Environmental & Social Justice with Xiye Bastida | EP.1 Climate Change Mini Series

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Welcome to episode one of the Climate Change Mini Series: Environmental & Social Justice with Xiye Bastida. Xiye Bastida is an 18 year old environmental activist who at the age of 15, became the president of her high school’s environmental club in New York City. Two years later, at 17 years old, she organized and spoke in front of 300,000 people for the September 20th Climate Strike in New York City. She has been invited to the United Nations Climate Summit along with Greta Thunberg, and spoke on a panel with Al Gore. She has also worked with Jaden Smith on a climate change and social justice podcast, and currently works with Levis for their new campaign “Second Hand” which takes back old jeans and up-cycles them. She is also the co - founder of Re-Earth Initiative, a non-profit focused on making climate change accessible to all and empowering the youth to make concrete climate action. Her Ted Talk released in 2020 recently hit over 1 million streams. Xiye Bastida is a leader in the environmental activist movement and is a truly amazing individual. 

Xiye is vocal and knowledgeable about climate change as a whole, and is best known for her work with the intersectionality of environmental justice and social justice. In this episode, Xiye and I discuss what climate change is and how it affects people, not just the planet. Along with focusing on the physical side of climate change, Xiye and I discuss the mental effects that Climate change has and how to prepare mentally to fight the climate crisis in a positive, healthy, and effective way. 

  The Climate Change Mini Series is brought to you by Guayaki Yerba Mate. Guayaki is making delicious Yerba Mate beverages in one of the most sustainable ways possible. Guayaki has over 300 privately owned electric vehicles for their distribution which are driven by ex convicts to give them a positive opportunity in the workforce. Through Guayaki’s regenerative business model, they are able to restore and regenerate ecosystems and communities across the world. Guayaki just in the beginning of December 2020, just achieved their goal of restoring and stewarding 202,836 Acres of the Atlantic rainforest, and through this work of restoring ecosystems, provided over 850 living wage jobs to the communities in the area.

The mission of the climate change mini series is by and large to help solve climate change. One way that we aim to help solve climate change is through the content of the three episodes in the series. The other main way is through highlighting the company and non-profit working with us to support the series. SeaTrees is a California based non-profit that believes the ocean has the power to reverse climate change and has the current goal of planting 1 million sea trees. SeaTrees fosters “blue-carbon” ecosystems such as mangrove trees planted in the ocean, which is 5-10 times more effective than a rainforest at removing carbon from the air. For the first 100 downloads on each episode of the climate change mini series, SeaTrees will plant one sea tree. So go download each episode now, and help sequester carbon from the atmosphere by planting a sea tree.