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In this newscast: U.S. President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration more than two months after a record-breaking glacial outburst damaged nearly 300 homes in Juneau's Mendenhall Valley; Juneau voters said no to a proposition that would have banned all large cruise ships on Saturdays in this year's municipal election. But, it's not the end of the effort to address the impacts of tourism growth. And now, plans for a new cruise ship dock on Douglas are complicating things; Tribal and federal officials say they're forging a new relationship to address climate change-related threats in Alaska's rural communities. A new National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration grant will create 80 new jobs to improve climate change response in remote Alaska Native communities statewide; This week teacher and author Genét Simone will stop in Nome for a book tour promoting her memoir, “Teaching in the Dark." The book reflects on a transformative year of teaching in Shishmaref in the 1980s. In it, she discusses the challenges and rewards of teaching in the small sub-Arctic village.
Family Matters with Jim Minnery - The Faith & Politics Show !
Shishmaref, as the crow flies, is about 100 miles north of Nome on the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, known in some circles as the "nose" of Alaska.Tyler Ivanoff, a school teacher, community leader and basketball coach, among other vocations, took a break from hunting seals and sea bird eggs recently to chat with me about his campaign to represent District 39 as a House member.He's running as a Nonpartisan candidate against Democrat Neil Foster who has served in the House since 2009 after he was appointed to the House to replace his father, Richard Foster, who had died in office the previous month.In 2022, Foster edged out Ivanoff by less than 100 votes. Ivanoff has said he is unwilling to join a coalition majority in which the opposite political party controls a majority of seats. He's also noted that his priorities include "safeguarding our children and their futures, enacting legislation to protect salmon, preserving the Permanent Fund Dividend, and ensuring the integrity of girls' sports." In legislation passed by the House last month, Foster joined with all the other Democrat lawmakers voting to allow biological males to compete against girls.Grateful to have the opportunity to visit with Alaskans from the farthest corners of our state. I hope you can tune in.Support the Show.
On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola continues to be one of the Democrats most likely to vote against her party. A bill awaiting the governor's signature would ban harmful “forever chemicals”. And two brothers and a friend walked the 100 miles from Nome to Shishmaref. Photo: James Horner, Wilson Hoogendorn, and Oliver Hoogendorn pose for a photo in the Bering Air terminal at the Nome Airport. Photo courtesy of Oliver Hoogendorn.
On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Petersburg residents joined a statewide demonstration in support of school funding. The Alaska House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a proposal that would ban children under 14 from creating social media accounts. And following a harsh winter the village of Shishmaref is emerging from a fuel crisis. Photo: Shishmaref, Alaska.
AMPLIFYING FEEDBACK LOOP, 2min., USA, Animation Directed by Vanessa Sweet Unfolding visual poetry loops and transforms, advocating for the need for sustainable futures and community action.https://www.vanessasweet.com/amplifying-feedback-loop-in-prod https://instagram.com/veebsweet Get to know the filmmaker: Climate Change is an increasingly intense and impactful problem we are all currently facing. I felt particularly strongly to gear my work towards advocacy and activism after living for six years in Alaska, three of which was in Shishmaref, Alaska. There, I listened to the living memory of the folks who live there. Shishmaref's community if 99.8% Shishmaref Iñupiat– and the island they live on is eroding at astronomical rates. The sea ice isn't freezing when it should, and is melting too soon. Permafrost is thawing, and animals are rapidly changing their migration paths. I was witness to this change first hand– and while I knew these to be true, not facing it at extremes can soften our urgency on an issue. I ended up moving away from Shishmaref for my current teaching position– but that doesn't mean people and this planet aren't in need. It is important to make work , for me, that speaks out and encourages postive change for the future. Shishmaref film-maker Dennis Davis is recording these changes to the island via his drones, I would highly encourage everyone to seek out his work and watch it to learn more– to get a sense of what is happening in Alaska as well as the southern US, and to hear from that community. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod
Original Air Date: 2/5/23 - Host Pam Bordelon visits with the team behind Preserving Our Place, a photographic documentation of the effects of climate change on the native coastal communities of Chantel Comardelle, tribal executive secretary of the Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Isle de Jean Charles, and Dennis Davis, community artist of the Native Inupiaq Village, Shishmaref, Alaska, who used their talents to create this thoughtful exhibit co-curated by Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Visual Arts Director Lundyn Herring and Comardelle on display in the Shell Gallery at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center.
