There is so much beauty on this earth, which is why it is so crucial at this time to be proactive in protecting Mother Earth. We see changes in the flora and fauna, as the planet is warming, and the weather is becoming more extreme. Climate scientist Illissa Ocko stated that “Scientists have no doubt that humans are causing global warming.” It is very evident that hotter heat waves, drier droughts, bigger storm surges and greater snowfall are occurring as the planet continues to warm. Extreme weather is on the rise. A dramatic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions and increases in carbon dioxide capture is needed to keep below a 2oC rise. We need more biodiversity, and often times solutions are right in our own backyard. Shrink your lawn and add native plants and perhaps a meadow. We need to be more resilient, more adaptable and work to reduce our carbon footprint. We discuss these issues with our resident nature expert and friend of the podcast Victoria Alzapiedi, who is the co-founder of New Castle Healthy Yards, and is a Member of the Town of New Castle Conservation Board, as well as the Climate Smart Communities Task Force. She is also a member of Friends of Buttonhook Forest, which is working to save a 20.3 acre forest with Native American complex ceremonial stones, hundreds of mature trees, and is a carbon sink and a wildlife habitat in the town of New Castle NY. Follow New Castle Healthy Yards on Facebook. Help Save a Forest: savebuttonhook.org. Subscribe to TMSOG podcast on your favorite podcast app and on Instagram @tmshadesofgreen. Check out past shows on HudsonRiverRadio.com and Malcolmpresents.com #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness
Category: Activism
Teach Your Children Well about Climate Change with Guest Harriet Shugarman-Founder of Climate Mama
We are all anxious about world events and particularly to the degradation of the environment. The term eco-anxiety, includes “worry, fear, anger, grief, despair, guilt, and shame, as well as hope. A recent BBC Newsround survey found that 70% of 8- to 16-year-olds report feeling worried about the state of the planet. So how do parents, caregivers and teachers talk to kids about climate change? What can we tell them that will ease their tension about the climate crisis? We discuss these issues with our guest and friend of the podcast Harriet Shugarman, an incredible woman who is working to put children’s minds at ease. Harriet wrote the book, How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change:Turning Angst into Action, which provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Check out these websites for more info:
Our Kids Climate https://ourkidsclimate.org/
Parents for Future Global https://parentsforfuture.org/
How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change, Turning Angst into Action. https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Your-About-Climate-Change/dp/0865719365/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=anthropocene&qid=1570739365&s=books&sr=1-2
Global Warming Six Americas, Yale Climate Communications https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/
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Are we all EcoSexuals? Guests Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens give us insight into the field of Ecosexolgy
In this episode, we will explore the Ecosexuality movement, a relatively new sexual identity which connects environmental activism based around nature, and promotes the idea of the earth as a lover. It invites people to treat the earth with love rather than see it as an infinite resource to exploit. It was founded by our guests, Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, who describe themselves as “two ecosexual artists-in-love”, whose manifesto is to make environmental activism “more sexy, fun, and diverse”. Their new book, is titled, Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover. Annie and Beth give us insight about how they came together to collaborate on this latest work, how they took a stand against homophobia, xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory.
Check out their new book Assuming the Ecosexual Position:The Earth As Lover
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/collections/arts-humanities-2021 and go to sprinklestephens.org to get more about the EcoSexual movement and films Water Makes Us Wet and Goodbye Gauley Mountain. For past shows go to hudsonriverradio.com and malcolmpresents.com. Follow us on FaceBook and Instagram, tweet us @tmshadesofgreen. A shout out to my Green Diva Sistas at thegreendivas.com
Listen to “Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens and The Eco Sexual Movement” on Spreaker.
How to Teach Your Kids about Climate Change with guest Harriet Shugarman
Our guest this week, Harriet Shugarman, wrote the book, How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change:Turning Angst into Action, which provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Harriet is the Executive Director of ClimateMama, a professor of Climate Change and Society and World Sustainability, and Chair of the Climate Reality Project, NYC Metro Chapter. She is a nationally recognized influencer, connector, and trusted messenger for parents on solutions to our climate crisis. Harriet is a recipient of the prestigious Climate Reality Green Ring Award, and has been praised by Al Gore as “an outstanding Climate Reality Leader, who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to her role as a climate communicator and activist.” For more info go to ClimateMama.com, climaterealityproject.org, malcolmpresents.com and HudsonRiverradio.com. Tweet us your thoughts @tmshadesofgreen #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness
Listen to “Harriet Shugarman – the Climate Mama” on Spreaker.TROMP, a poem written and performed by Martha Joy Rose, Founder of The Museum of Motherhood. She is a Mom who Rocks!
Joy wrote this poem one week before the inauguration of our new President and VP after four years of suffering, strife, and lies in January 2021. She recorded this poem during Kamala Harris’s swearing-in ceremony. Joy wrote “May the power and strength of all the women who have gone before stream through me, my heart, my brain, and my voice. Let us put dark days behind. Let us be healed. I stand in unison with those who believe in truth, justice, and liberty for ALL.”
Joy Rose, Super Mom of Super Bowl Champion Ali Marpet, is a Mom Who Rocks
Super Mom Joy Rose talks about her now Super Bowl 55 Champion son, Ali Marpet. Joy also shares a poem, talks about The Museum of Motherhood, Moms Who Rock, her band Housewives on Prozac, and much more. Always be nice to your Mama! For more info go to mommuseum.org, hudsonriverradio.com, malcolmpresents.com. Tweet us your thoughts @tmshadesofgreen.com. #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness
Which of these world leaders Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, called our guest Lianne Sorkin a Goddess? The Answer is in the listening.
