art and sustainability, leadership and climate emergency 

Season 1 

What does it mean to be creative facilitators in the age of climate change in the midst of a disaster? Some learnings: self-care is community care, good solutions scale up and the need to work with those who have been disproportionately targeted.Em Piro, Creative Climate Leadership USA, March, 2020(episode 10 of 10 in Creative Climate Leadership USA Series)Creative Climate Leadership USA  was developed by Julie’s Bicycle, an international  leader in arts, culture and climate change based in London (led by Alison Tickell) and brought together 25 arts and culture leaders from the US and Canada to Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona from March 8-14, 2020 thanks to a collaboration of EcoArts Connections, the University of Arizona and the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence  (CEUCE) based at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Em Piro has been called a change agent, disruptor, artist, counselor, sparkplug, + community architect.Her practice is in performance, urbanism, futurism, + environmental economics.She is currently rooted in Seattle + St Louis, with tendrils in Toronto, Denver, and on the road.She’s ‘arted’ + ideated across Turtle Island (US/Canada), South America, Europe/Scandanavia, UK + in the expansive virtual landscape.Her work’s been highlighted in NYTimes, CNN, Riverfront Times, a history textbook, + the Kickass Awards.
*END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners, I’ve been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It’s my way to give back.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and its francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. Your feedback is always welcome at claude@conscient.ca and/or on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Threads or BlueSky.I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. Claude SchryerLatest update on March 26, 2025 

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