orders dras...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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S1.1 A Post-Covid World” - How has the world changed with the COVID-19 pandemic?
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in major and for some countries, unprecedented changes. Our collective will as a society as well as various infrastructures has been put to the test. We have had many businesses having to close their doors ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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