Today we talk to the wonderful urban-environmental sociologist Hillary Angelo. Hillary is an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz who focuses on Urbanization, nature, infrastructure, sustainability, and climate change. We talk about urban planning and how building denser communities can be more impactful than simply greening neighborhoods, why we don't need to destroy intact ecosystems to build out the renewable energy infrastructure we need, and how truly addressing climate change requires changing the broken social relations and structures that caused it.

Today we are talking with artist, scientist, and activist Kelli Armstrong. A resident of the Bahamas, we talk about how the climate crisis has changed her island home. How, even in her lifetime, storms have have grown from manageable to out of control. And the importance of centering the voices of her people in disaster management in the wake of these catastrophic storms. #ClimateChange #TheBahamas #disastermanagement

We talked with Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby, who specializes in working with Pacific Island communities and governments to prevent the collapse of coral reefs in the face of climate change and associated mass coral death due to bleaching. He goes deep into the processes he uses to help prevent and restore coral reefs and how these wonderful marvels of nature are not just important to the seas, but for all life on earth. #Coral #CoralBleaching #ClimateEmergency