'All relationships are ecological relationships' has been a mantra of mine for the last several years. In this tenth (heyo double digits!) episode of Kinward podcast, I speak with my longtime friend and role model Axcelle Campana about the many ways our struggles are intertwined and our thriving mutual.
Axcelle is an Environmental Justice Practitioner with Knot Studios, an urban design firm in Portland Oregon whose projects integrate equity, social-ecological wellbeing, and environmental stewardship. Axcelle is also currently finishing up his master’s degree in Geography at Portland State University, with a thesis exploring the dynamics that have maintained inequities in access to green spaces and urban tree cover. 'Shade Equity' is an essential environmental justice consideration for our climate-chaos future, and Axcelle has won the prestigious Bullitt Environmental Prize for his work on this topic. As we discuss in this episode, the forces that have aligned to keep some neighborhoods shady and cool while others bake are not always as obvious as you might think.
Our conversation ranges from the very personal refuges Axcelle has found among trees and made with family, to a headier discussion of environmental justice in practice, to speculations about how we might live the futures we long for now. The thread I follow throughout is a thread of yearning for healthier relationships: in practice, in process, at all scales.
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