Rise St. James members Sharon and Shamell Lavigne talk with host Gloria Riviera about the work that comes after Discarded. 

This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.

CREDITS

Discarded is a Lemonada original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Natasha Jacobs and Ivan Kuraev are our engineers. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 

To learn more and take action, go to only.one/discarded.

Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.

There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like Gloria’s conversation with Jane Patton over delicious Cafe du Monde beignets in New Orleans. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.

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To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

<a href="https://risestjames.org/">Rise St. James</a> members Sharon and Shamell Lavigne talk with host Gloria Riviera about the work that comes after Discarded. 
This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.
CREDITS
Discarded is a Lemonada original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Natasha Jacobs and Ivan Kuraev are our engineers. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 
To learn more and take action, go to <a href="https://only.one/pages/discarded">only.one/discarded</a>.
Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like Gloria’s conversation with Jane Patton over delicious Cafe du Monde beignets in New Orleans. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.
Join My Lemonada today for free and chat with your favorite hosts, other listeners, and our staff. You'll also get exclusive audio and video content and invites to live and virtual events before anyone else. Go to <a href="https://lemonadamedia.com/my-lemonada/signup/">bit.ly/mylemonada</a> to join a community who wants to make life suck less, together.
Go to <a href="https://lemonadamedia.com/">lemonadamedia.com</a> for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series.
To follow along with a transcript, go to <a href="https://lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded/">lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded</a> shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

This is the story of a modern-day Erin Brockovich, set on the Mississippi River in an area known as “Cancer Alley." Her name is Sharon Lavigne, her community is St. James Parish in Louisiana, and her fight is to keep out one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.

In this investigative four-part series, hosted by Emmy award-winning journalist Gloria Riviera, we discover how our plastic world came to be. Because plastic is everywhere - it has advanced our world, but it has damaged our environment and our health. So what do we do? We look at what’s next for all of us, and how we can learn from communities like St. James to make a difference in our own backyards.

This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.

This is the story of a modern-day Erin Brockovich, set on the Mississippi River in an area known as “Cancer Alley." Her name is Sharon Lavigne, her community is St. James Parish in Louisiana, and her fight is to keep out one of the largest plastic manufacturing companies in the world.
In this investigative four-part series, hosted by Emmy award-winning journalist Gloria Riviera, we discover how our plastic world came to be. Because plastic is everywhere - it has advanced our world, but it has damaged our environment and our health. So what do we do? We look at what’s next for all of us, and how we can learn from communities like St. James to make a difference in our own backyards.
This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.

Discarded

Bonus: What’s Next For Sharon?

We're sharing an episode from a podcast we enjoy called The Carbon Copy. In this episode, you’ll learn about the great electrician shortage. To decarbonize the economy, we need to electrify everything. That means installing millions of heat pumps, EV chargers, electric water heaters and rooftop solar panels.

But there’s one big problem: finding enough electricians to make it happen. Electricians across the country are flooded with work — and just as demand is skyrocketing, many in the field are nearing retirement age.

This week, in a special collaboration with Grist, reporter Emily Pontecorvo discusses where to find all the electricians we need to electrify everything and how we can train enough new entrants to the field to meet our climate goal. Read Emily’s feature article.

We're sharing an episode from a podcast we enjoy called The Carbon Copy. In this episode, you’ll learn about the great electrician shortage. To decarbonize the economy, we need to electrify everything. That means installing millions of heat pumps, EV chargers, electric water heaters and rooftop solar panels.
But there’s one big problem: finding enough electricians to make it happen. Electricians across the country are flooded with work — and just as demand is skyrocketing, many in the field are nearing retirement age.
This week, in a special collaboration with <a href="https://grist.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://grist.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1678550389900000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ViRb4oayEzpD5Nyh7mwsJ">Grist</a>, reporter Emily Pontecorvo discusses where to find all the electricians we need to electrify everything and how we can train enough new entrants to the field to meet our climate goal. <a href="https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/we-need-a-lot-more-electricians-if-were-going-to-electrify-everything" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/we-need-a-lot-more-electricians-if-were-going-to-electrify-everything&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1678550389901000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Xpwd9UYHboLJMlilDZvE4">Read Emily’s feature article.</a>

Introducing The Carbon Copy: The Great Electrician Shortage

Hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic pellets fill the docks and bays of the Mississippi River. There are people who paddle out every morning to collect them, removing what they can as pellets continue to flood the water. But the problem starts much closer to home. Look around your house. See all the plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic everything? We are all at fault – and, like Sharon Lavigne, we all have the power to make a change. In this episode, we’ll talk to politicians, scientists, and journalists who teach us how. 

