Louisiana has suffered more than financially from natural disasters than any other state in the nation. Hurricane Katrina remains the most expensive natural disaster in US History. The estimated cost is $86.9 billion. Behind it is Hurricane Ida, another storm that devastated Louisiana’s coast to the cost of $36 billion.

Louisiana is the only southern state to have a climate task force. Both of our guests on this episode are members of the Climate Initiatives Task Force and offer up incredible insights regarding the systems of poverty that are tied to the climate crisis. 

Camille Manning-Broome, the President and CEO of the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX), connects the dots between poverty and the climate crisis.   

Colette Pichon Battle, a climate advocate and attorney for Taproot Earth, explains that we are not going to recycle our way out of the climate crisis. Instead, we’re going to have to get uncomfortable and redefine our understanding of what poverty is and how equity can be achieved. 

Our featured supporter of this episode is Cluey Consumer, which is a Louisiana-based company focused on conscious consumerism. The company’s founder, Maryclaire Manard, explains how she came up with the idea and what prompted her to take on this challenge. To get clued in on how to support the brands that fall in line with your values, sign up for their newsletter and listen to their new podcast. 

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Did you know that Louisiana gets more rain on average than any other state? Sadly, we still have issues with having enough clean drinking water and with keeping our waterways free of pollution. On this episode of Walls Plus One, we’re taking a deep dive down the well of problems facing our aquifers and natural waterways. 

Our first guest is General Russel Honore', a 37-year army veteran and leader of the Green Army. Military and environmentalism probably don’t seem like something that go together, but General Honore' explains how those two things are more closely related than you might think. 

Our second guest is Justin Ehrenwerth CEO of the Water Institute located in Baton Rouge. Some of the work being done there has already been discussed by a couple of our guests, but now we’re really getting a full understanding of the importance of the research they are doing. 

Finally, we’re going to take a trip out to the BREC Howell Park farm in Baton Rouge to talk to Jacquel Curry, Farm Manager for Baton Roots.

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We’re talking trash on this episode of Walls Plus One.

LSU Chemical Engineering Professor Bhuvnesh Bharti is taking a microscopic look at the air we breathe to find the tiny little microparticles of plastic that are drifting about. 

Richard LeBouef is the executive director of St. Landry Solid Waste and Disposal District. Thanks to some local government foresight, that parish is doing some really interesting things with waste. Oh, and he’s also a pretty amazing musician. We’ll play one of his songs at the end of the show. 

And we wrap up the whole conversation with Baton Roots Program Manager Mitchell Provensal. He’s going to tell you about an easy way to compost food waste at home rather than sending it to the landfill. It’s called bokashi and he has a full demonstration on the Walls Project YouTube account.  CLICK HERE to watch.

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