Now through February 24 at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center in Baton Rouge is “Preserving Our Place– A Photographic Exhibition.” This display offers visual art from native communities in coastal south Louisiana and coastal far-west Alaska, attesting to the similarities in the climate crises in the artists' native homes. For more, WRKF's Adam Vos spoke with the artists Chantel Comardelle, tribal executive secretary of the Jean Charles Choctaw Nation and co-creator of the exhibit, and Dennis Davis, community artist of the native Inupiaq village of Shishmaref, Alaska. In 2020, Mardi Gras was the launching point for a surge in COVID-19 cases throughout the Gulf South. And this year – there's more in the air, like flu and RSV. Gulf States Newsroom reporter Shalina Chatlani spoke with health officials about what to expect this year and how to stay safe. But first, it's Friday and that means it's time for an update on this week in politics. The Times-Picayune | The Advocate's Editorial Director and columnist Stephanie Grace tells us how Mayor Cantrell is grappling with the challenges of crime, infrastructure, and a recall attempt, and whether or not she can regain the city's trust. Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Patrick Madden. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman and Aubry Procell. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Three blockbuster storms struck different coasts this weekend, causing widespread damage in Puerto Rico, Alaska and Japan. Their damage offers examples of what we can expect more of in a rapidly warming world. In Alaska: The most intense storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea during the month of September blasted communities across a 1,000-mile stretch of Alaska's western coastline with hurricane-force winds and record storm surge flooding. The villages hit include names familiar to the climate community for being vulnerable to erosion and seeking to move to higher ground, such as Kivalina and Shishmaref. Severe flooding was also seen in Nome, the endpoint of the Iditarod sled dog race. The flooding there beat any seen since November 1974. By battering already vulnerable coastal communities, the storm will make them more susceptible to the Bering Sea's notorious winter storms. In Puerto Rico: Hurricane Fiona struck on Sunday, causing an island-wide blackout that illustrates the country's challenges with repairing its electrical grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Hardening infrastructure against increasingly potent extreme weather events is a major challenge facing the U.S. At one point Sunday evening, nearly the entire island was under a flash flood warning, with "catastrophic" flooding underway. In Japan: Typhoon Nanmadol, the country's fourth-most intense typhoon to make landfall, struck the island of Kyushu on Sunday morning eastern time. The storm dropped more than two feet of rain in 24 hours on parts of that island, threatening to cause landslides, along with wind and storm surge flooding. Climate change is enabling hurricanes and typhoons to dump more rainfall and stay stronger further north. Prior to its landfall, the storm had rapidly intensified — a process with climate change ties and reached Category 4 intensity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Three blockbuster storms struck different coasts this weekend, causing widespread damage in Puerto Rico, Alaska and Japan. Their damage offers examples of what we can expect more of in a rapidly warming world. In Alaska: The most intense storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea during the month of September blasted communities across a 1,000-mile stretch of Alaska's western coastline with hurricane-force winds and record storm surge flooding. The villages hit include names familiar to the climate community for being vulnerable to erosion and seeking to move to higher ground, such as Kivalina and Shishmaref. Severe flooding was also seen in Nome, the endpoint of the Iditarod sled dog race. The flooding there beat any seen since November 1974. By battering already vulnerable coastal communities, the storm will make them more susceptible to the Bering Sea's notorious winter storms. In Puerto Rico: Hurricane Fiona struck on Sunday, causing an island-wide blackout that illustrates the country's challenges with repairing its electrical grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Hardening infrastructure against increasingly potent extreme weather events is a major challenge facing the U.S. At one point Sunday evening, nearly the entire island was under a flash flood warning, with "catastrophic" flooding underway. In Japan: Typhoon Nanmadol, the country's fourth-most intense typhoon to make landfall, struck the island of Kyushu on Sunday morning eastern time. The storm dropped more than two feet of rain in 24 hours on parts of that island, threatening to cause landslides, along with wind and storm surge flooding. Climate change is enabling hurricanes and typhoons to dump more rainfall and stay stronger further north. Prior to its landfall, the storm had rapidly intensified — a process with climate change ties and reached Category 4 intensity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Teen and Tween Parenting Podcast with Dr. Nikki Neretin/AKA Figuring Shit Out!
