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المحتوى المقدم من Important, Not Important and Not Important. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Important, Not Important and Not Important أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
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المحتوى المقدم من Important, Not Important and Not Important. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Important, Not Important and Not Important أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
This week:
This entire (short!) episode is a call to action. It's time to do this thing...do the thing, but also take care of yourselves and your loved ones these next couple weeks.
It's a lot right now.
Here's What You Can Do:
- Donate to the groups that are on the ground every day organizing and fighting for a better, stronger democracy (go)
- Volunteer for democracy by picking up the phone and knocking on doors with the people who have mobilizing voters down to a science. Time’s ticking but it’s not too late (go)
- Learn about ways you can become a more active citizen (like running for a local office!) (go)
- Be heard about the issues you care about the most, like reproductive rights or clean energy, and find candidates in your district that support those causes.
- Invest in companies that are scaling climate solutions so we still have a planet where the privilege to vote is possible.
Get more:
- Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com
- Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade
- Take Action at whatcanido.earth
- Get our merch
- Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com
- Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp
- Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel
- Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett
- Produced by Willow Beck
- Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com
- Take a nap you deserve it
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المحتوى المقدم من Important, Not Important and Not Important. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Important, Not Important and Not Important أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
This week:
This entire (short!) episode is a call to action. It's time to do this thing...do the thing, but also take care of yourselves and your loved ones these next couple weeks.
It's a lot right now.
Here's What You Can Do:
- Donate to the groups that are on the ground every day organizing and fighting for a better, stronger democracy (go)
- Volunteer for democracy by picking up the phone and knocking on doors with the people who have mobilizing voters down to a science. Time’s ticking but it’s not too late (go)
- Learn about ways you can become a more active citizen (like running for a local office!) (go)
- Be heard about the issues you care about the most, like reproductive rights or clean energy, and find candidates in your district that support those causes.
- Invest in companies that are scaling climate solutions so we still have a planet where the privilege to vote is possible.
Get more:
- Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com
- Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade
- Take Action at whatcanido.earth
- Get our merch
- Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com
- Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp
- Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel
- Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett
- Produced by Willow Beck
- Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com
- Take a nap you deserve it
Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors
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Please enjoy the debut episode from our new show, Not Right Now. Every week, Claire (Evil Witches) and Quinn (Important, Not Important) dive into the chaotic reality of raising tiny humans in these wild times. From behavioral reflection forms and schoolyard diplomacy to the eternal question of "how many water bottles does one child need?", we explore the messy, hilarious, and occasionally terrifying truth about modern parenting. Plus: why every parent should have friends who don't make you add "...but of course I love them!" to your rants, the special anxiety of raising boys who won't become supervillains, and the paradox of counting down to bedtime while simultaneously scrolling through baby photos. A conversation for parents who know that both dreading dinner and cherishing every moment can be true at the same time. A new show from Important, Not Important. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Send a message to questions@notrightnow.show Get all of our episodes at https://www.notrightnow.show/ ----------- Follow us: Subscribe to Quinn's newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Subscribe to Claire's newsletter at https://www.evilwitches.com/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel Produced and edited by Willow Beck Music by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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Not Right Now is a podcast for parents navigating the impossible task of raising kids while *gestures wildly at everything*. Join Quinn Emmett ( Important, Not Important ) and Claire Zulkey ( Evil Witches ) for honest conversations about parenting in an era of climate change, artificial intelligence, social media anxiety, all while trying to get your kid to just please put on their shoes. From discussing how to talk to kids about the news without traumatizing them (or yourself), to debating the right age for a phone, to admitting that sometimes the best parenting happens when you're hiding in the pantry eating handfuls of trail mix for dinner- Quinn and Claire bring humor, empathy, and real talk to the wild adventure of raising tiny humans in these chaotic times. Because being a good parent doesn't mean having all the answers - it means figuring it out together, one "not right now" at a time. Join us every week, wherever you get your podcasts. