Latest As she rises Podcast Episodes
Bonus from The Amendment: Keeping Democracy Intact with Nikole Hannah-Jones
As She Rises - April 03, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsWe’re bringing you an episode of a new podcast we think you’ll love: The Amendment. A new podcast about gender, politics, and power from The 19th News and Wonder Media Network, The Amendment is hosted by award-winning journalist and 19th editor-at-large Errin Haines. Each week, Errin sits down ...
BONUS: Inherited Podcast “Maíz es Vida” by Paloma Moreno Jiménez
As She Rises - October 04, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsHey As She Rises listeners! Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from the Inherited podcast, told by one of our very own team members at WMN: Paloma Moreno Jiménez. Inherited is a climate storytelling podcast by, for, and about young people across the globe. In this episode of the show, ...
The Delta
As She Rises - June 05, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsFor the last episode of the season, we’re traveling to the Colorado River Delta, south of Mexicali, Mexico: where all the waters from upstream are supposed to reach. Here, the Colorado River used to split into braided streams and tendrils, forming a complex estuary of riparian forests, rich wetl...
The Rainwater
As She Rises - May 29, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsThe Sonoran Desert, situated at the bottom edge of Arizona, stretches out into the haze of a horizon, rippled with heat. It’s fed by thin tributaries of the river and, more often, watered by sparse rains. It’s a place that, in theory, could seem pretty inhospitable. But the Tohono O’odham nation...
The Accidental Sea
As She Rises - May 22, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn the southern valleys of California, lies a desert oasis known as the Salton Sea. The inland sea is picturesque— from afar. Up close, the beauty begins to fade. The sea is a result of diverting the Colorado River to the Imperial Valley for agriculture, and it’s filled with fertilizer, pesticid...
The Aquifer
As She Rises - May 15, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsBlack Mesa is a high desert, arid, with few streams or rivers aboveground. Water tends to come from above or below: sometimes, as a gentle rain. Other times, a rushing monsoon. Navajo and Hopi people have called it home for thousands of years. Its water reservoirs— a complex system of undergroun...
The Creek
As She Rises - May 08, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsThe Havasupai tribe lives at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, in Supai Village. Just north of the village, a hidden aquifer turns into Havasu Falls, a waterfall that cascades into a pool of blue-green water. This water has sustained the Havasupai people for centuries, nourishing their crops, soft...
The Source
As She Rises - May 01, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsLake Powell is long and thin. It snakes through the red-desert, running southwest through Utah, ending at the top of Arizona. From above, it looks like a human artery. From the inside, it's idyllic. The water is crystalline. Every year, millions of people flock to the lake to fish, canoe, and hi...
Introducing Season 3
As She Rises - April 13, 2023 08:30 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsPremiering May 1 wherever you get your podcasts. As She Rises is back for its third season with a new host: Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist. This season, As She Rises is traversing the Colorado River Basin downstream, understanding water through a new lens and centeri...
BONUS: Introducing Teaching Texas
As She Rises - September 27, 2022 06:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn 1961, Norma and Mel Gabler were a quiet couple living in Longview, Texas. One day, they noticed some factual errors in one of their sons’ textbooks. What began as a small complaint morphed into a multi-decade crusade to shape what children of Texas — and therefore the country — read in thei...
Introducing: I Was Never There
As She Rises - June 09, 2022 10:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsNamed a 2022 Tribeca Festival Official Selection for audio storytelling, Wonder Media Network is proud to introduce its first true crime podcast: I Was Never There. Thirty-four years ago, Marsha “Mudd” Ferber vanished without a trace from Morgantown, West Virginia. Mother-daughter duo Karen and...
The Farmland
As She Rises - April 29, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsAs climate change progresses, more people will be forced from their homes and into exploitative environments. In the United States, this is particularly true of farmworkers. The climate crisis is, undeniably, a labor issue too. “like you i woke up in the dark. but i was reaching for animals, t...
The Desert
As She Rises - April 22, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsNestled in the Northwestern corner of present-day New Mexico is the Greater Chaco Region: home to thousands of Diné and Puebloean families. It's also one of the most intense concentrations of oil wells in the country, designated an “energy sacrifice zone” by the Nixon administration in the 1970s...
The Reef
As She Rises - April 15, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsFar out in the waters of the South Pacific are the Samoan Islands. They make up an island paradise, a contested territory, an ecological haven. They might also hold a key in the fight to protect endangered coral reefs. “steady us mother/ your eye lights the way your heart moves our blood your...
The River
As She Rises - April 08, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsStraddling the border between the US and Canada, the Skagit Watershed is a haven for sea creatures. The “Magic Skagit” is in peril: the ways of life it has sustained for the communities along its shores are faltering under years of settler disruption, and upstream, its headwaters originate in a ...
Introducing Season Two
As She Rises - April 01, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsAs She Rises is back for a second season to celebrate both Earth and Poetry Month. Throughout April, we’re telling the stories of climate progress that give us the hope we need to keep going.
The City
As She Rises - November 08, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratings“The worst crime I know men have committed is to turn nature into an oppressor.” In the city, the heat is suffocating: it reverberates off buildings, seeps through the concrete, and bounces off glass back down onto a city of 8.4 million people. New York City is hotter than ever before-- but it’...
The Plains
As She Rises - November 01, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn Oklahoma, a fight is playing out that could finally recognize tribal sovereignty, especially over how to manage the environment. This could set a precedent for the rest of the country, and affect our climate. But the powers that be won’t let go easily. In this episode we visit the plains of ...
The Tinderbox
As She Rises - October 25, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsThis land has always been on fire. But the destructive power of these flames is new. There was a time before, and there is a time ahead, when fire clears the way for new growth in the foothills. “So many particular precious, irreplaceable lives that despite ourselves, we're inhaling.” In this e...
The Watershed
As She Rises - October 18, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsThe most visited stretch of beach in Hawai’i should be underwater. Instead, it’s kept afloat by over thirty thousand tons of sand-- sand that drifts out to sea every 5 to 10 years before it's replaced yet again. Before the Ala Wai canal drained the watershed, Waikiki sustained a native populati...
The Inland Sea
As She Rises - October 11, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn Northern Minnesota, over eleven hundred glassy lakes create a vast inland sea. The water is so clean that canoers can drink straight from the lakes. What will it take to protect this beautiful and life-giving landscape from human threat? In this episode, we are transported to the Boundary Wa...
The Island
As She Rises - October 04, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratings“It’s not the same, knowing the theory of climate disaster, and then actually living through it.” There is a fissure on the island of Puerto Rico-- one widened in the wake of massive storms, earthquakes, COVID, and quickened by the dizzying pace of climate change. In this episode, bilingual p...
The Tundra
As She Rises - September 27, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn the land we know as Alaska, a poet considers a melting landscape also ablaze. What does it mean to live in a “sepia-toned” world, to be forced to distance your ties to your culture, and to truly understand that what happens to the land also happens to the people? “June really isn’t June anymo...
The Bayou
As She Rises - September 20, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIn New Orleans, there is a time before the storm, and a time after. How does one keep up with change in a state losing a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half? On a street where a neighbor’s porch is built 12 feet off the ground? Take Action: The Gulf Coast Center for Law and P...
Introducing: As She Rises
As She Rises - September 13, 2021 09:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsAs She Rises is a new show from Wonder Media Network that aims to personalize the elusive magnitude of climate change. Follow Wonder Media Network: Website Instagram Twitter
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As She Rises - September 09, 2021 22:02 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsIntroducing WMN's new original...As She Rises
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