Latest Femnism Podcast Episodes
Bernie Sanders Specialsode: Democracy with a very big D
Mothers of Invention - December 16, 2020 05:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsIn an extra special live edition of Mothers Of Invention, US Senator Bernie Sanders and Mary meet for the first time! Moderated by Thimali, they discuss reentering the Paris Agreement, reimagining global governance and planned migration. With help from our guest Mother, Sacajawea Hall of Coopera...
How To Listen To Mothers Of Invention
Mothers of Invention - November 11, 2020 05:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsAre you new to climate justice and want to learn more? Looking to get involved in the movement and not sure where to start? Mary, Maeve & Thimali have the rundown on what you need to get going.
Brave Enough To Imagine
Mothers of Invention - November 04, 2020 05:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe only way to create the future is to imagine it first. In our final release of Season Three, Mary, Maeve & Thimali explore regenerative futures for all on the other side of a very special US election.
We May Be Small But Our Impact Is Huge
Mothers of Invention - October 28, 2020 05:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe climate crisis has made our young people a marginalized group. But the youth climate movement is being led by no ordinary generation. They are passionate, educated and organized. In our season finale, six days before the US election, Mary, Maeve & Thimali recognize the importance of these cr...
The Meeting Circle
Mothers of Invention - October 21, 2020 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThimali engages in a little self-care with her friend, climate essayist and co-host of Hot Take podcast, Mary Annaïse Heglar. Strolling through a New York City forest, they share good and bad experiences being of colour in nature, but have a chance encounter that helps them connect back to the l...
The Very Nature of Ownership
Mothers of Invention - October 14, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsExtractive capitalism has caused so much destruction to our planet. So with all we've learnt this season, how can we rethink the value of natural resources, and the people who work hard to bring them from the land to our homes? And how does it contribute to our new visions and value systems for ...
Oh my God, Mom
Mothers of Invention - October 07, 2020 04:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsKeep having climate chats with your family that end in eye rolls, clenched or lost teeth? Well in this week's minisode, Maeve & Thimali talk to two youth activists from The CLEO Institute in Florida, our friends Gabi Rodriguez & Nicole Gazo. They're on a mission to awaken our parents’ inner clim...
Microbial Magic
Mothers of Invention - September 30, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsWe sometimes forget that the most sophisticated carbon sequestration infrastructures in the world are thousands of years old! Reforestation may reduce fossil fuel emissions, but replanting monocultures won’t solve the problem. Our ecosystems are ancient, complex and not easily replaced. What are...
How to Sue Your Country
Mothers of Invention - September 23, 2020 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsTaking your government to court over their climate impact is a fast-growing phenomenon that’s seeing powerful change. Individuals and organisations all over the world are setting new precedents and holding governments to account. But it’s not exactly a walk in the park! So how do you get it done...
We are the People of the Beans
Mothers of Invention - September 16, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsWe learned in our last episode that food insecurity will cause huge swathes of climate migration by the end of the century. So are there ways large-scale farms could nurture our soil? What could small-scale farming do to bring justice to marginalized communities? This week, Mary, Maeve & Thimali...
Two Grow Wild in the City
Mothers of Invention - September 09, 2020 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsDo you do a sad face when you see a big grey space in the town centre where a tall green tree should be? Well this episode is for you. Maeve is on (another) mission - this time to green up her home, and not just for cleaner air but for climate and racial justice too. But how easy is that in New ...
Universal Language
Mothers of Invention - September 02, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThis late into the climate crisis, it’s now time for us to embrace adaptation as a solution, as communities reconsider the fight for their ancestral homes. We welcome Mary’s friend, Ursula Rakova, executive director of Tulele Peisa on the Carteret Islands, who is helping almost its entire popula...
Take Action, Even If You're Scared
Mothers of Invention - August 26, 2020 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsYearning for good news? Hungry to get involved in IRL change? Well we could all learn a lot from our friend Tara Houska who has been smacking climate justice victories out of the park this summer. Frankly, it’s kind of hard to keep up. From big banks and big pipelines to big league football team...
Take Action, Even If You're Scared
Mothers of Invention - August 26, 2020 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsYearning for good news? Hungry to get involved in IRL change? Well we could all learn a lot from our friend Tara Houska who has been smacking climate justice victories out of the park this summer. Frankly, it’s kind of hard to keep up. From big banks and big pipelines to big league football team...
Million Dollar Questions
Mothers of Invention - August 19, 2020 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe IPCC uses the Industrial Revolution as the keystone for human-induced climate change, but there is a different marker for black, brown and indigenous peoples who have also been measuring climate change. How can the colonial impact on their homes be quantified, argued and repaid? Archaeologis...
Million Dollar Questions
Mothers of Invention - August 19, 2020 05:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe IPCC uses the Industrial Revolution as the keystone for human-induced climate change, but there is a different marker for black, brown and indigenous peoples who have also been measuring climate change. How can the colonial impact on their homes be quantified, argued and repaid? Archaeologis...