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- Links: Follow Not Right Now on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notrightnowpodcast/ Email Not Right Now at questions@notrightnow.show Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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This week: I’m not religious. But I did (barely) successfully major in religious studies. For better and often for worse, the history of faith and organized religion has been the backbone of human history, political science, culture, wars, sexual ethics, and more. Subtle or not, religion and faith are most often the answer to why people do what they do, and to how we got here, even now as the west barrels towards majority secularism. Here's What You Can Do: Donate to the Climate Justice Alliance to amplify grassroots leadership working towards a Just Transition. 🌏️ Volunteer with the Green Faith Alliance and get your faith group involved in climate action. 🌏️ Learn about how colonialism is a historical and ongoing driver of climate change and its impacts. Be heard about science-based health care and tell your Senator to vote “No” on RFK Jr’s nomination. Invest in a more equitable world by investing in the Black Farmer Fund to increase the representation and success of Black agricultural and food businesses. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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This week: You're wasting your talent on bullshit while the world burns. You — yes, you — can actually use your very unique set of skills for good. Even and especially at scale, even — yes — right now. Here's What You Can Do: Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to help get Zuckerberg’s grubby little paws off of your data. Volunteer with Tech Shift and start creating technology that actually contributes to the betterment of humanity. 🌎️ Get educated about social media, deepfakes, misinformation, and all the other internet foes by taking this Media Literacy Crash Course . Be heard about creating the appropriate safeguards for AI by urging your representatives to support the Algorithmic Accountability Act . 🌏️ Invest in tech that reduces emissions instead of dismantling democracy using Carbon Equity . Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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We (Quinn) has been avoiding this question for quite a while. I even wrote a few thousand words about it a couple months ago and didn't publish it because it was a bit of a downer. But that's kind of malpractice in a way because we promised we don't shy away from the hard stuff even if the goal is to help you understand what you can do about it. Just like there's never really an optimal time in your life to get married, or have a baby, or get arrested, there's never a good time to talk about bird flu, which means it's always the right time to talk about bird flu, and especially when you've got the best of the best on the line. What can I do about bird flu? That's today's big question and my returning guest is the wonderful Dr. Nahid Bhadelia . Dr. Bhadelia is the founding director of the BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases . She's a board certified infectious diseases physician and an associate professor at the BU School of Medicine. She served as the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID 19 Response for the White House COVID 19 Response Team in 2022 and 2023, where she coordinated the interagency programs for global COVID 19 vaccine donations from the United States. Nahid was also the policy lead for Project NextGen, a 5 billion dollar health and human services program aimed at developing next generation vaccines and treatments for pandemic prone coronaviruses. She also served as the interim testing coordinator for the White House mpox response team and is the Director and Co-founder of Biothreats Emergence Analysis and Communications Network , or BEACON, an open source outbreak surveillance program. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- Links: Keep up with Dr. Bhadelia's work at BU Follow Dr. Bhadelia on Bluesky Find air filters at Filterbuy.com Learn more about what you can do to support public health Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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1 Essay: Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. 11:05
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This week: Be prepared — because these fires that are still burning are only the beginning. Start somewhere, start right in front of you, do what you can. Here's What You Can Do: LA isn’t the only place suffering this week, but it was home for a long time, so here’s vetted ways you can contribute right now, from near or afar. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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This week: It’s been a minute. Thanks for your patience. Please check out my 2025 preview, and if you’d be so kind, share it widely. Here's What You Can Do: Donate to Everytown to support their efforts to end gun violence, community by community. Volunteer with Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) to build the supports your community needs to respond to climate impacts. Get educated about how you can run for a local office and make a huge, direct impact on peoples lives using Run For Something’s Local Office Guide . 2025 is your year, let’s go. Be heard about incentivizing heat pump installations and bring our Heat Pump Targets script to your local government meetings. Invest in affordable housing by becoming an investor with Enterprise , a non-profit working to increase housing supply and build community resilience. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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1 Bridging Misinformation Gaps with Local Journalism 1:02:18
