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Ten Across Conversations

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  • Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor. From Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California, this region provides a compelling and comprehensive window into the major challenges and opportunities of the 21st century in their most extreme. Join founder and executive director, Wellington “Duke” Reiter, as he chats with subject experts bringing unique insights and new ways of thinking to reveal our collective capacity to create a more resilient future.

    For more information about the Ten Across Initiative visit www.10across.com.
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    • Examining Past and Future Resilience Along the Mississippi with Author Boyce Upholt

      Examining Past and Future Resilience Along the Mississippi with Author Boyce Upholt
      Jan 31 2025
      In many ways, modern American engineering was born on the Mississippi. In the early days of westward expansion, the continent’s largest river basin presented both a vital resource for transportation, biodiversity and agricultural production and a complicated barrier.

      The Army Corps of Engineers was founded in 1802, a year before the Louisiana Purchase. By the mid-1800s, Congress charged the Corps with improving transportation on the river to support the nation’s burgeoning steamboat industry and riverine settlements. Military-trained engineers were enlisted to control the river, using brute force technology, into a predictable path to prevent flooding of communities and stabilize water levels for travel.

      In the new book, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, award-winning investigative journalist Boyce Upholt questions the logic of believing it possible—or ideal—to control one of the world's largest and most powerful rivers for centuries. Taking a holistic and geologic view of the landscape, Boyce describes how the Mississippi River has continually changed paths over millennia and why this is necessary to the health of the entire delta, especially in a changing climate.

      The book offers insight into the power and the fragility of many of the ecosystems on which we rely. Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter and Boyce Upholt discuss the intersections of the built and the natural environments, and the complexities of maintaining habitable places within essential yet hazardous geographies.

      Relevant articles and resources:

      Read more from Boyce:

      Southlands newsletter

      “Is the ‘Age of the Delta’ Coming to an End?” (Knowable Magazine, 2023)

      “The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi” (Hakai + WIRED, 2022)

      “A Killing Season” (Winner of the 2019 James Beard Award for Investigative Journalism, The New Republic, 2018)

      Learn more about the Mississippi Delta:

      “Want to Understand the Future of U.S. Climate Resilience? Look to the Gulf Coast” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, December 2024)

      “Sunk Costs, Sunken City: The Story of New Orleans with Richard Campanella” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, June 2023)
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      41 min
    • Environmental Historian Char Miller and What He Hopes We Learn from the LA Fires

      Environmental Historian Char Miller and What He Hopes We Learn from the LA Fires
      Jan 29 2025
      Our examination of the conditions that exacerbated the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month continues today with perspective from author and environmental historian Char Miller.

      Southern California received some much-needed rain over this past weekend, allowing firefighters to better contain the Palisades, Eaton, and Hughes fires. At the same time, the burned hillsides now bear much greater risk of mudslides and floods.

      These communities and individual residents must make complicated decisions about how to securely rebuild for the future. California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have both advocated for eliminating some regulatory hurdles to help fast-track the reconstruction of Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

      Having carefully studied California’s fire history, Char argues that haste could lead to repeats of the same land use, zoning, and construction mistakes that have increased residential fire risk across the state to begin with.

      Climate change aside, land use policies that discount long-term environmental awareness are common contributing factors in nearly every type of disaster risk found in the Ten Across geography. Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with Char Miller about the developing events in Los Angeles and how they relate to many other risk and adaptation stories across Interstate 10 in recent history.

      Related articles and resources:

      Books by Char Miller referenced in this discussion:

      Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning

      West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked an Environmental Justice Movement

      Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream

      Ten Across Conversations podcasts referenced in this discussion:

      “Urban Expert Bill Fulton’s Perspective of How LA Can Rebuild Following the Fires” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, January 15, 2025)

      “State Preemption is on the Rise: What it Means for Cities” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, April 6, 2023)

      “Leading the Country’s 2nd Largest City with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, November 17, 2022)

      Other:

      The Fragmented Metropolis (Robert M. Fogelson, 1993)
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      34 min
    • Is Sharing Our Climate Emotions Key to Achieving Climate Action?

      Is Sharing Our Climate Emotions Key to Achieving Climate Action?
      Jan 23 2025
      In the hottest year in recorded history, extreme heat corresponded to several notable weather events and ongoing public health impacts in the Ten Across geography. Evidence shows warming ocean temperatures were behind an especially destructive Atlantic hurricane season for the Gulf. Nearly all states along this transect saw their rates of private insurance nonrenewal increase among the most at-risk communities, as a result of storms, wildfires and other extreme weather. Lastly, all but four US cities that saw the most significant jump in their number of extremely hot days last year are along Interstate 10.

      It would not be unreasonable to feel some uneasiness and uncertainty as the new year begins. We are living in a fast-paced, highly connected period of volatility for humanity at large. And many of the decisions and actions taken now will have more immediate consequences here in the Ten Across geography, where the evidence of climate change is felt most profoundly.

      A loss of insurance or homeownership; loss of recreation or thermal comfort due to extended heat waves; or loss of communities as we once knew them from disaster, places a significant mental toll on those in the immediate and surrounding environment, as well as observers. However, a study by George Mason University finds most Americans (65%) ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ talk about the topic of climate change with friends or family.

      In this episode, Ten Across founder Duke Reiter and Dr. Sophie Nicholls, principal investigator for the Feeling Planet research study, discuss the importance of naming and reflecting on difficult feelings about our environment. Sophie’s study seeks to demonstrate how this process is critical in tending to ourselves and others, and for generating action and hope for the future.

      Related resources and articles:

      Download Feeling Planet workshop materials and read more about the study HERE.

      “LA-area wildfires taking toll on mental health of disaster survivors” (NPR, January 14, 2025)

      What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, written by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

      The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, written by Clayton Page Aldern
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      39 min

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