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How to Save a Planet

The Tribe that's Moving Earth (and Water) to Solve the Climate Crisis

How to Save a Planet

Gimlet

Science, News, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Yurok tribe is reversing centuries of ecological damage to their land and making it more resilient to climate change by marrying two systems that might seem contradictory: indigenous land management practices and modern Western economics. In this episode we talk to Yurok Tribe Vice-Chairman Frankie Myers about how the Tribe recovered stolen land with the help of a carbon offset program, the creative ways they're bringing the salmon back, and the role beavers play in the ecosystem. This episode originally aired in February of 2021. Guest: Frankie Myers Calls to Action Check out Save California Salmon and their advocacy work for Northern California’s salmon and fish dependent people. Check out the Klamath River Renewal Corporation to learn more about the dam removals and restoration efforts on the Klamath River. Look up your address on native-land.ca to find out what land you live on, and learn more about how and why you can use land acknowledgements to insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights into everyday life. If you own land you can donate, contact a local tribe to find out how you can donate land to them. Check out and support the work of Indigenous organizations like the NDN Collective and their #landback campaign, the Native American Land Conservancy, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Indigenous Climate Action. Study the history of Indigenous people – read Custer Died for Your Sins, The Indian Reorganization Act, and other books by Vine Deloria, Jr., and read A Brief History of American Indian Military Service. If you take an action we recommend in one of our episodes, do us a favor and tell us about it! We’d love to hear how it went and what it felt like. Record a short voice memo on your phone and send it to us via our Listener Mail Form. We might use it in an upcoming episode. Check out our Calls to Action archive here for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Felix Poon. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz and Anna Ladd. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, how to save a planet listeners.

0:02.8

This week we're bringing you an encore episode that we first aired in February of 2021,

0:08.0

which means for those of you who've been listening from the start to this podcast and

0:11.5

have fond memories of hearing the smart takes and funny jokes of my former co-host, Dr.

0:17.0

Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson, you're going to get to hear her voice.

0:20.7

This is one we did together.

0:24.5

This is how to save a planet.

0:25.7

I'm Dr. Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson.

0:28.1

And I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the podcast about what we need to do to address the climate

0:33.3

crisis and how we make those things happen.

0:47.0

In September of 2019, a group of men and women stood on a stage in the Town Hall Theater

0:53.0

in Midtown Manhattan.

0:55.3

Tooks up the prize.

0:57.6

Our winners in new economy, the Euroke tribe from the Klamath River.

1:05.3

Do you remember getting that award?

1:11.8

Yeah, absolutely, I remember getting that award, and it was a lot of hard work.

1:20.1

This is Frankie Myers, the vice chairman of the Euroke tribe, and the awarding question

1:25.4

was the equator prize, which is this prize given out by the UN Development Program to

1:30.6

recognize sustainable development solutions.

1:33.7

The tribe received the award in 2019 for their use of innovative solutions to tackle climate

1:39.1

change and their work to undo some of the ecological damage that had been done to the

1:43.7

land over the last two centuries.

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