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What's the missing link in local journalism? That's today's big question, and my guest is Lyndsey Gilpin . Lyndsey is the Senior Manager of Community Engagement at Grist. Lyndsey was the founder and executive editor at Southerly , a nonprofit media organization that equipped people who face environmental injustices and are at most at risk of climate change effects with journalism and resources on natural disasters, pollution, food, energy, and more. It was very groundbreaking, and now she's brought that to Grist. Lyndsey was recently a John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow at Stanford University , focusing on information access in rural southern communities of color, where she is from, based in Louisville . And in an age of mass dis and misinformation it's more important than ever that we not only fund journalism and obviously read it, but local journalism and journalists and publishers, editors, photographers, documenters, and more that are of the communities they are based in, who have and continue to build trust in an ongoing, two way conversation to help people get information, to connect the last mile and make sure it goes back and forth. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- INI Book Club: The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Read more about Lyndsey's community engagement work at Grist Keep up with Lyndsey's work Support Grist's nonprofit journalism Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Take action at whatcanido.earth Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Mentioned in this episode: Basic Shit…
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This week: This entire (short!) episode is a call to action. It's time to do this thing...do the thing, but also take care of yourselves and your loved ones these next couple weeks. It's a lot right now. Here's What You Can Do: Donate to the groups that are on the ground every day organizing and fighting for a better, stronger democracy ( go ) Volunteer for democracy by picking up the phone and knocking on doors with the people who have mobilizing voters down to a science. Time’s ticking but it’s not too late ( go ) Learn about ways you can become a more active citizen (like running for a local office!) ( go ) Be heard about the issues you care about the most, like reproductive rights or clean energy, and find candidates in your district that support those causes. Invest in companies that are scaling climate solutions so we still have a planet where the privilege to vote is possible. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Take Action at whatcanido.earth Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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1 Thinking In Systems To Save An Indivisible World 1:10:03
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Is multisolving the future? Is it today? Should we do more? That's all today's big question and my guest is Dr. Elizabeth Sawin . Dr. Sawin is the Founder and Director of the Multisolving Institute , which is convenient for our conversation. She's an expert on solutions that address climate change while also improving health, well being, and economic vitality. She developed multisolving to describe such win win win solutions. Beth writes and speaks about multisolving, climate change, and leadership in complex systems for both national and international audiences. Since 2014, Beth has participated in the Council on the Uncertain Human Future , a continuing dialogue on issues of climate change and sustainability among a select group of humanities scholars, writers, artists, and climate scientists. Beth is a biologist with a Ph.D. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M. I. T . She co-founded Climate Interactive in 2010 and served as Climate Interactive's co-director from 2010 until 2022. Beth’s work has influenced me quite a bit, as you can see in the app. We've got co benefits all over the place, more on that soon and today. She's been on the list for a while here, and yet it took a couple recent hurricanes to actually get her on the show to talk about her journey, her mentors, her new book, and how we can most effectively deal with all of this. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- INI Book Club: Always Coming Home and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Learn more about multisolving at the Multisolving Institute Buy Dr. Sawin's book Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World Check out the FLOWER App Follow Dr Sawin on Bluesky and Twitter Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Mentioned in this episode: Basic Shit…
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How do we make it easier for more Americans to reliably put food (in particular, hot food) on the table? That's today’s big question, and my guest is Salaam Bhatti . Salaam is the SNAP Director at the Food Research and Action Center , a 501c3 that uses advocacy and strategic partnerships to improve the health and well being of people struggling against poverty related hunger in the United States. Before joining the Food Research and Action Center, Salam was the Public Benefits Attorney and Deputy Director of the Virginia Poverty Law Center where he specialized in public benefits law. Salaam also served as the director of Virginia Hunger Solutions , where he supported the initiative's mission of eradicating hunger and enhancing the nutrition, health, and overall well being of children and families living in poverty throughout this great commonwealth. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- INI Book Club: Llama Llama and the Bully Goat by Anna Dewdney Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Follow Salaam on TikTok and Twitter Follow FRAC on Instagram and Twitter Get involved with the FRAC Action Network Donate to FRAC to help end hunger in America Check out FRAC's Road to the Farm Bill resources Call on Congress to protect and strengthen SNAP Read the USDA Food Security report and FRAC's Statement of Poverty report Read FRAC's brief with the National Women's Law Center Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Mentioned in this episode: Basic Shit…
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1 Best of: Check Your Insurance Policy 1:04:50
