s2e25 Summer Climate Resilience Special with Laura Lengnick and Meredith Leigh
Featuring poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller and music by Baba Brinkman and DJs for Climate Action
SHOW NOTES
s2e25
July 25, 2024
We listen to highlights from previous climate resilience specials with authors Laura Lengnick, Resilient Agriculture, and Meredith Leigh, The Ethical Meat Handbook. Martha Cinader adds personal comments about changing behavior and recommends books. Poetry by Vanessa Lee Miller. Music by Baba Brinkman and DJ’s for Climate Action.
HOST: Martha Cinader. GUESTS: Vanessa Lee Miller, Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh, Music by Baba Brinkman and DJs for Climate Action. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.
GUESTS
Laura Lengnick
Agriculturer
Author, Resilient Agriculture
Laura Lengnick has worked for decades to put sustainability values into action as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist, and farmer. She led award-winning soil health and sustainable farming research at USDA and served as a lead author of the USDA report, Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. Laura founded and owns Cultivating Resilience, LLC, and serves as the Director of Agriculture at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming. She lives in Asheville, NC.
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 SPOKEN WORD
Vanessa Lee Miller
A poet, playwright and freelance journalist, Lee-Miller was born and raised in Hilo. She often travels to perform Hawaiian in verse and drama at literary events across the country and to venues from working-class pubs to the British Library and Pembroke College, Oxford. Often described as a Hawaiian language activist, she describes her decades-long struggle to keep ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i alive as essential to preserving Hawaiian culture.
FEATURED MUSIC
Baba Brinkman
Greenhouse (feat. Aaron Nazru)
Baba Brinkman is a New York-based rap artist, best known for his “Rap Guide” series of science-themed albums, TEDx Talks, and off-Broadway theater productions. In 2021 Baba founded Event Rap Inc, a booking agency that helps you commission rap videos and live performances on any topic, delivered by a team of pro rappers.
DJs for Climate Action
Climate Soundtrack
In late 2020, DJs4CA unveiled the Climate Sample Pack, a sonic toolkit crafted from field recordings gathered during years of Greenpeace expeditions and activism across the globe. The sample pack featured iceberg claps, whales singing, monsoons, birds in the Indonesian rainforest and more incredible sounds of nature. An open call was put out to producers globally to download the pack and create original music inspired by the question “What Does The Future Sound Like?”.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Douglas W. Tallamy – The Nature of Oaks
Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars, Tallamy illuminates and celebrates the wonders that…
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Douglas W. Tallamy – Bringing Nature Home
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and…
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Didi Pershouse – The Ecology of Care
In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the neurosurgeon who accidentally discovered the seat of memory in the brain, to working in a smoke-filled office at New York magazine, to her career as an innovative acupuncturist in Vermont, and on…
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Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree
From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.
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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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Braiding Sweetgrass
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon,…
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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…
VIDEOS
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EVENTS
Listen & Be Heard Open Mic
Resumes September 2024
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Broadcast Live on WLBH.org! Listen & Be Heard began as an open mic, and we are looking forward to reviving it in yet another form. It has always been a unique event, more like a jam, on the east coast, on the west coast, and now, here in the South, we intend to keep the improvisation and cross pollination between words and music ongoing.
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BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
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Ongoing discussion
Climate Resilience with Laura Lengnick & Meredith Leigh
Climate change is the concern of every writer because it is the concern of every person. Every season, we meet with Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh and friends to discuss everything related to agricultural and climate resilience.
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