Podcast appearances and mentions of talia buford

Our brains are 73% water and our bodies are 60% water, so we literally cannot live without it. But most community water systems suffer from industrial pollution. It doesn't have to be that way. Listen to Karen Sorber, Cofounder/CEO of Micronic Technologies describe their innovative chemical-free system for cleaning wastewater on this Green Connections Radio podcast with host Joan Michelson. You'll hear: How their system works - chemical-free. How a particular business trip inspired her to find a way to help get clean water to communities. How Karen transitioned from 30+ years in the federal government to cofounding Micronics About the rigorous testing needed to be done on such a system to be approved by regulators. And, valuable career advice, especially for transitioning to a new career or business. "Save money to increase your (career) options...and do what you love because (that passion) will help you find another door to open....(and) a mentor will help you look around brick walls." Karen Sorber on Green Connections Radio podcast You'll also like: You'll also like: Gloria Reuben, President, Waterkeeper Alliance, and renowned actress, on community activists holding industrial water polluters accountable. Lee-Anne Walters, Flint, Michigan community organizer and whistleblower on their water crisis. Talia Buford, ProPublica reporter who covered Flint, MI water crisis. NASA Teen Contest Winners, Mikayla Sharieff and Bria Snell of a DC area high school invented an innovative way to get clean water to their school water fountains. Thanks for subscribing on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio and leaving us a review! Also, join our Facebook Page  and share your insights! Join our mailing list to stay up to date on the top podcasts and special offers! Follow us on Twitter @joanmichelson        

“When you talk about pollution of the waterways, that goes very much to industries, like fossil fuels of course, like factory farming, like businesses or corporations that are allowed to just dump their waste or by-product of making things, manufacturing, into the waterways, when there’s no regulation, then clearly, then people can just do what they want to without any consequences.” Gloria Reuben on Green Connections Radio podcast   Flint, Michigan's water contamination crisis is more common than we realize in communities of color and low-income communities. Often it's due to industrial polluters dumping waste and toxins into the waterways.   One organization has been holding polluters accountable for decades -- the Waterkeepers Alliance -- and now they have a new leader who brings starpower as well as commitment to advocacy and justice. Gloria Reuben, actress and environmental activist is their new President. Listen to Gloria explain their impact in this engaging conversation with Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson, commemorating Black history Month.   You'll learn: What polluters have been trying to get away with for years. Why communities of color are targets of polluters. What Waterkeepers does to hold polluters accountable how she juggles her acting/singing career with leading Waterkeepers ..Fascinating career advice for women who juggle careers. And more!   "Stay open to possibilities that might surprise you and take a risk in a positive way...Nothing ventured, nothing gained..(and) Self-care, self-care, self-care." Gloria Reuben on Green Connections Radio podcast   You'll also like: Lee-Anne Walters, Flint, Michigan community organizer and whistleblower on their water crisis. Talia Buford, ProPublica reporter who covered Flint, MI water crisis. Ashley Bell, actress & activist on her documentary about Asian elephants Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown U professor, on black women suffragists Thanks for subscribing on iTunes or iHeartRadio and leaving us a review! Also, join our Facebook Page  and share your insights! Join our mailing list to stay up to date on the top podcasts and special offers! Follow us on Twitter @joanmichelson    

Conversations about Flint on CounterSpin, in its particulars and in terms of how it fits into bigger questions around environmental racism, resource control and local governance.

On this special episode, we give you a preview of season 3 of the Future Perfect podcast. Vox's Dylan Matthews comes on to talk about meat and environmental justice. Subscribe to Future Perfect on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week. Further listening and reading:  ProPublica’s Talia Buford has done in-depth reporting on the problems of overflowing pig waste lagoons in North Carolina, and you can see images of the aftermath of lagoon flooding from Hurricane Florence collected here. Pig waste from factory farms is not just a problem in North Carolina. You can read about issues in Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio.  We always want to hear from you! Please send comments and questions to futureperfect@vox.com.  This podcast is made possible thanks to support from Animal Charity Evaluators. They research and promote the most effective ways to help animals. Featuring: Marianne Engleman Lado, Environmental Justice Clinic, Vermont Law School Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox  More to explore: Follow all of Future Perfect’s reporting on the Future of Meat. Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Follow Us: Vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

