The Land I Trust

Series produced by Sierra Club

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The Land I Trust is a new audio series by the Sierra Club that brings powerful stories about special places into your home. In our first series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the coal that is fouling their air and water, the dirty energy projects they're fighting in their backyards, and a shared vision for a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive.

The Land I Trust is a new audio series by the Sierra Club that brings powerful stories about special places into your home. In our first series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the coal that is fouling their air and water, the dirty energy projects they're fighting in their backyards, and a shared vision for a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive.

The project includes 10 powerful, short first-person stories, and a special five-episode narrated podcast series that will transport listeners to the places across the South where energy choices are having a profound impact on our land, our water and our communities. Stories were collected from Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida.

We talked to climate refugees, farming families, people building the clean energy economy, Southerners affected by coal ash and much more.

Radio stations are welcome to use the first-person stories about climate change, or run the full episodes as well.
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The Land I Trust is a new audio series by the Sierra Club that brings powerful stories about special places into your home. In our first series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the coal that is fouling their air and water, the dirty energy projects they're fighting in their backyards, and a shared vision for a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. The project includes 10 powerful, short first-person stories, and a special five-episode narrated podcast series that will transport listeners to the places across the South where energy choices are having a profound impact on our land, our water and our communities. Stories were collected from Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. We talked... Show full description


10 Pieces

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Rick Cauley has been playing & coaching football since he was four years old. He now teaches history and coaches football at Satsuma High School in...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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Rodney Lyons has lived in the fishing community of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, for generations. A former fisherman, he now runs a seafood business. H...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
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Representative Amy Mercado and Senator Victor Manuel Torres, Jr, are the first father-daughter Latino pair to serve in Florida’s government. Here,...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
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Susan Glickman was born in Tampa, Florida, and has been working to fight climate change since the 1990s. Here, she talks about trying to get Flori...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
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Blair Campbell’s land in Randolph County, West Virginia, has been in her family for generations. But the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline could cu...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:56
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Adrienne Kennedy was born in Robeson County, North Carolina. She moved away when she was young, but returned home as an adult. She now runs the See...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
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Jorden Revels is a 19-year-old activist and member of the Lumbee Nation in North Carolina. Here, he paddles a canoe along the Lumber River—which so...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26
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Ruby and John Laury live in Buckingham County, Virginia, in Union Hill—a predominantly African-American community where Dominion Energy plans to bu...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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Lifelong North Carolina resident Johnny Gurley recently found out that his drinking water was contaminated by coal ash—a coal power byproduct, stor...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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Steve Benjamin is the mayor of Columbia, South Carolina. Here, he talks about the connection between climate change and his effort to make his city...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:19