Lianne Sorkin has traveled the world and has taken action to create solutions to climate change, social justice and violence against women. She has over 40 years experience as a live and virtual event executive producer, meeting facilitator and international project manager for the United Nations. She has lived in Japan, and is fluent in Japanese, and was the UN’s liaison for the Secretary General of the 4th World Women’s Conference in Beijing to the First Ladies, including Hillary Clinton. Lianne works with Project Drawdown, Pachamama Alliance, and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women. For more info go to drawdown.org, pachamama.org, 350NYC.org and HudsonRiverRadio.com
Listen to “The Many Shades of Green” on Spreaker.TMSOG with Guest Maya van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper and initiator of The Green Amendment Movement
Our guest is Maya van Rossum who has dedicated her life to being the “voice of the Delaware River.” She has taken on industry, government, and even the U.S. Army, preventing harm to the River, communities, and environments she so bravely champions. Maya is currently working to empower individuals across the nation to stand up for their environmental rights by pioneering the Green Amendment Movement. She has written a book called The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment. In 2013, Maya and her organization achieved a major victory in the landmark case, Robinson Township, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The case, decided by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, revived the state’s long-ignored Constitutional Environmental Rights Amendment, empowering it to protect the people’s right to pure water, clean air, and a healthy environment. Maya has also inspired some musicians, and a group called The Donuts wrote a song in her name, titled “Maya van Rossum’s Blues,” which is about an oil spill that spewed 165,000 gallons of heavy crude into the Delaware. For more information go to forthegenerations.org, delawareriverkeeper.org, to hear more shows go to malclompresents.com and tweet us your thoughts @tmshadesofgreen
The Many Shades of Green first episode of 2021 with guest Syd Mandelbaum, founder of Rock and Wrap it Up
As we face the fall out from a pandemic with increased unemployment leading to more food insecurity, we rely on organizations to get us through these challenging times. Our guest this week is Syd Mandelbaum, who has been on the forefront in helping those in need for for nearly three decades. Syd is the founder of Rock and Wrap it Up, and award winning poverty think tank established to honor his parents, who were holocaust survivors. Since 1991, Rock and Wrap it Up has fed over 1 billion people who deal with hunger. Other projects within RWU include Hannah’s Project, which helps provide feminine hygiene products to woman and girls in need, and Feed the Veterans Database, to help men and women who served our country. For more information go to rockandwrapitup.org. Check out more shows about the environment and social justice by visiting malcolmpresents.com, thegreendivas.com (50Shades of Green Divas), HudsonRiverRadio.com #RaiseYourEcoConsciousness
Courtney on Health Functional Foods
2021 IS HERE, AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO 2020. WE ARE STILL IN COVID TIMES, SO WHAT WE EAT TO BUILD OUR IMMUNITY IS IMPORTANT. A GOOD PLACE TO START IS WITH THE TOPIC OF FUNCTIONAL FOODS. WE NEED TO THINK OF FOODS AND DIETS THAT HAVE A PURPOSE, AND THEREFORE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT FOODS GIVE US BETTER IMMUNITY. MY MOM WOULD ALWAYS SAY “EAT YOUR VEGGIES AND DRINK YOUR FRESH ORANGE JUICE.” SHE WAS SO RIGHT. WE MUST LOOK AT THE INGREDIENTS IN OUR FOOD, AND KNOW THE ORIGIN AND WHO IS GROWING WHAT WE EAT. SO WE NEED TO EAT FOODS WITH PURPOSE and FUNCTION. COURTNEY GIVES US IMPORTANT INFO ON FUNCTIONAL FOODS, WHAT IS GOOD FOR US, WHAT IS TRENDING. TAKE A LISTEN. FOR MORE INFO CHECK OUT @CLGWELLNESS ON INSTAGRAM AND MALCOLMPRESENTS.COM. TWEET ME @TMSHADESOFGREEN
Talking Trees and conservation with guest Victoria Alzapiedi
Our guest this week is Victoria Alzapiedi, who is an environmental consultant and Founder of My Native Garden Oasis – providing coaching and guidance to homeowners who want to create thriving habitats for birds, pollinators, and beneficial insects in their own yards.Victoria is also the Co-Founder of New Castle Healthy Yards, Co-Chair of the New Castle Pollinator Pathways Coalition, and a member of the New Castle Conservation Board. She is a steward of Mother Earth and does everything in her power to protect the flora and fauna on the planet. We talk about the importance of trees within the balance of nature, as well as how many species rely on trees for their survival. So think twice before cutting down a tree. GO HUG A TREE! For more info follow Victoria on her FaceBook pages My Native Garden Oasis and New Castle Healthy yards. Also check out malcolmpresents.com and thegreendivas.com
TMSOG welcomes Don Raskopf, we talk about the Clearwater organization, Pete Seeger, and what it was like to be a poll worker in the 2020 election
Our guest Don Raskopf is a long time member of the organization Clearwater, which was co-founded in 1966 by legendary singer and activist Pete Seeger. Don talks about the work that Clearwater is doing to help clean up the Hudson River, via the Clearwater sloop, and his relationship with Pete Seeger. We talk about how Clearwater has helped educate thousands of children on environmental issues and why it is so important to promote youth education and outreach. Don is also a member of the Beacon Sloop Club, which fits in with his experience as a carpenter and boat builder. He is active in Beacon4BlackLives, and was a first time poll worker in the last election. We discussed his experience with first time voters, and he had a wonderful story about the passion of those voters. For more information go to clearwater.org. Check out malcolmpresents.com for more shows, and go to thegreendivas.com for info on all things “green”.