Vancouver Podcast Festival: Podcasting Climate Change

Below the Radar

The climatic events of 2021 (heat, fires, floods, storms) have brought home the reality of climate change like never before — and the urgency for media to address this crisis couldn’t feel greater. But how do we talk about the climate emergency in ways that move us away from despair and disaster coverage? How can podcasts shift the conversation in ways the mainstream media cannot or refuses to do? How do we talk about climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and de-colonizing media? For this special release, tune into the live event recording from Podcasting Climate Change, a session at the 2021 Vancouver Podcast Festival. This recording features a panel discussion curated and moderated by Below the Radar host Am Johal. He is joined by Chief Patrick Michell, Julia Kidder, Eugene Kung and Grace Nosek. This Vancouver Podcast Festival event was presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/152-podcasting-climate-change.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/152-podcasting-climate-change.html Resources: — Vancouver Podcast Festival: https://www.vanpodfest.ca/ — Doxa Festival: https://www.doxafestival.ca/ — Climate Justice & Inequality, a Below the Radar series: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/climate-justice-inequality-podcast.html — Kanaka Bar Indian Band: https://www.kanakabarband.ca/ — Living with Water: Rethinking coastal adaptation to climate change: https://pics.uvic.ca/media-release/living-water-rethinking-coastal-adaptation-climate-change — West Coast Environmental Law: https://www.wcel.org/ — UBC Climate Hub: https://ubcclimatehub.ca/ — Planet Potluck podcast: http://planetpotluck.com/ Bios: Julia Kidder (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, communications specialist and researcher based in Vancouver (on unceded Coast Salish Territories.) Currently she is a PhD student at UBC’s School of Community & Regional Planning (SCARP) with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) Living With Water project, where she is exploring how complex climate governance networks incorporate Indigenous Laws on the South Coast of BC. Eugene Kung (he/him/his) is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW. He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project. Eugene was born and raised in Burnaby BC, holds a BA from UBC (2001) and JD from Dalhousie (2006) and was called to the BC Bar in 2008. Chief Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band has lived in BC’s Fraser Canyon all his life and has worked with his community to establish foundational stability in air, water, food, and shelter with supporting resilient systems like storage, energy, communications, and transportation; for the environment and economy of today and more importantly — tomorrow. Chief Patrick was recently honored with a Clean50 Lifetime Achievement Award and Kanaka’s Community Resilience Plan (2021) was also recognized as the Clean50 2022 Top project. Grace Nosek is the Founder and Student Director of the UBC Climate Hub, a unique entity combining significant financial and administrative support from the university, with a governance structure that allows student staff and volunteers to shape priorities for the Hub — and collaborate with stakeholders from across the university and beyond. Cite this Episode Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Vancouver Podcast Festival: Podcasting Climate Change” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 4, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/152-podcasting-climate-change.html