Halt the Harm Podcast
Ryan Clover with Halt the Harm Network
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13 - Dante Swinton, Energy Justice in Baltimore
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11/07/18 • 58 min
In this episode Dante Swinton, the coordinator of the Divert Baltimore Program talks about organizing and advocating for alternatives to developing a waste incinerator that would cause a public health crisis in Baltimore. By taking leadership and a design thinking approach, Dante is able to show that diverting the waste from incineration has social, environmental, and economic benefits.
Dante advocates for thinking outside of the box, instead of just focusing on what we’re against. He says it’s important to build a solution. With a strong solution we can be effective in our efforts.
As mentioned in this episode
- Energy Justice Network : About
- Baltimore Clean Air Act
- Clean Air Baltimore: A Campaign to Replace Waste Incineration with Zero-Waste Jobs
- Donate to the campaign
- Resources
About Dante Swinton
Dante has had an interest in environmental protection for 20 years, and has worked with Energy Justice Network since summer 2015. He has run for state and local office to raise waste/recycling, energy, transit, and domestic violence issues. He has a Bachelors in Environmental Studies from Winthrop University, and a Masters in Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Baltimore.
Dante is the Divert Baltimore Program Coordinator; Environmental Justice Researcher & Organizer with Clean Air Baltimore. More information at https://www.cleanairbmore.org
Credits
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
08 - Melinda Tuhus, Beyond Extreme Energy
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11/07/16 • 39 min
In this interview she shares her perspective on climate organizing and working with Beyond Extreme Energy.
For Melinda, meeting people and visiting communities impacted by extreme energy led to a deeper understanding of the need for climate justice. Even though human-caused climate change is serious, and at times overwhelming, Melinda believes we can do something about it.
She explains how grassroots campaigns have been able to slow down the development of oil and gas infrastructure and even cancel major projects. Not only can we win campaigns, but working together and building a movement can be rewarding on a personal level.
As Mentioned in This Episode:
- Mountain Justice
- melindatuhus.net
- Defeating the Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline
- Beyond Extreme Energy
- BXE on Facebook
- Twitter : @melindanewhaven
Music:
Music for this episode by Eilen Jewell – song is "One of These Days" from her album Sea of Tears.Credits:
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a powerful resource for anyone confronting the fracking industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.netThe soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover-Owens in the studios of Eco-Defense Radio and WRFI.
11 - Raina Rippel, Environmental Health Project
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10/10/18 • 27 min
In this episode Raina Rippel from the Environmental Health Project talks about the Citizen Science Toolkit, a helpful resource for anyone who wants to protect their family and neighbors from the harms of fracking. This toolkit is an expansive document that details ways that anyone can participate in monitoring environmental health impacts.
We talk about the implications of health monitoring, how the toolkit was created, and provide some insight into the role of citizen science in protecting ourselves from industry that is looking for the cheapest and fastest way to extract gas and bring it to market.
Raina says we all need to be involved in protecting our family and neighbors from the potential harms associated with unconventional oil and gas development – there are tools at our disposal to do this right now.
As mentioned in this episode
About Raina Rippel
In 2011, Raina Rippel helped found the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP) in response to growing concerns associated with gas drilling activity and health impacts in Washington County, PA. Formerly Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine and the Center for Coalfield Justice, Rippel has on the job training in environmental public health, medical education and outreach, community organizing, strategic development and leadership.
Rippel heads up a team of fifteen staff and consultants and various interns with expertise in healthcare, public health research, toxicology, air and water quality, strategic development and community organizing, in conducting a targeted and timely public health response to unconventional shale development. EHP focuses their work on gathering data from residents of southwest PA and beyond on probable health impacts from oil and gas development, determining routes of exposures, and providing best-practice air and water monitoring tools and guidance, as well as accessible and effective interventions for individuals, households, and communities.
Citizen Scientist Toolkit
This Citizen Scientist toolkit will provide listeners with an easy-to-follow framework for taking steps to becoming a more informed, empowered member of your community. By carefully following the procedures and protocols that are defined in the toolkit, listeners will become a citizen scientist, and their efforts can have an impact that extends well beyond their community. Their data can be added to the findings of many others. Together, this information can help listeners, their community, researchers and scientists truly understand the type and level of fracking-related risks.
Credits
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
12 - Eliza Griswold, Author of Amity and Prosperity
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10/24/18 • 55 min
In this episode you’ll hear a recording of a webinar presentation that Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity brought to the network. The presentation is followed by a Q&A with Eliza.
