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Sustainable fashion and the art of care 🧶, with Cameron Russell

1 week ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

This episode, I’m talking sustainable fashion and the simple joys of care and repair with supermodel, author, activist, and friend Cameron Russell. Also: why the stats on climate impacts of fashion are super sketchy. If you haven’t heard of Cameron, chances are you’ve seen her. As a model, she’s appeared on many magazine covers for Vogue and Elle, and on runways and billboards for brands like Prada, Calvin Klein, and Victoria’s Secret. But Cameron’s not only recognized for her modeling.
How What We Watch Changes Our World 📺, with Carri Twigg

2 weeks ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Greetings, Earthlings! 🌏 Welcome to Season 2 of the What If We Get It Right? podcast. I have to say getting it right feels more possible today than it did a few days ago, after millions of Americans hit the streets this weekend to stand up for democracy, health care, reproductive rights, national parks, and each other. 💗 A beautiful sight to behold.
Podcast season 2 coming in hot in April 🎙️🔥

3 weeks ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

When we started this little show, opportunistically recording the conversations we were having across the country, I wasn’t thinking about a life for this project beyond the What If We Get It Right? book tour. But now really does not seem like the time to stop having conversations about building the future we want. So...🥁🥁🥁 Season 2! Get ready: Follow/review (all the stars!🌟) wherever you get your podcasts. We’ll still be focused on my favorite HUGE question — What if we get it right?
Playing the Long Game on Policy Change 🩵, with Jean Flemma

4 weeks ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Realizing I haven’t said this enough: You can listen wherever you get your podcasts — Apple,Spotify, etc. Subscribe/follow/review (all the stars!) so you’ll be all ready for... 🥁🥁🥁 season 2!My guest this episode is The Jean Flemma. Jean spent over two decades working on Capitol Hill as staff to members of Congress, making magic behind the scenes over and over again. She is an absolute wizard of ocean and climate policy and the politics of achieving policy change.
Trump to Americans: F*ck Clean Air and Clean Water and Clean Energy 🥸

1 month ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

In case you missed it, a roundup up of climate and environment horrors from the first 2 months of this Trump/Republican administration. 😵‍💫 Yeah, it's a downer, but it's important to know what's going on. Important: A lot of this is not final. It will be litigated in the courts. Stay tuned... Keep speaking up! Keep pushing your members of Congress! It's making a difference. And let me know if you find this helpful. I’m considering doing these roundups periodically.
Where my head is at đ«

1 month ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Last month I had a chat with Eva Crouse of Worth Magazine. It was my first interview in this new Trump/Republican era. Eva got me to organize my thoughts (fury) into words, so hereâs a glimpse of where my head is at. I never really thought about a career in a formal sense. When I thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was more like, âWhat impact do I want to have?â And one of the things I cared so much about, even as a little kid, was nature.
On making the world softer and safer ❤️‍🩹, with Rhiana Gunn-Wright

1 month ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

In the last few months, the term “Green New Deal” has been popping up a lot again. And it’s the Trump administration bringing it up — as a boogeyman, as a foil for everything his crew fears about accelerating the clean energy transition. So, as the Environmental Protection Agency is being torn apart, I thought it would be a good time to discuss: What actually is the Green New Deal? How far have we gotten on implementing the concepts it includes? And why do those ideas still matter?
For the love of NOAAš©µ and EPAš

2 months ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Happy Valentineās Day to the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I adore them. And they donāt get nearly the love they deserve. Do you love advance notice before hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, blizzards, and tsunamis strike? Then you, too, love NOAA. š©µDo you love breathing clean air, and drinking clean water, and not getting poisoned by toxins? Then you, too, love EPA. šHow about nautical charts and tide predictions?
WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?

2 months ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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Episode 4: Love politics 💛 with Bill McKibben and Abigail Dillen

2 months ago | ayanaelizabeth.substack.com | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

I designed this book tour to travel to all the magnificent people featured in What If We Get It Right?Because I knew there would be sparkling conversations, we recorded them so those not in the room could also feel the sparks. ✨For the next few weeks, we’ll be bringing you two podcast episodes a week. Want to serve them up while they’re hot and fresh! And then the pace will ebb.