Latest Broken ground Podcast Episodes
Cornell Watson on Justice Through Photography
Broken Ground - September 28, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutesPhotographer Cornell Watson's images recognize the camera can be a tool for connection, and action. Whether its pollution from hog farms, efforts to gut Black neighborhoods, or racism at the state’s flagship university, Watson's lens points us to see what so many choose to ignore. Support the ...
Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo on Bridging Language Barriers
Broken Ground - September 14, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutesWhether its natural disasters or shifting political winds, Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo make sure Spanish-speakers in North Carolina have access to it. Ensuring that access fuels their work as a reporter and editor, respectively, at Enlace Latino NC. The outlet uses traditional journ...
Cameron Oglesby on Collecting Community Stories
Broken Ground - August 31, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutesListen to environmental journalist Cameron Oglesby discuss how highlighting Black joy and centering community narratives in her writing drives action. Support the Show.
Lyndsey Gilpin and Tajah McQueen on Empowering Community Reporters
Broken Ground - August 17, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutesHear what spurred the founding of Southerly, an online publication focused on environmental justice, and how it evolved from more traditional reporting to an outlet focused on putting reporters’ tools in community hands. Support the Show.
Season 6 Trailer: Meet Journalists Reimagining Environmental News
Broken Ground - August 03, 2023 08:00 - 30 secondsAs more and more news outlets close, writers, editors, and photographers across the South are reconsidering how communities stay informed. This season host Leanna First-Arai talks with the new storytellers of the South committed to keeping environmental information in communities' hands. Suppor...
Trailer: Meet Journalists Reimagining Environmental News
Broken Ground - August 03, 2023 08:00 - 30 secondsAs more and more news outlets close, writers, editors, and photographers across the South are reconsidering how communities stay informed. This season host Leanna First-Arai talks with the new storytellers of the South committed to keeping environmental information in communities' hands. Support...
Season 5 Trailer: How Memphis Beat The Odds To Stop A Pipeline
Broken Ground - October 10, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutesHear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community. Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its...
How Memphis Beat The Odds To Stop A Pipeline, Trailer
Broken Ground - October 10, 2022 21:00 - 2 minutesHear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community. Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its...
Lesson 7: Do It Again
Broken Ground - September 22, 2022 06:00 - 31 minutesAn announcement late on the Friday of a holiday weekend is a classic move. And in the case of the Byhalia Pipeline it is an end so abrupt many don’t believe it. But it’s true. What quickly becomes apparent is that, while Memphis has won this battle, the war against environmental racism and the s...
Lesson 6: Hold On
Broken Ground - September 08, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutesWith a federal permit approved and state officials supporting the project, in the spring of 2021 the Byhalia Pipeline has momentum on its side. But opponents aren’t giving up as they bring national attention to the project and turn to local elected officials for help, all while still in court qu...
Lesson 5: Embrace Your Allies
Broken Ground - August 25, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutesAs aquifer advocates and the residents of southwest Memphis in the path of the pipeline began looking for help pushing back against Byhalia’s plans, they quickly learned not to assume who would join their cause. From city councilpeople and county commissioners to attorneys and media outlets, the...
Lesson 4: Call 'Em Out
Broken Ground - August 11, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutesWhile pipeline developers deploy common tactics to secure support, like spreading donations around the community, organizers look for allies among their elected officials. Reporter Carrington Tatum also starts covering the story and amplifying voices going unheard. Many of those voices belong to...
Lesson 3: Dig In
Broken Ground - July 28, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutesAll of Memphis drinks from a world-class underground source, known as the Memphis Sand Aquifer. The realization that the Byhalia Connection crude oil pipeline, planned for southwest Memphis, could endanger they city's water draws new allies into the pipeline fight. Soon, environmentalists like W...
Lesson 2: Raise a Ruckus
Broken Ground - July 14, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutesIt was a throw away line by an out of town pipeline representative but it struck a nerve and came to define much of the resistance to the Byhalia Pipeline. In this episode hear the origin story of the phrase that rang throughout the fight: “the point of least resistance.” Intended as an engineer...