This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.

SHOW NOTES

Nurdle Patrol

Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act

Attorney General Bonta Demands Manufacturers of Plastic Bags Substantiate Recyclability Claims

CREDITS

Discarded is a Lemonada Media original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Mix and sound design by Natasha Jacobs with additional mixing by Ivan Kuraev. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 

To learn more and take action, go to only.one/discarded.

Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.

You can also get premium content and behind the scenes material by subscribing to Lemonada Premium on Apple Podcasts.

There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like our conversation with California Attorney General Rob Bonta about holding plastic companies environmentally accountable. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.

To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

Hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic pellets fill the docks and bays of the Mississippi River. There are people who paddle out every morning to collect them, removing what they can as pellets continue to flood the water. But the problem starts much closer to home. Look around your house. See all the plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic everything? We are all at fault – and, like Sharon Lavigne, we all have the power to make a change. In this episode, we’ll talk to politicians, scientists, and journalists who teach us how. 
This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.
SHOW NOTES
<a href="https://nurdlepatrol.org/">Nurdle Patrol</a>
<a href="https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/pollution-act/">Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act</a>
<a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-demands-manufacturers-plastic-bags-substantiate">Attorney General Bonta Demands Manufacturers of Plastic Bags Substantiate Recyclability Claims</a>
CREDITS
Discarded is a Lemonada Media original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Mix and sound design by Natasha Jacobs with additional mixing by Ivan Kuraev. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 
To learn more and take action, go to only.one/discarded.
Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
You can also get premium content and behind the scenes material by subscribing to Lemonada Premium on Apple Podcasts.
There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like our conversation with California Attorney General Rob Bonta about holding plastic companies environmentally accountable. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.
To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

Fighting Back

The invention of plastic changed the way we live — and now we’re hooked. We travel from Louisiana, where plastic is born, to New Jersey, where plastic goes to die… or live again. We explore greenwashing, wish-cycling, and our collective culpability as we try to understand how we became so reliant on plastic — despite knowing its harm to the earth and the communities closely impacted. 

This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.



SHOW NOTES

Beyond Plastics

Ironbound Community Corporation

The Recycling Myth: Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure



CREDITS

Discarded is a Lemonada Media original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Mix and sound design by Natasha Jacobs with additional mixing by Ivan Kuraev. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 

To learn more and take action, go to only.one/discarded.

Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.

There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like a longer cut of our conversation with JV Valladolid about environmental activism in Ironbound, New Jersey. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.

Want to become a Lemonada superfan? Join us at joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan.  

Go to lemonadamedia.com for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series.

To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

The invention of plastic changed the way we live — and now we’re hooked. We travel from Louisiana, where plastic is born, to New Jersey, where plastic goes to die… or live again. We explore greenwashing, wish-cycling, and our collective culpability as we try to understand how we became so reliant on plastic — despite knowing its harm to the earth and the communities closely impacted. 
This series is presented in partnership with Only One, the action platform for the planet. Only One is on a mission to restore ocean health and tackle the climate crisis in this generation — with your help. Visit only.one to learn more and get involved.
 
SHOW NOTES
<a href="https://www.beyondplastics.org/">Beyond Plastics</a>
<a href="https://ironboundcc.org/">Ironbound Community Corporation</a>
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/environment-plastic-oil-recycling-idINL8N2P46F0">The Recycling Myth: Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure</a>
                                                       
CREDITS
Discarded is a Lemonada Media original, presented by Only One. Gloria Riviera is our host. Our producers are Alie Kilts, Alexa Lim, and Gloria Riviera. Tess Novotny is our associate producer. Chrystal Genesis is our supervising producer. Jackie Danziger is our vice president of narrative content. Mix and sound design by Natasha Jacobs with additional mixing by Ivan Kuraev. Music is by Hannis Brown. Naomi Barr is our fact checker. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittels Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. 
To learn more and take action, go to <a href="only.one/discarded">only.one/discarded</a>.
Follow Gloria on Twitter at @griviera. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.
There’s more Discarded with Lemonada Premium. Subscribers get exclusive access to bonus content, like a longer cut of our conversation with JV Valladolid about environmental activism in Ironbound, New Jersey. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts.
Want to become a Lemonada superfan? Join us at <a href="https://joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan">joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan</a>.  
Go to <a href="http://www.lemonadamedia.com">lemonadamedia.com</a> for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series.
To follow along with a transcript, go to lemonadamedia.com/show/Discarded shortly after the air date. Follow Discarded wherever you get your podcasts or listen ad-free on Amazon Music with your Prime Membership.

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