Broken Ground
Southern Environmental Law Center
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S9 Christian Cooper on Birding for Your Soul
Walk out your front door, listen, and look. That’s the advice avid birder Christian Cooper gives to those wanting to take up his passion, birdwatching. Cooper is a lifelong birder, Emmy Award-winning…
S8E4 Jo and Joy Banner: Reclaiming Home
Jo and Joy Banner envision a time, not too distant from now, when travelers visiting their small town along the Mississippi River don’t gawk at the concentration of polluting petrochemical plants…
S8E3 Aya Shabu: Highway Through the Heart
On her group walking tours around Durham’s Hayti District, performance artist Aya Shabu brings Black history to life, transporting visitors back to Hayti in its heyday. Once known as a Black Wall…
S8E2 Michelle Lanier: What the Land Witnessed
A “keeper of memory” and Director of the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites, Michelle Lanier has built a career on understanding layers of history underlying our Southern landscapes, not…
S8E1 Latria Graham: The Roots of Environmental Injustices
Writer Latria Graham helps us unearth the surprising ways in which long-ago plantations and modern environmental injustices are intertwined in the South. From some of the earliest Freedmen’s…
S8 Season 8: Plantations to Pollution
On a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were these things built where they are, and who lives next door? Answering those questions reveals…
S7E6 Rural Justice: The Power of Coalitions
This season of Broken Ground we spend time in the rural South with the people who call it home. Often celebrated for the quiet life close to nature, and a region that defines many perceptions of the…
S7E5 The Landfill Next Door
We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about where our trash ends up but, when you live next door to a landfill, you don’t have that luxury. The burning smell of chemicals, the flocks of circling…
S7E4 After the River Rises
"Inland flooding" was a phrase that often needed explanation. Now all you need to say is "Helene". The storm that ravaged Appalachia was a stark reminder of a phenomenon that’s becoming more and more…
S7E3 The Wood Pellet Paradox
How can a power source that creates more climate warming emissions than coal be called renewable? This is the paradox of wood pellets, a type of biomass being burned at industrial scale to produce…
S7E2 The Fishers' Right To Know
Is that fresh-caught fish safe to eat? In too many rivers across the rural South, the answer is a hard 'no.' Failing sewage systems, agricultural runoff, and politically powerful polluters have all…
S7E1 The Strip Mine and The Swamp
To call the Okefenokee swamp a treasure is to undersell just how special this watery world is. Tucked into the rural southeast corner of Georgia, this 438,000-acre swamp is one of the most…
S7 Jonathan Vigliotti on Connecting the Climate Dots
CBS News journalist and author Jonathan Vigliotti joins Broken Ground host Leanna First-Arai to dig into his on-the-ground coverage of breaking climate stories across rural America, particularly in…
S6E4 Cornell Watson on Justice Through Photography
Photographer Cornell Watson's images recognize the camera can be a tool for connection, and action. Whether its pollution from hog farms, efforts to gut Black neighborhoods, or racism at the state’s…
S6E3 Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo on Bridging Language Barriers
Whether its natural disasters or shifting political winds, Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo make sure Spanish-speakers in North Carolina have access to it. Ensuring that access fuels their…
S6E2 Cameron Oglesby on Collecting Community Stories
Listen to environmental journalist Cameron Oglesby discuss how highlighting Black joy and centering community narratives in her writing drives action. Support the show
S6E1 Lyndsey Gilpin and Tajah McQueen on Empowering Community Reporters
Hear what spurred the founding of Southerly, an online publication focused on environmental justice, and how it evolved from more traditional reporting to an outlet focused on putting reporters’…
S6 Season 6 Trailer: Meet Journalists Reimagining Environmental News
As more and more news outlets close, writers, editors, and photographers across the South are reconsidering how communities stay informed. This season host Leanna First-Arai talks with the new…
S5 Season 5 Trailer: How Memphis Beat The Odds To Stop A Pipeline
Hear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you can take back to your own community. Join us this…
S5E7 Lesson 7: Do It Again
An announcement late on the Friday of a holiday weekend is a classic move. And in the case of the Byhalia Pipeline it is an end so abrupt many don’t believe it. But it’s true. What quickly becomes…
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Broken Ground has published 48 episodes since April 2019, covering topics in Earth Sciences, Government.
Broken Ground is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 29m.
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