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Temperature Check

Caroline Saunders

Making connections between climate, race, and culture.

  • 34 minutes 56 seconds
    Taking on big coal to protect Navajo water

    After getting her linguistics degree, Nicole Horseherder planned to return home to Black Mesa and teach. But with the region’s aquifers under threat from coal companies, she rallied against them – and won.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/nicole-horseherder-coal-navajo-water/



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    30 May 2023, 9:30 am
  • 32 minutes 58 seconds
    A life-altering bike ride

    Struggling with depression and on medical leave from his corporate job, Olatunji Oboi Reed decided to get his bike out of the basement and go for a ride. That ride set him on a new path that led to his current work: promoting racial equity in transportation and beyond, through his organization Equiticity.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/olatunji-oboi-reed-equiticity-biking-equity


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    23 May 2023, 9:30 am
  • 18 minutes 30 seconds
    Becoming a future climate doctor

    Growing up, Hamid Torabzadeh experienced the impacts of climate change and pollution. In high school, he found a club that showed him his path to doing something about it. Now a college freshman, he's studying to be what he calls a "new type of doctor" in the field of climate health.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/hamid-torabzadeh-readyteens-climate-health


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    16 May 2023, 9:30 am
  • 33 minutes 37 seconds
    From theater kid to climate filmmaker

    Maya Lilly had achieved the dream of many a theater kid: studying at Juilliard. But when she realized her environmental activism didn’t have a home there, it set her on a mission to bring climate storytelling to mainstream audiences. It was a journey that took decades.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/maya-lilly-climate-hollywood-producer/


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    9 May 2023, 9:30 am
  • 34 minutes 42 seconds
    Why this climate writer quit to become an electrician

    Until last year, Nate Johnson was a journalist at Grist, covering climate. But when he felt his passion for writing start to wane, he found a new direction — as an electrician. Now, instead of writing about the need to electrify everything, Nate is doing that work himself … and he says he is happier than ever.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/nate-johnson-journalist-electrician/


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    2 May 2023, 9:30 am
  • 34 minutes 57 seconds
    In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a teacher called to fight

    Sharon Lavigne lives in St. James Parish, Louisiana, where industrial pollution causes high cancer rates. For decades, Sharon witnessed her neighbors suffer as air quality worsened. But when yet another plant planned to open in her community, she decided to do something about it.


    Full transcript and related reading: https://grist.org/temperature-check/sharon-lavigne-cancer-alley-industry-formosa/


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    25 April 2023, 9:30 am
  • 2 minutes 35 seconds
    Coming soon: Temperature Check S3
    This season, meet 6 very different climate and justice leaders who faced crucial pivot points in their paths to climate action. Each immersive episode follows one person's journey, and the story of how they made a big change in their life, career, or community.

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    18 April 2023, 9:00 am
  • 30 minutes 29 seconds
    The power brokers
    Valencia Gunder and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin are dedicated to improving the lives of those facing unjust conditions in frontline communities. They discuss what it means to build coalitions and work the levers of policy to combat environmental racism.

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    30 November 2021, 12:10 pm
  • 26 minutes 11 seconds
    The connectors
    For these two Indigenous women, mentorship is “less about teaching skills and more about welcoming in.” Activists Jade Begay and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger talk about the consequences of holding in trauma, and the relief that comes from sharing that burden within their communities. 

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    30 November 2021, 12:08 pm
  • 35 minutes 11 seconds
    The scientists
    Herpetologist Earyn McGee and science journalist Tien Nguyen bonded over their experiences as women of color in STEM and finding their paths from academia to media. Says Tien, “This industry needs our stories.”

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    30 November 2021, 12:06 pm
  • 35 minutes 51 seconds
    The joy-givers
    Bringing as many people as possible into the environmental movement is the goal for drag queen Pattie Gonia and science writer Spencer R. Scott. And the best, most inclusive way to do that? “Collaboration, community, and joy.”

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    30 November 2021, 12:04 pm
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