6.11: Environmental Justice: What in the World are Carbon Credits?
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
“Carbon credit” is a trendy term you might have heard being used by businesses, government officials and the news media, but what exactly is it?
We’re answering that in this week’s episode, which is the first in our Summer School series!
Summer School is a brand-new series where I’m sharing quick tips and tidbits for you to be thinking about this summer when it comes to anti-racism. Some of the tips will be for grown-ups and some will be for kids, but all of them will leave you with more information in your anti-racism toolbelt.
This episode will help you know more about environmental justice and how you can make a difference. It’s a clip from our Policy Party we had a few months ago with Joye Braun of the Indigenous Environmental Network. Joye is the real deal as a community organizer and activist who is on the frontlines of the fight for environmental justice, and her insight is so valuable.
To learn more about what a Policy Party is and to access a full replay of our conversation with Joye Braun, visit firstnamebasis.org/policyparty, and keep tuning in over the next month for more helpful Summer School tidbits.
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Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
First Name Basis Policy Party with Joye Braun, full replay available for purchase at firstnamebasis.org/policyparty
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 11. |
| 0:05.6 | Environmental Justice. What in the world are carbon credits? |
| 0:13.7 | Hello, First Name Basis, fam, and welcome to Summer School. Summer School is a series where I will share tips and tidbits that you can be thinking |
| 0:23.5 | about this summer when it comes to anti-racism. I know that summer is so busy and so fun and I want you |
| 0:31.6 | to have everything you need to continue along your anti-racist journey this summer. So some of these tips will be for you, the grown-ups, |
| 0:40.0 | and some of them will be for your kiddos, |
| 0:42.8 | for your students, for any of the children in your life |
| 0:45.2 | that you want to talk to about race, racism, and anti-racism. |
| 0:49.9 | So let's get our summer on and learn together in summer school. |
| 1:02.4 | Thank you. So let's get our summer on and learn together in summer school. Hello, first name basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. Welcome to our very first episode of summer school. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm super excited for this new series that |
| 1:11.7 | we have to share with you. Today, we are talking about environmental justice, and we are going to be |
| 1:17.3 | discussing carbon credits. Now, what you're going to hear is actually a little clip that we have taken |
| 1:24.3 | from one of our policy parties. So every other month, we're taking a break |
| 1:30.3 | for the summer because I am moving across the country, but we will start up again in the fall. |
| 1:35.4 | And every other month, we have a policy party. So we will invite an expert from the community |
| 1:41.4 | to come and share with us and teach us all about the policies that are |
| 1:45.7 | directly affecting the communities that we want to uplift and be in solidarity with. |
| 1:52.1 | So a couple of months ago, we had an environmental justice policy party, and we had a woman |
| 1:57.6 | named Joy Braun join us. She is from the Indigenous Environmental Network, |
| 2:03.3 | and she is a community organizer, an activist. She has been on the front lines of so many different, |
| 2:09.3 | really important environmental justice issues. And when we were talking to her, she was talking |
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