In this episode we talk about my recent trip to Shishmaref, a small fishing village in the Bering Strait, grounded airplanes, no showers and shitting in a honey bucket. We talk about true self-confidence which includes being able to handle any feelings, fail forward and having your own back which means that we don't trash talk ourselves when things don't go as we imagine. I want your lives to go well with peace and connection at home and avoiding worrying and fighting. Change the future of your relationship before the new year with the special promo code "stopworrying" to buy the transformational Stop Worrying Now Boot-Camp. #drnikkineretin #nikkineretin #podcast #parenting #parentingteens #teens #moms #moms'ofteens #tweens. #thelifecoachschool #brookecastillo Subscribe, rate, review and share in order to impact as many families as possible and change the world. As I Go You Go! xo Nikki --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drnikkineretin/message
The Teen and Tween Parenting Podcast with Dr. Nikki Neretin/AKA Figuring Shit Out!
Hello lovely parents, In this episode we talk about my difficulty sleeping and fear of flying while heading to my small fishing village on the bering strait, Shishmaref and how I deal with it. I talk about young people's oppression as the first time in our lives where a bigger person has authority over a smaller person and how that sets us up for future oppressions and particularly how it relates to their inability to make money and finances. I give you a different way to thing about money topics with your teens at home while we explore our early money beliefs we grew up with. In order to take a deeper dive sign up from my transformation and affordable virtual boot-camp: 6 steps to get more connected to your teens to avoid fighting and worrying and have a more peaceful home. That was a mouthful. Also get a copy of my renowned e-book so you can learn other life changing tools so that you can have a more peaceful home and stop the future generational trauma. The buck stops with you and you can do it now! Trying out one of my songs "Come Swing With Me". off of my last album, Elemental, as an intro and would love to hear what you think. You can listen to the whole album on spotify which covers the 4 m's motherhood, marriage, menopause and medicine.As I Go You Go! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drnikkineretin/message
In this episode of Warm Regards, we talk to two Indigenous scientists about traditional ecological knowledges and their relationship with climate and environmental data. In talking with James Rattling Leaf, Sr. and Krystal Tsosie, Jacquelyn and Ramesh discuss how these ideas can challenge Western notions of relationality and ownership, how they have been subject to the long history of extraction and exploitation of Indigenous communities (practices which continue today), but also how Indigenous scientists and activists link sovereignty over data created by and for Indigenous people to larger sovereignty demands. You can find a transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/indigenous-climate-knowledges-and-data-sovereignty-4fc756b9476e James Rattling Leaf, Sr. North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center https://nccasc.colorado.edu Rising Voices: https://risingvoices.ucar.edu GEO Indigenous Alliance https://earthobservations.org/indigenoussummit2020.php Oceti Sakowin http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8309 https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/plains-belonging-nation/oceti-sakowin Tribal Climate Leaders Program: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/tribal-climate-leaders-program Krystal Tsosie You can follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kstsosie Native BioData Consortium https://nativebio.org United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network https://usindigenousdata.org CARE Principle for Indigenous Data Governance https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2020-043/ Finally, you can listen to Good Fire at their website or wherever you get your podcasts: https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast Further reading: Several of Kyle Whyte’s papers informed out team’s understanding as we prepared this episode: Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenous Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene https://kylewhyte.marcom.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/IndigenousClimateChangeStudies.pdf Indigenous Lessons About Sustainability Are Not Just “For All Humanity” https://kylewhyte.marcom.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/IndigenousInsightsintoSustainabilityarenotforAllHumanity.pdf Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcc.603 Dominique M. David-Chavez and Michael C. Gavin, A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf300/meta Eve Tuck & Wayne Wang 2012, Decolonization is not a metaphor https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf For more on how climate change impacts Shishmaref, see Elizabeth Marino’s book, Fierce Climate Sacred Ground: https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=528 Scott Kalafatis et al., Ensuring climate services serve society: examining tribes’ collaborations with climate scientists using a capability approach: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02429-2 Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals http://www7.nau.edu/itep/main This Teen Vogue article is a nice introduction to land acknowledgements https://www.teenvogue.com/story/indigenous-land-acknowledgement-explained For more on the Land Back movement: https://landback.org/ This Flash Forward episode (with lots of links for further reading) https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2020/11/10/land-back/ The 2Land2Furious project by the Métis in Space podcast creators https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/back-2-the-land-2land-2furious http://www.metisinspace.com Jacquelyn would especially like to thank Katherine Crocker, who has deeply influenced her own thinking about Indigenous sovereignty and ethical partnerships. Check out her essay, Cricket Egg Stories: http://carte-blanche.org/hiyoge-owisisi-tanga-ita-cricket-egg-stories/
According to the State of Alaska website, the state's name derives from the Aleut alyeska, meaning "great land." Today on Sea Change Radio we talk about The Last Frontier, and some of the threats to its greatness. A week before the November election, the Trump Administration opened more than 9.3 million acres of old growth stands in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging companies which can now build roads and cut timber in this pristine ecosystem. This decision reversed protections created by the US Forest Service’s Roadless Rule Policy which this week has been in place for 20 years. Our first guest today is Jim Furnish, a longtime Forest Service official who explains the importance of the Tongass, the significance of the Roadless Rule Policy, and the prospect of a re-reversal once Joe Biden becomes President. Then, we revisit part of our 2015 discussion with environmental journalist Kate Sheppard as she recounts how sea level rise has imperiled the small Alaskan port town of Shishmaref.
"I think that the first thing that agencies have to acknowledge is there's an extreme power imbalance between what value we put on scientific knowledge and what value we put on local knowledge."
"There's a deep sadness, but also this incredible life in them. They love living in that area and the subsistence that is necessary to live there." John has been an ordained pastor for over 35 years in the ELCA. He was raised in a small town in Eastern WA surrounded by bountiful farmland nurtured by the immigrants who came there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, made up of ethnic Germans who had lived in Russia. John attended Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas receiving a BA in Theology and completed his MDIV at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. He has served congregations in PA, MD, ID, WA and now AK, mostly as a regularly called pastor, but has done four interims, including Shishmaref, AK. He has been actively involved in social justice issues, traveling to South Africa/Namibia during the Apartheid regime. He has marched and spoken at events calling for justice. He was once arrested at the South African Embassy in DC along with 80 other Lutherans. He lived in Holden Village for over a year before, during, and after the Wolverine Fire. John has a passion for writing and speaking truth to power and the Gospel. To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org To contact the podcast author, podcast@holdenvillage.org
What is the Arctic? Who lives there? How are their lives changing as the climate warms? In this Earth Day Special, we take listeners on a three-part journey across the polar north, drawing on our 18 months of research and reporting in all eight Arctic countries. This one-hour Threshold Earth Day Special is formatted to the NPR clock and can be licensed for radio broadcast through PRX, here:http://exchange.prx.org/pieces/271817-s02-earth-day-special. Promotional material is also available through the PRX Exchange, here: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/270418-s02-promos-earth-day-special. Part I: On Grímsey Island, Iceland, an eight-ton concrete ball maps the path of the Arctic Circle as it moves an average of 14 meters each year. Part II: The island town of Shishmaref, Alaska is only about a quarter of a mile wide, and thanks to the effects of climate change, it’s getting smaller each year. The town has voted to relocate to the mainland, but they need help to make the move. So far, no one seems to be listening. Part III: The Greenland ice sheet is basically a giant ice cube the size of Alaska. What happens when it melts? We spent five days camping out on the ice with a team of scientists who are trying to find out. Season two of Threshold, an award-winning podcast and public radio show, took listeners to the thawing soil and melting ice of the polar north, to experience this fast-changing part of the planet first-hand. All 13 episodes, each 29 minutes long, are also available for broadcast on PRX. Find out more at www.thresholdpodcast.org. Our reporting is made possible by listeners like you. Become part of our passionate network of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/thresholdpodcast. This season is underwritten by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
In this episode of ThinkArctic, we visit the 2018 Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage and speak with Arctic Youth Ambassador Essau Sinnok about climate change and connectivity in his home village of Shishmaref, Alaska.