In Amity and Prosperity, the prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.
“In her new book, Amity and Prosperity, journalist Eliza Griswold provides a deeply human counterpoint to this political fray. She takes on the decidedly fraught issue of energy extraction through a vivid, compassionate portrait of one family living in the long shadow of industry . . . Griswold chronicles these escalating horrors with disarming intimacy.”
— Meara Sharma, The Washington Post
As mentioned in this episode
- Amity and Prosperity : the book
- Webinar recording : Eliza Griswold, Amity and Prosperity
- Halt the Harm Webinar Series
Credits
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
14 - Andy Myers, Using Film To Mobilize
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11/21/18 • 43 min
In this episode Andy Myers joins us to talk about using film as a tool for organizing and mobilizing around an issue.
Andy Myers is the Campaign Coordinator for Working Films. A longtime proponent of linking films and activists, he has coordinated several state and national film campaigns, facilitated cross-organizational coalitions, and led multiple trainings for NGO’s and grassroots leaders aimed at using documentary film to advance their work.
Andy’s shares tips on using films effectively, and sees them as an example of how arts & culture is integral to successful movements. He recommends using short films that spark discussions, and recognizing film makers who collaborate to tell stories.
As mentioned in this episode
- Sane Energy Project
- You Are Here Map
- Working films
- Water warriors
- Contact [email protected]
- News, http://www.workingfilms.org/news/
About Andy Myers
Andy Myers is the Campaign Coordinator for Working Films, he holds a B.A in film studies and a B.A in environmental studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
A longtime proponent of connecting film with activism, he has coordinated various national campaigns which leverage the narrative in social issue documentaries to advance the efforts of organizations with shared goals.
Credits
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
17 – Allie Rosenbluth - Rogue Climate
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05/31/22 • 12 min
In this episode, Allie Rosenbluth tells us about her work organizing rural communities across southern Oregon to stop the proposed Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline.
The Jordan Cove LNG project would produce 15 times the climate pollution of Oregon’s last remaining coal plant and create enormous environmental impacts across 4 Oregon counties, including threatening drinking water for 160,000 people, increasing the danger of wildfires, and crossing through tribal lands.
Bio:
Allie Rosenbluth is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship. She is the Campaigns Director for Rogue Climate, a grassroots organization fighting for climate justice and clean energy in rural southern Oregon.
About the Podcast:
This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking and the oil & gas industry.
As mentioned in this episode:
Core Message:
“People have been fighting the Jordan Cove Liquified Natural Gas export terminal project for over 15 years. Every year we’re fighting is a year that the project is failing. ...There are so many reasons why people in southern Oregon are standing up against the Jordan Cove LNG project. It's really created a beautiful community of people who are building relationships with each other, which is so important in rural communities where things can feel so divided.“
Credits:
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from the oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack to the Halt the Harm podcast is "One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover and Jimmy Jordan in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
06 - Gillian Graber - Protect Our Children From Fracking
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10/07/16 • 41 min
In just a few years Gillian became a full time organizer dedicated to protecting her community from the harms of fracking. She talked with neighbors, reached out to organizations who could support her work, and started gaining traction.
If you are living in an area affected by fracking and want to learn more about effective community organizing, then you're going to love hearing Gillian's story and checking out the resources she shared with us below.
I hope you enjoy this episode of the Halt the Harm Podcast with Gillian Graber.
As Mentioned in the Show:
Bio:
Gillian Graber is a cofounder and now the president of Protect PT, a community organization working to ensure the safety, security, and quality of life for people in Penn Township, Trafford, and surrounding communities. For the past two years they've been organizing to prevent fracking from putting their community at risk.She's also working with Protect Our Children, a statewide coalition working to stop drilling near public schools.
What We Talked About:
In this interview Gillian shares how she got involved with community organizing. She explains what specific steps she took to grow her organization to what it is today.This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a powerful resource for anyone confronting the fracking industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
10 - Walter Hang on strategy, focus, and doing the work to crush industry plans.
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09/26/18 • 71 min
Walter Hang from Toxics Targeting has led unprecedented victories against oil and gas projects in upstate NY – and in this interview he explains his strategy of balancing the message with an incredibly focused demand. The trick, he says, is that there is no trick – there are no shortcuts to the hard work, training, and commitment we need to win. What’s remarkable is that even though it’s challenging, the principles are actually quite simple, but we need to avoid the mistake of pouring effort into campaign strategies that are ineffective. In this episode you’ll gain some insight into how Walter has achieved so many victories, and in his words “crushed” pipeline project and other infrastructure demands of the oil & gas industry.