Dear Ruler: Letter Writing Tips for Exasperated Voters
Mothers of Invention - August 12, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsEver wanted to write a letter or email to rage and complain to the Powers That Be, but found yourself lost after “Hey. You.”? Yeah, us too. But take a deep breath and join Maeve and Thimali as they figure out how to put pen to paper for the climate crisis. From who to write to and how to build y...
We Are Really Big Huggers
Mothers of Invention - August 05, 2020 07:07 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsWe moved heaven, Earth and Covid, and we are back! But with too many emergencies stacking up, and no way to press pause on the climate crisis, how do we cope? How do we visualize what happens next? Daiara Tukano is from a Northern Amazon indigenous community in Brazil. She describes her Covid ex...
SEASON 3 TRAILER - We’re Back! And We’re Not Backing Down!
Mothers of Invention - July 29, 2020 09:12 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsIt’s mad, sad, exhausting and unfair. So what do we fight for and how do we get there? Climate justice is racial justice is gender justice. That’s how. Mothers of Invention is back! And this year, Mary, Maeve & Thimali are (kinda) reunited for a season to remember. From their home studios in Du...
You Probably Have Everything You Need
Mothers of Invention - August 21, 2019 09:57 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe fashion industry constitutes 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions today, and is reported to be the fifth-largest polluting sector in the world. But with a growing ambition to both revisit ancient practices and develop futuristic technologies, can fast fashion quickly adapt and reverse its ...
The Lungs of the North
Mothers of Invention - May 23, 2019 17:36 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe Arctic and it’s melting glaciers are the first images to mind when we think about climate change. But what do we know about the millions of indigenous peoples, who are fighting back against not only shifts in climate, but invasions for mineral extraction, shipping and fishing in their territ...
The Lungs of the North
Mothers of Invention - May 23, 2019 17:36 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe Arctic and it’s melting glaciers are the first images to mind when we think about climate change. But what do we know about the millions of indigenous peoples, who are fighting back against not only shifts in climate, but invasions for mineral extraction, shipping and fishing in their territ...
Jugglers of Time
Mothers of Invention - May 07, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsCity resident and co-founder of Help Delhi Breathe, Reecha Upadhyay, tells us how she rallied tens of thousands of voters to pass legislation that will help cap air pollution killing millions every year. She discusses biomimcry with Clare Miflin, who shares her epiphany that nature doesn’t creat...
Minisode 3: Earth Day
Mothers of Invention - April 21, 2019 23:25 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsHappy Earth Day! Today marks the countdown to Earth Day’s 50th anniversary in 2020. Mary invites Susan Bass of the Earth Day Network onto the show, who takes us back to the very first Earth Day in 1970, and how it bears a stark resemblance to where we are at today. Mary & Susan look at the cir...
Specialsode: Displaced with Mary Robinson
Mothers of Invention - April 15, 2019 19:57 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThis week we loan out Mary to International Rescue Committee’s podcast, Displaced, for a chat with Ravi Gurumurthy & Grant Gordon. If you came for Maeve but don’t know about Mary, this week’s specialsode is a chance to hear the story of her venture into climate justice from the very beginning. ...
The Climate Name Game
Mothers of Invention - April 08, 2019 20:55 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThis week Maeve & Thimali play The Climate Name Game! Environmental activist George Monbiot published a compelling list of alternate climate vocabulary. His list encourages us to take another look at the way we describe the climate crisis, and remind ourselves that the environment is not destroy...
A Second Chance at Life
Mothers of Invention - April 01, 2019 20:39 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsAs we imagine new ideas for our natural resources, a new green economy presents us with a second chance at making good with both the earth and our communities. What will it take to transition to renewable energy, and what can we learn from both indigenous peoples and new technology? Navajo clima...
Fish Out of Hot Water
Mothers of Invention - March 18, 2019 22:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThe ocean has absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, and 40% of our carbon dioxide. We take a trip to Malé in the The Maldives to meet former president Mohamed Nasheed and discover what he sees in the future of the archipelago nation as it battles with threatening sea level rises....
Ghosting the Planet
Mothers of Invention - March 05, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsThis week’s episode is co-hosted by Rhiana Gunn-Wright, one of the lead policy writers of the Green New Deal. She joins Mary & Maeve in the studio to discuss public opinion on climate change in the United States, where it’s crucial that citizens and politicians take a role in environmental actio...
Paw Print
Mothers of Invention - February 26, 2019 21:01 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratingsIn our first minisode, Maeve and our new series producer, Thimali, have a sit in the park to stalk cutie pie dogs and contemplate meat alternatives to pet food for Maeve’s pal, Shadow. According to a recent study, pet owners have been ‘humanizing’ their pet food choices with top range meats ...
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