North Carolina is home to around 9 million pigs. Many of those pigs live in big factory farms, and all of those pigs produce a lot of waste. On these factory farms, that waste is collected in big outdoor lagoons, and then sprayed out across fields as fertilizer. People living in communities nearby complain their daily lives are disrupted by the stench, and they fear that it’s affecting their health. On this episode, three North Carolinians team up with a lawyer to try and fight back against these lagoon and sprayfield systems.   Further listening and reading:  ProPublica’s Talia Buford has done in-depth reporting on the problems of overflowing pig waste lagoons in North Carolina, and you can see images of the aftermath of lagoon flooding from Hurricane Florence collected here. Pig waste from factory farms is not just a problem in North Carolina. You can read about issues in Iowa, Minnesota, and Ohio.  A profile of the late epidemiologist Steve Wing, whose research into hog waste deeply informs this episode The Natural Resources Defense Council’s 2019 report on CAFOs Marianne Engelman Lado directs the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law School, which digs into a wide range of similar environmental justice issues We always want to hear from you! Please send comments and questions to futureperfect@vox.com.  Subscribe to Future Perfect on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week. This podcast is made possible thanks to support from Animal Charity Evaluators. They research and promote the most effective ways to help animals. Featuring: Marianne Engleman Lado, Environmental Justice Clinic, Vermont Law School Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox  More to explore: Follow all of Future Perfect’s reporting on the Future of Meat. Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Follow Us: Vox.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"It worked really well with everyone concentrating on their area of strength." Lee-Anne Walters on Green Connections Radio   What would you do if your water came out of the tap brown? As we congratulate Flint, Michigan residents for winning a big settlement recently for the lead contamination of their water supply, finally, after years of fighting for it, listen to the courageous and tenacious Lee-Anne Walters, one of the main community organizers, explain to Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson how she brought the community together to fight for clean water – and collected the scientific support they needed. It's lessons in community organizing we can all benefit from, especially as the country protests the scourge of police brutality, injustice and inequality. Lee-Anne was awarded the prestigious Goldman Sachs Environmental Leadership award for her work. You'll hear: How the community started to organize, from the ground up. How she used her Medical Technician skills to identify why the water was brown and who was to blame. Why having an Emergency Manager for the city in its financial crisis was the exact wrong strategy. How partnering with Virginia Tech University to test the water independently was a key to fixing the crisis - and continues nationwide. “I’ve always been a very blunt person…and in this it’s been my biggest asset.” Lee-Anne Walters on Green Connections Radio You’ll also want to listen to: Nayyirah Shariff, Flint, Michigan activist for clean water (on their lead poisoning crisis) Talia Buford, ProPublica reporter covering the Flint, Michigan lead poisoning water crisis. Rita Colwell, frmr NSF head, Univ of Maryland, Gulf of Mexico Research chair, water science expert NASA Contest-Winning Teen Girls – About their award-winning water filtration system. Subscribe to our newsletter for our weekly GCR episodes, Joan's Forbes blogs, and career advice -- plus special coaching offers to keep you ahead of the curve. We look forward to having you in our community. Subscribe to Green Connections Radio podcasts on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio and leave us a review! Join our Facebook Page  and share your insights! Feedback? Post it to us on Twitter @joanmichelson or Facebook

With birds and dogs in the background, Don and Amy catch up on another week of stay-at-home life and trying to keep COVID-19 at bay. The friends talk about taking action, as well as the need to be and privilege of being vulnerable. They also share what things are giving them hope in these stressful times.Additional resources:"Secret of Life - James Taylor" (YouTube)https://youtu.be/yHWHPPHpAj8 "Cooper Loves Ice Cream" (YouTube, by CoopersDogpatch, February 23, 2014)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvExOg4NI0"Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate" (ProPublica, by Akilah Johnson and Talia Buford, April 3, 2020)https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate "The Coronavirus Doesn't Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases" (NPR, by Black Farmer, April 2, 2020)https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/825730141/the-coronavirus-doesnt-discriminate-but-u-s-health-care-showing-familiar-biases The planned 2020 Relational Summit scheduled for May 14-17 has been postponed. Follow the Bloomington Center for Connection on Facebook to be alerted when a new date is scheduled. Stay safe!Buy "Your Racist Friend" by They Might Be Giants on iTunes

Talia Buford, reporter for ProPublica, discussed environmental justice, the complexities of covering the environment, how environmental policy is changing in the Trump administration, and more in a conversation with Shorenstein Center Director Nicco Mele. This Shorenstein Center Speaker Series event was recorded April 3, 2018, at Harvard Kennedy School. 

