174. These are Powerful Times
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism!
In this episode, co-host Christiana Figueres is joined by an all-female cast. You’ll hear from climate activist Abigael (Abbie) Kima from Kenya about her recent visit with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and Isabel Cavelier, Colombian climate activist and recent recipient of the prestigious Climate Breakthrough Award, an initiative of the Climate Breakthrough Project.
We also feature music from the British indie rock duo, Penelope Isles.
First, Abbie Kima brings Christiana up to date with her podcast, the Hali Hewa Podcast一“Hali ya Hewa” is Swahili for “climate”一covering indigenous people, women, and climate emergencies from the African perspective. Kima also recounts her extraordinary (collective) meeting with the Dalai Lama at the Mind & Life Institute in Dharamsala. She discusses his teachings about how oneness across all people is innately linked to global climate action.
Next, Christiana chats with Isabel Cavelier about her fascinating climate journey. Isabel touches on her early work helping develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs一the United Nations framework for global peace and prosperity一her climate action organization Transforma, and her work in the climate movement today. They also touch on Cavelier’s Climate Breakthrough Award, one of the field's most distinguished honors.
Finally, we close the episode with indie rock band Penelope Isles's new release, “Underwater Record Store.”
See you next week!
NOTES AND RESOURCES
To learn more about our planet’s climate emergency and how you can transform outrage into optimistic action subscribe to the podcast here.
Shoutout to our very own Freya Newman on her research being published in Nature Communications!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism, I'm Cristiana Figuetis and today we have something |
| 0:19.0 | very special for you. |
| 0:20.7 | Much as we love Tom and Paul and you know that we do, today we have an all-female cast. |
| 0:28.5 | I speak to climate activist Abigail Kima from Kenya about her recent visit with the |
| 0:33.8 | Dalai Lama and to Isabel Cavalier, climate activist from Colombia about her prestigious |
| 0:41.4 | climate breakthrough award and we have music from Penelope Isles. |
| 0:46.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:53.2 | So today I have two fabulous women on the show, two different generations, two different |
| 1:01.9 | continents, both activists from the global south, one on the front lines of youth activism, |
| 1:10.6 | one with deep experience and multilateral policy development to accelerate action. |
| 1:17.0 | It is so exciting to have both of them here, both good friends and both doing truly inspirational |
| 1:25.9 | work. |
| 1:26.9 | But let's start with Abigail Kima Abby as we call her and our listeners will remember that |
| 1:34.4 | we had Abby here before way back in April. |
| 1:37.6 | So Abby, hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:42.1 | Thank you so much, it's lovely to be back and it's lovely to see you again. |
| 1:47.2 | So Abby, we had you as I said back in April here on the show and you were just on the verge |
| 1:55.0 | of launching your podcast, Halie Hewa. |
| 1:59.4 | I remember how nervous you were, how you asked a thousand different questions about how |
| 2:04.6 | a podcast is put together, not that we have figured that out yet. |
| 2:09.4 | But how, how inspiring it was to watch you doing a true startup, right? |
| 2:15.6 | You were right there at the start of moment of this fantastic podcast that seeks to provide |
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