Lesson 1: Nobody Asks
Broken Ground - July 01, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutesThis is Boxtown, a neighborhood in southwest Memphis founded by formerly enslaved people who put down deep roots and residents who cherish their ties to this land. It’s also a neighborhood that’s seen decades of government neglect, while more and more polluting industries moved into the area. So...
Brenda Mallory: Federal Action on Environmental Justice
Broken Ground - June 03, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutesBrenda Mallory, former Director of Regulatory Policy at SELC, sat down with us in December 2020 before joining the Biden administration as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and reflected on how the federal government can engage a broad coalition to embed environmental jus...
Chandra Taylor: The Impact of Everyday Environmentalists
Broken Ground - May 20, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutesChandra Taylor is the leader of SELC's Environmental Justice Initiative. Her ongoing work in North Carolina includes cleanups at contaminated industrial sites and an end to unchecked water pollution in Black communities. "It's not going to be just conservationists who turn the tide on global cl...
Catherine Coleman Flowers: When Listening Becomes Activism
Broken Ground - May 06, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutesCatherine Coleman Flowers was recently named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. A 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, her environmental health research brought to light the failing wastewater infrastructure in rural parts of the South. She spoke with Broken Ground abou...
Heather McTeer Toney: Wrapping Communities in Climate Justice
Broken Ground - April 22, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutesHeather McTeer Toney stumbled into environmental justice work as the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. After moving on as EPA administrator and now as a Senior Adviser at Mom’s Clean Air Force, Toney talks about how to wrap climate justice around social justice and how her faith is inextricably ...
Heather McTeer Toney: Wrapping Communities in Climate Justice
Broken Ground - April 22, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutesHeather McTeer Toney stumbled into environmental justice work as the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. After moving on as EPA administrator and now as a Senior Adviser at Mom’s Clean Air Force, Toney talks about how to wrap climate justice around social justice and how her faith is inextricably ...
New Season Coming Earth Day, April 22
Broken Ground - April 16, 2021 04:00 - 33 secondsThe latest season of Broken Ground, featuring women in the South on the frontlines of fighting for environmental justice, launches this Earth Day, Thursday, April 22. Support the Show.
Uprooted
Broken Ground - September 23, 2020 04:00 - 13 minutesFind out what we learned about sea level rise in the South. Who will be hit the hardest? What can we do? How can we navigate a path forward? Support the Show.
Uncharted Territory
Broken Ground - August 27, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutesIn Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising tides and flooding problems. Support the Show.
Progress for Who?
Broken Ground - August 12, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutesIn Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches. Support the Show.
Flood City
Broken Ground - July 29, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutesIn Norfolk, Virginia homeowners like Karen Speights are struggling with the hard decision of staying put in rising waters or finding a way to start over. Meanwhile, the city is hoping it can buy people time. Support the Show.
Breaking Point
Broken Ground - July 15, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutesWith waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And we talk to city officials about making the big decisions of what, and what not, to build when trying to keep a flooding city livable. Support the Show.
Gardening Tidewaters
Broken Ground - June 30, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutesNorfolk, Virginia's waters are rising fast, and its land is sinking. The city's plans to meet this climate change challenge could be a blueprint for other coastal communities. Among other plans, Norfolk has set it sights on revamping its aging public housing complexes. We'll talk to folks living...
Earl Swift: Watching Waters Rise
Broken Ground - June 09, 2020 21:00 - 29 minutesEarl Swift is author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. He talks about the slow disappearance of this unique Virginia island to climate change. Support the Show.
Margaret Renkl: Backyard Environmentalism
Broken Ground - May 19, 2020 23:00 - 27 minutesAuthor and New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl talks about her book Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. Renkl's essays reflect on the intersection of family life, grief and her natural surroundings. Support the Show.
Dr. Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice Is Equal Justice
Broken Ground - May 05, 2020 04:00 - 21 minutesDr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change. Support the Show.
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