The Trump administration has rolled back 60 environmental policies at last count. ProPublica reporter Talia Buford dug into the overturning of one of EPA rules that took the agency a decade to craft and the Trump administration just months to undo. The rule was meant to keep toxic waste out of rivers and streams. Now it's in limbo as the EPA has decided to open it back up for review. The story of what happened with this rule is a case study in how the EPA operates under the Trump administration.   

What's it like inside the Environmental Protection Agency as the Trump Administration dismantles it from the top down?This week, ProPublica’s Talia Buford joins us on The Energy Gang to talk about how Scott Pruitt’s aggressive regulatory rollback agenda is changing the agency’s relationship to science, to industry, and to the staffers who've worked there for decades. An abandoned rule on effluent from power plants tells us a lot about Pruitt's approach to disassembling the EPA.Then, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled his latest energy vision, which features big targets for offshore wind and energy storage. Is New York suddenly the country’s hottest storage market?And finally, we’ll wrap up with a glance at two once-mighty companies in solar that are re-emerging after tough times: BP Solar and SunEdison. The podcast is also brought to you by CPower Energy Management. Find out more about CPower's demand-side energy management solutions. Recommended reading:ProPublica: What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPAGTM: Andrew Cuomo Throws Political Weight Behind Offshore Wind and Energy StorageGTM: SunEdison Emerges From Bankruptcy a Shadow of Its Former SelfGTM: BP Jumps Back Into Solar With a $200 Million Investment in Europe’s Biggest Project DeveloperSubscribe to The Energy Gang podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you find your audio content.

“(People in Flint) are living in…a war zone…it’s not America. You’re constantly on guard…and feel invisible” We were all outraged by the poisoning of small children, as well as adults, in Flint, Michigan as a result of lead in the city's water. It may have fallen off the national news, but the residents of Flint still cannot shower or brush their teeth in their tap water, much less cook with it and the stories are gut-wrenching…. A new documentary in production by Anthony Baxter was screened at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival recently, followed by a panel discussion with Baxter and others involved in the crisis, reveals what these people endure every day…still... The DC EFF panel was led by Talia Buford, an environmental justice reporter who brings a fascinating perspective, because she is a native of Flint – and her mom still lives there. Listen to Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson’s conversation with Talia about the crisis and you’ll never look at water the same again. Hear about: The real daily life in Flint and the community movement to fix it. The potential long-term health consequences for these residents. Where is the environmental justice and what role do demographics play? The stories the media is missing. (There's some DCEFF background noise and this interview is a bit shorter than others on GCR.) To learn more about Talia Buford and Green Connections Radio, go to www.greenconnectionsradio.com. Thanks for subscribing on iTunes or iHeartRadio and leaving us a review! Also, join our Facebook Page  and share your insights! Join our mailing list to stay up to date on the top podcasts! Email us: info@greenconnectionsradio.com or reach us on Twitter @joanmichelson   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wanted to get to some of the larger questions raised by the story of the ongoing water crisis in Flint. So we got some context from some people who follow this stuff for a living: Brentin Mock of CityLab and Talia Buford of the Center for Public Integrity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just what is happening in Flint and why?On Season 1, Episode 3 we are joined by CityLab's Brentin Mock and the Center for Public Integrity's (and Flint native) Talia Buford to discuss the lead and water crisis in Flint, Michigan, what it means for other at-risk places, and the role of Civil Rights law in protecting vulnerable communities.Find us on iTunes here and rate us! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seven-on-seven/id1089044046?mt=2Read Brentin's latest on EJ and civil rights here: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/03/why-the-us-civil-rights-commission-is-investigating-the-epa/473487/And check out Talia's incredible series on the EPA & civil rights complaints here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/environment/environmental-justice-denied

Just what is happening in Flint and why?On Season 1, Episode 3 we are joined by CityLab's Brentin Mock and the Center for Public Integrity's (and Flint native) Talia Buford to discuss the lead and water crisis in Flint, Michigan, what it means for other at-risk places, and the role of Civil Rights law in protecting vulnerable communities.Find us on iTunes here and rate us! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seven-on-seven/id1089044046?mt=2Read Brentin's latest on EJ and civil rights here: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/03/why-the-us-civil-rights-commission-is-investigating-the-epa/473487/And check out Talia's incredible series on the EPA & civil rights complaints here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/environment/environmental-justice-denied