EP 12: LIVE from New York Climate Week -- The Symbiocene

Coming to you LIVE from New York Climate Week, we’re bringing you a very special episode of Supersede. Partnering with our friends Queer Brown Vegan (Isaias Hernandez) and Nowadays on Earth (Kalpana Arias), Seeding Sovereignty co-hosted The Symbiocene, a beautiful evening and panel discussion with Willow Defabaugh (Co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of Atmos), Isais Hernandez (Founder or Queer Brown Vegan) and Wawa Gatheru (Founder of Black Girl Environmentalist) moderated by Kalpana Arias of Nowadays on Earth. 

We’re lucky to join forces with the amazing folks at TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious, the UK’s top climate podcast. Head over to Climate Curious to listen to more casual conversations with the panelists, and don’t forget to subscribe to CC and Supersede! 

This discussion dives deep into emergence amidst climate breakdown. What does it mean to live at the end of the world as we know it, at the verge of emergence? Touching on the significance of decay, the conversation roots hope in the futures that might grow from the ecologies of collapse.  

The term ‘symbiocene’ was coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht; inspired by this term, we believe that we can rewrite stories of ecologies.

BIOS

• Isaias Hernandez is the founder of Queer Brown Vegan. He is a Gen Z environmental justice activist and educator from Los Angeles, CA. After growing up in a community that faced environmental injustice, he found his purpose in creating accessible environmental education with a focus on social justice issues.
• Wawa Gatheru is the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. Wawa Gatheru is a GenZ climate activist, speaker, and founder passionate about cultivating a climate movement that is made in the image of all of us
• Willow Defebaugh is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Atmos, a nonprofit biannual magazine and digital platform curated by a global ecosystem of artists, activists, and writers devoted to ecological and social justice, creative storytelling, and re-enchantment with the natural world. She writes a weekly newsletter called The Overview which offers a holistic look at life on Earth through the lens of deep ecology.
• Kalpana Arias is the founder of Nowadays On Earth. Kalpana Arias is a technologist, urban gardener, climate activist and food growing educator, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays On Earth, a social enterprise advocating for contact with nature in the digital age.

Special thanks:

• Danielle at Rosa New York for providing us with an incredibly special space to hold this event
• Drew Wesley for live engineering all audio of the evening
• Josie and the rest of the Climate Curious team for the collaboration