Carrie Saxifrage, Tianna Hope, and Kiera Tsakonas joined host Manda Aufochs Gillespie for the January 19th FolkU Friday session. An intergenerational conversation about the climate crisis, this episode touches on the importance of human connection, mitigation and adaptation, generational differences in needs and interpretations of environmental changes and response, and empowering environmental futures.
Continue reading Folk U: Intergenerational Perspectives on ClimateOn January 12th, FolkU Friday was guest-hosted by Sadhu Johnston, who facilitated a discussion about rural resilience and emergency response. Joined in the station by Kate Maddigan, Eli McKenty, and Rex Weyler, this is a fascinating conversation about the confluence of emergency management and ecological protection, natural disasters and climate change, and the ways government, community, neighbourhood, and individual all play significant roles in rural resilience.
Continue reading Folk U: Housing, Emergency Management and Resilience
On Friday, January 5, Linda Solomon Wood joined Manda Aufochs Gillespie on Folk U Radio to talk about the state of the media today.
Solomon has been a professional journalist since the 1970s and founded the Vancouver Observer in 2009. As the bio on her website explains, this grew into a national publication:
Continue reading Folk U: Linda Solomon Talks about the state of the media todayWriter, journalist, ecologist, and Cortesian Rex Weyler joined us on December 15th to chat about truth and bias. We discussed media literacy, checking our own biases, and the intersection of media and global politics. Listen to this fascinating presentation and discussion on reading between the headlines.
Continue reading Rex Weyler Talks about truth and bias on Folk UDaniel Lindenberger, of Thaumazo and UBC’s Emerging Media Lab, joined us over Zoom on the December 1st FolkU Friday session to lead a fascinating presentation and discussion on artificial intelligence.
Listen to Daniel’s explanation of how AI works, different types of AI, and the benefits and challenges of an AI-informed future.
Continue reading Folk U: Daniel Lindenberger, from UBC’s Emerging Media Lab, talks about AI
