In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, host Peterson Toscano considers stories that focus on the impacts of climate change. These include incidents of extreme weather and stories of changes you have witnessed over time and the ways these changes affect you and everything and everyone you love. This episode will give viewers the opportunity to tell effective climate stories.
Plus, you will hear one climate solution story from the future. Most importantly, you will hear an example of “the climate story pivot.” The pivot happens when you jump off of your story into the climate solution you are proposing.
Personal & Societal Climate Optimism & Resilience - Citizens Climate Radio
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A wide array of valuable climate-related guests & resources though guest-host Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio.
Bearing Witness and Speaking Up with Julio Cochoy & Anne Therese Gennari
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On this month’s episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, host Peterson Toscano sits down with Julio Victor Cochoy Alva, a Guatemala native who grew up in the scenic Highlands region.
Black Birding, Poetry, Equity, Food Security, & Faith: Climate Changed
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Guest-hosts today are from the Climate Changed podcast, Nicole Diroff & Ben Yosua-Davis, of the BTS Center, accompanied by Peterson Toscano. Their guests today are Maya Williams, the poet laureate of Portland, Maine, and Corina Newsome, who co-organized the very first #BlackBirdersWeek and who, in taking on racial injustice directly through activism, has challenged the straight-forward faith of her childhood.
Building Personal Resilience in Your Climate Work
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On this month’s episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, Laureline Simon joins host Peterson Toscano to discuss the importance of establishing personal resiliency, both in the mind and the body, for climate workers around the world. Laureline has studied international relations and development at Sciences Po, as well as Indian languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, France.
Adrian Rafizadeh — Young conservative pursuing climate solutions
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Adrian Rafizadeh is a young conservative; he’s also motivated to connect with fellow young conservatives about climate change.
“Polling from Frank Luntz found that 75% of Republicans under 40 support a carbon fee and dividend, which is really major,” Adrian explains in this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio. “That 75% number is something that we’re really trying to laser in on and focus on within the Conservative Caucus because there’s so much potential there.”
From What Is to What If: The BTS Center
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We featured the brand-new Climate Changed Podcast, in June, before it was released to the world, hosted by today's guest, Ben Yosua-Davis, and co-host Nicole Diroff, and that's how we first learned about
Queer Response to Climate Change
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Peterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio guest-hosts today, on the topic of Queer Response to Climate Change. Foremost he speaks with Isaias Hernandez who provides training and media as Queer Brown Vegan.
What Are LGBTQ+ Responses to Climate Change?
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Speaking with five different guests, host, Peterson Toscano, takes a deep dive to explore how climate change and extreme weather affect lesiban, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-binary, and queer (LGBTQ+) people.
Beginnings & Transformations
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We are celebrating the sixth anniversary of Citizens’ Climate Radio, and a big theme you will hear in this episode is about breakthroughs and transformations. From the very beginning, Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s mission has been to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power. That was definitely the theme in the very first interviews Citizens Climate Radio’s host, Peterson Toscano, conducted with Marshall Saunders, founder of CCL, and Mark Reynolds, the organization’s first executive director.