Turning Glass Bottles into Coastal Wetlands
For this first episode I traveled out to South Louisiana to meet up with Franziska Trautmann, Co-Founder and CEO of Glass Half Full.
For this first episode I traveled out to South Louisiana to meet up with Franziska Trautmann, Co-Founder and CEO of Glass Half Full.
We covered the origin story of Glass Half Full and how the facility processes the glass it brings in, what it’s like being leftists in the South, how we navigate issues within our respective communities, and some super lighthearted topics like climate change, ocean acidification and the coastal erosion crisis in the Mississippi River delta.
Show Intro: The History of the Term “Redneck”
Intro to 'Redneck Woke', my new show featuring conversations with rural and southern folk to shift perspectives and move the proverbial needle a lil’ bit closer to justice for working class people and the environment.
The term “redneck” has a complicated history to say the least. So before we travel through the backwoods, borderlands, bayous, and boonies together on this show, I wanna give y’all the short version of that history.