The Land I Trust
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The Land I Trust
The Land I Trust, an audio series by the Sierra Club, tells stories of special places under threat by dirty energy -- and how the transition to clean energy is benefiting people and the homes they hold dear. In our first series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the coal...
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Rebecca Kling on centering frontline communities to address the climate crisis: Season 4, Ep. 19
In the season finale, host Rebecca Kling reflects on how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts frontline communities and why these communities...
Audrey Schulman on moving from leaky gas pipes to renewable geothermal heating: Season 4, Ep. 18
In Massachusetts, decades-old gas infrastructure is leaking methane, a super pollutant that heats up the climate much faster than carbon. Audrey Schul...
DeeDee Belmares on building community power to retire a San Antonio coal plant: Season 4, Ep. 17
On the South Side of San Antonio, a majority-Latino community lives near a coal plant that accounts for half of the city's carbon emissions. DeeDee Be...
Laura Jacko on fighting the last coal plant in Pittsburgh: Season 4, Ep. 16
Steel mills and coal-fueled industry created a dirty past for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though the city has cleaned up its environmental act in the pa...
Bill Halter on the booming Arkansas solar industry: Season 4, Ep. 15
Bill Halter has worked in the White House, sat on boards of tech companies, and served as lieutenant governor of Arkansas. In all these pursuits, he s...
Christopher Basaldú on protecting Indigenous cultural sites: Season 4, Ep. 14
Christopher Basaldú lives in Brownsville, Texas, where the oil and gas industries dominate. But to Christopher, the danger of the status quo is clear....
Bekah Hinojosa on defending the Gulf Coast from fossil fuel destruction in Brownsville, Texas: Season 4, Ep. 13
Flare stacks, refineries and other signs of extractive industry have taken over much of the Gulf Coast of South Texas. But one pristine stretch of the...
Pat Gonzales Rogers on Indigenous land management in Bears Ears National Monument: Season 4, Ep. 12
Check out Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition at bearsearscoalition.org or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Mary Lyn Stoll on teaching climate ethics in the heart of coal country: Season 4, Ep. 11
For Mary Lyn Stoll, the damaging effects of dirty energy and injustices caused by climate change are abundantly clear. But as a professor of ethics in...
Víctor Guzmán habla sobre cómo las comunidades en Puerto Rico se están organizando para combatir la contaminación del carbón: Volumen 4, Capítulo. 10
Víctor Guzmán nunca esperó encontrarse esposado. Siendo padre y miembro vocal de la comunidad de Salinas en Puerto Rico, Víctor quiso una comunidad se...
Víctor Guzmán on communities organizing to end coal pollution in Puerto Rico (English): Season 4, Ep. 10
Víctor Guzmán never expected to find himself in handcuffs. As a father and vocal community member of Salinas, Puerto Rico, Víctor wanted a safe and he...
Russ Schiermeier on installing solar for a more efficient farm in Bruneau, Idaho: Season 4, Ep. 9
Russell Schiermeier runs an 800-acre farm in Bruneau, Idaho. Like much of Idaho, Russ’s farm is in a very arid climate, so irrigation is a must. As a...
Teri Albright on pipeline driller Kinder Morgan poisoning her water supply: Season 4, Ep. 8
Read more here: Kinder Morgan sued over drilling fluid spill in Blanco County
Lucy Molina on local leadership putting profit over people in Commerce City, Colorado: Season 4, Ep. 7
Lucy Molina was a born fighter. Her grandmother, father and mother all marched for the rights of migrant farm workers alongside Dolores Huerta and Ces...
Joe Womack on defending Africatown, Alabama against big polluters: Season 4, Ep. 6
Just a few miles from downtown Mobile, Alabama, Africatown has a deep history that informs its name. It's home to descendants of enslaved people who w...
Lucia Urreta on organizing a climate strike after Tropical Storm Imelda: Season 4, Ep. 5
Lucia Urreta is a junior in high school from Houston. Growing up on the Gulf Coast, she was used to big storms and hurricanes. But she noticed they we...
Will Behm on growing up and making a future near a Pennsylvania coal plant: Season 4, Ep. 4
Will Behm grew up in woodsy southwestern Pennsylvania where he hiked, camped, and caught crawfish in a local creek. Now the local coal plant is threat...
Pastor Paul Wilson on defeating a fracked gas compressor station along the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Season 4, Ep. 3
Paul Wilson is the pastor of the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Union Hill, Virginia a small, historically Black community. When he found ou...
Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation on resisting the Dakota Access Pipeline: Season 4, Ep. 2
Casey Camp-Horinek is a member of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and a longtime Native rights and environmental activist. She remembers what it was like...
Kyra Brown on fighting environmental injustice: Season 4, Ep. 1
In North Minneapolis, the city’s largest Black neighborhood, a garbage incinerator burns nearly half the county’s waste to generate energy for corpora...
Coming Soon: Season 4 of The Land I Trust
The new season of The Land I Trust, Sierra Club's stories podcast, launches on Aug. 24 with the first episode featuring storyteller Kyra Brown. Kyra B...
No Place Like Home: Interbeing, Zen Meditation, & the Next Right Thing with Dr. Kritee Kanko
Do you know about No Place Like Home, the podcast that gets to the heart of climate change? We thought listeners of The Land I Trust and The Overstory...
My Story: Josh Usdan on youth climate activism
Josh Usdan [pronouns they/them/theirs] is a 17-year-old high school student from Nashville, Tennessee. Josh is also a climate activist and a member of...
My Story: Lewis Reed on St. Louis' movement toward 100 percent clean energy
St. Louis, Missouri, is home to the headquarters of coal companies, but it’s also about to become a lot more solar friendly. A couple years ago St. Lo...
My Story: Bob Pashos on reckoning with climate change
Bob Pashos is from St. Louis, Missouri. For him, reckoning with climate change meant he had to grieve for what we’ve already lost, and for what it’s t...
S3, Ep. 4: The Future
In the season finale, stories from a man whose faith was tested by climate change, a city going to 100% clean energy, and a high school activist in Na...
My Story: Casey Weinstein on why air quality is a very personal issue
Casey Weinstein probably is the most public environmentalist in Northeast Ohio, where he lives. In 2018, he ran for office and flipped a seat by 51 pe...
My Story: Pete Lenzen on coal-burning Duke Energy's wrongheaded rate increase
Pete Lenzen lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where Duke Energy operates. When Pete heard that coal-burning Duke Energy proposed a rate increase, this go...
S3, Ep. 3: Terrific Haute
Shikha Bhattacharya lives in Terre Haute, Indiana. Some people call it Terrible Haute. In this episode, see how Shikha wants to change that, by helpin...
My Story: Girl Scout Troop 6195 of Pleasant Plains, Illinois, on protecting the Monarch Butterfly & other environmental issues
In Pleasant Plains, Illinois, Girl Scout Troop 6195 does more than just sell cookies. They speak up and act on environmental issues. For them, environ...
My Story: Charles Hua of Madison, Wisconsin on how he approaches climate change
To Charles Hua, Madison, Wisconsin, is more than dairy. It’s his hometown and the land has shaped who he is as a person, and how he approaches the iss...
My Story: The Michna family of Caledonia, Wisconsin
The Michna family has lived near Caledonia, Wisconsin since the 1800s. In fact, there are now 11 Michna siblings living on Michna Road. But they have...
S3, Ep. 2: Coal-edonia
The 11 siblings of the Michna family grew up on Michna Road in Wisconsin where nearly all of them still live—despite the coal plant that they have as...
My Story: Kate Madigan on grassroots climate action through clean energy
Kate Madigan is the director of the Michigan Climate Action Network, which organizes grassroots climate action. For her, the next steps to address cli...
My Story: Jim Nugent on cherry farming in the era of climate change
Some call Traverse City, Michigan, the Cherry Capital of the world. It produces nearly 75 percent of the country’s tart cherries, and about a fifth of...
My Story: Theresa Landrum on living in Michigan's most polluted zip code
Theresa Landrum has lived in Southwest Detroit her whole life. Her zip code is 48217, which is infamous for being the most polluted zip code in the st...
S3, Ep. 1: Zip Code 48217
Season 3 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Midwestern US who share their experiences of climate change, the impacts of dirty...
The Overstory: Coming Soon
Coming soon: a new podcast from Sierra Club. The Overstory brings listeners some of the most surprising, heartfelt, and provocative stories from acros...
S2, Ep.4: Earth
Season 2 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Western US who share their experiences in harvesting, protecting, and living with...
S 2 Ep. 3: Wind
Season 2 of the Land I Trust brings you storytellers from across the Western US who share their experiences in harvesting, protecting, and living with...