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We first ran this episode in May 2023, but following back-to-back hurricanes in Florida this month, it remains as relevant as ever. You've got insurance, right? Are you sure? That's today's big question, and my guest is Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks. Brianna's an extreme weather and disaster reporter for the Post, where she explores how climate change is transforming the United States through violent storms, intense heat, widespread wildfires, and other forms of extreme weather. Brianna deploys to disaster zones, which are sometimes very close to home, and does enterprise reporting on the preparations for responses to and the aftermaths of catastrophic events. We're having this conversation today because last month Brianna revealed how insurers have slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates, often up to 80%. I cannot emphasize enough that the future includes an insurance landscape that is among the most important in our very brittle economy and society. It underpins everything we rely on, so understanding not only your own insurance but how well your mortgage holder and the system at large are prepared for what's here and what's coming, is essential. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- INI Book Club: What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Training for the Uphill Athlete by Steve House, Scott Johnston, and Kilian Jornet The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Follow Brianna on Twitter and Instagram Read Brianna's piece on Hurricane Ian insurance cuts Read more of her reporting at The Washington Post Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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There’s no word for “conservation” in many Indigenous languages. Some come close, but mean something more like “taking care of” or “looking after.” And that’s probably because the very idea of conservation, to “prevention the wasteful use of a resource”, would have been, and continue to be, foreign to many of North America’s Indigenous peoples, who lived in an entirely different, co-dependent relationship with nature. That is to say, to have had a relationship at all. A relationship with the very same nature of which we’re inextricably part of, of which we rely on for clean air, food, and water – or it’s game over. And now, if we’re not facing game over, we’re certainly up against the final boss. We live on stolen lands that were tended for thousands of years by Indigenous and Native peoples have been dried out by mostly white settlers in what seems like the blink of an eye. Land now covered in cities, in suburbs, in industrialized agriculture, desperately and even controversially conserved as national and state parks. Waters onshore and offshore, full of plastic and fertilizer, once bountiful, now overfished. The receipts are in and it’s not gone well for colonialists’ stewardship over the single habitable ecosystem as far as anyone can tell. New voices are needed, new policies and practices are needed, and perhaps the most compelling ones come from our land’s longest-tenured human inhabitants. And while, yes, I’m focused on actions we can take to build a vastly cleaner and better future for all people, you know I work hard to bring you the necessary context, to understand how we got here, why we got here, to understand the decisions and systems involved – all of which should only make us more effective at taking action. My guest today is Dr. Jessica Hernandez. Dr. Hernandez is an environmental scientist, founder of environmental non-profit Piña Soul, and the author of the new book, “Fresh Banana Leaves” , where she weaves together her family’s relationship with nature, as part of nature, her family’s history of being displaced over and over, through the lens of eco-colonialism, and how Indigenous-led restoration is the way forward. ----------- Have feedback or questions? Tweet us , or send a message to questions@importantnotimportant.com New here? Get started with our fan favorite episodes at podcast.importantnotimportant.com . ----------- INI Book Club: Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word by Dr. Emil’ Keme Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club Links: Dr. Jessica Hernandez on Twitter Jessica Hernandez website Piña Soul Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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This week: You’d think that -- considering we just spent two years building our new What Can I Do? app -- that I’d have a really good answer for why we were doing it in the first place. But I didn’t. Not until about a week ago. I knew, of course, the practical reasons why it needed to exist, and I had a good idea of what I wanted it to look and feel like. I knew it was the natural evolution and a significant missing piece of our work. But I had never really interrogated myself to understand why I was so hell-bent on building an app -- a tool -- that gathered all the action steps we’d researched over the years, and made them accessible to anyone across the world, anytime they wanted or needed them. Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors Mentioned in this episode: Basic Shit…
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It’s another big day in a very big month for us. Our extremely tiny team has been busting our asses for almost two years to bring you something fucking extraordinary, something I’m just so proud of, and now it's here: Our new app: "What Can I Do?" A one stop shop for taking action on the issues you give a shit about. Why? Because the world won't unf**k itself. Get it here: https://www.whatcanido.earth/ Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at importantnotimportant.com Support our work and become a Member at importantnotimportant.com/upgrade Get our merch Got feedback? Email us at questions@importantnotimportant.com Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp Follow us on Threads: www.threads.net/@importantnotimportant Subscribe to our YouTube channel Follow Quinn: on Twitter - twitter.com/quinnemmett ; Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/quinnemmett.bsky.social ; Threads - www.threads.net/@quinnemmett Produced by Willow Beck Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Take a nap you deserve it Advertise with us: importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors…
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