In this episode of ThinkArctic, we visit the 2018 Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage and speak with Arctic Youth Ambassador Essau Sinnok about climate change and connectivity in his home village of Shishmaref, Alaska.
One of the stated goals recent United Nations report on climate change is to prevent the planet from warming more than one and a half degrees Celsius. We ask what would happen if the world warmed by, say, two degrees. Also: Calculating the cost of climate change is doable but difficult -- too difficult says the US Department of Defense; we fact check President Donald Trump on one of his recent statements about climate change; plus we take a journey to the remote Alaskan village of Shishmaref, where climate change and rising sea levels are a present threat.
When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling into the sea showed up in news outlets around the world. But the story here starts way before that storm. Find out more at www.thresholdpodcast.org. Our reporting is made possible by listeners like you. Become part of our passionate network of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/thresholdpodcast. This season is underwritten by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Production partners: Montana Public Radio and PRI’s The World.
In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act. Find out more at www.thresholdpodcast.org. Our reporting is made possible by listeners like you. Become part of our passionate network of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/thresholdpodcast.
Jacquelyn, Eric and Andy speak with Esau Sinnok, a 19-year-old climate activist from Shishmaref, a village that has been dealing first-hand with the impacts of a changing climate for over a decade. https://www.aspenideas.org/speaker/esau-sinnok
Exploring Ethnobiology III In May 2010, Deconstructing Dinner travelled to Vancouver Island where two international conferences on ethnobiology were being hosted. Ethnobiology examines the relationships between humans and their surrounding plants, animals and ecosystems. Today, more and more people are expressing an interest to develop closer relationships with the earth. This leaves much to be learned from the research of ethnobiologists, and in particular, from the symbiotic human-earth relationships that so many peoples around the world have long maintained. On this part III of the series, we listen to two presentations that share research into the relationships between indigenous peoples and marine life in what is now called British Columbia and Alaska. Investigating Eggs Update Also on the show - an update from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to our September 2 investigative report on alleged local food fraud. Guests/Voices Severn Cullis-Suzuki, masters in ethnobotany, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria (Haida Gwaii, BC) - Similar to her father David Suzuki, Severn has devoted herself to increasing awareness on fundamental ecological concerns. Born and raised in Vancouver, at the age of 9, Severn founded the Environmental Childrens Organization. In 1992 at the age of 12, she attended the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro where she received praise for a speech she delivered. She went on to graduate from Yale Univeristy in 2002, hosted a television series on Discovery Channel, and was eventually led to study ethnobotany under Nancy Turner. Her focus of research led her to Northern Vancouver Island - home to the Kwakwaka-wakw people. It was there that Severn studied the keystone species Zostera marina - also known as eelgrass - or to the Kwakwaka-wakw (ts'ats'ayem). Josh Wisniewski, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK) - Josh received his BA and MA in anthropology from the University of Alaska Anchorage. His research explores the complex sets of relations between Iñupiaq and Yup'ik societies and marine mammals through time and the ontological premises shaping local and traditional ecological knowledge. Josh's research has recently been focused in Shishmaref, Alaska, where he has worked with Iñupiaq hunters and elders exploring and documenting ecological knowledge of bearded seals and historic and contemporary hunting practices. Nancy Turner, distinguished professor, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria (Victoria, BC) - Born in Berkeley, California, Nancy moved to Victoria at the age of 5 and she lives there today as a Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. She earned a PhD in Ethnobotany in 1974 from the University of British Columbia when she studied three contemporary indigenous groups of the Pacific Northwest (the Haida, Bella Coola and Lillooet). Nancy's major research has demonstrated the role of plant resources in past and present aboriginal cultures and languages as being an integral component of traditional knowledge systems. Nancy has also played an important role in helping demonstrate how traditional management of plant resources has shaped the landscapes and habitats of western Canada. In 1999 Nancy received the Order of British Columbia and in 2009 received the Order of Canada. She's authored numerous books including, among others, Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples, Food Plants of Interior First Peoples, Plants of Haida Gwaii and The Earth's Blanket - Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living. James Rogowsky, specialist, egg products, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) (Winnipeg, MB) - The CFIA is the arm of Health Canada in charge of safeguarding food, animals and plants.