s2e12 Climate Resilience Spring Special
SHOW NOTES
s2e12
April 10, 2024
Martha Cinader goes into deepthink mode with Meredith Leigh, author of The Ethical Meat Handbook and thinker of thoughts still asking to be manifested. With the optimism that blossoms with Spring, the conversation focuses on alternatives to capitalism, honoring indigenous wisdom, revolutionary madness, books that inspire and more! This one-hour special is an ongoing seasonal series produced in association with Laura Lengnick, founder of Cultivating Resilience, and Martha Cinader for Listen & Be Heard. The purpose is to create an open discussion with experts that is both informative and imaginative and inspires a path to nurturing and resilience for everyone.
HOST: Martha Cinader. GUESTS: Meredith Leigh. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra.
GUESTS
Meredith Leigh, Author, The Ethical Meat Handbook
Meredith Leigh is a teacher, writer, and consultant and with 20 years experience in the food system with degrees in Environmental Science and Sustainable Agriculture. Over the course of her career she has owned and managed farms, worked in the non-profit sector, owned a restaurant and butchery shop. and built upon her expertise with diverse consulting work and extensive travel.
Her books are The Ethical Meat Handbook (3rd place, MFK Fisher awards 2015; IACP Cookbook Awards Winner 2021), and Pure Charcuterie (2017). She lives with her partner and four children on ancestral Cherokee land in Asheville, North Carolina.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Chris Crass – Towards Collective Liberation
Toward Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. Chris Crass’s collection of essays and interviews presents us with powerful lessons for transformative organizing through offering a firsthand look at the challenges and the opportunities of anti-racist work in white communities, feminist…
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Ismatu Gwendolyn – There Is No Revolution without Madness
… I am bound together at the seams by the thought of a new world//what it might cost us//what we stand to gain. I write to you bereaved from watching the avalanches of death manufactured by the United States, via their bloodchildren (the United Nations, the so-called state of Israel, the existence of the US…
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Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics
Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.
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Kyle P. Whyte – Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocenes
Portrayals of the Anthropocene period are often dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives of climate crises that will leave humans in horrific science-fiction scenarios. Such narratives can erase certain populations, such as Indigenous peoples, who approach climate change having already been through transformations of their societies induced by colonial violence. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives…
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La Marr Jurelle Bruce – How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state…
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Laura Lengnick – Resilient Agriculture
Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes capture the headlines, but more subtle changes caused by hotter summer nights, warmer winters, and a longer growing season have…
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Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook
Ethical Meat is meat from an animal that had a good life, a good death, a good butcher, and a good cook. Ethical Meat is a movement that seeks to repair entire regional meat supply chains, and much work is underway by brave hardworking farmers, butchers, processors, chefs and cooks. Working to create the capacity…
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Otto Scharmer – The Essentials of Theory U
The Essentials of Theory U offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer’s classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren’t fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention…
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
The Fire This Time
Still Dancing on John Wayne’s Head
“Reluctant Warrior”
Assata Shakur
“No white borders dub”
NOTE: with quotes by Laura Lengnick from S1E11 added to mix
SUBMISSIONS
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