As mentioned in this episode:
- Toxics Targeting at www.toxicstargeting.com
- Infrastructure Campaign Compilation
- www.facebook.com/ToxicsTargeting
- Despite FERC approval, groups in NY are still able to defeat the development of a massive regional storage hub for fracked gas.
- The political argument “how can you support additional infrastructure for a dying industry?”...
- great political argument, which is going to rally and build the movement... but it’s not the legal strategy.
- When you identify the regulatory pressure points, identify exactly who you need to pressure on exactly which legal point. The ASK needs to be focused... The ask is different than the message which is how we organize a campaign.
- Toxics targeting helps focus the activists legal strategies to be more effective. They help identify the points and focus the efforts like a battering ram to prevent infrastructure projects.
Bio: Walter Hang is the founder of Toxics Targeting, an consulting firm in Ithaca, NY that helps people understand toxic sites through New York State. He produces maps, reports, and publishes research with his team. You don’t need to be in New York State to be involved with Toxics Targeting campaigns, or to learn about their work – just contact [email protected] or go to the website www.toxicstargeting.com and look at the call to action in the bottom right of the page.
Core Message: The trick is that there is no trick... to beat the fossil fuel industry and the politicians that favor them we need to work hard, build our network, and have a focused strategy with extremely clear demands. No tool, app, or social platform replaces the value of going door to door, building a campaign around a single (strategically sound) demand.
Credits: This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website and resource that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net The soundtrack Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears. Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
18 – Sharon Lavigne - Rise St James
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06/07/22 • 13 min
In this episode, Sharon Lavigne shares her experience fighting to stop petrochemical factories and other toxic industries in America’s Cancer Alley in St. James Parish, LA.
Sharon Lavigne is a recipient of the Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship, and won the 2021 Goldman prize for environmental defenders. She led a grassroots movement to delay the $9.4 billion Formosa plastic factory in her hometown.
This podcast is a project of Halt the Harm Network, which can connect you with people who are working to protect families, communities, and the environment from the harms of fracking and the oil & gas industry.
As mentioned in this episode:
Bio:
Sharon Lavigne, a former special education teacher turned environmental activist, is the founder of Rise St. James, a faith-based environmental and social justice organization dedicated to protecting St. James parish from toxic, cancer causing industries. St. James parish is between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in an area that’s become known as America’s Cancer Alley. Numerous industrial complexes in this region have been attributed to causing the cancer clusters afflicting residents.
Core Message:
“[The Formosa Plastics Plant] is about putting wealth before health. If you have the money but you don’t have the health, then you don’t have anything. So why let more chemical plants come into St. James and pollute us anymore? People are already sick. People are dying. ”
Credits:
This podcast is a project of halttheharm.net, a website that connects you with leaders, activists, researchers, economists, legal experts, and funders to protect your community from the oil & gas industry. Halt the Harm is a network of leaders who are taking action, sharing resources and information, and supporting each other’s campaigns. Find out more at halttheharm.net
The soundtrack to the Halt the Harm podcast is"One of These Days" by Eilen Jewell from her album Sea of Tears.
Recorded, produced, and published by Ryan Clover and Jimmy Jordan in the studios WRFI Watkins Glen, Ithaca
Season 2 - Halt the Harm Podcast
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09/12/18 • 1 min
Welcome to Halt the Harm Podcast, I'm your host Ryan Clover. The network is to support leaders who are taking action to protect themselves and their communities from the harms of oil and gas industry. The podcast is a way to learn more about the people in the network, how they got involved, what work they're doing.
If you have a story to share, please visit halttheharm.net/podcast or contact us at [email protected]
If you have questions about fracking, impacts, zoning, regulations, or organizations to connect with, visit frackingnextdoor.com
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How many episodes does Halt the Harm Podcast have?
Halt the Harm Podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
What topics does Halt the Harm Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Ecology, Climate Justice, Community, Environment, Energy, Climate Change, Podcasts and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Halt the Harm Podcast?
The episode title '14 - Andy Myers, Using Film To Mobilize' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Halt the Harm Podcast?
The average episode length on Halt the Harm Podcast is 40 minutes.
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Episodes of Halt the Harm Podcast are typically released every 13 days, 7 hours.
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The first episode of Halt the Harm Podcast was released on Sep 6, 2016.
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