Courtney Bourgoin, courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org or (202) 495-3022
Oakland, CA— Today, Sierra Magazine released its third episode of The Overstory, a new podcast that offers the stories of changemakers, communicators, and people who see the world in a different light and from a new angle. The eight-minute features are first-hand, emotional accounts of our nation’s most urgent environmental issues. To listen to the first episodes of Overstory, click here. Select producers and story subjects available for interview.
Features on Overstory include:
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Bears Ears: Episode One takes listeners to some of the most contested ground in the United States-- the culturally- renowned and spiritual national monument under attack by the Trump administration.
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: In Episode Two, producers go to one of the continent’s most iconic and last wild places now being threatened by oil-drilling.
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Women Veterans in the Outdoors: Episode Three takes listeners on a weekend camping trip with group of single mom veterans from New York City and their families. In the course of their adventure, they find a respite from the stresses of military-to-civilian transition
Producing this series: the award-winning team of Isaac Kestenbaum and Josephine Holtzman. Their climate change audio project Frontiers of Change, a series documenting climate change in Alaska, recently won the 2017 Online Journalism Award for Audio Digital Storytelling. Kestenbaum and Holtzman explore connections between climate and culture through immersive audio, experiential storytelling and live events. The duo’s Future Projects Media provides high quality audio and production to make the listening experience feel like a journey.
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3 million members and supporters. In addition to helping people from all backgrounds explore nature and our outdoor heritage, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.